with sobriety
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Fourteen itemized complaints, most concerning fiscal matters, are presented with sobriety, plus a slow burn of understandable anger.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025
The real-life character most successfully integrated into the narrative flow is the firebrand anarchist Emma Goldman, played with sobriety mixed with fervor by Shaina Taub, the author and star of the musical “Suffs.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
This project came with sobriety and the contentment of moving into a country mansion just up the road four years ago with his third wife, Sally, and their two-year-old twins, Gracie and Alice.
From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2019
On Monday night at Fort Myer in Virginia, before hundreds of uniformed military members, he announced a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan with sobriety and seriousness.
From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2017
Oh! monsieur, with sobriety, with reasonable exercise—" "I have already obtained from M. de Beaufort a promise that his dispatches shall be sent off every fortnight to France.
From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre
