He’s sober, and while he talks too loud and makes bad jokes a lot, most of them are at his own expense. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

To Francie’s relief, he ran down straight and not sidewise which proved that he was still sober. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sober, steady brutality, the economy of it all. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt looked sober at first, but he was so cool about it she couldn’t say a word. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a couple of hours, our mom would be home from work, and we all knew it was critical that I started sobering up by then. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was a fat man with a florid face and a sober black suit, whose name was Martin Lanselius. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation, and oppression of my people by whites. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew he was joking with her, but the thought of the future was sobering. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

While I wasn’t surprised, the experience was sobering, reminding me again of how different I was from the other students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was completely sober, which made what happened next all the more terrifying. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had always thought farmers were sober men. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started running another bar-restaurant in town where, as he gently put it, “it was hard to deal with drunks sober.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voices that spoke were cheerless and sober and suggested a barely suppressed urgency. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I was done, he scribbled a few notes, breathed in deeply, and gave me a sober look. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Day of Sacrifice only came once a year, after all, and he liked to look his best during the sober procession to the cursed house, and during the somber retreat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Now, I mean. Trying to stay sober. He’s there for you as much as he can be. He didn’t abandon you. He created a situation, and he’s owning up to it.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Jenny was sober as she went about her work, and Jethro roamed about the barn and woodlot with deep trouble hounding him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sober man, a man of high seriousness. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she glanced at Con and Taisin, she saw that they, too, had sober looks on their faces as they listened to the King’s booming, slightly drunken voice. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m the only sober one here at least,” I said. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

His sad, sober eyes that had hung before her mind’s eye for so many years melted into the ones that looked back at her now from the mirror. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nately’s father was a sober, philosophical and responsible man; this old man was fickle and licentious. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

At midnight, now March 18, she was returning home, sober. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

So I attempted to defuse the situation with a sober and sincere-sounding lie. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Today I was stiff and sober, hyperaware of the noise and the light and fear of discovery. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

At about 9:30, everyone was stuffed and sober. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

That sobered them as much as Fern’s name, which they both mouthed. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then again, none of us were particularly sober, either. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Toby was sobering up quicker than he thought could happen. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Her words were serene and sober and she looked right at me because she wanted me to know that she meant every word of what she’d said to me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been trying to keep her sober—well, less drunk,” Maya said. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Now, sodden and almost sober, I’m going to call Tom. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

You would think that after your new drinking buddy got hit by a car, you would sober up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He stayed out late nights and came home sober and nobody knew where he spent that time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, really, I beg pardon. It’s an uncommonly fine one, isn’t it?” said Tudor, with great presence of mind, and an air of sober interest that did credit to his breeding. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is not a conversation I want to have stone-cold sober. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ecology was a sober, industrious science here long ago, decades before the rest of us discovered the term. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth was that Washington confused me, with its decorous traditions and sober self-regard, its whiteness and maleness, its ladies having lunch off to one side. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Kemp was relieved that the sergeant wasn’t quite sober. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hynning perspired a great deal and there were those among us who thought he was not altogether sober. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a lot I don’t understand, but this way she stays pretty sober. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Indeed without their gaiety we wouldn’t have known it was there, a sobering reminder of how suffocating the woods can be. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The other good thing, besides fixing the Mary Rose, is that Dad is going to meetings to help him stay sober. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

What was it?’ and Jones looking at the demon, groping too, sober too, saying, ‘I dont know, Kernel. Whut?’ each watching the other. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandmom’s rosary beads are wound around his fist, but he’s not drinking and looks sober. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie on the narrow cot, sober as I’ve been in what feels like a hundred years. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lived a surreal, quasi-adult existence, becoming sober straphangers as many of their peers were getting drunk at frat parties. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sobered a bit, looking a bit sheepish, which was a strange expression for steely Scythe Curie. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

