Sentence examples for stern sense from inspiring English sources
Underpinning modernism was a stern sense of morality.
This is obviously just a guess, but one has the impression that erotic drives were defined and constrained by a stern sense of social reality.
But the book ultimately sheds humanizing new light on a writer with a public reputation for his stern sense of ethics and the clammy, unsettling spell cast by his plays.
They start out, depending on the times, with high spirits or with a stern sense of mission, but the idea itself, the complete set of ingredients that might make a magazine distinctive enough to last — that's almost never in place.
They start out, depending on the times, with high spirits or with a stern sense… Wendy Wasserstein, who died last week at only fifty-five, was one of the few Pulitzer Prize winners to be recognizable by her first name.
Ellison presents American experience with a luscious eloquence and an abandon corralled by a stern sense of form, and the students responded to both the wildness and the control.
In one image, A Day Apart, 2018, collaborator Clifford Prince King, smoking a cigarette with a stern sense of cool, wears a white dress that conceals Williams sitting naked before him.
Edwards will be talking about an issue, and his voice will rise and he'll punctuate his argument with a ringing declaration of stern common sense.
And while they were snuffling about in her presumed recesses, all the great things about her — her profundity, her stern tragic sense, her grand, unshowy musical prose (she may have had a better ear than any other American novelist) — all these were ignored.
The music, too, points to Bach, through direct quotations, contrapuntal textures and an overall sense of stern equilibrium.
There was no escaping the impression that the Mauresmo reign was considerably more relaxed than was his time with Lendl, whose stern countenance and raw, devilish-sense-of-humour approach Murray came to appreciate for the discipline and focus it brought to his game.
