If you can avoid the distraction of the free wireless and the TV room (mercifully there are no TV sets in your room), then the books, that library smell and those stern pictures of Gladstone stimulate tremendous productivity.
Congressman James A. Traficant's home page features a stern-looking picture of the representative himself, waving a big stick bearing these words, "Bangin' away in Washington".
I love you, baby Jesus, even if you look very stern in this picture.
The Global Times observes that both Mr Xi and Mr Abe look "stern" in a picture released by the Xinhua News Agency.
Niven's claim that Steichen — as much as Stieglitz, who traditionally gets the credit — was responsible for waking America up to modernism is a compelling one, and if you want to know how Steichen himself profited from the transaction, you need only look at the stern and sumptuous pictures that he took of Rodin and his work.
Des Pallières's picture is stern and impressive, although its endless, one-note hammer blows soon start to grow tiresome.
I, for one, picture a stern and taciturn Central European paterfamilias not given to some of the undignified dinner table antics witnessed on Wednesday night.
The New Yorker, March 25 , 1939P. 11 One thing the Eastman Kodak Company is very stern about is naked pictures.
By E. L. Freeman and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, March 25 , 1939P. 11 One thing the Eastman Kodak Company is very stern about is naked pictures.
As The A.P. writes in its obituary of Mr. Faas, "The result was 'Horst's army' of young photographers, who fanned out with Faas-supplied cameras and film and stern orders to 'come back with good pictures.' ".