On the far side of the house was a huge swimming pool that was hardly used by anyone except Felicia, when she was sober. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A teetering collection of weathered horse carts was tucked beyond the brush, a sober portrait of the trek toward freedom. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The sight of the turnovers made Jo sober again; and when the two went out to their daily tasks, they looked sorrowfully back at the window where they were accustomed to see their mother’s face. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hall was at present occupied by two deplorably sober men and their highly indignant wives. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Taylor adored the Court of Honor and was struck by the oddly sober manner people adopted as they walked among its palaces. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His face was impassive as ever, though something sober had melted into his eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s so hard for me to change because I fear that people will not like the sober me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I see myself in the old, peeling mirror, I sober instantly. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

If I straightened myself out and sobered up, there’s a possibility that I could adopt. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad was serious, which made me immediately sober up. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The heirs of Uncle Sam Westing clinked glasses with the members of the Good Salvation Soup Kitchen, sobered up for this happy occasion. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How many young ladies are there?” asked her mother, beginning to look sober. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. King’s funeral message served as a sobering call for justice. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Bobby was sober enough to realize what he’d done, he could only call Eugene’s name over and over, as if that would somehow bring him back. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You caught him on a good day. A sober day. Sometimes he’s all there. And sometimes”—she sort of shrugged—“he’s not.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Five hours later, not at all sober, he turned up the unpaved road that led to the summer house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Yet hearing about his death left him sober. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’d read me a passage of scripture from the Book of Mormon, about a sober child, quick to observe. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Both men were hopeless drunkards, but they were sober at this hour of the morning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We need to sober you up, Charles,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Something about what he said had sobered me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For a while, it’s hard to walk straight, but by the time we make it, we’re all pretty sober. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

At least not this early in the evening, not as sober as they were. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was a “weekend alcoholic”—in his case, a long-weekend alcoholic— who battled over which version of himself he preferred, the drunk one or the sober one. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Milkman was sober now and he spoke as steadily as he could. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me, his eyes sober and sharp. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The loss of my tackle that morning had had a sobering effect on me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Loki sobered up the next morning and thought about what he had done the night before. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I try to hold on to it—the part of me that’s calm and sober and willing to walk away. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You needn’t worry about that,” said Favell, beginning to smile, “I’ll be sober all right. Sober as the judge will be when he sentences Max in three months’ time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course I don’t think you’re—aw, hell, just forget it. Look, if he sobers up, try to keep him that way, okay? I’ll catch up with you later with the doctor.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I liked him much better when he was sober, I decided. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mother seemed sobered by this news from our teachers, as if she had earned a special punishment from God. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see he was planning something in his mind, and he was still not sober enough to carry it through. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The thief looked at the child and what he saw was very sobering to him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was a sober brown hat that matched his sober brown blazer and his sober brown face. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It was sobering and yet they seemed bent upon pretending that nothing unusual had happened. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my dad was home and sober, and he gave me a dollar. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How is your cat, Miss March?” asked the boy, trying to look sober while his black eyes shone with fun. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But secretly I'm wondering if Haymitch sobered up long enough to help Peeta and me because he thought we just might have the wits to survive. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Drunk and stupid? Only half of that changes when I sober up.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘Some folk have all the luck,’ they said; but it was not until Frodo approached the usually more sober age of fifty that they began to think it queer. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In spite of two cocktails and the bottle of wine they’d shared she feels distressingly sober. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So I do, for I shall never have another chance like this,” said Amy, looking sober over one page. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s an equation he is not nearly sober enough to parse. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A good rule of thumb when you drink with a subject is that you keep yourself twice as sober as he is. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tinge of pink and purple colored the sky above the woods, and he felt suddenly sobered by the cold. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm sure we could find someone. I saw Alexander the Great in the beer hall earlier. He's good when he's sober." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

With infinite difficulty, for he was stubborn as a stone, I persuaded him to make an exchange in favour of a sober black satin and pearl-grey silk. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Looking at her in her agony the maidens, all sobered now, the dancing over and the singing and the wild wand-waving, said to one another, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was obviously pleasantly surprised to find me sober, but she was wary, too, because we haven’t really spoken since the police came round on Tuesday. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t dare wait until he was completely sober. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But her eyes were dead serious, cold sober. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The room had gone mostly quiet now, the political team's nervous updates having given way to an expectant, almost sober kind of calm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He’d been drinking; he never came home from work sober, and the drinking always made his temper worse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I kept hushing them, and they finally sobered up when I reminded them we were not libre yet. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She is the only lady I have ever known who was as charming when she was drunk as when she was sober." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But hearing him say that he hated his life brought on a sobering realization for me: my parents were human. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Evan also wasn't shy about extolling the virtues of weed and how it opened his mind to things he couldn't explore when he was sober. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I've seen him drunk and sober, hungry and sated, loud and louder, in love and in longing. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.’ Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The intensity in Fin’s tone was sobering, and Kaede said, “I will.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When Winston got drunk and started fighting, the locals knew it was time for the soberest man to ride and get Fannie. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was brown and white, a sober and respectable room that looked to Shadow as if it had last been decorated in 1920. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The stark and sobering reality is that, for reasons largely unrelated to actual crime trends, the American penal system has emerged as a system of social control unparalleled in world history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the drive-in, which is where the sober teenagers in Lily went on Friday nights, we all waited in line for popcorn and swatted away mosquitoes. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

You have to drink or smoke a lot before it gets fun, and I'm sober after a long afternoon at the diner. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Once I’d conjured up that sobering image, I was able to focus on my situation, and the question at hand: What was she doing here? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He seemed completely sober as he stared at Toby. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Benny, Robbie Ray, and even Cork, sober, which was definitely a surprise. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Bod was a quiet child with sober grey eyes and a mop of tousled, mouse-colored hair. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Later, Zola says to me in a sober way, “I like that Signora Mondopoco. I like her very much.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

There were clerks with neat little skull-caps to keep their tonsures warm, dressed in sober clothes which contrasted with the laity. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started much more naturally then, to find myself confronted by a man in a sober grey dress. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He longed for quiet—to be able to stand by a blue pool in the evening, and lob a pebble into the water, and watch the circles of ripples spread slow on the sober surface. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

This sobered Luxa up for real, but it killed the conversation. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mornings brought sober hope, then the usual imperatives. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other boys, sobered now, helped me up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My rouge won’t come off.” and Amy rubbed her brilliant cheek, and showed him her white glove with a sober simplicity that made him laugh outright. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were among the last out, so we saw the bartender—the only sober man in the place—pick up a phone and make a call. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He slurred even when he was sober, which was hardly ever. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I'm sure I'm sober, not drunk, just going a little crazy to think like that, but I think it anyway, because I feel that way. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

All this happy freedom and confidence passed away, of course, as they either grew sober or got drunk, but while it lasted it was like being possessed by a power greater than themselves. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s trying to stay sober for our practices. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

After we sobered up a bit with coffee and Mini Thins, Patrick drove me home. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Already six people had died on Washington’s slopes in 1996, with the year barely half over—quite a sobering statistic—and there was plenty of room on the board for more. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He stared ahead, covered in blood, eyes burning with hate as she cleaned his face and put him on her couch to sober up with some ice packs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

What I love best about Sundays is that not only is Pop Pop sober, but we get to pretend like we’re something special, dressed in our Sunday best. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I was sober as a judge, I’d just like to point out, although I was in a bit of a state, distracted, panicky almost. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was almost always home and sober and generous on Halloween. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stood across the hall from me, youthful, intense, cold sober. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

For parents—and parenting experts—who are obsessed with child-rearing technique, this may be sobering news. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The question embarrassed and sobered me; it made me realize my parochialism and just how unprepared I was for the task of serving my people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be smart to put the tie on, he knew, and appear sober and respectable. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men and sober eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm not sure who took them, Gerta," he says, suddenly sober. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With his voice striking the perfect sober note, Holmes apologized for the disarray and explained that Julia’s sister had fallen gravely ill and Julia and her daughter had left at once for the train station. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She sobered a little when she glanced down at the body again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Patrice is just the opposite: studious, sober, and an exact physical copy of his father. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, so if that guy can make it in drunk, surely we can make it in sober. I mean, were ninjas.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I pulled up my overalls and felt very sober indeed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Today my elation over Obama’s election is tempered by a far more sobering awareness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some of the more sober ones helped her to escape. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sobered at once, as though remembering a solemn duty. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very young man who had said this, scarcely more than a boy—very dark and sober, very bitter. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It was the stupidest thing to have said, and considering I was the only sober one I should have been the one with insight. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

