Word: soberer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...like Paris has a Picasso museum and Amsterdam a Van Gogh museum." Housed in the prim, neoclassical Hotel Altenloh just a stone's throw from the Royal Palace, the Magritte Museum is part of the complex of buildings that comprise Belgium's Royal Museums of Fine Art. But the sober-minded setting is something of a deception: echoing the artist's mischievous streak, the museum's windows have been replaced by realistic paintings of plump clouds against a blue...
...thinking of the union leadership has shifted considerably over the past five months—from optimism that members could weather the fiscal storm without suffering too many ill effects, to sober recognition that sacrifices will have to be made to bring the University back into the black. “We were more hopeful originally that any changes in the staffing pattern or reductions would be incremental or spotty,” Jaeger says. “But it’s become clear in the past few months, it’s worse than that...
Lauer said the graduating seniors would get their fill of sober remarks during today’s speeches...
...Those soft currents of hope, though, concealed a hard desperation. After the drunken revelry and reggaeton music celebrating his election had toned down and turned off, a long, sober, reflective period set in. What was Obama’s plan for the next 100 days? What exactly had his platform ever been anyway? As the new president and the nation shifted their feet, unemployment rates continued to spiral smokily upward—6.7 percent, 7.2 percent, 7.6 percent, 8.1 percent—foreshadowing imminent conflagration...
...many pro-choice observers, Tiller's murder smacked of a sort of frontier justice that could intimidate abortion providers in the country's heartland. It was a sober reminder that, even as pundits have claimed abortion would not be a key issue in Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, it remains an incredibly divisive moral issue - and one that is still a province of extremists...