How To Use Sober In A Sentence
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It was of a suitable Ash Wednesday character and left the congregation feeling sober and a little cast down.
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How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate? —
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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On his way out, he met Baldwin dressed soberly in a black frock coat and pantaloons.
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Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
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Everyone became equally loud, crude and garrulous, the technically sober behaving identically to the genuinely drunk.
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The paintings are some of the artist's most sober works, but there is a lightness of being at their core, as well.
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To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolute sober.
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The major difference is that in Shakespeare the symbolic opposition between the world of sober morality and that of holiday freedom is normally made internal to the play.
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A sober brick building, unpretentious in scale and design, lies modestly low among lawns at the end of a road with playing fields on either side.
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My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.". G.K. Chesterton
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You are born-again, re-sobered, a former hardcore binge drinker and rumored huge fan of various illegal substances back in college, and you had at least one DUI arrest and went AWOL from the National Guard, and you've stashed away from public view all records of both your tenure as Texas governor, and those SEC investigations into your alleged insider trading.
Chaos Theory:
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Because to be dribbling drunk in front of a sober person is simply too embarrassing.
Times, Sunday Times
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We had no TV, so we had no idea what a Sobers sweep or a Hall bouncer actually looked like; we were left to interpolate between newspaper stills and glossies from cricket books.
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When he is sober tell him either he stays sober or his family life is over.
The Sun
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Gladly would I grace my tale with decent horror, and therefore I do beseech the "gentle reader" to believe, that if all the _succedanea_ to this mysterious narrative are not in strict keeping, he will ascribe it only to the disgraceful innovations of modern degeneracy upon the sober and dignified habits of our ancestors.
Humorous Ghost Stories
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Whereas ITV News - with their love of the clunkiest graphics, doom-laden links and love of the dropped intro 'It was ...' - seems to make The Day Today look sober and restrained ...
Back to you in the Studio Fiona. Cluck Cluck.
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Analysts cautioned that all the companies involved should remain sober-minded and try to tackle the serious problem of how to maintain market development on a healthy and profitable track.
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Her sober, kindly capableness evolved from the slovenly little house and the untended children, from the dusty rooms and neglected kitchen the kind of order and neatness which had been plain to see in Robin's more fortune-favoured apartment.
Robin
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In Japan, grown men are fetishizing schoolgirls in sober navy uniforms.
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The man was still sober when he went home.
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Whether they do so or not, let's hope he takes a good look in the mirror over the coming months, learns from Botham's errors, acknowledges that Garry Sobers was the exception rather than the norm, accepts his vincibility and sets greater store by the runs column than the wickets.
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Despite a somewhat unexciting personality, he became known as a sober and reliable commentator on the political scene.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gallery forests are dominated by Cynometra vogelii; the patches of dense dry forest by Isoberlinia doka, Anogeissus leiocarpus, Cola cordifolia, Antiaris africana, which is nationally threatened, Chlorophora excelsa (VU), and the edible akee Blighia unijugata.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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There is no sober-minded, fast pace also goes awry; no caution pace, then flat road will fall.
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Ray's comments swerved from the banal, to the solid and sober, like all good reporters.
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Not a problem, and I was feeling pretty sober, even if the car, being a manual, was something I hadn't driven before.
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Similarly, the political realities forced upon a nation suffering the after-effects of civil war and regicide were sobering indeed.
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If the right to recall is legislated to become a law of the land, it can have a very sobering effect on our politicians; many of them take the voter for granted.
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If you want sober, cautious, level-headed judgment read The Economist.
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I got my bearings reasonably quickly, though, despite spending more time drunk than sober in the city centre.
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She was so emotionally fragile that being sober was simply too painful.
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We must be soberly aware that there is still a long way ahead of us.
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Yet the former England manager concedes that a far more sobering scenario could have awaited his team had they not strengthened during the mid-season transfer window.
Times, Sunday Times
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Much alcohol was consumed, yet I have a ridiculously high alcohol tolerance so remained very sober.
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Start beautiful, tiring process, the end is very sad, sober difficult.
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It's like watching a sober guy walk his drunk friend home; just one stumble and they both hit the sidewalk.
