Wow, now you're as
sober as a judge?
The secret meaning to «
sober as a judge» was that you were a buzzkill at all parties.
Not exact matches
«The Court takes no joy in reaching or declaring this conclusion, nor should anyone else treat the conclusion
as anything other than disappointing and
sobering,» the
judge wrote.
He proposed an international government
as a substitute for the God who «will
judge and rebuke nations,» and it is not much of a leap from what Landes calls his «
sober philosophical millenarianism» to Marx's «demotic millenarianism.»
Sometimes that clear voice can be beautiful, and sometimes twisted and cruel,
as in my flash «First Confession,» in which a less - than -
sober veteran ne'er - do - well goes to an AA meeting but feels
judged and condescended to.
In a culture ruled by virality, pithy memes like #IDontNeedFeminism threaten to have more firepower than
sober observations — such
as those of the former chief
judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Patricia M. Wald — that gender inequality in cultures like the legal profession owes less to overt discrimination, and more to «subtle differences in how much more difficult it can be for women to locate and manipulate the levers of personal influence inside and outside the firm, with supervisors, senior partners, and clients.»