Sentence examples for stern disapproval from inspiring English sources

We'd smoke during sessions; after he indicated stern disapproval, he lighted up and passed the lighter to me.

The biblical reference gave his name to a book published in 1712 and titled "Onania", a clever concoction of salacious case studies of the act, coupled with stern disapproval of it.

And she is the proud mother of a seven-year-old girl, whose privacy she fiercely protects; a question about whether she would encourage her daughter to compete in beauty pageants was met with stern disapproval.

But in later years he was party to Hollywood's burgeoning love affair with his work and by and large seems to have regarded this romance with a stern disapproval.

Braying sloanes bop (remember that word?) to the Pretenders - biting their bottom lips and shaking their floppy hair - while ancestors hanging on the walls flash their stern disapproval on and off in the ultraviolet strobe.

She was invited to speak to the Mattachine Society in the early 1960s, but her husband's stern disapproval of her activities began to take its toll.

The governor promised to veto it, after hearing stern words of disapproval of the bill by his church leaders, who publicly balked at the fact that Sexual Orientation was on the list (yet the bill also included Religion).

The plot earnestly follows young Pete as he decides to take on a mission to prove his worth after his boisterous ways prompt the disapproval of his stern Catholic school teacher, Sister Leonora Mary Peggy Roederr).

Abrams' production company, Bad Robot, tweeted a time-bending photo of Abrams stealing Mrs. Patmore's (Lesley Nicol) thunder in the kitchen, much to the disapproval of a stern-looking Mrs. Hughes (Phyllis Logan).

It seems that the boy has been spray painting the walls at school, which earns the disapproval of the attractive but very stern principal (Ms. Mitchell).

With stern reproof I have not yet — hic — expressed my disapproval at your attempt at self-destruction.