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Sternness

noun

The quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding.

Uncompromising resolution. Synonym: strictness.

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"Sternness" Quotes from Famous Books

... Pius the Tenth as a Pope may be lofty to sternness, but as a man he is humble and simple and kind. Forget that he is a sovereign and a pontiff, and think of him as a tender and loving friend. Tell him everything. Hold nothing back. And if you must needs reveal the confidences ...

— The Eternal City • Hall Caine

... of the heavenward-ascending Virgin, all harshness and sternness are effaced, even to the last trace; and, indeed, does not Painting itself seem in it to soar upward, transfigured on its own pinions, as the liberated Psyche delivered from the severity ...

— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English, Volume 5. • Various

... rushing—memories of the high and splendid moments they had spent together. First of all she remembered him as the cold, stern, handsome stranger of that first night—that night when she learned that his coldness was assumed, his sternness a mask. She realized once again that at this first meeting he had won her by his voice, by his hand-clasp, by the swiftness and fervor of his speech; he had dominated her, swept her ...

— The Light of the Star - A Novel • Hamlin Garland

... harsh lines of life had passed, and the sternness of the endless battle had given way to ...

— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum

... was not strictly true. He was one of the boys of the village, and was of a wild and reckless character. This was, however, partly his father's fault, who never gave him any kind and friendly instruction, and always treated him with a great degree of sternness and severity. ...

— Mary Erskine • Jacob Abbott

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