Sentences with phrase «more sobriety»

An interesting film, with a little more sobriety and a more elaborate development, would have been excellent.

This is why Nigerians should navigate this sorry pass with more sobriety, and less grandstanding.

Not exact matches

How might you be encumbered by sobriety as a speaker, outdone by more dynamic souls who speak with passion or humor, who light the room on fire or set the table on a roar?

May the God who resides inside your embodiment's Being, fetch for you your solemn sobriety and drink no more in the sublimation's «psycho - babbling» or there abouts.

What I can more fully explain, and this is why this essay connects with my book project concerning liberty, is how this sobriety must extend to the discussion of our first principles, politically speaking.

AA is more successful in maintaining sobriety because it is successful in strengthening the person's real self - esteem, as distinguished from his grandiosity.

In AA, religious resources are made available on a more temperate basis and are utilized more for maintaining than producing sobriety.

As he acquires more stable sobriety, he is confronted by the necessity of taking responsibility for the changing of those attitudes which lead him to drink.

The fact that AA depends neither on religious thrill (as evidenced, for example, by the lack of group singing), nor on a «hot flash» type of religious experience, makes for a more stable sobriety.

As Joe's sobriety becomes more stable, some of his AA behavior patterns will gradually change.

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 time.

After growing up in Guatemala and facing multiple disasters, I tend to feel less fear and more cold sobriety.

During her teens, Demi Lovato identified as a Christian, and she has more recently discussed her sobriety in terms of her faith.

Lovato's mighty fight for sobriety highlights a more complicated reality, and some lessons we can learn about the nature of addiction and the freedom of release.

In the same direction, short - term marriage counseling can be useful in assisting the alcoholic and his wife to adjust to the demands of sobriety and to make their relationship more mutually satisfying and fulfilling.

I am an alcoholic with 32 years of sobriety, Lets look at what this woman does for a living, She writes books and I see this as nothing more than a effort to promote her product.

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous have, at some point in its 76 year history, contained individuals who possessed the ability to do great things — cure cancer, revolutionize politics, or contribute other great things to society — but whose minds became so polluted with AA propaganda that they shut off their own brilliance and chose to spend the rest of their lives «making their sobriety their number one priority» and believing humility to be more valuable than fulfilling their potential and allowing their greatness to shine.

Yet, the people who were inclined to dismiss the matter of polygamy were treating with a certain nonchalance something that deserved to be treated with far more caution and sobriety.

Augustine's «solution to the still extant question of the End of Time is the most intellectually responsible for an eschatological believer: no one can know when; it could happen at any time,» but this sobriety leads him and those he influenced to «read the Apocalypse - driven past» through the distorting lens of their own more conservative theology.

In deciding whether or not to use religious resources in a counseling relationship, the minister may ask himself the question of whether such use will contribute to the person's sobriety and to his development of a more mature faith.

Hopefully he will benefit by being able to: (1) Get to know himself better; (2) Become more keenly aware of how he needs to change; (3) Recognize danger signals to his sobriety before he takes the first drink; (4) Live more comfortably with himself and others; (5) Have the door opened for a more personal and meaningful relationship with God.

Since few, if any, alcoholics are ever completely «ready,» it is more productive for the counselor to ask: Does this person show a possible willingness to consider sobriety, providing he can be shown that there is a better way than the one which he has been following?

In some cases, this desire is the result of a flare - up of underlying personality problems, often after a decade or more of sobriety.

Unfortunately, too many holy communions are more expressions of holy hygiene (with their disposable, individual, antiseptic plastic cups) and sanctified sobriety (with their lock - step directions from officious ushers and nervous ministers) than of the worship of God.

Instead of sacrificing sobriety for flavor, breweries have created low - alcohol, high - aroma IPAs that are about as boozy as Bud Light — but about a million times more flavorful.

In October, Daly issued a press release through the Tour stating that he was drinking again after more than 3 1/2 years of sobriety.

[17] More reasons Vaughn failed the sobriety tests, according to his lawyer.

That was when I was 20, I wouldn't get sober for 14 more years but I still felt bad about it for many years in sobriety.

That night, I walked out of the theater more confident than when I walked in, more sure of myself and my own sobriety.

«Alcoholic liver disease is a spectrum of conditions that range from hepatic steatosis, which is fat deposition in the liver and it is reversible with sobriety, to alcoholic hepatitis which is a more severe condition characterized by extensive and severe inflammation in the liver and often requires hospitalization,» explained Valentina Medici, associate professor of internal medicine at UC Davis Health System as well as corresponding author for the study.

Despite the growing use of online support groups such as those on Facebook to help curb substance abuse, attending traditional face - to - face meetings may continue to be more effective for people trying to maintain sobriety, according to research presented at the American Psychological Association's 123rd Annual Convention.

Individuals who attended more meetings had greater success in achieving and maintaining sobriety, the research found.

Other alcohol experts fear that the availability of a «sobriety pill» could encourage more, not less drinking.

As I continue to discover more perks from my lifestyle change it reinforces my choice and increases my desire to hike the sobriety trail.

In my seven years of sobriety, I've learned that if you walk through the fire and choose to see yourself fully — flaws and all — you come out the other side a much more connected person.

People with mental illness who are actively abusing alcohol or drugs are more unlikely to achieve lasting sobriety.

This one is more classic, black poplin with beige embroidery and I feel really good in it, it has the ideal balance between sobriety and elegance.

No more reason to remain anonymous in your sobriety when you find your soulmate and love of your life!

So the site could definitely use some more features geared towards sobriety.

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Even in Refn's and Hubert Selby Jr.'s script, this film is just so blasted limp, and from a directorial stance, Refn makes pacing problems all the worse with a meditative atmosphere which is rarely effective, primarily carrying dead air which is inspired by a quiet sobriety that distances and bores more than anything.

Thanks to the nimble Leary, ever riveting as TV's most nuanced antihero (sorry, Tony Soprano), Tommy's tenuous struggle for sobriety is even more rewarding than last season's harrowing downfall.

More difficult is the tedium that often accompanies the addiction / recovery / relapse narrative — a problem currently up for deconstruction in Leslie Jamison's new memoir, «The Recovering,» in which the author frets that stories of sobriety get the literary equivalent of short shrift, unable to compel us the same way that stories of addiction do, with their manic highs and grand tales of misbehavior.

Often campy, the movie isn't, until its end, campy enough, turning its final sting into more a confirmation of the sobriety of its build than the release of revulsion that I suspect was the intention.

As we explore more with his journey to sobriety, hopefully, the show finds more beats to play.

Paul and Winstead's relationship is initially defined by mutual enabling and codependence that first passes for tenderness but morphs into something much darker and more unsettling once Winstead unsteadily embraces sobriety while Paul continues to lose himself in a boozy haze.

Many of the creatives that Jamison profiles experienced more nuanced addiction narratives than the one in which, as she says, «sobriety swoops in and is a creative fairy godmother and gives you a new creative life.»

His second marriage in a shambles, and he is emerging from his fourth stay in rehab armed with little more than his fragile sobriety, good intentions, and resilient sense of humor.

Restored in the slightest respect of the traditions boasting... Read more elegance and sobriety, this small house is home for 5 exquisite rooms giving way to a cooling patio teeming with the finest sounds merging from the fountain and its environment.