Sentence examples for stern character from inspiring English sources

Alices, Lucys, Mabels, Amys, have for the moment fallen a little into abeyance as being insipid and not worthy of the stern character of the new generation.

Journalists have occasionally found Reich a slightly stern character – one writer who arrived at his house was greeted by the composer asking him when he was planning on leaving, and quizzing him on whether he had booked a cab in advance to ensure he didn't outstay his welcome – but today, he is friendly, engaged, utterly fascinating and extremely loquacious.

Aubame, whom journalist Ronald Matthews descried as having "a curiously harsh voice, a severe appearance, and... a stern character", died in 1989 in Libreville.

He was brought up by his maternal grandmother and his aunt a devoted woman of stern upright character, who became his father's second wife and who had a major influence on his early development.

In Nemesis, Roth's best novel for some time, a young man of impeccable fitness and stern moral character, Bucky Cantor, takes a summer job as playground director in a Newark school  in 1944.

In view of this attachment, the stern and furtive character that she gave to Zeno seems puzzling.

In a strange way, they say, her reputation as a stern and isolated character has worked to her advantage, because it was so off base.

Andsnes' musicality, inspired by such models as Sviatoslav Richter, is at its best when expressing a stern, introverted, rigorous character, ideal for the Lutheran music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Ranked No. 34 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time, the Navy veteran's stern, straight-arrow character provided a foil for series star Will Smith.

Iliadis -- always a beautiful girl by his side -- would be as elusive and stern as the characters in his movies.

This means "beyond me," this stern yet splendidly open character rages.