Sentence examples for sober hour from inspiring English sources

Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

An example is alcohol: "The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour".

"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour," William James, in his "Varieties of Religious Experience," declares.

It was a sober hour in the early evening when our group hatched a plan for the drunken night ahead of us.

During a "sober hour-long conversation" before an overflow crowd, Clinton argued that "creatively rethinking and reorganizing current global problem-solving methods would vastly improve civilization".

Brown's latest act reflects how the job of becoming Obama for eight years has changed him, a deeply personal story that morphs his standard 30-minute act into a far more sober hour-long keynote.

So, I guess that is why the 17,000 sober hours really made me think.

It was a sober, measured hour – and doubtless the second will be too – but it is hard to entirely escape the feeling that vulnerable people are being put to a use which is not wholly to their benefit.