Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Temperate in mind; self-controlled and rational.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a disposition or temper habitually sober.
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Examples
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By the time I encountered it, at the age of 12 or 13 I recall picking it out of a rotating bookstand, near the door of a bookshop in the Lake District, during one of those rain-sodden childhood holidays, I was already familiar with Clarke as the sober-minded chronicler of near future space exploration.
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The Congressional Budget Office produces a lot of sober-minded, sensible, reality-based policy analysis.
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives Prepare to Abandon Newfound Love for CBO 2009
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But if all that sounds a little too sober-minded, there's always a movie called "Toliet," about a family whose bathroom is haunted by their recently departed matriarch.
Bombshells and Boxers Steve Dollar 2011
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It is the race heritage, the sadness which has made the race sober-minded, clean-lived and fanatically moral, and which, in this latter connection, has culminated among the English in the Reformed
Chapter 10 2010
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Rauch could have written a sober-minded column about governing as a sordid compromise, a column about Max Weber and Thomas Mann, about the decision to drop the nuclear bomb, about philosopher-kings, about the art of the possible, about Abraham Lincoln and Vaclav Havel.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement 2010
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It is also no surprise that opera companies have been hit hardest of all, and the responses have run the gamut from sober-minded analysis to panic reaction.
Ivan Katz: And So Falleth the Sky Ivan Katz 2011
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It is also no surprise that opera companies have been hit hardest of all, and the responses have run the gamut from sober-minded analysis to panic reaction.
Ivan Katz: And So Falleth the Sky Ivan Katz 2011
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It is also no surprise that opera companies have been hit hardest of all, and the responses have run the gamut from sober-minded analysis to panic reaction.
Ivan Katz: And So Falleth the Sky Ivan Katz 2011
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It is also no surprise that opera companies have been hit hardest of all, and the responses have run the gamut from sober-minded analysis to panic reaction.
Ivan Katz: And So Falleth the Sky Ivan Katz 2011
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On Monday, another prominent GOP leader joined the chorus of the sober-minded.
Barbour, Cornyn, Cantor Lower Expectations For GOP Congress Sam Stein 2010
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