soberness

• “There are times, Anne dearie, when I know by your eyes that your soberness is put on like a garment and you're really aching to do something wild and young again.”

  Rainbow Valley

• “A great deal of it was a strange language to May, but she half-disapproved of it, as entirely unlike the 'soberness' of Bridgefield ways, and like the Redcastle vicar, whom her father commonly called 'that madman.”

  Nuttie's Father

• “Noonan says there is a "new soberness," which makes very little sense, considering the people who destroyed the economy have been allowed to go right back to doing the same old thing.”

  The Huffington Post: TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

• “She liked him for a certain stern soberness that was his, and for his saving grace of humor.”

  CHAPTER 8

• “For all the understandable excitement associated with a very public wedding and national occasion, there is an equally understandable public soberness this time too.”

  The Guardian: Royal wedding: A day like no other

• “It's later and with time that a certain soberness, a certain inherent moderation normally take hold.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Enigma of Jon Huntsman

• “His penchant for harebrained schemes, his disastrous tenure as speaker of the House and his personal history, in a sense, are all part of the same issue, namely a lack of personal discipline, restraint and soberness.”

  The Washington Post: How to deal with liabilities

• ““The report was there were many tears, much soberness and humbling among the family,” Jeffs said after ordering four women and five children to leave the ranch in May 2004.”

  Cult leader Warren Jeffs quietly awaits trial, but released evidence reveals his paranoia and ruthlessness

• “The Pacific has really grown on me and they both have a soberness as opposed to self-importance that will age well.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: DVDs: Harry Potter Finale Arrives, Now Where's Pottermore?

• “What distinguishes both the event and the speakers is not the topic of conversation, but its quality, content, and soberness in an age of hyperbole.”

  The Huffington Post: Abbas Barzegar: Rethinking Islamic Reform: Finding Tough Answers the Hard Way

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