The housekeeper sent a stern look our way, which withered all our filthy intentions.

I actively search for social wrongs to be righted by an admonitory word, a stern look, a rebuke, a cutting remark.

Delivered with a stern look and long, meaningful silences, he commanded full attention, not least from a public gallery full for the first time this week.

She gives me a stern look.

I hope the schoolteacher gave him a stern look.