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I laughed before sobering up quickly again and faced her with a solemn expression.
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It is indeed refreshing to see politically unaligned individuals beginning to contribute soberly in this crucial public debate in the interest of what the ANC seeks to achieve: a strong and coordinated criminal justice system that is capacitated to effectively fight all kinds of crime within the country.
ANC Today
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But so it was, as great men and princes are said to call in their flatterers when dinner has been served, so the Athenians, upon slight occasions, entertained and diverted themselves with their spruce speakers and trim orators, but when it came to action, they were sober and considerate enough to single out the austerest and wisest for public employment, however much he might be opposed to their wishes and sentiments.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Our arguments, our anger, the anxious pleading of philanthropists who saw the young on the East Side going to ruin, the warning year after year of the superintendent of schools that the compulsory education law was but an empty mockery where it was most needed, the knocking of uncounted thousands of children for whom there was no room, uncounted in sober fact; there was not even a way of finding out how many were adrift, 3brought only the response that the tax rate must be kept down.
II. The Outworks of the Slum Taken
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It is sobering, in some cases, to see how much the hand of man has altered the face of nature.
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As long as they had known Ian, they had seen him cheerful and smiling - perhaps quiet or sober during serious moments, but always ready with a smile.
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His face sobered, but his eyes had not lost that glint of humor.
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It's the person who has to stay sober and be responsible and generally act like security in a nightclub.
Times, Sunday Times
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Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
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chastised with the sober eye of dull Octavia," nor shown "to the shouting varletry of censuring Rome.
The Man Shakespeare
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He talked to us in a sober friendly fashion.
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That is what you might call a sobering experience.
Christianity Today
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Elphick's wife had left him, and since this event he had remained sober and faithful to her memory, as he had not been to her in actuality.
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
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The nominee was in a sober suit with the expected white shirt and red tie.
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Drunk or sober, he was driven by a manic energy and impatience that made him a difficult friend and an almost impossible husband and father.
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I think it's important to read because it makes clear that he's not some effete urbanite like me: he's a sober heartland working-class American who knows whereof he speaks.
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Others, and the generall, are sober and grave, and yet chearfull in a meane, and as ready to begin a Salutation as to Resalute, which yet the English generally begin, out of desire to Civilize them.
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To this day I believe it truly was less disillusionment and more an embrace of sober realism that moved me to change.
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He's dressed in a dark three-piece suit and a sober tie.
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This resolution is sensible, it is sober, it is realistic.
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But the field of speculation into which one is led by the octonary scale has proved most attractive to some, and the conclusion has been soberly reached, that in the history of the Aryan race the octonary was to be regarded as the predecessor of the decimal scale.
The Number Concept Its Origin and Development
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He giggled, then sobered quickly and looked suspiciously out the window.
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My first endeavor to solve the new questions was to check the _abandon_ of the trance condition, and interfuse it with more of sober consciousness.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
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Another important variety is that of the chrysoberyl called "cymophane.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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Oh keep me from these unsober, distempered, mad, unruly thoughts!
Samuel Rutherford
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Yet even the conservative AR4 arguably supports the term by considering, however soberly, probably consequences that could reasonably be construed as involving the "ravaging" of this or that.
RealClimate
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It's a safe bet that the yob putting his dukes up has been soberly simmering all week, but in loosening his inhibitions, it has all come flooding out.
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The sobering presentation foreboded the future of Taiwan's relationship with the United States.
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The tattooist testified in court that the man was sober when he was tattooed!
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I can't use the word 'sober' because that's a term from those people, and I have cleansed myself.
The TV Column: Sheen's conduct spurs season shutdown of 'Two and a Half Men'
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Thus, as potential tantric disciples, we need the strength of character and emotional stability to remain sober-headed despite anything our tantric masters may say or do.
Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 7 Establishing a Relationship with a Spiritual Teacher
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He laughed, too; something about the word sober, especially as applied to him, seemed absurd.
A Happy Marriage
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Cheered but still sober, we head for the Monkey Bar, a more stylish and youthful venue in a Bath Street basement.
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This was the language of the English and Scottish Enlightenment: sober, unemphatic, good-humoured; a very sociable and moderate language, modern in a way that even we would recognise, and supremely rational and down-to-earth.
