Sentence examples for thoroughly sober from inspiring English sources

My Danish grandmother, a thoroughly sober but suspiciously cheerful lady, has had a dram (about a shot) of aquavit most days of her 97 years.

Above all, though, one senses a thoroughly sober calculation in play that Turkey comes out richer and more powerful from a more eastwardly alignment, and certainly Erdogan's AK Party does.

His films are sober, carefully crafted and thoroughly researched, politically committed but not propagandistic, and deeply felt without focusing the camera on his own bleeding heart.

Sober, yes.

But sober?

And sober.

These are sober achievements for sobering times.

Sober stuff".

Completely sober.

Other sober institutions concur.

Cleburne, however, was sober.