Judge-like quality

Usage examples of sobriety.

As the Afanc approached, hanging its head in embarrassment, he schooled his features to sobriety and nodded in greeting to the gigantic lake-dweller.

But many public teachers, not content to treat the subject with this sobriety of reason, instead of presenting the careful conclusions of a conscientious analysis, have sought to strengthen their argument to the feelings by help of prodigious assumptions, assumptions hastily adopted, highly colored, and authoritatively urged.

It had an air of somewhat gloomy respectability, and was presided over by an angular lady whose appearance carried the suggestion that she must be in mourning for a near relation, since she wore a bombasine dress of sombre hue, without frills, or lace, or even a ribbon to lighten its sobriety.

Francisco shook his head, and Angelo reached into his poncho for an unmarked glass bottle, no doubt containing chicha, the local cure for sobriety and a functioning liver.

There was a certain mazy sobriety of demeanour about Mr Cupples all day long, as if in the presence of such serious things as books he was bound to be upon his good behaviour, and confine his dissipation to taking snuff in prodigious quantities.

In spite of my sobriety and economy I found myself in debt three months after my arrival, and I did not know where to turn for help.

But at a riper age we pause, and seek that our reason may be convinced, and frequently prefer a state of prosperity less extatic and elevated, because its very sobriety satisfies us that it will not slip suddenly from our grasp.

The abbot was a man of taste, for though he affected sobriety he had the choicest wines and the most delicious dishes on the table.

The lady seemed pleased, and was a match for him as far as drinking was concerned, while the two girls and myself only drank with sobriety.

It was a gala event, with gun salutes, parades, speeches, and, of course, jollily that exceeded the bounds of sobriety.

Switters since his digestive tract found arrack as combustible as pisco and since sobriety could be a useful ally in a hasty getaway.

I was out of my mind with sobriety, teetotalled I felt lightheaded, I felt downright drunk, eating dinner up here with this sicko who saw nothing in me but myself.

He became irregular in his sobriety and would launch into disconnected, hortatory speeches about such matters as space exploration.

In this condition of apprehensive sobriety we are able to see that the contents of literature, art, music -- even in some measure of divinity and school metaphysics -- are not sophistry and illusion, but simply those elements of experience which scientists chose to leave out of account, for the good reason that they had no intellectual methods for dealing with them.

Others, styled Aquarii, under guise of sobriety, offer nothing but water in this sacrament.