Sentence examples for sober lines from inspiring English sources

Instead, there were sober lines about creating "a modern tax code that better reflects the reality of the global economy".

A focal point is the eclectic Biedermeier period, which ran roughly from the end of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 through the revolutions that swept across Europe in 1848; the furniture is characterized by sober lines and modest proportions.

A writing desk by Jean-Henri Riesener made for Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon palace at Versailles has the sober lines of Louis XVI's neoclassical style.

On Sunday, Bottega Veneta took a sober line — but made it sharp and original by inserting blocks and strips of color or shiny leather into plain tailoring and biker sportswear.

He sticks to a predictably sober defensive line on phone hacking when Leveson gets under way, by the way.

The earliest, made in 1794 before the artist was 20, is a sober, carefully lined picture of St. Anselm's Chapel.

But here that man was a somebody on a downward slide, being primed, pampered actually, to reclaim stardom, if he can "stay sober and learn lines".

As the trading rituals of capitalism re-established themselves yesterday, individual investors watched the sobering saw-toothed lines of the indexes and the ever-tumbling prices, feeling the apprehension of badly shaken markets.

The bedrooms and sitting rooms offer clean lines and sober elegance, in gray and fuchsia or chocolate brown and orange Pierre Frey fabrics.

That song is kind of about both of those things, but really is predominantly a personal story with some liberties taken about the blurred line between friendship and love, and the blurred line between sober realizations and less sober idealizations that happen in your head.

The heartiest of them are revisited several years down the line, still sober, many with jobs now, and children.