How To Use Sternness In A Sentence
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An urbanized, unflamboyant son of a cattle farmer, he oozes Midwesternness.
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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."
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Part of this was due to the sternness of the Captain.
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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
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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
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His voice aspired to sternness and crumbled into beseechment.
The Gunslinger
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They were awed into silence by the sternness of her voice.
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Ellie looked up, surprised at her mother's sudden sternness.
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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
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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
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a deep impression on the beholder; there must be a great force of will and withholding of resources, giving a sense of depth below depth, which we call sternness; or else there must be that purity, flowing as from an inexhaustible fountain through every lineament, which drives far off or converts all baser natures.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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She has, moreover, her intervals of sternness, when she boxes ears; now in case of her father, unfilially, and anon in more righteous conflict with her step-mother's wicked lover.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866
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the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable
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She was a forceful personality who did not suffer fools gladly, but her sternness was accompanied by grace and Victorian courtesy.
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When he finally looked in her direction, there was an expression of good-natured sternness on his face.
MEMORY’S EMBRACE
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In a field rooted in moral concern, there is a long tradition of solemnity and sternness.
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With that sternness which is admissible only to the afflicted, I have denied myself even the consolation of your visits.
My Novel — Volume 07
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But the manner they thought pride seemed to me rather a kind of sternness or shortness of speech, as if he wished to have done with the matter in hand.
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers
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‘Felicity,’ he said, trying to force an aspect of sternness in his quivering voice.
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In the supple swaying of her stately figure there was much beauty and power; her sternness had mildened; the circles under her eyes had grown larger during the night, her face paler and leaner; her large eyes had deepened.
Mother
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My uncle's familiar voice filled with his accustomed brisk sternness answered.
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‘Get out of here,’ she'll warn with a phony sternness.
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He praised her, therefore, for qualities he wished her to possess, encouraged her to reject general opinions by admiring as the symptoms of a superior understanding, the convenient morality upon which she had occasionally acted; and, calling sternness justice, extolled that for strength of mind, which was only callous insensibility.
The Italian
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Yet she said this with a kind of sternness that somehow belied it — a click of the voice, as it were.
An American Tragedy
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In a field rooted in moral concern, there is a long tradition of solemnity and sternness.
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The sternness is a definite act and I don’t think I did misread him.
Losing Faith
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You had best go," said Grannie, looking up at the girl with her bright blue eyes, and a determined expression steeling her sweet old mouth almost to sternness.
Good Luck
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A poor unhappy fool that can not face life's sternness, that is crying out to escape his duty!
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow
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a calm, impassive, unemotional sternness about all that he said and did -- official, automatonlike -- that precluded the possibility of any jest or meaningless form.
Shapes that Haunt the Dusk
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Later, House of Jazz playfully lifted up the sternness of black by mixing it with psychedelic colours and black and white chequered-patterns, creating a collection that pleased especially the young generation.
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Do you mean to tell me," she inquired, with something approaching sternness, "that my father -- _my father_ -- was ever fond of poetry and -- and music, and -- and all that sort of thing?
With the Procession
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They were awed into silence by the sternness of her voice.