Word: soberness
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...Nightlife can mean anything. We can provide you a very valuable experience that will hit your soul and your mind and send you home sober." PRINCE SULTAN BIN SALMAN BIN ABDUL AZIZ, head of Saudi Arabia's Supreme Commission for Tourism, announcing that the government would begin issuing nonreligious foreign-tourist visas for the country, where alcohol is illegal and nightclubs are scarce...
...remember that the films argued that Sylvester Stallone was just possibly an extra-terrestrial in disguise and that the supermarket tabloids, with their giddy accounts of UFO landings and the births of two-headed cows , were truthfully reflecting our hidden reality while the New York Times, with its sober accounts of the doings of the inside-the-beltway?s real-life men in black, is entirely out to lunch. Sonnenfeld is a guy who believes that what?s left of America vitality - its life force, if you will - wears work boots, talks in a taciturn drawl and is not afflicted...
...Mohammed ElBaradei told the Security Council on Friday that Iran had not answered the questions that would satisfy concerns over its nuclear intentions. But Iran's defiance, which has included saber-rattling about how it would respond to any potential U.S. military action , may actually be based on a sober diplomatic calculation: The U.S. has been unable to forge a U.N. consensus behind any steps to pressure Iran, partly because of skepticism over Washington's own intentions...
...tried to dance with a wall and broke his leg.” Some get hammered on a weeknight, show up drunk to Organic Chemistry and are asked by a teaching fellow to “please leave and not return to this class until you are sober.” Some play strip-Jenga with new friends at a party, only to be reminded later by someone they don’t remember meeting that they actually were the only one removing clothing. Eh, it happens...
...carried away with fripperies like opinion polls. A participant at a recent meeting with business leaders in Berlin tells how she batted away praise. "This won't last forever," she told her audience. "The real test is yet to come. The proof of the pudding is in domestic policies." Sober - and accurate. Merkel heads up a grand coalition with her former adversaries, the Social Democratic Party (spd), and must find consensus on ways to revitalize the economy, repair the health system and boost employment. Victories in three state elections on March 26 gave her coalition a lift...