1. sterner - Noun
2. Sterner - Proper noun
A director.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. Friedrich Schiller
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. Wendell Berry
What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self. Anne Brontë
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. Lord Byron
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff - Julius Caesar. William Shakespeare
My poor aunt! She thought me made of sterner stuff than I really was. There was no need of her advice to prevent my being consumed by the desire for vengeance which had been the fixed star of my early youth, the blood-colored beacon aflame in my night. Paul Bourget