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So much potential – it could go to even the soberest of detoxing heads.

Broken resolutions can be good for you | Hephzibah Anderson 2011

The foregoing sounds like a paragraph from "Midshipman Easy" or the "Water Witch," rather than a paragraph from the soberest, faithfullest, and most literal chronicle of the sea ever written.

A CLASSIC OF THE SEA 2010

To find a buyer for that miserable body was the last hope of war widows done out of their pensions; working-class women whose husbands, even the soberest and most industrious, were tricked out of their wages by every devaluation of the mark; girls, some almost children, who could no longer witness the misery of their younger brothers and sisters.

Book Review: Wolf Among Wolves by Hans Fallada « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010

Therefore, they work together as part of a larger symbol - the entire church building itself, and their 'nett effect', so to speak, is to "make metaphysical stirrings not only plausible but irresistible within even the soberest hearts", as Alain de Botton says.

The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 2 2009

To find a buyer for that miserable body was the last hope of war widows done out of their pensions; working-class women whose husbands, even the soberest and most industrious, were tricked out of their wages by every devaluation of the mark; girls, some almost children, who could no longer witness the misery of their younger brothers and sisters.

A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: Wolf Among Wolves by Hans Fallada » Print 2010

In soberest terms, ORIGINAL Christianity was anti-Torah from the start while DSS viz., 4Q MMT and ALL other Judaic documentation PROVE that ALL 1st-century Pharisees were PRO-Torah.

The Problem With Publishing On The Historical Jesus James F. McGrath 2010

As if a tuning-fork had been struck, there would be answering vibrations, and once this had started a state would be produced which the mystics called "ecstasy" and saints "contemplation"; the greatest and soberest of modern psychologists had recognized this state as a fact and called it the "oceanic sense".

Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

Still, the soberest response is Anne Thompson's: The thing about the folks in Hollywood is that while they're hanging on to their lucrative jobs while they last - they will do what they have to do to survive.

GreenCine Daily: Coast to coast. 2007

Yet his authority over the Stradiots was more in show than in substance; for there paced beside him, on an ambling palfrey of soberest mood, a little old man, dressed entirely in black, without beard or moustaches, and having an appearance altogether mean and insignificant when compared with the blaze of splendour around him.

The Talisman 2008

Even her soberest prints are leavened by a Brazilian splash of humor: a basic black blouse, for instance, is festooned with miniature metallic crosses.

Fashion Forward 2007