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What, we ask, could constitute such a psychological state that so impairs the vocal chords as to prevent them from emitting a one syllable word? Inebriation? if a person is drunk, he or she may not say "no" to sex and then regret that decision once sober, one could argue. Is this rape? Whatever happened to maintaining control over bodies? Should drunk drivers be acquitted because they weren't sober at the accident? Can "victims" be so released from any and all responsibility? We think not, and we find it remarkable that so-called proponents of women's rights would...
...Kong after a long, hard night of socializing. "If something traumatic happens to you at a party," he says, "you just bite into a platter of Peking ravs. There can't be more than that, can there? Other food doesn't do that. Even if you're sober, it still works...
Tsongas remained on the New York ballot after he suspended his campaign on March 19. For anyone who wanted to lodge a protest vote against Clinton but couldn't stomach Brown, or vice versa, Tsongas' sober message of economic growth offered an appealing alternative. "Tsongas is Greek for 'none of the above,' " quipped political analyst Kevin Phillips. Buoyed by his showing, Tsongas weighed a possible re-entry into the race for two days before deciding to stay out. He saw no real chance of winning the nomination and refused to be a spoiler, a term that bothered Brown...
...last week when Bill Clinton took his campaign uptown to deliver a sober foreign-policy address, Jerry Brown and Jesse Jackson were downtown in Greenwich Village behaving like a couple of overactive children. They planned to march together to the city's board of elections and deliver 100,000 new voter applications. The mayhem potential in this maneuver was high, even by the chaotic standards of New York City...
Marriage counseling is in, and so is staying sober. The barfly characters who cried in their beer in classic country songs have been displaced by yuppified drinkers who, in the words of a Reid song, are content to be sitting on their porch and "sippin' some wine/ from my coffee cup." That is, if they're drinking at all. In the video Travis Tritt made last year for The Whiskey Ain't Workin', the character he plays pointedly refuses to drown his sorrows in alcohol...