sternness

How To Use sternness In A Sentence

• An urbanized, unflamboyant son of a cattle farmer, he oozes Midwesternness.
• He looked at me with that combination of sternness and puckishness which is uniquely his, and said, "I think, in fact, that it is really only about half over."
• Part of this was due to the sternness of the Captain.
• Is it not true that we habitually refuse to take seriously His teaching about man; that we water down His paradoxes and conventionalize His sayings; that we blunt the sharpness of His precepts, and shirk the tremendous sternness of His demands? Religious Reality
• In more than one instance, eminently peaceful individuals, affecting the jaunty and war-like Beauregard cap, were hauled up with that true military sternness which is deaf alike to entreaties and remonstrances. Memoirs of the War of Secession
• His voice aspired to sternness and crumbled into beseechment. The Gunslinger
• They were awed into silence by the sternness of her voice.
• Ellie looked up, surprised at her mother's sudden sternness.
• In the great competition of the confessional groups for the adherence of men which ensued, Calvinism tried to impress by the sternness of its moral code, the extremity of its disciplinary com - mands, while Catholicism strove to attract by the mercifulness of its methods, by its willingness to build golden bridges for the repentant sinner and keep the CASUISTRY
• The warm tint added to Cytherea's face a voluptuousness which youth and a simple life had not yet allowed to express itself there ordinarily; whilst in the elder lady's face it reduced the customary expression, which might have been called sternness, if not harshness, to grandeur, and warmed her decaying complexion with much of the youthful richness it plainly had once possessed. Desperate Remedies