There was a seriousness, even a severity, to Cuomo's delivery.
Sea levels will rise, combining with increased storm severity to place coastal cities at risk.
There is a Protestant severity to the avowal that "there is no health in us".
Mr. Bako and Ms. Fekete — striking dancers who add a severity to their forthright movement — constitute the second couple.
Now the head of the water authority here attributes the drought's length and severity to climate change.
There is a severity to the situations she describes, an intensity to the pain that surfaces in the text.
There is a severity to the regime that could diminish England if Capello treats any outside suggestion as a rebellion.
There has always been a severity to his handsomeness: the unsmiling mouth, the thick, inky slashes of his eyebrows.
Natural wood grain modifies abstract severity to soothingly decorous if not galvanizing effect.
That gave a severity to the collection, compared to Mr. Ackermann's previous, more romantic vision.
Potential recruits are shown images of child abuse, of gradually increasing severity, to establish how they respond, and are given time to decide whether to accept the post.
