Sentence examples for a sober style from inspiring English sources

His look is more boardroom than bunga bunga, a sober style that says he means business, even if his juvenile, party-guy actions often undermine the intent – such as the time he leapt out from behind a monument shouting "Cuckoo!" at German Chancellor Angela Merkel during an economic crisis summit in Trieste.

His reaction to the end of the war was to explode into his Vache period, when his images became almost comic in their extremes It didn't work for the gallery owners or for the audience, and Magritte soon returned to a more sober style, but also a more ethereal one.

He scaled back his customary satire and mockery, adopting a relatively sober style befitting his larger subject — what it takes to be a hero.

So far, the trend of nonstandard press releases has been most concentrated among Silicon Valley start-ups and has not seeped into deals involving banks, utility companies or other industries where a more sober style prevails.

This work has been written in a rather sober style that may lead to some misunderstandings.

But the text needs to be tightened up, shortened, and recast in a more sober style, considering some of the points raised above.

Many in the crowd might agree with the car's designer, Giorgietto Giugiaro: "It has an unobtrusive, sober style and great personality".

Messrs. Ngugi, Achebe and Soyinka are certainly masters, but of an earnest and sober style.

In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).

He also contributed theater reviews to the magazine, a more hospitable environment for his sober style of criticism than the New York Times, where he was the theater critic for less than a year in 1966.

This period in Le Clézio's writing is characterised by a sober, clear style - again not dissimilar to Ballard's - in which the simplicity of the language conceals its artfulness and an invigorating and open-eyed attitude to the third world and the richness of its fauna, flora, landscapes and traditions.