Sentence examples for stern necessity from inspiring English sources

Many of his acts demonstrated not the stern necessity of the law, not mercy, not justice, but capriciousness.

Even McGhee, while continuing to insist on the "stern but just necessity" of its destruction, confessed as much.

The reference to 'putting away childish things" is a stern warning about the necessity of sacrifice.

"Gut ache" is how the playwright Harold Pinter described Beckett's message: "A major irritation, a most stern and ruthless activity without question or answer, a three-card trick, a necessity.

Social necessity.

STERN -- Stanley.

He looked stern.

A stern gaze.

That brought stern rebukes.

Necessity, almost".

THAT sure sounds stern.