Sentence examples for sobering then from inspiring English sources

It is sobering, then, to think that the deployment of convinced, virtuous intent … and an intense belief in a providential deity, could be almost as destructive as the malignity of a dictator such as Mengistu Haile Mariam".

Sober then, Omdahl had had trouble with cocaine and alcohol in the past.

Asked by Steve Kroft why he had gone sober then, the actor replied: "You get panicked.

He tells a counsellor he's not sure he's willing to do whatever it takes to get sober, then agrees to dental surgery without painkillers because to use them would violate the rules of his treatment.

I was shocked to realize that if this brilliant woman with whom I had not much else in common was a drunk who got sober, then by God I could too.

"If we can do that in combination with treatment, and the person remains productive and employable and stays off the road and sober, then maybe everybody makes out better in the long run".

The British method of coupling is as follows: go to a party, get extremely drunk, drunkenly kiss someone you have been making eyes at for some time but obviously never spoke to ­because you were sober then, go home with them, move in with them the next day, marry them.

Sober then notes that multiple realizability presupposes some form of asymmetric determination: the lower level physical properties present at a given time determine the higher level properties present.

These aren't cameras to make your epic movie with, but for if you're a web video junkie and you want to make sure you've always got something handy in case Zeppelin gets back together, you run across Bigfoot, or you see Winehouse half-way sober, then they're the cameras you should look at.

I was sober then.

So you're just like this sober, then.