Sentences with phrase «when sober»

These are dangerous even when sober, so when our research revealed just how many are participating in drunken DIY we were especially concerned.

This can be loneliness, stress from work or home, feeling inadequate, difficulties interacting comfortably in social situations, feelings of sadness or worthlessness, effects of trauma, or even simply liking oneself and one's experiences more when using than when sober.

When sober and not drinking, the alcoholic promises fidelity to his or her partner and swears to never drink... Continue reading →

(Yes, they also work perfectly fine when sober;)-RRB-

Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly.

One which you'll never see because your video store sucks, «Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies,» and the other you'll never see because drunken fratboys become litigious when sober, «Frat.»

I'm athletic and spent a lot of time outside I love to drink with friends and have a laugh I can be sarcastic when sober but generally good humored so looking for something I can enjoy for once

He'd corner me at home when sober and say things like, «Don't think that just because you're doing well, you're not sick.»

After the blackout, when sober, a person experiences partial or complete loss of memory for the events that occurred during blackout.

That means we lose our usual self - control and say and do things we wouldn't normally do when sober.

But when measured again, at two hours and five hours after peak intoxication, their immune systems had become less active than when sober.

Getting drunk on Morley tends toward Blue Labour solutions when sober assessment of British history points in the opposite direction: toward social liberalism and economic liberalism.

McBride is no fool, and when sober is clever and well read, but from his youth, drink and a desire to inflict physical pain and damage on anyone considered an opponent — other sportsmen, fellow drinkers down the pub, journalists, civil servants, politicians — got the better of him.

Here is that night's version re-created when sober.

I was pretty drunk at the time but when I sobered up I was really embarassed.

I bawled like a baby when I sobered up because it hit me how starved I was for human affection of any kind, even non-sexual affection.

Even when he sobers up he doesn't care that his supposed best friend just took his Armor and handed it over to the military.

I remember as a kid, when I sobered up after joining the army.

Not exact matches

It's at the very least sobering to consider the extent of Lehman's toxic reach five years ago — a reach that seems almost preposterous when viewed in terms of its unraveling in bankruptcy.

The sobering findings of a freshly released Pew Research Center study reveal that our attitudes are changing about when it's acceptable to use our mobile phones and when it's not, and not necessarily for the better.

Director Adam McKay is best known for his outrageous comedy work with Will Ferrell, but here he takes a sobering look at when the housing bubble burst.

Matt Johnston was stone - cold sober when he signed the lease to a 55,000 - square - foot brewery in Hamilton and sunk major money into beer - making equipment, though his actions might have suggested a tipple or two.

«Clooney's fun to be with when he's sober,» Wynn said.

It worked for a while, but when I finally finished graduate school (yes, it took that long) I was hit with a sobering reality: the system I once mastered to collect all my gold stars no longer existed.

When confronted had no recollection of the events that occurred even though she was sober that night.»

And to be sure, the sad Theranos saga is a sobering reminder of how essential a healthy skepticism and due diligence are when it comes to evaluating companies — particularly those that are secretive or excessively cryptic about the technologies they're hawking.

Conversely, when the markets begin their decline and the daily news is quite sobering, the conversation turns to cutting burn rates and plans for survival, because financial markets don't just correct in this atmosphere, they overcorrect.

A sobering example of the downside this can foster was in 2008 when equities dropped 50 % from peak to trough and high yield bonds also fell 40 %.

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).

I'm sober since 1964 when I was 21 years old.

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).

In biological discussion when a few speculative biologists point to the necessity of an «epigenetic landscape» to make sense of embryogenesis, development and growth their colleagues usually summon them back to «reality» with sober accusations of mystification.

It does seem to increase the success rate for those who were the most determined to stay sober prior to beginning the program but those who were less determined are actually better off seeking help elsewhere as the tend to fail more often when they attend AA than if they did nothing, and their suicide rates go up.

The time when it can be most effective, it should be emphasized, is after the alcoholic is sober for a substantial period of time.

The sober analysis of Feser and Bessette is totally devoid of the «bloodthirstiness» with which he charges them, and his objection to the «grisly detail» of their descriptions of capital crimes resembles the complaints of abortionists when shown pictures of infants» body parts.

Dalin quotes Newsweek columnist Kenneth L Woodward as stating that Cornwell's book is «a classic example of what happens when an ill - equipped journalist assumes the air of sober scholarship... Errors of fact and ignorance of context appear on every page».

It would seem to be preferable to say that: while the crowd clamors and shouts and triumphs and celebrates; while one individual after another hastens to the place of tumult, where it is good to be if one is in search of oblivion and indulgence from that which is eternal; while at the same time the crowd shouts mockingly at God, «Yes, now see whether you can get hold of us»; yet since it is difficult in the rush of the crowd to distinguish the individual, difficult to see the single tree when one is looking at the wood, the sober countenance of eternity quietly waits.

Others develop new compulsions as a way to fill the empty space left behind when they got sober.

But when the rich man sobers up the next morning, and returns to the world of social distinctions, he no longer recognizes Charlie, and has him thrown out on the street.

«When it isn't just poor kids who couldn't get health insurance who are over there,» Hedges told the group of sober - faced teenagers on bean - bag chairs, «but when it's kids like you, kids from Wellesley High School, who are dying, I can guarantee there will be outrage and demands for the war to end,» After that, they asked him no more questiWhen it isn't just poor kids who couldn't get health insurance who are over there,» Hedges told the group of sober - faced teenagers on bean - bag chairs, «but when it's kids like you, kids from Wellesley High School, who are dying, I can guarantee there will be outrage and demands for the war to end,» After that, they asked him no more questiwhen it's kids like you, kids from Wellesley High School, who are dying, I can guarantee there will be outrage and demands for the war to end,» After that, they asked him no more questions.

It is the Persian custom to deliberate about the gravest matters when they are drunk; and what they approve in their counsels is proposed to them the next day by the master of the house where they deliberate, when they are now sober and if being sober they still approve it, they act thereon, but if not, they cast it aside.

We can say that drink makes a man act like a different person — «X just isn't himself when he drinks» — but this transformation is regular and predictable; that is, alcohol affects everyone in approximately the same way, so we could extrapolate from a drunken man what his sober self is like.

One can live only so long as one is intoxicated, drunk with life; but when one grows sober one can not fail to see that it is all a stupid cheat.

I was sober for three years and when I started getting in my own head again, started getting real dark, I had Sherri pray and Declan was in Europe, and he got this convent full of nuns to pray for me, and whatever happened, I had a turnaround, like a 180.

When this is done it is difficult to refute the conclusion of a sober and perceptive American scholar who wrote:

You don't start with an avowed atheist (Jim B.) who apparently was neither sober nor present when the phrase «as we understood Him» was suggested and then substituted in Step Three and Step Eleven.

Think about it — maybe when you are sober.»

Just as the family rejoices in a renewed life of their sober child, brother or sister, all of Heaven rejoices when one who was lost to their drug of choice, or sin, renounces it, and accepts Jesus.

AA is only concerned with your seeking something you can call on at 2:00 in the morning when the hounds of fate are ripping at your throat, and the program teaches how to stay sober in the here and now.

It would have been helpful to me, when I began this sober journey 18 years ago, to have Ms. Hornbacher's perspective on this topic.