Sentence examples for sober existence from inspiring English sources
The idea of the prints, he said, was twofold: to capture rural life and nature's moods with more veracity than painting could and "to give 'one brief moment caught from fleeting time' a lasting and sober existence".
This slice represents a total clean and sober existence.
The second slice of a clean and sober existence would be some therapy to help a loved one in recovery deal with some deep-seeded, personal and emotional conflicts that may be stuffed somewhere deep down inside.
We enter the 1990s sober, serious, aware of the existence of evil, not so sure what goodness is, cautiously optimistic, a little bewildered by changes that no fiction, however fantastic, would accept.
"Seriously I'm sober!" But the bouncer will have already forgotten your existence and will be ushering in a gang of I.AM.GIA-clad influencers, each with exactly 12K followers and a powerful thirst for more.
This sort of reasoning can be found in works of natural history that try to explain the existence of conflict-suppression mechanisms (Wilson and Sober 1989; Wilson and Hölldobler 2005; Wilson and Wilson 2007) and in modelling work that pre-supposes a collective-level evolutionary process and then finds that it acts to strengthen conflict-suppression (Michod and Roze 1999; Michod 2006).
"In the pages of this sober mercantile document one encounters whole types and classes of humanity whose existence might otherwise be entirely unsuspected by the student".
In this important work Sober and Wilson develop a case for group selection based on the need to account for the existence of biological altruism.
So on Israel's 60th anniversary, it's sobering to realize that after six decades as a fact-on-the-ground, the security and even existence of Israel remain far from assured.
Sobering to discover that if we are looking to the church to resolve those profound questions about our existence, we may just as well tune into The Vicar of Dibley.
