And when Disney agreed to take over the raddled New Amsterdam, and Madame Tussaud's leased space to the west, the Stern-Kalman vision became a reality.
She has a stern, high-minded vision of the role of the artist.
Wells and his collaborators meant to offer a stern, though ultimately hopeful, vision of humanity's halting progress across the century to come.
Mr. Lockhart pointed out that Mr. Bush had said during a June 30 campaign stop, "How a country handles its moment of prosperity and opportunity is just as stern a test of our vision, our judgment, and our character as how we handle adversity".
This is like describing Augusto Pinochet as a stern fellow with an unpopular vision of Chile's future.
On the surface then, A Rake's Progress is a stern moral tale, but Hogarth's vision of Tom's downfall is less judgment than lament, full of compassion for the fool at odds with the city.
The intent was unclear, but it ratcheted up the tension and Seal snipers at the stern rail of the Bainbridge fixed night-vision scopes to their high-powered rifles, getting ready for action.
Yet many deontologists and consequentialists notably Kant advocate sterner, more starkly moralistic visions of the good life than Aristotle would ever have dreamt of (e.g., Singer 1972).
Today, David Cameron attempted such a speech, determined to leaven his stern critique of Gordon Brown's economic policies with "the vision thing".
The vision works a crowd much more effectively than a stern lecture on the unbridgeable divide between rich and poor.
