Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.
Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.
It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.