When she was sober she hummed mostly or chanted blues songs, of which she knew many. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still—all things considered, Molly knows she has it pretty good: her own room in a tidy house, employed and sober foster parents, a decent high school, a nice boyfriend. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His is the wildest circle, although he has always been perfectly composed and sober when speaking with me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The shared vision expressed in their drawings struck him as being too sober and monumental. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But this is a sober, industrious field, and the work goes on methodically, with special interest just now in the molecular genetics of organelles. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even men far tougher and more attuned to the wilderness than Thoreau were sobered by its strange and palpable menace. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then I could sober up before my career was permanently fixed on a reckless course. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Wednesday afternoons we’d have it at Dennis’ house because his mother goes shopping at the supermarket and his father doesn’t get home from work until after six P.M., even when he’s sober. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were about a hundred of them, all in sober black suits, but the suits were all they had in common. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He needs to be sober for that conversation. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Cleveland, immense in black, paused a moment in sober examination of the crowd before him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Want to go for a walk on the beach? Fresh air would probably sober you up some.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I think he was drunk, even though he hasn’t been drinking lately, but Patrick does that stuff sober, so it’s hard to tell. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Delaney came back once or twice to see how her son was doing, but she never stayed too long, and she never seemed too sober. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And the Abnegation don’t drink alcohol, so everyone is sober. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Bea, perpetually the lone sober voice of the group, picks one of the suites at random and deposits June and Nora in the king-size bed and Pez in the empty bathtub. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The ten minutes seemed to have sobered him. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was something so panther-like in the movement—something so unhuman, that it seemed to sober us all from the shock of his coming. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“We were sobered by the knowledge that the world would never be the same,” he said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This dress is black, because black is the best thing for such occasions: a simple, sober black dress, like those of the women who play cellos in symphony orchestras. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Drowning is bad enough, he reflected sourly, but drowning sad and sober, that’s too cruel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had a sober look in his eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Short and stocky, plain-faced, he seemed a decent lad, sober, sensible, dutiful... but not the sort to make a young girl’s heart beat faster. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could sober up, get my personal life in order, and reevaluate my priorities. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She was exceedingly fond of Telemachus, not only because he was her dear Odysseus’ son, but because he was a sober, discreet young man, steady and prudent and dependable. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie remembered the last time Papa had said anything to her was that night when he came home sober singing the last verse of “Molly Malone.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I offered Swann an apology but, as the leader of the Chicago John Reed Club, I was a completely sober and chastened Communist. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hank’s primary claim to campus fame, I already knew, was that he always had weed, and the Colonel told me that for four years, Hank started every game without ever once playing sober. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But sober judgment told him that that was impossible. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And don’t say funny things when we ought to be sober.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, he’d rarely been sober since we had arrived in Welch, and I was afraid that if I told him, he’d show up at school snookered and make things even worse. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As time passed, however, even sober men and women began to think of him in less-than-rational terms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And from that moment she never drew a completely sober breath. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marc’s mother has stayed sober the whole time, so she’s behind the wheel as we make our way back in the darkness. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Seeing how sober the children’s faces had become, Mrs. Sharpe stopped to reassure them. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Mrs. Claud Roosevelt. Do you know her? I met her somewhere last night. I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I can dig it, because a sober Pop Pop is much better than a drunk one. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Were he sober, all he’d have to do to find the answer to his question would be to follow my eyes. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Fortunately more sober types were at work elsewhere. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I was suddenly sobered by the sound of footfalls close by. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Smith kept his eyes straight ahead, chin up, his face proud and sober. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Corcoran—Patrick on one side, sober Ted on the other—stepped forward. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Also, he’s sober, and I don’t have a gun. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The walk toward her had been as sobering as usual, each step weakening his resolve to have a good day. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The sobered guests crowded close, waiting for one answer. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He was simply taking me in, observing me, in a manner that was sober but not menacing. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He's still looking at me quizzically when, sounding stone sober, he says, "Grayson, something needs to happen," and I say, "Huh?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Instead of sobering up, he started to get delirium tremens. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a blessing, bright, vivid, and exhilarating;—not like the ponderous gift of gold: rich and welcome enough in its way, but sobering from its weight. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every time she went along with some insane practice of the regime, she felt his sad, sober eyes accusing her of giving in. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dagon the Drunkard, men called him, but drunk or sober he loved to fight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Extra bags of rice delivered to one house signaled a coming feast; a normally sober man stumbling home drunk one night might mean that a son had been born. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“A sobering reminder that none of us are immune to the dangers here, even when we imagine we have the upper hand. Let’s save the details for another time.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang on to the good and sober moments tightly. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was only when the other scythes in attendance shook his hand and wished him luck in his mortal competition against Citra that he sobered and remembered what was at stake. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In the future we may well be able to assemble nucleotides in any desired sequence, to produce whatever characteristics we think desirable—a sobering and disquieting prospect. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You and Shad air much alike, Jeth—too sober and solemn fer yore own good. Sometimes you make me think you air a little ol’ man with a boy’s body. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry stands quietly, hands in his pockets, contemplating the sky, and he’d almost look sober if not for the wobbly lean to the left he’s doing. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I tried to act sober around her, and she didn't seem to notice that anything was wrong. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The price of a liter of rum keeps most of them, with their monthly coupons and meager earnings, stone-cold sober. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hoover demanded that his staff wear dark suits and sober neckties and black shoes polished to a gloss. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“We’ll all have waffles. And whiskey. If this job doesn’t come off, no one’s going to want to be around me sober. Finished, Nina?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Thoughts were flying around in my head, but I didn’t want to think at all, because a sober part of me knew that what I had managed to get myself into was insanity. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

