Sentence examples for stern morals from inspiring English sources

In the 16th century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, for example, combined overt and often grotesque symbols with subtle visual metaphors to point stern morals in such paintings as The Triumph of Death (alluding to the "wages of sin"), The Land of Cockaigne (attacking gluttony and sloth), and Mad Meg (ridiculing covetousness).

Score one on the morality front: Pat Robertson, stern moral lecturer, says that it wasn't Petraeus's fault because "he's a man".

Equally, alongside the trickster image of Malcolm is one of stern moral seriousness and rectitude.

And some language instruction on the Internet includes a stern moral lesson.

Like most movies aimed at the kindergarten set, "Marmaduke" balances its giggly, gross-out gags with a stern moral agenda.

Perhaps because of this stern moral rectitude, Quaker board games remain, to this day, something of a niche market.

For their part, the Taliban have encountered resistance from Afghans who are not part of their dedicated base when they have tried to impose their stern moral code.

Another is Coetzee's female alter ego, Elizabeth Costello, an elderly, scholarly, world-weary novelist whose stern moral principles are provoked more by fear of death than by belief.

Emin is in her own description Mad Tracey from Margate, and whatever you think of her art, a stern moral example it is not.

Browne, who described what Zevon did as song-noir, commented: "He had a very stern moral disposition as well as a willingness to take on this berserk persona.

He was a man of stern moral conviction and in weekly letters to his parishioners back home allowed little to escape his censorious eye.