Sentence examples for too sternly from inspiring English sources
The phrase "too sternly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a manner of speaking or behaving that is excessively strict or harsh. Example: "The teacher spoke too sternly, causing the students to feel intimidated."
E M Forster's mutinous characters had one final trick up their sleeve: "If they are kept too sternly in check, they revenge themselves by dying".
The Republicans may believe there is honor in the Party's unpopular insistence upon a stern standard of morality in loose times, but those who have stood too sternly for anything in the '90s have suffered for their sanctimony.
As one European diplomat from a country heavily dependent upon Russian energy said today, "it would be suicidal" to crack down too sternly on Moscow.Some European hesitation to point the finger solely at Moscow may also stem from reports coming from inside the disputed region.
Compelling but never cheap, inventive but never obscure, if he succumbs to a Hollywood ending here, we shouldn't hold it too sternly against him: in the preceding 300 pages, he has secured his status as exactly the sort of mainstream literary novelist American fiction needs.
Archie Bland in the Independent was more positive: "Compelling but never cheap, inventive but never obscure, if he succumbs to a Hollywood ending here, we shouldn't hold it too sternly against him: in the preceding 300 pages, he has secured his status as exactly the sort of mainstream literary novelist American fiction needs".
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Carl Levin, the chair of the subcommittee on investigations, asked her about an incident in which she collared a bank regulator who was getting too nosy and "sternly" told him that Dimon knew about all the investment decisions in her group.
But Paddy Ashdown told me very sternly, 'You're too fat.'" Did he have to get bigger trousers?
This kind of softness on the I.P.C.C. distresses Payne, who accuses Lomborg of being "too diplomatic" and notes sternly that the I.P.C.C., like Gore, "is dressing up its findings in scary Halloween costumes" — e.g., by predicting that if warming continues it will wipe out a third of the Earth's species.
"It's not too late," I told myself sternly.
"Mother is very concerned, you're childless, you spend too much money," he says sternly.
