How To Use Sobriety In A Sentence

The trouble with this sobriety lark, which I embarked upon at the start of the year, is that I find my critical facilities have been restored after some 30 years' suspension.
As well as his new-found sobriety, this may be in part a reflection of a stability in his personal life. Times, Sunday Times
The class discusses getting a sponsor, abstaining from romantic relationships for at least a year after sobriety and the importance of attending 90 meetings in 90 days.
He's a teetotal, drug-free vegetarian, passionate about sobriety and the focus it has given his life and career.
There is a fine line between maturity, sobriety and patience, and indifference, alienation and disgust.

So far the Obama Administration, to our surprise and perhaps its own, has behaved with admirable sobriety despite the wailing from the political left. The Housing Bust Lobby
Benji is said to be dry while Paris can knock back a keg and still pass a sobriety test. Hollywood Dame » Blog Archive » Paris Hilton and Benji Madden Split
So it turns out that "fondling" is not part of the standard field sobriety test Radio station for blind to go off air, victim of budget cuts. Latest News - UPI.com
As a patrician of Dordrecht and a patriot, he paid homage to Holland as a trim and handsome place where even the windmills rotated their sails with a Sunday sobriety; much as his contemporary Teniers depicted Flanders.
As they have been realised, the dreams themselves have assumed a peculiar character of sobriety, of the spirit of positivism, and beyond that, of boredom.
It's a conceit that would ring false with David Threlfall's wild, bacchanalian Chatsworth patriarch but William H Macy's Frank is a more sensitive, caring soul, who uses his extended period of sobriety to connect with the kids. TV highlights 11/08/2011: The Culture Show At The Edinburgh Festival | Torchwood: Miracle Day | The Killing | The Forgotten Blitz | Little Box Of Horrors | Shameless US
Coffee houses were a reflection of the emerging middle class, with its emphasis on discussion, exploration of ideas, sobriety and refined sociability.
He isn't implying insobriety: they're usually hunting for a hidden date stamp or label. Times, Sunday Times
Even if tea were indeed the virtuous drink of an industrious sobriety, something other than rational health benefits must have been the spur, otherwise tobacco and opiates would have fallen into desuetude.
He was still muddled in his thoughts when the servants took away the last course - mostly untouched, as the silence and sobriety had damaged everyone's appetite.
AA aims to change not only the behavior but the personality in order to reinforce sobriety.
She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them. Jane Austen
Even Steichen did not pilot fashion photography into the waters of cold sobriety.
Treatment has only one goal: sobriety or total abstinence from alcohol or the abused substance.
In 1985 after months of sobriety, she accidentally overdosed on prescription medication and sleeping pills. The Sun
Not that these things (as I said of fasting) are to be discommended of themselves, but very behoveful in some cases and good: sobriety and contemplation join our souls to God, as that heathen [6459] Porphyry can tell us. Anatomy of Melancholy
Instead of haranguing the audience with the message that alcohol is evil, director Betty Thomas shows Gwen having such a good time during the pre-sobriety sequences that you begin to wonder whether it is rehab that was evil all along.
When women started working in offices, they opted for severity in dress in order to imply sobriety.
Yet for all its eclecticism it builds in a single arc -- its core the long second movement, propelled upward by quasi-Minimalist rhythmic repetitions -- until the exuberant jam session is capped by the churchly sobriety of the orchestral idiom, returning as if to remind everyone of where they are, though more focusing the mood than interrupting it. In performance: NSO and Yo-Yo Ma
Today, when I look back on my years of sobriety and see how the Lord has changed me, I am happy and proud of who I have become.
There is a trend for alcohol limits to become tighter - a trend more related to the increasing sobriety of the wider political climate than to the emergence of epidemiological evidence justifying a more abstemious policy.
I chose sobriety for once and spent the night sipping on water.
Normally his manner was cold, and he expounded his outrageous lecheries with grim sobriety, but that day he had been chewing preserved kal flavoured with aromatic oils, and his manner was less restrained than usual, even jolly.
