sternness 的定义
stern·er, stern·est.
- firm, strict, or uncompromising: stern discipline.
- hard, harsh, or severe: a stern reprimand.
- rigorous or austere; of an unpleasantly serious character: stern times.
- grim or forbidding in aspect: a stern face.
sternness 近义词
severity
更多sternness例句
- 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.