sober-minded

Example Sentences

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Roman compares their whole argument to when they were kids, when Kendall would play the sober-minded big brother in order to get chicken for dinner, while the whinier Roman wanted steak.

From New York Times

What really distinguishes Kacsmaryk is the loaded content of his rhetoric — not the language of a sober-minded, impartial jurist but of a zealot, committed more to promoting a cause than applying the law.

From Washington Post

In any case, the sober-minded experts at the Federal Reserve supposedly know what they are doing in managing inflation, and these days the general economic news seems almost cheery — strong job growth, low unemployment, higher wages, large investments being made in infrastructure and job creation, more workers voting for collective bargaining.

From Salon

The White House portrayed the decision-making in all four shoot-downs as sober-minded assessments made in conjunction with senior U.S. defense officials.

From Washington Post

In a world that isn’t ours, this could be a sober-minded discussion in which the issue is studied further by neutral agencies, the exact level of risk of gas stoves are determined, and a political discussion about what level of government recourse, if any, is necessary.

From Slate