The Minx Air 200 is somewhat sober in its design choices if I had to pick one word to describe it.
In an uncharacteristically genuine and somewhat sober moment, they come to the realization that they actually might like each other.
Compared to the sense of pressure and frustration the participants expressed in initial interviews, most of the participants had achieved a more patient and somewhat "sober" attitude towards unrealistic expectations for a "quick fix" to return to work.
The power of the Abu Ghraib photos to shock and disgust has not diminished in the intervening years, and it is, therefore, somewhat sobering to realise that those who authorised the torture and abuse of prisoners have still not been held accountable for their actions.
Yet, when we look at cybersecurity as a percentage of all VC investments, the picture is somewhat sobering.
There, too, the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard C. Holbrooke, has taken an equally bellicose attitude, although reportedly now somewhat sobered by the task's awesome challenges.
We had passed the point where we needed to discuss what this meant for us, the stories of where we were or who we knew had become moot across these nine years, which may explain what was so sudden and (somewhat) sobering about the news.
Certain readers may object, but he's a fine foil to the more serious and (somewhat) more sober author, and Horwitz gives him the book's funniest lines.
The first decades of the Heisei period were somewhat more sober for the Japanese than the last several decades of the preceding Shōwa period (1926 89), which had been the time of Japan's dramatic recovery and growth into a global economic powerhouse following the country's disastrous defeat in World War II (1939 45).
On the face of it, they were an odd combination: the dazzlingly handsome and well-connected scion of New England wealth, a Harvard-educated war hero – and the sober, somewhat earnest law graduate from Nebraska, of half- Danish, half-Russian Jewish stock, who had never left the Midwest until he went to Washington in 1951, aged 23 and without contacts, only the dream of a career in government.
