Sentence examples for sounds sober from inspiring English sources

"He sounds sober as the day is long and not stressed at all, so I think he's committed; I just don't think he's ready," the unidentified employee said.

And all sounded sober notes about controlling costs.

As he contemplated the widening violence in Syria he sounded sober, even bleak.

Of course, the mandates of sound, sober analysis didn't vanish.

It would defeat the implied insult in a phrase like "mom jeans" — "mother jeans" sound sober and functional rather than dorky and sad.

She hesitated, but after a few phone calls where Wes sounded sober and promised to try to be his old self, she agreed.

Instead of making sound, sober long-term investments in renewables and efficiency that will reap exponential rewards, we are partying it up on a cheap gas credit card with a very high climate-impacts rate.

"The Last Chance Texaco" and "Danny's All-Star Joint" sounded newly sober, and so did a rendition of "Pirates".

Suggestions included "continuous agreement", "initiation and enthusiasm about what is taking place" and "being of sound and sober enough mind to make a judgement call".

In 1945, Alexander Fleming, the scientist who first observed the action of a new bacteria-fighting substance on a mouldy Petri dish, sounded a sober note.

The idea, for instance, that the ring of power should be given to two undersized amateurs to throw into a volcano at the very center of the enemy's camp makes sound and sober sense, of a kind, in Tolkien; but you would never expect to find it as a premise at the Middle Earth Military Academy.