Sentence examples for stern principles from inspiring English sources

His commanding, perfectionist works model stern principles of design and architecture, pointing the world toward a utopia for puritans.

His "Code for Fiscal Stability" (how ironic that phrase seems now) promised to uphold stern principles like "transparency" and "stability".

The most serious charge against her is that she put her father's stern principles into practice for other people, not herself.

This is an age of rational and moral comedy, and Murphy hasn't reconfigured his comedic performances to the new tone (even though he daringly and frankly stated his stern principles on the biggest stage of all, the Oscars, in 1988).

He said that the response would mix "flexibility" and "stern principle," but did not elaborate.

The stern principle that Ross brings to the subject extends to his direction as well.

Craig Robinson lends Curtis a firm manner and bluff humor that find a reflection in Morris's blend of boldness and compunction, of fierce will and stern principle.

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.

Its title borrowed from Moholy-Nagy, the book set out a series of stern foundational principles for good design: the use of sans-serif fonts, standardised paper sizes, photographs rather than drawn illustrations, asymmetrical rather than centred layouts.

Popular draws in the exhibitors' hall downstairs included Ronald Reagan calendars, pamphlets advocating stern free-market principles (entitled "How to Argue With Your Teacher") and the chance to fight a light-sabre duel with someone dressed as a Star Wars extra.Yet those who dismiss CPAC as a youth club for Ayn Rand (and Star Wars) fans risk overlooking the importance of the speeches here.

UK tour, from 17 February The Pop Group: 'Citizen Zombie Returningg, like some league of downbeat super-antiheroes, to fight the venality and corruption of modern life with their avant-punk-jazz-funk tirades, The Pop Group confirm that it is possible to retain the sternest of musical and political principles for more than three decades.