Sentence examples for stern focus from inspiring English sources

The Today Show interview with Matt Lauer, followed by the Charlie Rose chat, and all of her social media postings that preceded these televised conversations, were a stern focus for her to present herself once again as an innocent victim done unjustly by a ridiculously stringent ITF.

Will, wearing an all-black outfit and a knee brace of his own, looked stern and focussed, but I'd finally beaten him the previous week in practice, and I came out attacking.

He looks stern and focused.

She played Sunday's match with a stone face, stern and focused.

FCC chairmen often fall into one of two camps -- stern regulators focused on compliance or free-market stalwarts eager to spark private sector growth.

The images of our President's stern and focused eyes, Secretary of State Clinton with her hand to her face registering deep concern, and Vice President Biden holding rosary beads are a haunting bookend to the image of Condoleeza Rice, Dick Cheney and President Bush's team struggling to deal with the events unfolding on 9/11.

"Maybe I come across as a bit stern faced, quite focused.

Isaac Stern's 1963 recording of the violin concertos is an enduring example of the more soft-focus approach to Prokofiev as well as a reminder of what a liquid, beautifully focused tone Stern produced in his prime.

She is stern, sober and chillingly focused on her game.

He looked his usual stern self and totally focused on the job, with pen and notepad in hand.

This was a bacchanalian rock'n'roll era famed for sex and drugs but Judge Gary Klausner, a stern presence, kept testimony focused on money, memory and music.