An uneasy silence replaced it, and Yossarian was sober and self-conscious as he climbed down from the plane and took his place in the jeep that was already waiting for them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It has cost him his ability to be sober. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother lay in bed, awake; she was pleading with Gabriel, who had been out drinking the night before, and who was not really sober now, to mend his ways and come to the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The punctual drunk with sober eyes who arrives exactly at 10:00 P.M.: The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For the joy of it,” said Sweeney, sober now, or at least, no longer visibly drunk. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Newly focused, sober, and intensely committed to succeed, he graduates with honors and returns to his community intent on changing things. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe she’s clean and sober now, with some kind of steady job. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I observed how some speakers used emotion and dramatic language, and tried to move the audience with such techniques, while other speakers were sober and even, and shunned emotion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I’d been sober all those years, would I have known? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe you would,” Adam said, suddenly sobered. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His hands dangled idly over his meal, as he looked down with a sober, thoughtful expression. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Golden Gray was sober now and his sober thought was to blow the man’s head off. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Maya’s dance ends as suddenly as it begins, and even Grace looks up, surprised and sober, and Joaquin turns around to see Birdie standing there, along with her little brother and her parents. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Not that he was ever sober enough to really have an impact, but it affects me nonetheless. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m not the scatterbrain I was. You may trust me. I’m sober and sensible enough for anyone’s confidante now.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

In February, a senior diplomat in the US embassy in Moscow named George Kennan sent a sobering message about the Soviet Union to his superiors in Washington. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The morning light was sober and pale and made my room seem horribly quiet. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have to work for it. I wouldn’t like to have the General after me if I made him angry,” Arm said, which sobered up the other detectives at once. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was completely incoherent when he was drunk, but when sober he was one of the chief philosophers of the Comer. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mentioned the titles because they were as great when I listened to them sober. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

This miracle—it was nothing less—of recalling Hercules, from frenzied feeling and violent action to sober reason and sorrowful acceptance, was not wrought by a god descending from the sky. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather have them than that necklace,” said Harry, which sobered Ron up at once. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The room had changed; Reggie had altered the tenor to something decidedly sober. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

For in that case each would still be a self-contained uni-verse, freed forever from the sobering influence of external danger. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But as he saw the sober faces of the adults, he was reminded of how his mother would always send baskets of food to Sunjin’s family and others. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Jo’s face was very sober, but her eyes twinkled, and there was an odd sound in her voice of repressed emotion of some sort. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