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In a snug corner might be seen a party of sober, quiet-looking gentlemen, taking their lobster and bucellas, whose first appearance would impress you with the belief of their respectability, but whom, upon inquiry, you would discover to be
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
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Fitness festivals In the same way some people are now raving sober, other s are going to festivals for health reasons.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hercules’ pillars in a warm benefice, to be easily inclinable, if he have nothing else that may rouse up his studies, to finish his circuit in an English Concordance and a topic folio, the gatherings and savings of a sober graduateship, a Harmony and a
Areopagitica
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Nevertheless, for gradualists, who hoped that devolution would provide a workable and stable form of home rule that could endure for years before coming under question, recent developments have been sobering.
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February 17th, 2010 at 7: 29 pm tombaker says: harmando thinks using teenage girl text-message acronyms is awesome, because he’s a sober and serious, intelligent grownup, and not a hopeless poser loser waving his boogerfinger around in territory that does not welcome him or his “ideas”.
Think Progress » Confused Karl Rove Falsely Accuses Obama Of Having ‘A Little Bit Of Confusion’ About Stimulus Jobs Numbers
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It is a sobering argument and one whose subtlety may not penetrate the political/media filter that permits only sound bites and slogans to pass through.
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First up, the breaking news: On the eve of a memorial for 13 people massacred at Fort Hood, Texas, we have new information about their alleged killer and his ties to a notorious recruiter for global jihad, sobering new questions, as well, about warning signs that may have gone unacted on.
CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2009
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Monstrous Ophidia are mentioned in sober history, e.g. that which delayed the army of Regulus.
Arabian nights. English
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It is like gold, or more exactly it is like the gold-coloured semi-precious stone which one sometimes sees in signet rings, and which I think is called a chrysoberyl.
George orwell | some thoughts on the common toad « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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But the festivities will be cut abruptly short by the anniversary, which Hoboken will mark in a manner far more sombre and sober than the hullabaloo over the river.
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Not for the first time, he misjudged the mood, which was sober and serious.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said that, while the website might provide users with sobering predictions, the intention was to inform and inspire rather than terrify.
Times, Sunday Times
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He would often spend a whole day settling and resettling in their cases the various stones that be had collected, such as the olive-green chrysoberyl that turns red by lamplight, the cymophane with its wirelike line of silver, the pistachio-coloured peridot, rose-pink and wine-yellow topazes, carbuncles of fiery scarlet with tremulous, four-rayed stars, flame-red cinnamon-stones, orange and violet spinels, and amethysts with their alternate layers of ruby and sapphire.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Trust me, I've been around a few drunks and being sober and standing there trying to understand what they are saying is hard enough.
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Keep him in bed until he sobers up
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It was the most sobering experience of my life.
The Sun
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Still, it was essentially agreeable entertainment with a wacky sense of humour leavened by slightly sobering grace notes.
Times, Sunday Times
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England, and the worthy progenitors of our L. the K. that now is, and by himself also vnder a certain form confirmed: euen so he is determined (without the preiudice of forren lawes) vpon iust mature, and sober deliberation, by his royall authorise to withstand such priuiledges, as by reason of the abuse thereof, haue bene infinitely preiudiciall vnto himselfe and his subiects.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Start beautiful, tiring process, the end is very sad, sober difficult.
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When sober he can come across as an extremely pleasant and charming young man.
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Beautifully acted, sung and danced, this retains a playful yet sobering power.
Times, Sunday Times
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Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
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Speaking now as a sober-minded 41-year-old, Michael is trying hard to shoulder full responsibility for his actions.
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Extra equipment will be brought in so drunks can be rehydrated, sobered up and discharged.
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He was some years younger than Marsden, and dressed soberly but in the very height of fashion, his lightly starched collar reaching to his ears, and a white waistcoat picked out with black calling unobtrusive attention to the slenderness of his waist.
Hornblower And The Crisis
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As other women are pulling on their veils she walks past us in a plain black headscarf and a sober dark ensemble.
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The first involved Ludvig Muller, ‘a handsome, sober man with a passion for numismatics and museums.’
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The Congressional Budget Office produces a lot of sober-minded, sensible, reality-based policy analysis.
