Camagüey strikes me as a sober lady with a long ancestry, Frankfurt is punk hair and skinny ties, Prague is the blue eyes and crooked smile of that young man who -- just for a second -- crossed my path.
This venerable Swiss shoemaker has undergone a fashion rebirth since it was acquired by the Texas Pacific Group: What were once the shoes of choice for sober bankers and their ladies are now more likely to be found on the feet of their style-conscious children.
My Danish grandmother, a thoroughly sober but suspiciously cheerful lady, has had a dram (about a shot) of aquavit most days of her 97 years.
Tucked in to the right of him a sober portrait of an elderly lady by Rembrandt, gnarled hands crossed piously one upon another, is just discernible through the reflective sheen of the varnish.
Both cars stopped, and the lady got out, cold sober and contrite.
But in spite of its sober theme and artistic high-mindedness, "Lady in the Dark" is hardly grim; it ends happily with the promise of romance and (nudge nudge, wink wink) riotous sex for our heroine.
While songs like Live It Up and That Lady may not be the sober, consciousness-raising vehicles Chris Jasper asserts, clearly the Isley Brothers are saying something that hits home with their audience.
Maybe it will sober you up!" "I don't care about that, lady love," I said to her in my most sincere voice.
Hungary's literature had a puritanical 1950s, a sober 1960s, and they largely missed out on all the Henry Miller, Lady Chatterley, Jean Genet, William Burroughs jazz.
It was an unfortunate and unfair stain on his reputation that, even years afterward, the lady of the house was called upon to testify that Grant was sober when he left the premises.