That sobered him, and he continued to regard the scene without the hint of a smile. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

It was sobering and yet they seemed bent upon pretending that nothing unusual had happened. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his talk all those years later was a sobering reminder of how high the stakes had been that day whether we knew it or not. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In a sober ceremony, the Mexica abjured their old religion and embraced Christianity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The students laughed, but they became more sober. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tires squeal out of the parking lot, another sober student farewell. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, seeing her like this, calm, concerned, sober, I’m starting to sec what she once was and I resent her more, because I’m starting to see what he must have seen in her. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was not at all sober and feeling sleepy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Information is so powerful that the assumption of information, even if the information does not actually exist, can have a sobering effect. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“What on earth’s wrong with you? Are you drunk?” he asks, but I can see in his eyes that he knows I’m sober and I’m betting that for once he wishes I wasn’t. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all the company laughed with them; for most were drunk; and we who were sober—we still wore shirts on which it said, Liberty to Slaves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A sober Chicken Man had two words of advice. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is why the Holy Koran forbids sharab. Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk. So it does.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mama must have guessed what was going on in my mind, for she kept handing me sober looks all the time she was getting breakfast. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that he looks like a midwestern bank president, with his straight neatly brushed silver hair, his sober posture, shoulders a little stooped. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

People who didn’t know him thought that he was drunk when he was sober, because sober, he was full of song and excitement. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sober young divinity student seemed an odd match for Judith’s high spirits. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you sober?” asked the owner of the Wasp. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

But after the warden asked if he had anything to say, his expression was sober. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came directly home, sobered by the travesty in which they had participated. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother waited for her to control herself and gave the father a sobering stare. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She was sober enough to kiss well, I thought. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Senator comes out, looking curiously more sober, in a fresh shirt, plaid and pressed, exactly the same as the last one. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was a sober silence around the table. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Among the farmhands, though, was a member of the Blackfoot Indian tribe named Levi, who behaved very differently from the coarse miners—being polite, gentle, responsible, sober, and well spoken. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s dressed in his uniform, sober black with the rows of insignia and decorations. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

El Patron looked around the audience, and several people tried to smile.They met El Patron’s steely eyes and immediately sobered up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn't expecting that response and was instantly sobered. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"I didn't get around to saying thanks for taking care of my mother," he says, sober in a way I've never seen him. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“No,” said Colonel Julyan, “unfortunately I think you have the right to ask that. But if you do come, I have the right to insist on your being sober.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted them to get strong and get sober and get the hell off the rez. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Almost as if she were reading my mind, my mother said, “Everything’s different now—I go to church, have a good job, and I’m sober.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Whenever Scruggs was handling explosives or firearms or out on operations, he stayed stone-cold sober. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The thought of spending the rest of the day copying out the tedious Book of Numbers sobered me deeply as I watched my father go. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had clearly gotten the best of her, so I sobered to an elaborate caricature of humility. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dunning’s paper, which declared nuclear testing to be “mandatory to the defense of our country,” was couched in the sober language of an academic treatise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Photographs of the children show a sweet if sober bunch who seem ready at a moment’s notice to swing into action with brooms and dishcloths. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I’ll drink for all three of you,” I say, which makes me sound like an alcoholic, but there’s no way I’m getting through this hour sober. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She sounds like a Centurion, and I try to arrange my face in an appropriately sober manner. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dad was so eager to hear how the interview went that he was not only home when I got back from school, he was even sober. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lotta men have the drinking problem but there’s nothing we can do long as they show up sober and do their work. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, quiet, sober, soft- spoken black man, a carpenter by trade. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marriage brought the sobering realities of life into focus. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then de big house and de quarters got sober and silent. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

My pop’s wheelchair is parked next to the couch and thankfully Pop looks relatively sober. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d sobered up a bit, but he was still drunk, driving into a police station. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Barely had anything more than a Mountain Dew because—as Luke put it—he was stupid enough sober. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She became the most devoted mother: sober, clean and industrious. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His face sobers, grows older in the glow of the red tail-lights. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a darkly sobering thought, that there were now people in this world who actively wished him dead. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

