"People probably see Roy as this stern-faced guy who doesn't really laugh, but you get to know him and he likes a good laugh.
Green talked in interviews about getting a "dig" in at various real people and at the aristocracy in general, and doubtless he took some small pleasure from exactly that (his stern father is guyed in the figure of old Dupret in Living).
But sure, not as stern as these guys.
In fact, I had been all set to go through the mountains over Marias Pass, a lesser climb, on a more mundane road, U.S. 2. Then in Whitefish, Mont., I sat down at a lunch counter and got a friendly but stern lecture from a guy sitting there, who shook his head and said it was ridiculous that I would get so close to one of the great bicycle routes in the country only to decide not to do it.
"But Rachel was much more calm, and quickly stepped in to give the guy a stern but polite lecture on privacy.
("Nobbe, who was in his sixties, was a stern disciplinarian and a tough guy who didn't take crap from anyone," writes the former Scott Paper and Sunbeam C.E.O. Al Dunlap, in his book "Mean Business".
("Nobbe, who was in his sixties, was a stern disciplinarian and a tough guy who didn't take crap from anyone," writes the former Scott Paper and Sunbeam C.E.O. Al Dunlap, in his book "Mean Business". "He was always chewing me out.... Still, Nobbe rapidly won my undying respect and admiration because he wore his bastardness like a well-earned badge of honor").
"He is a chain-smoking, stern, imposing, complicated kind of guy".
We get the full Travolta spectrum here, from stern patriarch, to smooth ish) cool guy, to hyperactive attention hog.
The mothers separate the combatants and one mother delivers a stern warning: "I want you guys to settle this fair and square".