At no stage have we shown, or sought to show, any competence, insight, initiative, wit, sobriety, sincerity or indeed any capability at all.
Through helping others, members reinforce their own sobriety and build up self - esteem .
Hebrew, along with his intense spirituality and his moral strenuousness, lacked intellectual justness, sense of proportion, social appreciativeness, artistic truth and sobriety. Platform Monologues
He also failed a field sobriety test and was additionally charged with evidence tampering.
Additional motivation for sobriety came from Sam's probation officer who demanded frequent urinalysis to test for drug use.
Along the way, the mild-mannered Green is introduced to the joys of groupie sex, narcotic-fuelled insobriety of dubious origin via a giant bifter known as a "Jeffrey", and various other staples of the rock star lifestyle. Post-credits scene: Get Him to the Greek
The risk is far greater than driving a car in a similar condition of insobriety.
They also acted their parts as classically as the admirable comedians interfered bumptiously with all the sobriety, and Phillip Addis must be commended for his singing as well.
One of the starlets is a vocal champion for recovery and sobriety, while the other is getting turnt up as her party guests wait for a line in the bathroom.
The film captures the precariousness of an addict's sobriety.
Surely honesty, sobriety, and steadiness must have grown dreadfully scarce qualities, that one puts up with such a cook; especially as her cooking is as careless as the rest of her doings. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
The renunciation of private property, freedom from material things, sobriety and simplicity have radical validity only for monks, but the spirit of such renunciation is the same for everyone. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
Everything was done to make us throw away sobriety of thought and calmness of judgment and to inflate all expressions with sensational epithets and turgid phrases.
They have a lot to answer for in launching him as an ambassador of Scottish insobriety upon the world.
MECCA - An allegedly drunken 16-year-old driving a stolen car, and a woman wanted for hit-and-run, were among the 10 people arrested at an overnight sobriety checkpoint in Mecca, authorities said. Undefined
There is a fine line between maturity, sobriety and patience, and indifference, alienation and disgust.
For any recovering alcoholic, one of the biggest lessons of their sobriety is to learn how to have fun without alcohol in the bloodstream.
My reasons tend to vary according to my mood and level of sobriety.
Speculative, whimsical thoughts are not compatible with the sobriety required by most issuers of credit.
Not that these things (as I said of fasting) are to be discommended of themselves, but very behoveful in some cases and good: sobriety and contemplation join our souls to God, as that heathen [6459] Porphyry can tell us. Anatomy of Melancholy
Perhaps my enjoyment of these most recent deathbed roundelays has been offset a bit by listening recently to some of his earlier work that follows his sobriety but precedes his mortality.
Student insobriety and its management are not new to college authorities.
Perhaps, instead of seeing the annual ritual of the Christmas party as indicating a lamentable weakness for excess, we should welcome it as a sign of our customary, compliant sobriety.
Halfway through a king size cut of steak she seemed to make progress toward sobriety.
In the positive endeavour to realise an opinion, to convert a theory into practice, it may be, and very often is, highly expedient to defer to the prejudices of the majority, to move very slowly, to bow to the conditions of the _status quo_, to practise the very utmost sobriety, self-restraint, and conciliatoriness. On Compromise
But even as Madoc's destruction of the Aztec temples marks an end to acquisitive empire, Southey's aim of rationality and sobriety is compromised by the poem's own explicitly exoticist allure. [ The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism
‘Right now, my sobriety is the most important thing in my life because everything stems from that,’ he says.
And because that he wist well and knew that chastity in delices, pity in riches, and humility in honour often perish, he took and gave his courage to sobriety and good diet, to humility and misericorde, keeping himself right curiously from the pricking sautes and watch of the world, the flesh and the devil, and chastised his body and brought it to servitude by the ensample of the apostles. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
It could holds 10 pax, tea table which made of solid wood with the corium couch, the modern meeting room facilities from soup to nuts, special style let you feel sobriety and entirely free.