If you’d given me a room full of sober Indians, crying and laughing and telling stories about my sister, then I would have gladly stayed and joined them in the ceremony. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am not sure where he’s been before this, but I don’t think he’s sober. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They went home early and Francis, unexpectedly sober, thought more about his answer. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He had a one-room apartment over a garage, enjoyed doing the repairs and upkeep on the old lodge, loved being back within walking distance of untamed country, and was staying sober. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sobering thought, but it was what I’d been given. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

On the big day, a dozen of our tall and not-so-tall young ladies presented themselves in their soberest hats, clutching letters of reference in their cleanest white gloves. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He’d walk the streets to sober up but it never quite worked. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then he dried his tears, grew up, got sober and monogamous. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looks as if he's had his own stylist because he's clean and groomed and about as sober as I've ever seen him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her hair was sculpted into a tight bob and her wide shirt collar spread over a sober dark blazer. Clinton fashion: The styles, they were a-changin’ 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Although the ensemble’s underlying finances have improved since the lockout, its chief executive Michelle Miller Burns said, it continues to face the sobering constraints familiar to many orchestras. A Conductor’s Tumultuous, Invaluable Tenure Ends in Minnesota 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

She had a sober period from when I was 7 until I was 13, and then she remarried and had two more children. Perspective | Ask Amy: Unreliable parent leaves a legacy of guilt 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

He embraces this new movement, calls himself a feminist and offers sober political analysis, with a passionate argument for focusing on structural issues. Dave Chappelle Stumbles Into the #MeToo Moment 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

He has been sober for three years now. Mike Flanagan Explores His Private Horrors in ‘Midnight Mass’ 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

“What you do see is at once sobering, startling and obvious: These are the ladies and gentleman of the jury.” Where Blue-Collar Art Is Having Its Moment 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cox steers a cautious course between wide-eyed wonder and sober science. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Sound Book,’ by Trevor Cox 2014-04-23T21:57:24Z

The statistics, though, are sobering: two-thirds of missions to Mars have ended in disaster. TV highlights 30/07/2012 2012-07-29T21:00:01Z

"I'm a year and eight months sober now, but in my relationship with alcohol, I felt like I've been each one of these characters at one point in my life." "It's been a life-changing experience for me": How a play about drinking helped Andre Royo get sober 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z

Mustang A sobering reminder that house arrest is nothing new to some: in this case five, formerly carefree, Turkish sisters, whose conservative uncle decides to cage them indoors until they are ready to marry off. From Panic Room to Cabin Fever: films about isolation, to watch in self-isolation 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

I did get clean and sober and then I relapsed for a while and blah blah. Marianne Faithfull: 'I don't think I had any choice but to be decadent' 2013-01-10T19:00:00Z

Yet the sobering takeaway of this production is that the cultural walls that separate the black and Hasidic communities here are so insurmountable as to preclude such identification. Review: Reflections That Sear in a Reborn ‘Fires in the Mirror’ 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

But the single dad pledged to stay sober if he was picked for the show. Chris Rene will emerge a star, says "X Factor" judge 2011-10-20T21:06:03Z

Landgraf’s executive presentations have become a Press Tour tradition, anchored by fascinating yet sobering data dumps. The humans versus the machines: Broadcast and cable face the Silicon Valley invasion 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

If he's in fact partaking of any of the illicit substances of which he boasts, at least he's doing so with a sober driver or in the privacy of his own home. Mortality, fame hang heavy on Drake's 'If You're Reading This' 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

And then he’s off — though this isn’t the headlong French Baroque dazzle of “Barricades,” but soulful, often sober Italian and English pieces of the 16th and 17th centuries. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

And it kind of throws a wrench into the marriage, because they’ve never known what it’s like to be sober, and it loses its spark in a way. Aaron Paul on Breaking Bad's 'Darkest Season Yet' 2012-07-13T14:00:21Z

But the most memorable speech Sunday night was made by a sober and pregnant Michelle Williams, accepting her award for best actress in a limited series for "Fosse/Verdon." Michelle Williams speaks a crucial truth: Abortion isn't the enemy of motherhood 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

