Sentence examples for sober satisfaction from inspiring English sources
He remarked, "When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades".
But at least Obama can say what Kennedy did not live to see: that just over a quarter-century after Kennedy spoke, after much controversy, and despite many mistakes, and thanks to considerable sacrifice, the world of freedom could take sober satisfaction in a remarkable victory.
Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction.
(He overlooks the many journalists who face these conditions with the sobering satisfaction of helping to reveal, criticize, and ameliorate them).
I wrote a while back that hiring Mr Coulson brought the din of tabloid debate too close to the heart of government decision-making, suggesting that tabloids:tempt governments into policymaking by headline, a method that prizes speed, simplicity and emotional satisfaction over sober analysis of costs and benefits.
Regarding his Hurricane Katrina-inspired piece, which hangs in a prominent spot in the Broad's third-floor atrium, Bradford was more sober: "I just feel satisfaction," he said looking up at the work.
What the governor of the Bank of England calls the "sober decade" began with unsuppressed smirks of satisfaction.
Relatives, who held a rare and sober news conference here on Saturday, expressed satisfaction with the verdicts.
The presumably sober viewer, alone at her screen, gets either the satisfaction of sitting in judgment or the pleasure of safe, vicarious participation.
It was a time for sober reflection and perhaps basking in a small measure of personal satisfaction.
