His sternness of feature and apparent coldness concealed from those who did not know him his great kindness of heart and strength of feeling.
32.
The punch line, " And sex sells everything / And sex kills, " is delivered in a tone of towering sternness.
33.
Thus, there was considerable trouble during the first months of Fairfax's command, and discipline had to be enforced with unusual sternness.
34.
"I'm going to call all of you and find out if you did it ! " she warned with mock sternness.
35.
In one photograph she stands on a front stoop in Amsterdam, primly erect, cocking her wrist to look with mock sternness at her watch.
36.
Uribe's presidency has been characterized by sternness on all fronts _ the fight against Colombian rebels, corruption in politics, and drug use.
37.
According to legal scholars, he showed law-and-order sternness when handling criminal cases while often exhibiting a liberal impulse in civil cases.
38.
But the master's sense of humor alters the perspective, breaking through the patrician sternness of facial line that he tends to adopt in photographs.
39.
And the inexhaustible Brian Murray finds intriguing notes of anxiety as well as the usual malevolent sternness in Deputy Governor Danforth, who presides over the trials.
40.
Even as revelations slip out, Bourgeois is fully in control of this homage, and her sternness with underlings and her grown children is slightly funny.