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives Prepare to Abandon Newfound Love for CBO
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It is sobering to realize that this is not a new problem.
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He is every writing journalist's idea of a photographer: modest, equable, sober.
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I made haste, hereupon, to nod my head twiceonce in the negative, meaning thereby that I would prefer not taking the other bottle at presentand once in the affirmative, intending thus to imply that I was sober and had positively come to my senses.
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I believe she supposed I could with a word whisk Jim away out of her very arms; it is my sober conviction she went through agonies of apprehension during my long talks with Jim; through a real and intolerable anguish that might have conceivably driven her into plotting my murder, had the fierceness of her soul been equal to the tremendous situation it had created.
Lord Jim
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They were both in that degree of intoxication necessary to prepare such dispositions for what they commonly call frolics, and the sober part of mankind feel to be extravagant outrages against the laws of their country, and the peace of their fellow-subjects.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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From the standpoint of women whose primary goal in life is career advancement, these are sobering findings.
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He would ground her flightiness and her impulsiveness and she would lighten his sometimes-sober demeanour.
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It is sobering to reflect that by crowning a brief but undeniably spectacular life by getting murdered in 1593, Christopher Marlowe has ensured persistent support as the one nonaristocratic candidate for authorship of "Shakespeare's" plays.
The One and Only
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I had expected something of the ghost in the machine philosopher rather than a sober minded cleric.
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James, who was about thirty-five years of age and of quiet and sober habits, had died from apoplexy.
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You must become a little sobersides, an equine geek, and count every step and every inch.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, I had to get my beer drinking done quickly, so that I could sober up soon enough to return the van.
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He was a little tipsy but I was sober.
The Sun
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On Monday, another prominent GOP leader joined the chorus of the sober-minded.
Barbour, Cornyn, Cantor Lower Expectations For GOP Congress
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Since then he has been both sober and clean.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's like watching a sober guy walk his drunk friend home; just one stumble and they both hit the sidewalk.
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This means I have been sober thanks to Jesus, and I haven't had to sit in a room with a lot of alkies talking about this 12 steps stuff where you have to apologize and make amends all the time.
Chris Durang: Bush Gets New Speechwriter
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A sober-minded accountant from Glasgow, he does not seek out the spotlight.
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It is sobering to swim at full pelt and apparently not go anywhere.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's very serious and very sober and as an actor she has a lot of technique and understanding of what's she doing.
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Winter rain on the sea is so utterly sobering, especially when there is little wind.
Times, Sunday Times
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Without wanting to raise your hopes too high, I would say simply, soberly, that I am very optimistic.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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The effect that increasing units have on your body makes for sobering reading indeed.
Times, Sunday Times
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In recent years, a series of very sober and real statistics have surfaced.
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He stands there in his sober suit.
Times, Sunday Times
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So much he told the seekers in few words; and then while they grovelled on the earth and wept for pure joy, whereas the sun was down and it was beginning to grow dusk, he went and looked around soberly to see if he might find water and any kind of victual; and presently a little down the hillside he came upon a place where a spring came gushing up out of the earth and ran down toward the plain; and about it was green grass growing plentifully, and a little thicket of bramble and wilding fruit-trees.
The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men
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Milhares de brasileiros que vivem em território boliviano estão ameaçados de expulsão porque Evo Morales, sob a alegação de garantir a soberania do seu país, quer assentar 4 mil famílias de camponeses oriundos de La Paz e Cochabamba, em 200 mil hectares de terras localizadas na região fronteiriça.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Bolivia expels Brazilian citizens
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He was left to sober up in a police cell.
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He talked to us in a sober friendly fashion.
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Drunks would be laid off immediately, and could only return when sober. Chronic alcoholics were fired.
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Very "imperfective" and hardly a "story," it is nevertheless done with sober and conscientious craftsmanship, very much like Bunin and very unlike the usual idea we have of Pilniak.
Tales of the Wilderness
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The French have largely retained their ancient sober habit (save for the unhappy introduction of the afternoon "aperitif"), but the English have shown a tendency to abandon their intemperance of excess in favour of an opposed intemperance, and instead of drinking till they fall under the table have sometimes developed a passion for not drinking at all.
