Sentence examples for fairly sober from inspiring English sources
Some of it was fairly sober, but much was not.
While households and financial firms went on a borrowing binge, non-financial firms stayed fairly sober.
In common with male politicians across the western world, the Tory leader's default outfit is a fairly sober suit.
"Whereas in America the printed press is fairly sober, the broadcast journalism is really shrill by comparison with what we have," Ponsford noted.
Actually, Britain's problem drinkers tend not to be young people, who may binge drink occasionally, but most of the time are fairly sober.
People interested in fabric design might enjoy watching Channel 10, whose finely drawn black & white lines often combine to form herringbone patterzs as well as a jiggling houndstooth motif... Channel 12 gives out a fairly sober picture and it is worth mentioning mainly for a kind of undulating glow that rises from the bottom of the TV screen and vanishes at the top.
That was about the only note of affirmation, and a fairly sobering one at that.
Attendees occasionally applauded, and laughed when Tillerson, asked if he enjoyed his job, replied that he's "learning to". Yet the audience remained fairly sober-faced throughout.
Even a fairly sober-minded pundit, like David Brooks, is reduced to Abelard-and-Eloise maundering on the nature of love and passion.
Mel Gibson was allowed to present Best Director, so I guess they were fairly sure he'd be sober (never a certainty at The Golden Globs, where the booze flows all evening long, though it hasn't been as much fun since the old days, when Lucille Ball would get plastered with me, and start heckling the winners)., and that the award he was presenting wasn't likely to go to any Jews.
