Sentences with phrase «more sober moments»

Yet another reaction took place in more sober moments as people of faith watched the giddy celebrations with a tangled mix of emotions.

In one of Messiah Complex's more sober moments, Brand points out that while it would cost # 50bn to eradicate global poverty, the super-rich have # 21 trillion sitting in offshore accounts (a culture like that, he argues, needs another Malcolm X).

Peter, however, in one of the more sobering moments in Acts, dispels the notion of a giddy high tide of spiritual excess by quoting the prophet Joel, who proclaims that God will pour out his Spirit upon all flesh, yielding prophecy, visions and dreams — and then proclaims that all this is God's own word:

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.»

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It is a sad revelation in the futbol landscape when I find myself resigned to the sobering reality that Tottenham are simply a better, more talented futbol club at the moment.

Leitch's previous foray into political documentary, the sloppy, anarchic «The Last Party» was overwhelmed by the juvenile antics of its host, Robert Downey Jr., Hoffman establishes a more sober tone, though the new film isn't without its lighter moments.

Away from the regular posting schedule I found the time to write some Jerry McGuire The Things We Think and Do Not Say treatises, quickly consigning most of them to trash so that they couldn't come back to haunt me at a later, more lucid and, perhaps, sober moment (I did say the holiday was good to me).