Those who are still partying through the night are either gripped by the catatonia of the truly drunk or have talked their way back to sobriety and are curiously calm.
It is characterised by its basilical layout with narrow aisles, its three vaulted apses and the functional and harmonious sobriety of the ‘lombardic band’ decoration of the chevets.
Not that it's an unwanted or unrewarding burden, but so many are looking at it the wrong way, as a means of enrichment for themselves rather than something to be undertaken with sobriety.
Not all of these poets had poetic values as classically Horatian as Ryan's "temperance and sobriety of invention."
I cannot believe that I just spent five consecutive hours playing Taboo and Trivial Persuit: Pop Culture, in an unabbreviated state of sobriety. Anti-gens Diary Entry
Some that are so esteemed, indeed, never pretended unto any sobriety, but were mere effects of delirant [raving] imaginations; yet did even they also, one way or other, derive from an hatred unto the person of Christologia
But there was also another layer of culture that was the character of Roman life with the accent on sobriety and order.
We are also told that insobriety was a thing of the past at wakes on these islands.
A sweet sobriety shaded her young face, and a meek smile sat upon her lips, but the old blithesomeness was gone. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860
House in pain, having to wrestle with sobriety is going to be a priceless ass. So Much For Spoilers...House, MD Finale
By the way, no, I havent stayed sober that long, but my failure to achieve long-term sobriety is just thatmy failurenot the failure of the program. Wishful Drinking
What they offer, instead, is sanity and sobriety.
If a person is sober, how can he be a drunk? Sobriety alone is not enough.
The most pervasive form of insobriety in American culture is consumerism. Eric Simpson: Icons: Symbols of Sobriety in a Culture of Chaos
As they have been realised, the dreams themselves have assumed a peculiar character of sobriety, of the spirit of positivism, and beyond that, of boredom.
Though the book is narrated entirely in Hannah's voice, we only know as much as Hannah does at any given moment - a movable feast, dependent on her state of sobriety.
A third of drug-taking drivers pass roadside sobriety test. Times, Sunday Times
I think she ` s probably experiencing what they call -- and I ` m a recovering alcoholic myself, with, God willing, in April, 13 years of sobriety -- incomprehensible demoralization, which is what people experience. CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2008
Pecan pie truffles are a crowd-pleaser, provided that no party guest adheres to strict sobriety! Small Kitchen College: Five Ingredient Feast: Booze Balls
The former Massachusetts governor has been going negative on Gingrich, using the word "zany" in a New York Times interview Wednesday to make the point that whoever GOP voters choose as their White House nominee will need to have "sobriety. News
Actually, the index page for Genesis is quite revealing: insobriety ... A Sodomite's Sermon
Since its foundation AA has helped hundreds of suffering alcoholics to achieve daily sobriety.
I'm really not sure why someone would post a picture of him/herself in various states of insobriety and indiscretion. Museum of Animal Perspectives
The sobriety of the streets is relieved by bridges with self-important towers or slightly pompous lions and griffins with gilded wings.
AA is solely concerned with the personal recovery and continued sobriety of individual alcoholics who turn to the fellowship for help.
It is difficult to review this interview without the greatest sadness and sobriety given recent events.
Though in his youth he had been much addicted to intemperance and licentious pleasures, after he had ranked himself among philosophers he was never known to violate the laws of sobriety or chastity.
The islanders had the physical sturdiness, the sobriety, the practical skills and the independence of mind to cope with life in remote places.
It was a day when she forgot her own rule about sobriety and seriousness and they both had laughed so.
After 23 years of sobriety, he also hit the bottle.
