Sentence examples for sober pleasure from inspiring English sources

But the heat increases and is soon "getting beyond the point of all sober pleasure".

(Sulcas) SALLY GROSS AND COMPANY (Thursday) Sally Gross has been choreographing and performing since the mid-1960s, and her lucid, pared-down dances offer a particular kind of sober pleasure.

The pleasures of "Howards End" are soberer pleasures.

In lighter pieces on that evening's program by Sibelius and Edvard Grieg, his readings were too sober and self-consciously pleasure-denying, as if struggling to suppress teenybopper adulation from the audience.

It's a pleasure and it's sobering as well.

Before coming to New York, Hirsch went to school in Chicago and worked in Cleveland, and his habits still reflect Midwestern tastes: sober suits worn with narrow suspenders, and, for pleasure, a pipe of Captain Black tobacco.

Indeed, I find a certain level of distrust among the more sober-sided of my brethren for anything that provides too much giddy pleasure, as if to say: How serious can it be if it's fun?

After a couple of sober years, fashion's back to the pursuit of pleasure.

Moreover, being sober almost 12 years now, it will be a pleasure not to mistake the Colosseum for Shea Stadium.

The sober packaging of this disc gives little indication of the pleasure within.

Their sheer variety is also a source of pleasure: the classical tempietto atop the Municipal Building, the sober Empire State, the jazzy jukebox of the Chrysler's pinnacle and the Seagram's dark intensity.