Sentences with phrase «sober by»

Well, to be completely honest, it was so he didn't tempt me off Oct - Sober by opening another bottle of wine, but I reckon it still counts for something.

They begin to drag him around in an attempt to find someone who knows Jeff Chang and where he lives and they need to have him back home and sober by 7:00 am for his terrifying father to pick him up for his med - school interview.

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I'm glad the author is sober by whatever means but I think she's being a bit cavalier and disrespectful to the AA folks.

Many will tell you that you will get drunk if you don't find god, but the truth is I have seen people stay sober by having large displacements of old ideas with new ones.

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.

Many thousands of alcoholics the world over are staying sober by energetic application of AA's Twelve Steps.

For alcoholics who have tried and failed time after time to stay sober by themselves, for alcoholics who have tried and failed after using any one of innumerable techniques, that which finally does keep one sober becomes «God» (Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham, The Spirituality of Imperfection: Modern Wisdom from Classic Stories [New York: Bantam Books, 1992], p. 208; bold face added).

Contrary to popular belief, most alcoholics don't stay sober by continually resisting the temptation to drink.

Though sober by the time Deadwood started, Milch was no less strange.

Readers will be sobered by Dorrien's account of Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz arguing that Saddam Hussein would have to be overthrown whether or not a connection to 9/11 was found.

The group fell silent, sobered by its recognition that tonight had not been very different — at least in relation to Mr. Crawford's burning issues.

Underhill, sobered by the hostilities, revealed her melancholy in a slender volume of poetry titled Theophanies: A Book of Verses (J. M. Dent, 1916).

Yet the rambunctious crowd, calmed by the simple tune, sobered by its unapologetically nostalgic message, seemed not to notice the mellow sacrilege amid blatant bathos.

Needless to say, I am sobered by these wholly (and holistically) impure uses of chiles.

Despite the double DNF, other strong midfielders like McLaren and Renault will be sobered by the pace of the American team out of the blocks.

Ive been sobered by what Ive learned.

But I've been sobered by the realization that so much of what I interpreted as beguilement and wooing was in fact just what he would do for any women in his presence, whether romantically interested or not.

Sobered by his widowed mother's wedding to her brother - in - law Danno, an aimless young man decides to hitchhike from Seattle to his home in San Francisco and ends up accepting a ride from two apparently brain - damaged twins who keep him alternately puzzled and entertained for most of the journey.

And sure enough, what begins as a clarion call settles into a somewhat familiar period costume drama spiced up now and again with racy sequences nonetheless sobered by the memory of the delirious hedonism of that opening, wherein we get Dracula's backstory as a hero of a holy war, repulsing Muslim invaders in Romania, turning to blasphemy when the vengeful Turks fool his wife Elisabeta (Winona Ryder) into believing that her beloved has died on the battlefield, and gleefully chewing artificial scenery with toothy relish.

Sobered by the suspicious disappearance of his partner of one day, Boyle starts giving the matter the thought it deserves, but not without trading barbs with Everett.

Jack Nicholson's enormously irreverent directorial debut, Drive, He Said, free - spirited and sobering by turns, is a sketch of the exploits of a disaffected college basketball player and his increasingly radical roommate.

I was sobered by the implications for my teaching practice.

I think those of us in the «idea - generating» business would be sobered by the experience.

As ever, we enter the New Year both greatly optimistic about the incredible opportunities that lie before our movement and greatly sobered by the unconscionable levels of resistance that many charter schools continue to face.

Perhaps traditional publishers, sobered by their mounting digital losses and fast - evaporating market share, have finally decided to more aggressively market their ebook editions.

Not exact matches

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

For Fried, Tuck, and others who've been swept along by the M&A wave, it's been a sobering ride.

Sober Look was founded by Walter Kurtz, a New York based hedge fund manager and credit markets specialist.

In the end, the doped players won more games by checkmate but lost more games by time, finishing in a statistical tie with the sober ones.

Apple's Steve Jobs once again proved he knows how to launch a product today, announcing the release of a new portable device that will «reinvent the phone» (read a minute by minute account, or go with this sober summary from the New York Times).

Left to their own devices — without sober oversight — communities tend to devolve and become governed by their lowest common denominators.

The official statistics are sobering enough; let alone what the numbers might say before they're scrubbed by officials in Beijing.

At press time, that number continues to grow by more than 1,000 emails each day, with individuals sharing their stories and impressing upon our elected officials that a sober second thought is needed to avoid far - reaching, negative consequences.

The tail risk is more sobering: There is a 1 - in - 20 chance this metro region will experience more than 83 extremely hot days by century - end.

A sprawling 44 - bedroom house surrounded by towering brick walls that was once the home base for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has been converted into a sober living center by Evangelical missionaries.

The signals being sent by the real economy are much more sobering than the signals being sent by a euphoric market.

Yesterday's sobering actions by the U.S. Justice Department will be meaningless unless Congress wakes up and breaks up Wall Street's behemoth banks by restoring the Glass - Steagall Act.

It's sobering to get rejected by JPM Chase because I never failed in multiple attempts before with Bank of America, Citibank, and Washington Mutual (when they were still around).

This sobering report by Matt Townsend, Jenny Surane, Emma Orr, and Christopher Cannon belongs in your reading pile.)

There is NOT ONE that can save themselves by their own rightessness.You think and believe what you want... but there is a Hell.Think of your love ones that have passed away... sobering thoughts.

The experience of being challenged by Bishop Laszlo Tokes of Romania for past silence in the face of oppression was sobering.

Not reported by our corporate media is that very sober and distinguished people such as Sergei Lavrov and Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov are quietly tell their US counterparts in carefully weighed words that it behooves them to consider well the full import of their actions.

By then all effects of the peyote have worn off, and the participants leave in a sober state.

The reward for his «heroism» is that he is befriended by the rich man (when the latter is drunk) and thrice rejected by him (when the man is sober).

For those tempted to overestimate the significance of the joint declaration, this book will be a sobering reminder of unfinished Reformation business» simul iustus et peccator» that can not be effectively managed by church officialdom.

Our sober assessment of empirical data was accompanied by an ironic defiance of any prescribed emotion.

Part of how we stay sober and less self - centered is by giving away to others what we've so freely received.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

The review ends by saying the book is a «sobering reminder that a temperate and honest occupant in the Oval Office can go a long way in serving the American political system while holding serious and distinctive religious beliefs.»