His stern look stopped me short.
His immediate and stern response stopped me cold: "You know, my stepfather is white".
She rarely raised her voice, but her "stern look" could stop a clock.
As I approached the front entrance, I was stopped by a stern-looking but youthful sentry who demanded my passport.
After a few stern words from each, the fighting stopped.
Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, also issued a stern, final warning to Hamas that unless it stopped the rockets, there would be a full-scale military response.
Officer Hauter stopped at one point to issue a stern warning to two men repairing a car out on the street, in violation of the law and in defiance, she reminded them, of repeated complaints by neighbors.
She has done voice-overs for commercials, acted in independent movies and said she once stopped a fight between patrons with a stern stare and two words: "Sit down".
She's not snobbish, but she's frankly opportunistic — she wants to get ahead and leave the projects behind — and her mother, a stern Jamaican, won't stop pressuring her to study hard.
