Sentence examples for stern men from inspiring English sources
"I don't want … stern men in pith helmets to give the people who have, figuratively speaking, dark political skin instructions as to how they should live.
One can almost imagine stern men in chainmail scowling out from under their helmets or a warning arrow whistling through your wheels as you pass by.
Since the advent of football, coaches have been cast in an opposite mold, like that of Vince Lombardi, stern men who took no nonsense; who dispensed wisdom, not laughter; who, Edwards said, "choose the dictatorship route" because "they feel they can control their players and get respect".
And when a crowd of eager guests showed up at the Park Avenue doorstep of the billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, instead of being greeted with open arms they were met by three stern men in suits, sunglasses and polished shoes.
Daddy's girls know how to wrap stern men around their little fingers, cleverly winning smiles from curmudgeons.
STERN MEN, by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Portraits of Claudio Monteverdi show a pale, stern man with vaguely haunted eyes.
Mathew's father, Bobby, was a stern man with a sharp nose and a clipped mustache.
"He's a stern man, a tough man," said Daniel A. Conti, a defense lawyer from Hempstead.
Suddenly we understood that this stern man's heart was churning with emotion.
The role of experimenter was performed by a stern man in a lab coat.