He, meanwhile, conveys an unexpectedly dignified sobriety as the supposedly happily married chump with whom she fatally dallies. Times, Sunday Times
We have no plans to require sobriety tests. Times, Sunday Times
This is a serious mistake because it results in a harsh dichotomy between spiritual life and the material world, and leads to insobriety. Eric Simpson: Icons: Symbols of Sobriety in a Culture of Chaos
The sobriety of the scene was indeed somewhat enlivened by the presence of Sir Piercie Shafton, who, to show that his skill in the manege was not inferior to his other accomplishments, kept alternately pressing and checking his gay courser, forcing him to piaffe, to caracole, to passage, and to do all the other feats of the school, to the great annoyance of the Lord The Monastery
You feel more inclined to take the safe option, more inclined towards sobriety than excess, more likely to settle for the sensible and the pragmatic.
The home is the foundation of sanity and sobriety; it is the indispensable condition of continuity; its health determines the health of society.
All good work arose in painstaking, painful sobriety, without any pleasant buzzing in the head. Wislawa szymborska | how to (and how not to) write poetry « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Anyone arrested for insobriety in Vermont was subject to a mandatory jail sentence if he failed to name the person from whom he acquired his liquor. LAST CALL
Losing his battle with sobriety, the fictional Ellis drinks vodka like a fish and snorts cocaine.
In fact, the sobriety, maturity and patience offered a most happy contrast to the herky-jerky behavior of society's supposedly mature ‘opinion makers.’
Arrangements like these can be very helpful in maintaining long-term sobriety, as losing custody of a child is often the “bottom” that motivates addicted parents to finally seek treatment. Helping the Addict You Love
Furthermore, for all my commitment to continued sobriety, I'm far from ‘drug free’ today if you count caffeine, as we should, as a mood-altering substance.
In this case you have to factor in alcohol, albeit I know there is a finding of sobriety, or not of insobriety; giddiness; certainly tiredness; early hours of the morning.
People were accused of entering into the donnybrook without experience, knowledge, good faith, rationality, sobriety or even their own hitherto recognisable identities.
Stewart suggests using the photo to strengthen credibility by favoring sobriety over glitz.
For winebibbing had not taken possession of her spirit, nor did the love of wine stimulate her to hate the truth, as it does too many, both male and female, who turn as sick at a hymn to sobriety as drunkards do at a draught of water. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
Yet in his new-found sobriety there was worse to come.
Admittedly, his insobriety was not without consequences. Times, Sunday Times
It is, instead, an exercise in careful selection of the finest legal minds to the better advantage of the public weal, and is undertaken in seriousness, sobriety and the fullest impartiality.
After sobriety has been achieved, extreme caution should be used in prescribing mood-altering drugs and control led substances to recovering patients, if they are prescribed at all.
Coffee houses were a reflection of the emerging middle class, with its emphasis on discussion, exploration of ideas, sobriety and refined sociability.
Physiologie du goût and Baudelaire's 1850 essay "Du Vin et du haschisch compares comme moyens de multpilier l'individualité" comprise a counter-discourse of gastronomy that tips moderation into excess and sobriety into sublimity. Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
Here the figures represent the epitome of gracious sobriety stylishly dressed and enjoying the ritual of afternoon tea served by a servant at a table set with all the tea equipage of a fashionable household.
A survey by Channel 4 revealed a surprising degree of sobriety and principles among the nation's youth.
It's common for someone who had long-term sobriety, and then a relapse, to decide traditional rehab is not for them. Is This the End for Two And A Half Men?
Eugene Debs, the principal leader of the Socialist Party at the turn of the century, declared it his mission to “plant benevolence in the heart of stone, instill the love of sobriety into the putrid mind of debauchery, and create industry out of idleness.” A Renegade History of the United States
For him, ‘the Methodist conscience of Britain has been replaced by greed, insobriety and the worship of wealth’.
We told Betty that we loved her and we were going to help her and the net result was she believed us and as Steve said she's had 18 years of wonderful sobriety.
In religious life, insobriety is evident in popular movements that promote super-spiritual phenomena, born-again testimonies, and an extreme emphasis on charismatic gifts, appealing to the certainty of personal first-order experiences by themselves, which must be repeated to keep up the momentum, sometimes in new and questionable ways. Eric Simpson: Icons: Symbols of Sobriety in a Culture of Chaos
Judging from the tone of their utterances, the women and men who argued for respectability and sobriety sincerely believed what they said.
