Pearl's granddaughter, Jewell Barclay, still remembers Dolphus, a stern, fair-skinned man with narrow lips and an aquiline nose.
When she tells a competitor that "Queen Victoria would be proud" of their beautifully iced and decorated cake, or that they "really need to pull their socks up" after a particularly wobbly example of gingerbread architecture, the stern-fair-kind grandmother of every childhood imagination is summoned up.
Gandalf then offers Saruman a stern but fair chance at mending their relations, for age, study, and experience make us empathetic, and empathy makes us fair — makes us merciful and generous — even when we have the power to punish those who've wronged us.
With his aura of stern yet fair authority and seriousness of purpose, Mr. Stewart made Capt.
In his view, America "is sort of the parent of the world, so we have to be stern but fair to people who are rebellious to us.
Adults include Fiona Shaw as Harry's horrid Aunt Petunia Maggie Smithh as the stern but fair deputy headmistress, Minerva McGonagall; and Alan Rickman as the sinister potions professor, Severus Snape.
And the European Central Bank and national central banks – who, according to the Jubilee Debt Campaign, "stand to make between €10bn and €22bn out of Greek repayments" – are exactly the right people to deliver that stern but fair message.
Likewise, Gran Sims, the tough-as-nails juvie warden with a ridiculously foul-mouth from Angry Boys, earned the young inmates' affection as a stern but fair mother figure.
They were stern but fair and let me go with a "fix-it" ticket.
"Now [CONSULTANTNAME] at [HOSPITAL] is a very stern man, fair man, a good consultant, but most people will tell you who've had dealings with him he's very stern, you only speak when he asks you to speak and usually right at the end".
