Significados de sternly practical en inglés

On some sides his experience and business training had made him sternly practical and prosaic.

Indeed, the philosophy of Moses was of the sternly practical kind, resembling that of Benjamin Franklin.

Yet she saw that, sternly practical as he was, he had a vague feeling for romance.

A more straightforward, downright, gay, sympathetic, shallow, warm-hearted, sternly practical young woman has rarely touched this planet.

Our book therefore contains a lot of writing advice, ranging from the sternly practical to the gloriously idiosyncratic.

You could see at a glance she was a notable woman, a housewife, sternly practical, alive with energy, and with fine possibilities of temper.

And now," he continued, becoming sternly practical, "about the good old sequel and aftermath, so to speak, of this little binge of ours.

"Why, father," he resumed after a brief pause, "you are so sternly practical that you drive all the sentiment out of a fellow.