Sentence examples for stern without from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Harvey is stern without being mean, as his character probes the inner lives of the dancers, who respond with stories about their youthful beginnings and the ongoing challenges they face as professionals.

The task facing England's bowlers would have been even sterner without a fine 62 from Kevin Pietersen, who became only the second man to carry his bat through a completed T20 international innings.

It was a happier and simpler time where people knew right from wrong, the righteous were protected and wrongdoers were handed out stern punishments without the need for investigation or trial.

Her absurd self-flagellation (Ms. Walsh has the discipline and comic sense to hold her stern demeanor without a wink) is disturbed when a neighbor, Gregory Stepanovitch Smirnov Brendan Coylee), comes calling on a desperate errand to collect a debt owed him by her husband.

Marsden has speculated that it could even mean that the Mary Rose was originally built in a style that was closer to 15th-century ships, with a rounded, rather than square, stern and without the main deck gunports.

Each time the temperature spiked last summer, the chairman of the Long Island Power Authority issued a stern warning that without new power plants, there could be rolling blackouts.

A good Filipino melodrama wouldn't fly without stern and jealous girl whose mission is as simple as making sure the bida/protagonist doesn't get her way.

So, how can universal accessibility or coverage be achieved or ensured without stern measures being taken to address this problem?

It did so without being stern about it.

One day he let her do it all, but not without a stern lecture.

A third friend took him in various attitudes -- looking straight, looking left, with a jacket and without, looking stern and still more stern.