The sterner Baptists, therefore, loudly pronounced him a false brother.
If the child keeps trying to pet the dog, a sterner warning, usually a growl, will ensue.
Humanism, as it actually appeared in Italy, was positive in its conception of the problems to be solved, pagan in its contempt for medieval mysticism, invigorated for sensuous enjoyment by contact with antiquity, yet holding in itself the germ of new religious aspirations, profounder science and sterner probings of the mysteries of life than had been attempted even by the ancients.
But though to the very end of his life he retained much of the singular learning of his childhood and youth, often reading Persian and Arabic in the intervals of sterner pursuits, he had long abandoned them as a study, and employed them merely as a relaxation.
Nor did the wingspan of the Towers which was made of far sterner stuff than the Pentagon.