Sentence examples for stern yet from inspiring English sources

He was stern yet supportive, demanding yet loving.

She was stern, yet in a strange way looked more vulnerable than usual.

In the first act Andre Kramarevsky was a seemingly stern, yet fundamentally kindly, Drosselmeier.

This is a "Requiem Mass" as Violetta Valéry might have imagined it: terrible and vengeful, stern yet serene.

He was stern yet timid, a disciplinarian with no follow-through, self-conscious, not prone to affection, undemonstrative.

The first, Plex, brings stern yet cosmic industrialist Ancient Methods to headline room one, along with Blacknecks live.

While I was there, coincidentally I hope, the N.C.A.A. trumped Wisconsin's self-inflicted wrist slaps with sterner, yet still not particularly harsh, penalties.

Coughlin's stern-yet-fair demeanor helped Brandon Jacobs move beyond the helmet-tossing incident and reclaim a role in the offense, and he transformed Matt Dodge from scapegoat to solid punter.

A stern-yet-sexy ninja-gymnast badass who just needed to find a man to lighten her up?

As a result, he is forced to reinvent himself while solving a series of mysteries, some related to his money-making scheme, some related to his attraction to a stern-yet-nubile Communist Party official.

That was not to be, and Ms. Stern has yet to see the play, though family members hope to take her to a performance in mid-August.