Sentences with phrase «more sober»

A feature wall of bold pink Zoffany wallpaper provides an accent colour and which appears in the more sober floral wallpaper by Laura Ashley.

The mother had become more sober.

This looks almost identical, but has a more sober colour choice, a leather strap and stainless steel bezel.

More sober than «True Colors».

For those contemplating a move, the excitement of starting fresh can sometimes trump the more sober consideration of starting from scratch.

The main, more sober, less popular course for discussion is government surveillance programs.

More sober scientists have since essentially said «nevermind.»

I just wanted to put a more sober counterpoint to the breathless excitement in the popular press that the Younger Dryas «problem» had been «solved».

International Oversight & Cooperation Essential When it comes down to it though (vague wording aside), is something that is both critically important and agreed upon by vocal anti-geoengineering activists and the more sober voices of the Royal Society alike: There needs to be international oversight of geoengineering schemes.

The I'm - not - calling - it - a-friggin-Frankenstorm (aka Hurricane Sandy) is by all accounts, from the near hysteric mainstream media to the more sober yet appropriately serious, concerned (and usually more accurate than everyone else) folks at Weather Underground, a big deal, with potential devastating rain, wind, and high storm surges made worse by the coincidence with the full moon.

A more sober reality, though, is that whatever slight impact humans might have on the climate, it is too small to measure — a point made in a study just published by Swiss researchers in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews (November 2005).

A more sober rebuttal appears on the Open University's website.

A more sober assessment of the number of turbines needed based on 2011 production data from EIA is in excess of 4,000 units and perhaps 5,000.

The first and most important step toward a more sober environmental policy has to involve the underlying science.

Recognizing those limits, rather than ignoring them, will lead to a more sober and ultimately more productive discussion of climate change and climate policies.

More sober energy analysts suggest 26 per cent.

I would be better of if more of the climate scientists were more sober and less alarming in their statements.

I am not denying global warming in anyway, just I think it is best to always check speculation with a little more sober look into fact.

The manuscript was originally called «Five Husbands and Some Other Men» — in fact, she only married twice — and, although the eventual title was more sober, the book itself was sufficiently strident and eccentric to earn the nickname «Out of Her Head».

These new paintings not only feel different — more sober, more serious, more contemplative — but look dramatically different as well.

Inside the gallery stands, the tone is notably more sober and classical than in previous years, reflecting market uncertainty.

Unlike her last show, which was analogically themed on processed - food imagery, such as donuts and cookies (and their attendant implication of unhealthy, compulsive behavior), her present one deploys a more generalized (and perhaps more sober) template of twining vegetal daemons similar, though much more brut, to those seen in decorative friezes in classical ornament.

Critics grew tired of the overexposure and commercialisation of the work, which in the more sober, politically conscious age started to feel too big, too brash and too ironic.

«All that fun and games has gone, and it's a much more sober, respectful, polite, middle - aged prize.

After that dizzying period of unbridled catharsis, the art world gradually migrated toward more sober - minded forms of expression, like op art and minimalism.

Myself, I buy things when I'm more sober and can make an objective decision about them.

After abandoning brilliant colors of his Fauve years, he started painting in the more sober palette with the respect of Cezanne's ideas of composition, tonality and volume.

But fair organizers, along with dealers specializing in everything from old masters to Impressionist and Modern art, have a more sober story to tell.

The works in this exhibition range from the colourful and glittering portraits of fashionable aristocrats, to religious altarpieces and finally to more sober and insightful paintings created towards the end of his life.

Recently, however, evidence of a more sober method has surfaced: an increased emphasis on a more delicate manipulation of materials, and a stricter regulation of tonal range.

His large paintings owe a big debt to Francis Bacon, but with warmer and more sober colors.

In his lists, Mater portrays the American cowboy as a heroic, playful, ultra-masculine youthful ideal — a «nomad of the Western sands,» as a release puts it — alongside the more sober edicts of the Prophet Muhammad.

If you want to argue about that then I can elaborate at a more sober time.

You are likely to give a green light to things you might, at a more sober time, not consider seriously.

T - Mobile silenced rumors Thursday afternoon by detailing its version of the HTC Wildfire S. Its adaptation of the starter Android 2.3 phone is largely stock other than a distinctive white - and - chrome hue as an option alongside a more sober black.

CES 2011 Acer roster of Android smartphones grew by two handsets this week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), one a compact affair for ordinary punters, the other a more sober Qwerty keyboard BlackBerry wannabe.

The more sober looking instrument cluster and the round - bottom steering wheel are also hints that Mazda is aiming for a different public with this one.

But those criticisms quickly disappeared with the sixth - generation car, which toned down the quirkiness and returned to a more sober, conservative character.

For more sober freeway driving, we enjoyed experimenting with the M35's intelligent cruise control (ICC) system, which is activated by pushing a button the steering wheel - mounted cruise control button followed by the Set function on the toggle switch located above.

The event revealed a Galibier painted black, more sober than the original one, bicolor.

All the Octavia trims get 16 - inch alloys however, the Ambition gets a more sober pattern.

Residual values are not outstanding, but they're par for the course for a fast expensive car that more sober motorists would run a mile from.

Far more sober than the exterior, this interior is almost production - ready.

It's much more sober, much darker, more grown - up, but also with a much better steering wheel and driving position (although the latter could be lower still).

It's certainly much more sober on the outside and rides much better on a public road than the Civic but to me the cabin felt cheaply put together and didn't justify the price - and the seats, driving position and gear change in the Civic were ahead of that in the Golf from my point of view.

It's a little sharper and more rewarding than the E55 and surely kills the more sober saloon's appeal for all but the most conservative of buyers, but it's emphatically not an example of a new breed of hardcore, driver - orientated AMGs.

In a more sober moment, Helen Farias, a local union leader from the Sweetwater Education Association intoned, «The types of legislation ALEC promotes will create a two - tiered educational system, one for the privileged and one for the rest of us.»

In the second part of our essay, readers may judge our commentary somewhat perverse, even contradictory to our initial lauding of the more sober, restrained, and provisional spirit of the 2015 guidelines.

Jon Stewart, setting aside his normal comedic monologue in favor of more sober reflection perhaps summed up that phenomenon perfectly:

A more sober critique might ask what lessons one can learn from the other.