Sentence examples for stern church from inspiring English sources

Born in the east end, Hind was raised by his father, a locomotive stoker, and his stern Church of Scotland grandmother after his mother walked out one day with his baby sister.

Municipal court is maybe the closest thing protesters have to a stern church: hard benches, rules that cannot be broken and a rather stiff penalty for skipping attendance.

Mr. DeMunn, as the editor of the local newspaper and Emily's father, is appealing and almost Dickensian in his easily flustered paternal posing; Mr. Spinella spins a thoughtful and funny portrait of the stern and drunken church organist, and Ms. Atkinson gives the most affecting performance of all as George's wise and weepy mother.

Bryn Terfel was an eloquent Reverend Eli Jenkins, Charlotte Church a stern Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard and Jonathan Pryce and Siân Phillips the murderous Mr and Mrs Pugh.

As Deloris Van Cartier, a would-be disco diva in 1970s Philly who goes on the lam when the bullets start flying, she truly comes into her own when Deloris sheds her purse full of wisecracks and begins bonding with the friendly nuns cowed by the church's stern mother superior, played by Victoria Clark.

Mr. McIntire used his daily broadcast, once heard on more than 600 radio stations, mainly in the South and the Midwest, to deliver his stern message: most Protestant churches leaned toward Communism; the lust for power by the "fascist" Roman Catholic Church had to be stopped; and any attempt to coexist with Communists was doomed.

This church is a stern oblong, fenced with columns approximately 65 feet (20 metres) high.

In the first chapter I was appalled to find myself cast back into the summer of 1830 and placed on board a topsy-turvy boat heading for the bleak island of St Kilda in company with a stern, unbending minister of the church.

In a broader debate that has preoccupied Christians and nonbelievers, some here have depicted a trend toward the exclusion of faith from public life, akin to the laïcité that offers such a stern and uncompromising separation of church and state in France.

The 78-page encyclical, reserved for matters of great importance to the church, issued a stern reminder that divorced Catholics who remarry cannot receive communion and warned against taking communion in non-Roman Catholic churches, lamenting that communion is being celebrated "as if it were simply a fraternal banquet".

The newsletter, written by Father Mansfield's successor as pastor, certainly appeared to confirm that Father Mansfield had disturbed the parish with some sort of stern sermon about laxness in attending church.