sternness

But sternness was a part of the game at this moment.

This sternness, coming now when the boy was full grown, seemed all wrong.

Then, with his face still set in this sternness, he looked back at me, and swallowed.

"No." A trace of sternness came into the large brown eyes.

And yet it is easy to underestimate the sternness of such cold.

The sternness of his expression seemed to ease a bit.

As if to take some of the sternness from his words, Steve gave a small shrug.

The general was on him now, his face a metallic mask of sternness.

He was an old man, who had a look of sternness and benevolence about him.

The smiled faded, and she spoke again with a certain sternness.

She looked up at him, trying sternness and reason.

Yet there was sternness in the pale man's gaze as he looked to the girl.

This little relaxation of sternness had a good effect upon the queen.

She turned to the older men, steadier in their sternness.

"Very well, then, we'll do it your way," he said, and all the compassion in his voice was gone behind the return of sternness.

There was enough sternness in his voice to convey what amounted to an order.

"I must say I'm quite disappointed in you," she began with an element of sternness.

His smile took the sternness from his face a second.

The man looked me over with a studied but unsuccessful attempt at sternness.

Despite the sternness of his words, his voice was soft.

His mother gazed at him fondly enough, yet with a little sternness too.

All the sternness of his eyes had crinkled into laughter.

There was an absence of sternness and rigor from beginning to end.

Andrew lifted his head, looking across the table at the sternness of Duncan's face.

His funny old face became filled with sternness, ferocity even.