Until governments come clean and are capable of making the case soberly in Parliament and in Congress this tension isn't going away.
"It's almost impossible to believe with form like thisbut the American team is dressed soberly, even tastefully, whereas the Europeans appear to have come directly from an ice-cream salesmen's conference.
When I was telling my colleagues in the spring of 2010 that in the autumn I was going to be appearing on Strictly Come Dancing, the cross-party response was identical and monosyllabic: "Don't!" Each gave the same reason, soberly warning me that I would lose my gravitas.
Gershwin's New York Concerto, soberly retitled Concerto in F, premièred in Carnegie Hall in December, 1925 ("There would not have been as much excitement," the Times reported, "if Brahms had come to town"), and was judged a major disappointment.
It has the evangelical ethos and some of the polemical drudgery of Documenta 11, with a catalog alluding soberly to Hegel, Homi Bhabha and Andreas Huyssen, but fortunately with a hint of humor in a couple of works (Martin Creed's out-of-sync metronomes and a Pipilotti Rist video come to mind).
As the experience comes to an end, The Informant soberly, "Anything we can do to others, they can do to us, too".
Suib commented that "the creative process of coming up with new ideas, implementing them, and then soberly evaluating their results was time-consuming but worth it".
"We have to look at this very soberly and seriously now, because we are coming off just loss after loss after loss," she said.
On camera Mr. Nachtwey reflects soberly and thoughtfully about his career, and he comes across as a man of deep seriousness and even deeper reserve.
There was such a variety of behavior on display at these parties that when he came home and lay down on the bed, finally removing his sunglasses for the evening, he would soberly play back for himself his insufficiencies.
