sternness

How To Use sternness In A Sentence

• With that sternness which is admissible only to the afflicted, I have denied myself even the consolation of your visits. My Novel — Volume 07
• They were awed into silence by the sternness of her voice.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The sternness is a definite act and I don’t think I did misread him. Losing Faith
• In a field rooted in moral concern, there is a long tradition of solemnity and sternness.
• Yet she said this with a kind of sternness that somehow belied it — a click of the voice, as it were. An American Tragedy