Not exact matches
As people
sobered up, Komisar became the conscience of a generation of start -
ups that he encouraged to build businesses
with a significant purpose beyond just making money.
The 25 - year - old star recently opened
up to INSIDER about how she copes
with the urge to drink and the pressure to stay
sober in the public eye.
If the intoxication was mutual, Blockbuster
sobered up abruptly, and the discussions
with Riviera ceased.
But the
sobering crash back to reality that follows, and the ensuing scramble to come
up with the next piece of content that can match the previous peak, are seemingly inevitable.
We must be
sober minded and not be «puffed
up»
with arrogance and human «pride» based on self edification.
I've been able to share my story
with other people, and I've had fans that come
up to me and tell me, «Because you got
sober, I got
sober.»
Her recovery memoir,
Sober Mercies: How Love Caught
Up with a Christian Drunk (Hachette / Jericho) releases TODAY, May 7.
, the best that they could come
up with was a FIVE PER CENT «success» rate (i.e. of the AA attendee actually staying
sober after 1 year!).
George Hunt, ponders the ways in which Catholics vote in elections and comes
up with this: «One
sobering conclusion to all this: Beware all commentators who speak airily of the «Catholic» vote — or a uniform «Catholic» anything, for that matter.»
On Wednsday I wanted to drop mushrooms and DMT and visit
with green aliens who look like the Easter Island Heads On Thursday I wanted to injest all of the above and pray to them On Friday I wanted to expand my mind
with astral travel and meditation On Saturday I wanted to
sober up a bit and clear my mind
with pure meditation On Sunday I wanted to visit
with Allah or YHWH or whatever floated my boat.
I'm going to make a lot of old - style AA's cranky
with this, but it's perfectly possible to
sober up sans belief in God.
Now, you sinners are trying to
sober up,
with complete disregard for the Almighty's Plan.
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...
His continued absence
with little explanation has fuelled a host of non-specific transfer speculation which even Paul Merson
sobered up long enough to posit upon.
Bold and decisive Carrie came
up and sang
with our band at a smokey
sober club, and I got this idea you see....
So, if you start getting stumbly or sleepy, let your partner take over the feed
with a bottle until you
sober up a bit.
Nobel laureate James Tobin about summed it
up when he wrote that: «the «Laffer Curve» idea that tax cuts would actually increase revenues turned out to deserve the ridicule
with which
sober economists had greeted it in 1981.»
Now, after months of research and in - depth interviews
with participants, he has written a
sober follow -
up, Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War (Yale University Press # 18.99).
That
sobering news came in three talks by paleoseismologists — researchers who literally dig
up records of past earthquakes and tsunamis — associated
with Nanyang Technological University's Earth Observatory of Singapore.
I went on a date
with this really cute guy, I was nervous so had a few drinks whilst I got ready, I then stupidly tried to keep
up with his drinking pace and before I knew it, I was horribly drunk, I told him I needed the toilet but I went to the bar and bought two bags of crisps to try and
sober myself
up.
We have an established recovery community
with new
sober singles signing
up daily.
So I usually end
up being the only
sober one at a club or a bar, and having very clear goggles instead of beer goggles, I agree
with everything you say.
Two sisters who «drunkenly stabbed each other in front of three kids» are charged
with child abuse after they
sobered up and had no idea what the fight was Play Sisters Love Pursuit online on.
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up lines are best reserved for the pub, when everyone has moved from
sober to just past happy and the liquid confidence is flowing.
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.
Watch her as she tears
up brilliantly during her first AA meeting, deftly handles an awkward come on from her boss, and, like a woman possessed, drunkenly rails against her husband in the film's most cinematic moment as she declares she can not have a
sober life living
with him.
I love, for instance, that Whip's hotel room looks like there was a grizzly - bear attack after he goes on a bender, and I love the way Whip's conflicted union reps (Bruce Greenwood and Don Cheadle, reunited at last
with his Devil in a Blue Dress co-star Washington) become accessories to his sordid lifestyle in a raucous attempt to
sober him
up.
Haddock is a rambunctious drunk
with memory problems (also prone to odd exclamations), and one of the movie's more engaging sequences has him
sober up and remember
with vivid clarity the tale of his ancestor's fight against an infamous pirate.
