Sentence examples for sternly religious from inspiring English sources

Katrina is engaged to Brom Van Brunt (Evan Casey), son of the local pastor and his sternly religious wife, Henriette (Sherri L. Edelen).

Then he was sent to a sternly religious family in England, where the wife set herself to curbing an undoubtedly spoiled and conceivably hyperactive child.

When Anna died of diphtheria in 1892, Eleanor and her two younger brothers were sent to live with Anna's sternly religious mother; Elliot paid only sporadic visits.

The men under his command are the sternly religious "Bible" Swan, played by Shia LaBeouf; the sweaty and truculent Grady, played by Jon Bernthal (Brad the Quaalude King from Wolf of Wall Street); the stoic Gordo, played by Michael Peña; and finally a hapless new gunner called Norman, a terrified kid played by the baby-faced Logan Lerman.

Draw up a top five of such books, and straight in at number one would be – this is so obvious, it hardly needs saying – Edmund Gosse's 1907 tender and wonderfully comic Father and Son (Gosse was reared in a sternly religious Plymouth Brethren home whose values he would eventually reject).

She didn't exactly think that Merle was a sign or a gift from God — my mother was a member of the Church of Christ, and very religious, even sternly so — but she firmly believed, after Merle was born, that God had answered her prayers during pregnancy.

The Muslim religious establishment is sternly opposed to homosexuality, which it sees as explicitly prohibited in Islam.

Or will vicars test parishioners on their sincerity before they are allowed these details – just as they might sternly quiz them on their religious beliefs before allowing their children into the local oversubscribed CofE school?

The deists, freethinkers, and assorted Protestants (plus two Catholics) who drafted the Constitution sternly forbade theological sucker punches — "No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States" was how they put it — but today's Republicans make their own rules.

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukLONG or short, sternly pinned or silkily draped, the Islamic veil is the most contentious religious symbol today, in the West as much as in the Muslim world.

He governs sternly and secretly, almost never grants interviews, and has overseen an unrelenting crackdown on journalists, lawyers,and religious leaders who defy one-party rule.