Sentence examples for a soberly from inspiring English sources

Striking fear became a soberly engineered feature of the plan.

It was more like Sir Fred Goodwin at RBS than a soberly run mutual.

Mr. Trilling "gave off a soberly academic whiff of disapproval of these laughing English writers," Mr. Price writes.

A few minutes after I left his office, I encountered a soberly dressed man who greeted me in the lobby of the building.

We were sitting in a restaurant called L'Anima, a soberly decorated place near Exchange Square, one of the largest clusters of offices in the City.

His speeches in the House of Commons were often tailored to the solemnity and self-regard of that place: carefully contained indignation within a soberly constructed argument.

One of them, a soberly-dressed man of average height and build, is in an indecent hurry, and almost runs into the shit-spill: just in time he reels backwards, like a street clown performing for whinnying onlookers in Seven Dials.

But my next novel, Nice Work, returned to Rummidge in a more soberly realistic mode, to complete a trilogy which was never consciously planned as such.

In a meeting near Benghazi, an economist soberly relayed to me the preposterous claim that Bernard-Henri Lévy had been paid forty million dollars to lobby for the Muslim Brotherhood's interests in Libya.

In a section called "The Gallery", a soloist very soberly moons the audience, holding a picture frame in front of his naked bottom.

By Bernard Graham and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, September 2 , 1944P. 11 A group of soberly dressed young mechanics sauntered into a Third Avenue bar and asked for a round of Tom Conninses.