Sentence examples for too stern from inspiring English sources

But here too, Stern was characteristically diplomatic.

The intensity of the man, too stern to be sleepy, had an obvious impact on the public.

Too stern and demanding a taskmaster, Moses was slain in a Jewish revolt, and a second, more pliant leader, also called Moses, rose in his place.

Baron Cohen can be over-insistent, but he has created a new kind of hostile satire, and too stern a reading of his ethics or his consistency would destroy what's fresh as well as what's cruel in his work.

But some days, when my wife and I are letting fly at each other, or when I'm blowing it by being too stern with my children — who was it that said all fathers are Republicans, while all mothers are Democrats?

Mr. Hayes is, depending how you look at it, the logical endpoint of several years of country de-toughening or a welcome reframer of the genre for those who find Luke Bryan too stern.

Her mother, who was quite extreme too – stern, strict and unhappy with domestic life – often beat her precocious little daughter black and blue, then sent her to live with her grandmother for a while.

Neither Apollo was quite right: Mr. Yanowsky is too stern and artful (this must seem the most pristine of all ballets), while the more youthful but sunken-chested Mr. Gurevich has the least Apollonian torso I have ever seen in this role.

That depends.A land grab, but it saves lives tooIn this section Sincere deceivers The wall and the law Too stern a hand Thirty-five hofrs of misery Talking the talk Reprints Related items Israeli politics: The two old foxesJul 15th 2004If the court's ruling has a defect, it is its curiously brusque disposal of Israel's claim that it needs the barrier for self-defence.

Pay is docked for failure to appear because that is what an employer would do; benefits do not vary with family size, because neither do wages; mothers are expected to be available for work when their child is 12 weeks old, because that is the norm in the job market.Is this too stern?

Now, rather belatedly, the SEC seems bent on a crackdown of its own.In this section Sincere deceivers The wall and the law Too stern a hand Thirty-five hofrs of misery Talking the talk Reprints Related items Hedge funds: From alpha to omegaJul 15th 2004On the face of it, the proposal for hedge funds seems mild enough.