But it has another, sterner aspect.

"As we all know, it's impossible to close the bow or stern aspect of an impeller wedge with a sidewall, right?"

Her voice had a somewhat stern, yet soothing, teacherly aspect.

It was the Open Question, by Elizabeth Robbins--a fine study of life's sterner aspects.

Thus degraded, was she let loose on the world; and virtue, never nurtured by affection, assumed the stern aspect of selfish independence.

Holmes assumed his sternest aspect.

Pushing it open he bade me enter, and I did so, to find a tall, elderly man of stern aspect awaiting my coming.

The stern aspect softened.

Data's features took on a more stern aspect, one that he had seen Captain Picard utilize under similar circumstances.

The Judge, or Lord of Death, symbolizes conscience itself in its stern aspect of impartiality and love of righteousness.