Sentence examples for sober thing from inspiring English sources

Responsibility is a more sober thing.

There is, for starters, the elegant tilt of Acton's writing, not to mention its sly humour: her recipe for "publisher's pudding", which "can scarcely be made too rich", is a plush affair of cognac, cream and almonds, while her "poor author's pudding" is a sober thing of eked-out bread.

Either way, it was another in a long line of tries at this sober thing.

"In the beginning, a lot of my friends didn't take me seriously because I had tried 'the sober thing' before and couldn't make it stick," said Jon Paul Crimi, a top sobriety coach based in Los Angeles.

Make like Kim Kardashian and sober things up with advocacy for recognition of the Armenian genocide.

And even during those spells when they were sober, things weren't magically better.

The recent decline, however, has sobered things up, he said.

Think of Swift's Houyhnhnms, trotting down the road, their withers shining in the sun, saying sober, passionless things to Gulliver.

Amol Rajan Politics: Honour for 'respect tsar' who said ministers were better when drunk Tony Blair's former "respect tsar", who famously declared that "doing things sober is no way to get things done", has been given one of Britain's top honours for public service.

I don't know who bloody made that up; it's nonsense... Doing things sober is no way to get things done," she told an audience of police officers, adding, "If No 10 says bloody 'evidence-based policy' to me one more time, I'll deck them".

Getting sober is one thing – I'd done it hundreds of times – but staying sober is a daily challenge, a process rather than a sudden transformation.