Word: soberness
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...study was the first to evaluate so-called "secondary binge effects"--the consequences of drinking born by students who do not, themselves, drink. These effects include everything from the sober roommate who stays up all night take care of the drunk roommate to the woman who is sexually assaulted by an intoxicated acquaintance...
Standing outside the entrance to the graveyard in Salem, Mass., on Halloween night, they looked a little out of place: a handful of sober-looking men, in the middle of a stream of thousands of costumed teenagers, handing out red-and-white pamphlets warning revelers of their imminent damnation...
Raffi's address, titled "Child-Honoring: The Next Ecological Paradigm" had a sober tone as he discussed the environmental message in his songs and the importance of respecting children...
...restless child of Delaware suburbia, to the West Virginia hamlet of Chloe. Alongside what Purdy estimates were a few hundred other local neohomesteaders, the family grew its own tomatoes, slaughtered its own cattle, and kept in touch with the wider world almost solely through National Public Radio. "Those utterly sober, almost somnolent male voices always seemed very homelike," Purdy recalls, perhaps revealing a central influence on his own hypercivilized diction. When the family broke down and bought an old TV set to view a hotly contested World Series one fall, the device ended up in the basement, and the children...
...playwright struggling to finish a play--is an excuse for a lot of ill-considered, utterly forgivable behavior by a wonderful cast, in which Katherine Borowitz is calmly radiant as the company's leading lady, Christopher Walken deliriously funny as a drama critic. The direction is self-consciously sober, lending an odd, artful weight to the prevailing giddiness...