Impressions and Comments
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Articles examine social attitudes to unemployment and poverty through the decades, and there's also a survey of Depression and wartime cookbooks, and a sobering photograph of a Helsinki leipäjono literally "breadline" or soup kitchen in 2006.
Shadows of Recession
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In contrast to every previous encounter of ours, I sober up as we catch up into the early hours.
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Others marked the occasion with sober suits and black ties.
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Yet that is what sober, scholarly assessments are for: to throw doubt on easy triumphalism.
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Ma flashed me a look of approval for sobering him up so quickly.
WEB OF DREAMS
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Ow! sober floories that smell o 'the yird (earth), like.
Alec Forbes of Howglen
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She wanted a drink, but she had to stay sober.
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Here, we are surrounded by sober, often industrious people who are poor.
Christianity Today
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The most sobering part of the book is a short passage where Guttenplan elaborates this country's history of anti-Semitism.
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Without the roads and tracks and the steeplechase to sober him up, he was somewhat overkeen.
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On the surface of the cloth stream that poured past him, he pictured radiant futures wherein he performed prodigies of toil, invented miraculous machines, won to the mastership of the mills, and in the end took her in his arms and kissed her soberly on the brow.
THE APOSTATE: written by Jack London
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I instantly sober up (somewhat) and pinch myself as I chew the fat with the godfather of electro-pop.
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This precipitous narrow track must have been a sobering welcome for the new settlers.
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In contrast, leading figured mosaics from other parts of the province have sober designs which usually illustrate an individual scene.
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It was weird being the only sober one amongst the completely bladdered players.
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He was a tall , quiet, sober soft - spoken black man.
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We are now far more sober and realistic.
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The case example of the UK's Yorkshire Ripper Hoaxer however is a sobering reminder of the real link between backlog, convictions, and public safety.
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The legendary frontiersman is seldom sober, and by the time of the siege he is too sick and delirious with typhoid to hold his eponymous knife.
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Some commentators have a track record of cranking up public expectation, hyping up athletes who, in the wider scheme of things, are no-hopers; however most are sober and reserved.
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I'm pretty sure I didn't stop for long enough to sober up.
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One site that does a quality job (however sobering and gloomy) of collecting dismal dots to connect, is so-called Mike Ruppert's so-called blog.
Take me out to the shell game (Jack Bog's Blog)
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To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolute sober.
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What do you do with your day now you're sober?
Times, Sunday Times
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I can't expect everyone to arrive at this same philosophical destination that I did on Monday, especially when they are not even on the same path; yet my "kill" experience on Monday really taught me a lot about our society and it's detachment from the "sobering realities", to say nothing of what it taught me about anti-hunters.
The Ritual: After Death, Before Venison
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We could toast the memory of men such as Sobers and Marshall, Richards and Lara, Worrell and Weekes.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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I prefer my women a little older and a damn sight more sober.
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It is entirely acceptable to have a lie-down in the afternoon to sober up after lunch and prepare for more drinking at dinner.
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Fortunately, though, Michael also looked as if he'd sobered up a bit.
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Cheered but still sober, we head for the Monkey Bar, a more stylish and youthful venue in a Bath Street basement.
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To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave[Sentencedict], is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolute sober.
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He is a man on the edge of a mental abyss, a soul tortured by events in his past he dare not confront when sober.
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It was well for the success of Mac's first crusade that his hearers were gentlemen and sober, so his outburst was not received with jeers or laughter but listened to in silence, while the expression of the faces changed from one of surprise to regret and respect, for earnestness is always effective and championship of this sort seldom fails to touch hearts as yet unspoiled.
Rose in Bloom
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Someone had elected to stay sober and was driving us back to Acton where we were living then.
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Sober, sensible readers who get to bed by half past ten may have no fun, but they may be less likely to get heart disease than the rest of us.
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I was stone cold sober, and the room was sweltering.
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The seemingly fashionable hairstyle was also described as "captivating" in Rodong Sunmun, the North Korean newspaper, which wrote: "A young man with an ambitious high sided haircut looks so sobering and stylish.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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No, it's not a sobering thought, it's a weird one.
