Sentences with phrase «even sober»

Of course, that experience could be because of my lack of sleep, breakfast, and potentially even sober state of mind.

When I popped it into my PS4 during a Halloween party, even the sober people were hopping up onto the couch and screaming at the television.

It is telling how even a sober - minded individual like you was so easily captured by «growth expectations», so to speak.

Nearly all futuristic movies and novels — even sober business forecasts — seem to wallow in the same smug assumption that most people are fools.

Locals are so serious about their karaoke that even sober people do it.

I wish but it gives me a head ache before I have even sobered up.

Even the soberest reality check does little to undermine my enthusiasm for the Switch, however.

The LA - based artist is credited with being one of the painters to resuscitate enthusiasm for a decorative language without losing serious, even sobering, content.

Because the best cure for denialism is to embrace the future (even the sobering bits) and thereby help create that future... not deny that future!

Not exact matches

«Nowadays,» say the two experts, «valuations are much more sober: the average NASDAQ - listed company today trades at around 21x PE, and even high - flying companies such as Apple, the most valuable company ever, trades at only 15x PE.»

When confronted had no recollection of the events that occurred even though she was sober that night.»

The statistics are certainly sobering: youth unemployment is double the national average, and the crisis is even worse among Aboriginal young people.

Some less so than others maybe, but even there, a longer term perspective of the lasting damage is sobering.

Abolishing Canada's upper chamber of «sober second thought» will be hard, maybe even impossible.

An even more profound and sobering fact is that 80 % of business buyers today say that they found their vendors as opposed to vendors finding them.

«Even though the subject might be that of hope, there's still this heavy sobering resonance to it.»

At the beginning of the Acts, the apostles are accused of being drunk, so obviously if they weren't believed to be sober in their own day, why should we believe what they wrote even now?

Even if such a person stays sober, other symptoms are likely to appear.

Even more significant, from the standpoint of human values, than the record of uninterrupted sobriety is the fact that even those who had had frequent slips during their AA experience had been sober the bulk of the tEven more significant, from the standpoint of human values, than the record of uninterrupted sobriety is the fact that even those who had had frequent slips during their AA experience had been sober the bulk of the teven those who had had frequent slips during their AA experience had been sober the bulk of the time.

Ignatieff's more recent, even more sobering Times article is titled simply «The Burden.»

Philosophical thought of men like, say, Russell and Dewey or even Hegel may be dazzling but it's sober and uncharismatic.

It lies close enough to us even though they wish to keep away from any such unfortunate ones and to avoid all sober reminders not alone from the careless judgment of the storyteller's art, but also from the church and from the edifying insight that must certainly know that the Holy Scriptures have almost a predilection for the halt and the lame, the blind and the lepers.

But just this ancient ecclesiality seems always new to me, even in the sober and often dreary daily run of ecclesiastical theology.

I'm proud to say this because I'm active in AA working a program and I know it's by the Grace of God or a Higher Power that this program exists and that even these athiests can stay sober (thanks to AA and the 12 steps).

So even though you want to say there is no God or no power and you are still sober you can thank God because he was the one that came as an angel to the Good Doctor and told him what to do.

Even if we suppose a man so packed with healthy - mindedness as never to have experienced in his own person any of these sobering intervals, still, if he is a reflecting being, he must generalize and class his own lot with that of others; and, doing so, he must see that his escape is just a lucky chance and no essential difference.

But a constructive interest in the past («rational reconstruction,» as Richard Rorty calls it) adds something to the sober exercise of setting the record straight and may even, on occasion, alert the historian to patterns and pieces in the record that she had overlooked.

However, despite its excess, Luhrmann's excessive Gatsby is entirely too sober (even calculating) in its 3D grandiosity, and hence it is all the worse for it.

In addition to his sense of the sacred, Camus's sense of the limits of human reason and justice is worthy of serious attention for its incipient natural law approach combined with a sober prudence about how far even the best human intentions can be trusted.

Many people who are atheist or agnostic have gotten sober and stayed sober by replacing the bottle they worshiped with a philosophy (AA is a philosophy, by the by, a way of looking at Life and Being), with the wisdom of the group or even of humanity in general, with whatever works for them.

Surely this flight may not really be caused by sober objectivity, and a man may even pretend to venerate the incomprehensible silence while his whole attitude actually remains an escape and he only wants a superficial and guilt - ridden well - being in order to escape from the claim of the incomprehensible.

2nd, the article wasn't even about drug abuse, it was about atheists trying to get sober, and struggling.

The constitutionally sombre religious person makes even of his religious peace a very sober thing.

Besides, even if it WERE true, «The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.»

And even if a drunkard does in some way realize that it would be for his good to remain sober, his disordered passion for drink overrides the insight of his reason.

It's a sobering and sacred thing to take the life of another human, even if it's justified.

The image of time as a «flow» was used already by early Greek thinkers — let us only remember of Heraclitus — and was retained even by sober Newton in his Principia.

Among the publicly attentive, even the most sober minds suspected that some major change in black - white relations may be underway — or at least a major change in the way we think and talk about black - white relations.

It isn't even about God... what this writer who «sobered up» without God doesn't get is that in AA (which incidentally she, by virtue of writing her article is in direct conflict with one of the Twelve Traditions of AA) it clearly says «as we understood Him» — your Higher Power can be your dog, as long as you realize you aren't running the show... lest we forget that our best «thinking» got us there...

«I think the ego of someone who even conceives of setting the world record in the mile doesn't allow for a sober look at things,» says Masback.

Dave Deckard, as even - keeled and sober a Blazers fan as there is, thinks this Portland disaster spells the end of this era of Blazers basketball.

His continued absence with little explanation has fuelled a host of non-specific transfer speculation which even Paul Merson sobered up long enough to posit upon.

However, as Roma prepare to entertain Barcelona for the return leg in Rome on Tuesday night, it is a sobering thought to reflect that the Catalan side's 4 - 1 win last week came on a night when Barcelona were not even playing especially well.

I bawled like a baby when I sobered up because it hit me how starved I was for human affection of any kind, even non-sexual affection.

The estimates in table 1 are a sobering reflection of the perinatal hazards that these women face, 3 4 even if the exact rates have been exaggerated by some underas - certainment of the relevant official denominator figure for all births outside hospital and are subject to uncertainty because sampling methods had to be used to aportion the overall figure.

We also discuss how the same underlying cultural beliefs that supported the idea that infants sleep best alone serve presently to permit the acceptance of an inappropriate set of assumptions related to explaining why some babies die unexpectedly while sleeping in their parents beds.9 These assumptions are that regardless of circumstances, including maternal motivations and / or the absence of all known bedsharing risk factors, even nonsmoking, sober, breastfeeding mothers place their infants at significantly increased risk for SUID by bedsharing.

Soon I was sober again and in more pain than even the most talented writer could explain.

Bitter by - election battles, gaffe - prone juniors, devious whips and one big game of «coalition chess» sounds more like the sober politics pages of a national broadsheet than a fun evening out, but first - time playwrights Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky remarkably manage to marry the two in their new political comedy, Coalition.

The evening concluded with a sobering message about the unfortunate endurance of racial fissures in American politics: that advocates for maintaining the unequal status quo are at an advantage given the history of how the federal process was designed.

Led by politicians that not even Tony Blair would consider populist — like Michael Gove, Boris Johnson and Gisela Stuart — they collectively talked about immigration in a responsible and sober way.