sternness

Reporters at The Washington Post, the New York Times and elsewhere, including Stern, found those claims were false.

In this inestimably practical gear, she’s showing a visitor around her property, a stern but polite fellow, inching past middle age and vaguely stooped, who has just arrived by bicycle.

It was from an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and it came with a message of stern warning for the Saudi dissident.

Metal detectors proved mere speed bumps for rioters and the Capitol Police — typically stern and decisive — were unprepared.

Shevchenko, a leader of Femen, a prominent feminist group, began leading protests in France, which was how Stern learned the power of performance art for a cause.

Lady Kirton's last words halted, for his look startled even her in its resolute sternness.

His mind with all its sternness ever tended to clemency, and his constitutional prudence, or measure, forbade purposeless excess.

Hardworking and upright, being reared in sternness and poverty.

Calvin gave birth, by the sternness of his doctrines and his executions, to that form of hypocritical sentiment called "cant."

"Getting rattled is a highly unmilitary form of conduct," retorted Prescott, with a look of mock sternness.