Sentences with phrase «sober without»

Non-drinking clients (there weren't many) were scheduled to meet on the phone or in the office between the hours of 9 am and Noon so I was sober without any smell of alcohol on my breath, but not so early that I didn't have a little time to recover from the previous night's drinking.

Even if a person was drunk when admitted, often the next day they are sober without any addiction withdrawal symptoms.

He is sober without being self - serious.

Very few REAL Alcoholics can get sober and stay sober without the (Cult) of Alcoholics anonymous.

Certainly, people get sober without AA.

The reality is that few if any addicts will stay sober without a follow up program of recovery.

I'm Pagan and I was told at three different AA meetings I couldn't be sober without Jesus, and I DO believe in higher powers.

If she doesn't believe in God why is she making such a big deal about getting sober without Him?

«Set during World War II Europe, this novel is sobering without being sentimental.

Not exact matches

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

That's a sobering thought — for the first time in years, we're trapeze artists without a net.

I haven't read all the comments (well, any of them actually) so forgive me if I am repeating other comments... Of course it is perfectly possible to sober up without a belief in God.

I came to AA in 1970 without a belief in God and managed to sober up quite nicely and have maintained sobriety since then.

I wouldn't advise bingeing six episodes in a row like a certain reviewer did, but I would recommend leaning in to consider the show's sobering questions: How much ugliness can we see without shutting down and losing hope?

With out without a group system, there are ways to be sober if you work at it.

There are millions that are sobering up in AA without the Christian Faith / Bible / Jesus, etc. and are living happy, productive, lives.

The Bible never said you can't sober up without God.

In other words, unlike the sobering war memories of a very elderly grandfather, or the account of a playground incident told to us by a child, divine revelation is testimony without flaw.

Without time for fact checking, understanding context and sober reflection, and with the immense peer pressure of thousands (sometimes millions) of people all holding the same strong opinion, how likely are we to dissent from the crowd?

I chose to leave town, go back to school, get sober and quit being a destructive little sh1t without ever considering religion as a means to do so.

I am sober now, without all the AA bs.

It isn't even about God... what this writer who «sobered up» without God doesn't get is that in AA (which incidentally she, by virtue of writing her article is in direct conflict with one of the Twelve Traditions of AA) it clearly says «as we understood Him» — your Higher Power can be your dog, as long as you realize you aren't running the show... lest we forget that our best «thinking» got us there...

A great way to visit all the main vineyards of Napa Valley (without debating who will stay sober driver) is to book a stay aboard the Napa Valley Wine Train.

My fellow gunners stop paying you cash to watch Wenger!s heart breaking matches only then he can see his nakedness.With this crop of players without any sober addition, champions league we are out 1st rounds.Cheers from S / Leone

If he could have been forgiven for that miss, then his next chance will have made the realisation of life without Van Persie all the more sobering.

By the time I'd got through pregnancy and nursing, I was well on my way to being * easily * sober, without a second thought.

That being said, if you can safely (and legally) drive a car without concern of a DUI, you are most likely sober enough to breastfeed your baby.

«You don't get to be sober forever without this.»

But the sobering reality — acknowledged by Cuomo and several other officials in between promises and platitudes — is that little will be resolved without action by Congress or the Obama administration.

I would say that it is a very sobering realization that all of the pressures on all of New York's counties to provide services without properly funding the costs of those services are coming to a head in the coming budget year.

The Sheriff's Office has found that after detoxing while in custody, inmates are released without support to stay sober and quickly relapse and find themselves with the same troubles as before.

And I'd rather have a serious, sober conversation without the back - and - the forth of a campaign.

Thompson notes another sobering consequence: Without corings from tropical ice packs in the future, researchers will lose a valuable way to reconstruct temperature and precipitation patterns in the tropics for the last several thousand years.

Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slides, Black delivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from the world's use of fossil fuels would warm the planet and could eventually endanger humanity.

Parties felt slightly awkward without any social lubricants; everyone was happily buzzed and I was stone cold sober.

Is never sober — If you've noticed that they can't have sex or do anything enjoyable without being drunk or high, and all of their stories begins with «So, I was so wasted this time...» — it's time to politely excuse yourself.

Seattle Sober Social - Gatherings without alcohol.

The trick to dating sober is learning where to find men and how to handle dating situations without the booze.

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.

The script exists more in a tonal dead zone, where the broad material and the sobering reality of the situation cancel each other out, leaving a tuneless movie without the direct perspective it needs to succeed.

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.

Without the light jazz that usually greets waiting press in the theater, the screening this morning of Japanese director Naomi Kawase's latest drama RADIANCE started off on a decidedly sober note.

As if a sober and respectful adaptation of an earnest and leisurely nineteenth - century novel could still compete for eyes and ears in a twenty - first - century entertainment environment engineered to entice instead the sex - crazed, the violence junkies, and the attention - deficit - disordered — as if even the oil companies hadn't bailed on public television's Masterpiece Theatre because nobody seems to care anymore about character as destiny versus the British class system — here without apology are three more hours of Thomas Hardy moping about old Wessex, looking in vain for a laugh.

Winstead has an awesome monologue about her life, the affect sobering up can have on a person's life without only positive outcomes, and the image of Alcoholics Anonymous that encapsulates what makes this film one of the best presentations of alcoholism captured on film.

The film is a story about redemption, but without the cut and dry contrast of the drunk life versus the sober life.

It's hard ignore the sobering parallels between these colorful characters who are being persecuted by those who didn't take the time to understand them, and the real - life individuals in this country who may, sadly, suffer a similar fate without steadfast protectors like Newt.

To get them all done, she enlists her drug - and alcohol - addicted father, Henry (Malcolm McDowell), who devotes most of his sober moments to spouting verse that rhymes with «ring - dang - do,» and her mother, Minerva (Cathy Moriarty), an addicted gambler who's trying to earn enough money to pay off her bookie («Gong Show» emcee Chuck Barris) without having to sleep with him.

And yet, as novelist David Treuer wryly observes in his sobering yet quietly redemptive book, Rez Life, in spite of how involved Indians have been in America's business, most people will go a lifetime without ever knowing an Indian or spending time on an...

Throw in a superbly balanced and relatively sober multiplayer without the head - crushing mountains of shit exploding everywhere, and you have a well - rounded package that kept this particular critic hooked for a year after release.

You got to ask yourselves, though, how this game could have been designed, programmed, published and sold, without the entire staff suddenly sobering up in the process and moving to South America under assumed names.