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That brought everyone back into a serious and sober mood.
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The classroom, painted in its sober colours of beige and black, is half-full.
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I laid in bed last night, totally sober, praying for alcohol to fall out of the sky and into my mouth.
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Youths stayed the night or were ushered home by designated sober drivers (non-drinking teens were tremendously popular at these events).
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They provide a careful, sober assessment of the biological story in all its complexity.
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Then, whenever he went out, it was quite plain and sober, on a rough little _mountainy garran_; and he thought himself grand entirely if his big _ould_ fashioned boots got a rub of the _grase_.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829
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The rich, painterly textures and sober use of color in his "matter paintings" lent a moving solemnity - the critic John Russell referred to their "seignorial dignity" - to works that "seemed to have been not so much painted as excavated from an idiosyncratic compound of mud, sand, earth, dried blood and powdered minerals.
NYT > Home Page
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Anyone who is not drunk is sober.
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These bloody lessons would sober most people down.
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It is indeed refreshing to see politically unaligned individuals beginning to contribute soberly in this crucial public debate in the interest of what the African National Congress seeks to achieve: a strong and coordinated criminal justice system that is capacitated to effectively fight all kinds of crime within the country.
Response to Fivaz-Njenje\'s Sunday Times article
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I'm perfectly sober, in case you had in mind a Breathalyser test?
SUMMER OF SECRETS
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Who can resist a peek at the salaciousness seething behind the sober suits and marble halls of American government?
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He always has had the reputation of being a sober-headed man, but he is all off his balance now.
Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem
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Recent stock market falls offered a sobering reminder of how mere economic concerns can quickly look like crises.
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Evidence for this more sober assessment is hate, racism, and misogyny on the Web.
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Le Chabanais might have been a sober French townhouse on the outside; inside it was all velvet, ormolu, and tiger-skin.
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Also if I had had some sober time and took a shot of junk, I immediately began spiralling down into the dope slavery of everyday use.
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Ray would later put the museum thing down to a certain nihilism instilled by all that final-year, second-term psychosis, but in truth it was merely another instance of late-night drinking spawning an idea so intoxicating that the next morning failed to sober them of it.
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
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Perhaps the most famous of the op.20 quartets is no.5 in F minor, the sober beauty of whose first movement is lifted into sublime regions with wonderful enharmonic modulations near its close.
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It was an occasion for me to get together with my friends on the East Coast: Herb and Eva Sober and Chris and Flossie Anfinsen from NIH, Bill and Inge
Edmond H. Fischer - Autobiography
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Here, we are surrounded by sober, often industrious people who are poor.
Christianity Today
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The fact that this country spends more on its military than on education and health care combined is a sobering thought .
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Now he's sober, well-behaved and, like most recovering alcoholics, will be obsessed with his own preservation and well-being.
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These young men (together with the students of sciences) comport themselves towards the sober citizen pretty much as the German bursch towards the philister, or as the military man, during the empire, did to the pékin: -- from the height of their poverty they look down upon him with the greatest imaginable scorn -- a scorn, I think, by which the citizen seems dazzled, for his respect for the arts is intense.
The Paris Sketch Book
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‘Rumors of a renaissance do not resurrection make,’ he notes soberingly.
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sobersides," as Mary Bertram sometimes called their graver discussions.
Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School
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So what can we learn from this brief and sobering foray into the world of political consulting and rough-and-tumble politics?
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This discussion needs to be conducted in a sober and unexcited manner.
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When people came to know, they said that to have done it when sober had shown him possessed of a kind of maliciousness and cynicism almost pardonable, but to do it when tipsy proved him merely weak and foolish.
The Translation of a Savage, Volume 1
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My favorite bookstores for buying books are any little used book store in any little touristy town, so when you're in, say, Sonoma, and you've tasted so much wine that you are getting a bit buzzy (because spitting is a sin because there are sober children in China), you can wander over to the used book store and breathe the musty smell and find treasures you've never heard of and can't wait to read.
Bookstore Appreciation Time!
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The barkeeper was a busy man, and had been given the tip to keep sober or lose the last hold he had on his job.
Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
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A sober, intimate portrait of Bernhardt rather than a straight biography, her book presents a balanced view.