His first album since 1996 reflects his new-found sobriety, its country-rock sound revealing that his melodic sense is happily undimmed.
My two cents on the statement about the "public conduct of my fellow atheists was so lacking in sobriety and gravity Review - Orphans Of Chaos, by John C. Wright
Student insobriety and its management are not new to college authorities.
We've never been into sobriety at all, I don't like playing sober.
She was a model of sobriety and honesty.
If they're wrecked at work, especially if public safety relies on their sobriety, fire them and, perhaps, also prosecute.
And we certainly have witnessed many people who have started to drink after years of sobriety and go downhill very, very quickly.
Yorick scarce ever heard this sad vaticination of his destiny read over to him, but with a tear stealing from his eye, and a promissory look attending it, that he was resolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more sobriety. — The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Along the way, the mild-mannered Green is introduced to the joys of groupie sex, narcotic-fuelled insobriety of dubious origin via a giant bifter known as a "Jeffrey", and various other staples of the rock star lifestyle. Post-credits scene: Get Him to the Greek
But why is it some people are the soul of sobriety and never suffer the next day with a hangover, while others can't help behaving badly when the wine is flowing and gaily fling all their inhibitions into the file marked B for bin?
Everything was done to make us throw away sobriety of thought and calmness of judgment and to inflate all expressions with sensational epithets and turgid phrases.
The officer commonly asks the driver to walk in a straight line, recite the alphabet, stand on one leg and count to five, close their eyes and touch the tip of their nose to test their sobriety.
We would see a new age of sobriety in the arts, and cinema and TV, especially in the US, which would reflect reinvigorated family values such as family and patriotism.
The slow-witted criminal of the week is a guy who fled a sobriety checkpoint in New Hampshire after handing over his license and registration.
I would listen to the euphonies of life and the sobriety of earth beleaguering me.
The sobriety of the streets is relieved by bridges with self-important towers or slightly pompous lions and griffins with gilded wings.
Its proclamation requires sobriety and seriousness, for it relates to the realities of the Lord's own presence and the judgement to come.
This prepares our clients for long-term sobriety, allowing our program to excel where others fail. The Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act
But if you opened his inside (…), you cannot imagine how full he is, good companions, of sobriety… [He] spends his life in chaffing and making game of his fellow-men.
'tuism'; -- B. is one who, feeling the ill effects of a contrary habit, contemplates sobriety with blameless envy. Literary Remains, Volume 1
The word "ragamuffin," which I have used above, does not accurately express the man, because there is a sort of shadow or delusion of respectability about him, and a sobriety too, and a kind of decency in his groggy and red-nosed destitution. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
In A Million Little Pieces, his memoir about his supposed crack addiction, he claimed to have knocked down a Michigan cop while high, after which he allegedly brawled with a platoon of beefy officers who hurled him into jail for three months; it turned out that he was merely involved in a minor collision, behaved with exemplary sobriety at the police station, and was released a few hours later. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey – review
Police officers are trained to spot signs of drug use and may ask a suspect to take a roadside sobriety test. Times, Sunday Times
Most treatment programs are modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous, but rather than pushing cold-turkey abstinence, they advocate something called “sexual sobriety.
James Batter, the pattern of steadiness and sobriety, awoke in a terrible pliskie. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
At no stage have we shown, or sought to show, any competence, insight, initiative, wit, sobriety, sincerity or indeed any capability at all.
The ‘fact’ of European insobriety has been cited last year in letters to The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Washington Post.
It's not as definitive as say Ambre Sultan's glottal liquidness or the delightful debauchery of Ambre Russe three spritzes of which could have you doing a field sobriety test, but it's amber in no uncertain terms. Archive 2008-01-01
His first album since 1996 reflects his new-found sobriety, its country-rock sound revealing that his melodic sense is happily undimmed.
