Sentence examples for sober description from inspiring English sources

But the sober description of the box America finds itself and of the compromises and trade-offs involved in his search for a way out was truer and, perhaps, braver.

Around noon that day, one of the few witnesses, young Johnny Moore, raced down the beach shouting, "They done it, they done it, damned if they ain't flew!" Orville gave a more sober description two weeks later in a written statement.

And that it is not exaggerated, hyped or trivialized, but is a sober description that it is possible for me as a GP to navigate towards.

The oldest member of the band by a decade or so, his tone of voice leans much more towards fun than sober descriptions of the band's form and function.

Seen against a velvety black background, this florid object seems as much the product of a weird dream as of sober, empirical description.

"Swept clear, magnificent," is the ecstatic description in the normally sober form book.

Sober (1988 p.x) gave a basic description of the method for classifying the diversity of organisms in his book Reconstructing the Past: If the organisms we now observe are a consequence of descent with modification, then the resulting tree of life will be such that some species are closely related while others are related more distantly.

The crime-scene descriptions are straightforward and sober.

When the YouTube video description warns "He is completely sober," you know a crazy stunt is about to unfold.

Many patients today will empathise with the lines from In Hospital (1873-75): "The gaunt brown walls/Look infinite in their decent meanness", just as they will with his description of the consultant - "bland as a Jesuit, sober as a hymn".

Careful readers would have found, amid the detailed descriptions of Ecstasy's life-enhancing qualities, some sober warnings about serious side effects.