10,000 BC embroiders the classic coming - of - age, boy -
with - a-heroic-destiny legends and lore told around camp fires for millennia
with straight - faced, pretentiously
sober spirituality, made -
up mysticism and reams of voiceover narration (from Omar Sharif).
Leo, given a role rife
with opportunities to ham it
up, instead plays things
with the
sober conviction of a disappointed life, another standout in a movie
with nary a squandered performance in the mix.
Lip (Jeremy Allen White) struggles
with unexpected sacrifices he must make to stay
sober, while Ian (Cameron Monaghan) takes
up a cause in hopes of getting back
with Trevor (Elliot Fletcher).
After a glut of festive frivolity, the detox programme that is the Oscars run -
up begins
with Stephen Daldry's spare,
sober The Reader.
There are drunken and
sober hook -
ups with Jack (Luke Benward), who becomes kind of clingy but in a way that Deanna finds flattering.
[arm flail] Or to put it in more
sober and less muppified terms:
with The Muppets Most Wanted out in theatres next spring, the marketing machine is gearing
up.
«Elementary» What a lame idea, plucking Sherlock Holmes out of Downing Street, dropping him in Brooklyn and teaming him
up with an ooh - la - la Asian «
sober companion».
Now Paddy lives alone in Pittsburgh, coming
up on 1,000 days
sober, and Brendan wants nothing to do
with him.
Maybe it was a «before - and - after» comparison - contrast assignment, and he has
sobered his classmates
up with a description of holiday festivities at his home the year before and after a cousin was killed.
The sector's less
sober members beat
up on traditional schools and districts for «failing our children» and encourage them to emulate charters that are effective
with the «same children.»
It's much more
sober, much darker, more grown -
up, but also
with a much better steering wheel and driving position (although the latter could be lower still).
With The Next Right Thing, author Dan Barden mixes up a cocktail of grit and sentimentality infused with mystery, humor, A.A. philosophy and several drops of California sunshine.This is Barden's second novel, following 1997's John Wayne, and he gives his readers a complex protagonist in Randy Chalmers, former cop and alcoholic turned home designer and sober A.A. meeting attende
With The Next Right Thing, author Dan Barden mixes
up a cocktail of grit and sentimentality infused
with mystery, humor, A.A. philosophy and several drops of California sunshine.This is Barden's second novel, following 1997's John Wayne, and he gives his readers a complex protagonist in Randy Chalmers, former cop and alcoholic turned home designer and sober A.A. meeting attende
with mystery, humor, A.A. philosophy and several drops of California sunshine.This is Barden's second novel, following 1997's John Wayne, and he gives his readers a complex protagonist in Randy Chalmers, former cop and alcoholic turned home designer and
sober A.A. meeting attendee...
After
sobering up, he replaced the desk
with a smaller one that he put in a corner.
Roll
up your sleeves, take a look at the company's financials, and make that judgment call
with a
sober mind.
The full article gives
sobering proof that in the not - so - distant past, local humane organizations have teamed
up with law enforcement to use pit bulls as a profiling tool for targeting dark skinned men in urban neighborhoods.
At family gatherings and other parties, our not - quite -
sober relatives often come
up with a «fantastic» idea: why not pour a little bit of beer into the dog's dish?
His name was Fredo and he looked
sober, which was good, so we loaded the car
with four Irish medical students that would make
up our tour group for the next three days.
You unwind a bit by
sobering some drunks
up with your fists, you have a few drinks yourself, you hit the karaoke machine, and you end the night where any good night ends — a little ramen joint.
The ragtag troupe grapples
with keeping Charlotte from running off
with the family lawyer (Johnson),
sobering up George from his despairing bender, finding a replacement for the trusting ingénue (Laetitia Leon) he's knocked
up, and a career - reviving film opportunity hanging in the balance
with the news that Frank Capra is in the audience.
We're just about
sobered up after last week's doozy of a Republican National Convention, where Melania Trump became the world's most famous appropriation artist
with her «plagiarized» Michelle Obama speech... and we're already reaching for the bottle to get through the chaotic Democratic National Convention starting today.
That Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery has opened its doors — and it's a grown -
up gem that shows he's
sobered with age
Among the SECA award winners, only Paglen's work can stand comparison
with the
sober, grown -
up impression this show makes.