Those who seek to alienate Sharia from governance so America can be content will spread among you usury, adultery, insobriety, moral dissolution, familial schisms, and all kinds and forms of crimes," he said, according to the official transcript. U.S. Is on Alert for Hastened Plots
In the 16 years since the death of her husband, Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love has achieved infamy as a verbally incontinent mascot to insobriety. Hole: Nobody's Daughter
His worldview seems to neglect that millions of people enjoy alcohol for purposes other than achieving insobriety.
It also indicates whether or not the person is endowed with wisdom, sobriety and calm.
This was followed by a series of rapid texts establishing their respective levels of sobriety.
A doctor said, anything is possible in recovery, in sobriety.
The director Marc Forster's film takes exuberant leaps from the sensible adult sobriety of Edwardian London to the fantasy world of Neverland and back again.
This was the troubling existence of social division; the co-existence of affluence and destitution; of learning with ignorance; of sobriety with dissipation and dissolution.
This should cure your hangover once and for all, leaving you with a calming sensation of insobriety and joylessness.
It was necessary for his Honour also to reach a conclusion that the insobriety of Smith was such that the appellant knew or ought to have known of his unfitness to drive the vehicle.
Wagner's music, there float, a massive diadem, the towers and parapets and banners of Nuremberg the imperial free city, monument of a victorious burgherdom, of civic virtue that on the ruins of feudalism constructed its own world, and demonstrated to all times its dignity and sobriety and industry, its solid worth. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
(Yeltsin's popularity, and Russia's image, suffered from his occasional displays of public drunkenness; Putin benefits from a reputation for sobriety and takes care to imbibe modestly in public.) The Accidental Autocrat
The elder buck rejoiced in the sonorous title of "Minne-tronk-ske-wan," but divers convictions for insobriety under the Indian Liquor Act, and the facetious tongue of The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
But for the millions braced to celebrate their feats, the ensuing fortnight will be one of varying insobriety. Times, Sunday Times
Consequently pentecostals have gained a reputation for sobriety, punctuality, and honesty.
Common has been directed to gaze at both women as though he'd just been pole-axed - or like his sixth shot of tequila just hit him like a tidal wave, but he's still trying to maintain a semblance of sobriety. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Just Wright
Rarely was the choice of potations criticised, though occasionally some ruddy eschewer of sobriety insisted that his lady "take the same," avowing that "hootch," having been demonstrated beneficial in his case, was good for her also. The Spoilers
Her state of insobriety had distracted Chris to such an extent that he really hadn't paid much attention to the contents of the serving tray.
For she would always move away, as long as there was a despicable husband that yelled and disturbed the neighbors, and broke objects in a constant state of insobriety.
And so I think that the sobriety and drunkenness is kind of like a yin and a yang.
At one time the BBC was renowned for its standards and sobriety, indeed, much of its worldwide eminence sprang from its coverage of great royal events.
We had the priest sitting at our table which instilled a little sobriety into the occasion.
After a sobriety test, he was booked on suspicion of two misdemeanor charges
We know the Doric mood sounds gravity and sobriety; the Lydian, buxomness and freedom; the Æolic, sweet stillness and quiet composure; the Phrygian, jollity and youthful levity; the Ionic is a stiller of storms and disturbances arising from passion; and why may we not reasonably suppose, that those whose speech naturally runs into the notes peculiar to any of these moods, are likewise in nature hereunto congenerous? Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
The public conduct of my fellow atheists was so lacking in sobriety and gravity that I began to wonder why, if we atheists had a hammerlock on truth, so much of what we said was pointless or naive. Review - Orphans Of Chaos, by John C. Wright
Civic fathers, fearing for the virtue of their daughters and the sobriety of their sons, lamented the corrupting presence of the ‘drunken and licentious soldiery’.
Those fifty-one days of fine sailing and intense sobriety had put me in splendid fettle. Chapter 16

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