Word: soberer
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...fail to find God a proper subject for burlesque, nor do I perceive sportive fun in Boyd's theological meaning. Any candidates he finds for his saloon conversions will forget the pith of his message when they sober up in the morning, but Boyd will still be hung over in his spiritual vacuum...
...publications of the Methodist Church's Board of Education run mostly to sober catechisms, Sunday-school texts, and gentle lives of Jesus for six-year-olds. Standing out in this array like a miniskirt at a church social is motive, a monthly magazine aimed at Christian college students in general and Methodist ones in particular. As most of its 40,000 youthful readers will affirm, motive is probably the most provocatively adventurous church publication in the U.S. today...
...Lerner noted, "as if he wanted his Texas yell to be heard over the rooftops of the world." Now, despite the spectacular advance billing for the Manila conference, the Administration's dealings with the Communist world and America's emerging allies in Asia are being conducted in sober, muted tones...
Aging Well. All the while, Sagan kept writing, turning out a play or novel a year, and gradually earning the respect of the French literary community. Andre Maurois, for example, wrote of her "sober, elliptical" style and her "remarkable economy of means," added sagaciously: "The tone of Sagan fits our times...
...every day the newsstands quickly sold out to a public curious for a look at the paper that had existed for so long only in plans and promises. For the most part, the public was not disappointed. The WJT, reported the Washington Post, has a look of "lively respectability-sober enough for the suburbs and sharp enough for the subways." The paper's four sections averaged a fat total of 60 pages, enough to keep a male commuter occupied all the way home. And there were more than enough features that his wife might want to read...