Yet his sober manner has brought a measure of stability.
It was, if in rather a more sober manner, a beautiful day, and much better than Christmas shopping.
And although his various public rants and recantations have sometimes suggested that he is impulsive to a fault, he has a sober manner that seems calibrated to foster the opposite impression.
This pattern recalls "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," where the impossibly oafish anchorman Ted Baxter, played by Ted Knight, contrasted with the relatively sincere characters of Mary and Lou Ed Asnerr), who dealt with "real" news and issues in a more sober manner.
Decorate the project file in a sober manner.
Both exhilarating and sobering in the best Hollywood manner, it conveys meaning through the sheer scale that's possible in moviemaking.
Burroughs was extremely sober in manner and appearance; his dress typically consisted of a grey three-piece suit, tie, and fedora hat.
A bust of Gandhi adorned his office in Durban and he approached his work on the amnesty committee in a sober, deliberate manner, recalled Deborah Quin, an investigator for the committee, which was based in Durban, where Judge Mall also lived.
These are sober achievements for sobering times.