More importantly, I decided to go sober, and have been that way since. Experience: I woke up from a coma to find my friends mourning my death 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

She died pleading for one last chance to get sober. Motherlode Blog: Whitney Houston, My Mother and Addiction 2012-02-14T16:58:23Z

It offered not only sober Beethoven busts, recordings and scholarly books and scores — but also Beethoven chocolates, Beethoven wines and, yes, Beethoven rubber duckies. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

This goes some way to explain those famous collars bedecking the otherwise sober, black judicial robes. Smart Watch: The notorious “RBG” comes to CNN and more top TV picks for the week 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

In the aggregate, they amount to an exhibition both whimsical and ominous; silly and sober — precisely the complicated metaphor Mr. Chiappa was aiming for. Christopher Chiappa’s Latest Obsession: The Amazing Egg 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

So for the newly sober, instead of fretting about how far you have to go, here are eight reasons why you should think, “look how far I’ve already come.” Former drunks make unstoppable runners 2013-01-06T14:00:00Z

It is filled with sobering stories about error and — in the more beautiful, memorable cases — ingenuity, determination, redemption. Preet Bharara’s Lessons on Crime and Punishment 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

The actor has now been clean and sober since 2003 and claims that it was a very clear statement that got him back to a better place. Tom Hardy: 'I would have sold my mum for crack' 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

He’s definitely sober while explaining that he knew he needed to carefully judge when to push things and when not to, because the consequences could be serious, deadly even. Serial recap – season two, episode two: The Golden Chicken 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

For someone known throughout her first eight decades as studious, shy and retiring, and who described her personality as “sober,” Ruth Bader Ginsburg got a kick out of her later-in-life fame. A Filmmaker Reflects on Justice and the Woman Who Stood for It 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

After 9/11, Veneto said he struggled for many years with an opiate addiction, finally getting sober in 2015, according to his website. Former flight attendant to honor 9/11 victims by pushing beverage cart from Boston to Ground Zero 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

In one instance, Kesha says Dr. Luke forced her to drink with him, and then gave her “sober pills” to recover. Kesha vs. Dr. Luke: Inside Pop Music’s Contentious Legal Battle 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

This is meant to be one of those shows that’s funny until it isn’t, at which point everything you laughed at earlier is cast in a sobering, retrospective shadow. | 'Diary of a Madman': Send in the Russian Clown and His Pain and Alienation, Too 2011-02-18T00:36:24Z

However, it’s sobering to have to accept the preponderant influence of emotion over what passes for our powers of reasoning. John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

It’s a sober, gripping way to start a comic book movie, and remains a watershed moment for serious portrayals of superheroes in cinema. Can X-Men: Apocalypse pull together 16 years of mutated plotlines? 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

The agnostic groups of AA took out the words “Higher Power” from the equation, choosing to remain ambiguous about their own beliefs in what is helping them to recover and stay sober. My agnostic AA 2012-06-20T18:28:00Z

Assigned to create a cover for “Born to Run,” he found himself contemplating with distaste the sober posed photograph that Mr. Springsteen had chosen. John Berg, Art Director Who Made Album Covers Sing, Dies at 83 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

He brings an unforced looseness to the movie that it very much needs, especially after Mr. Pratt slips into a more sober register in his daddy dearest scenes. Review: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ Wants That Loving Feeling 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

The 18th-century brick structure, which once housed a boxing museum, stands as a sober contrast to the surrounding visual chaos. Tough love: An intimate look at Mexico City’s retired (and semi-retired) sex workers 2014-04-22T22:30:00Z

Her sobering question was left unanswered more than once. A ‘Summer House’ Wedding Five Seasons in the Making 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

One slogan of an earlier era of student revolt was “be realistic: demand the impossible,” and Ms. Keshavarz’s indifference to some of the sober conventions of realism is very much in this spirit. | 'Circumstance': ?Circumstance,? Directed by Maryam Keshavarz - Review 2011-08-25T21:59:50Z

Some songwriters brought sober material of their own. Pop Music Faces the Coronavirus in Prime Time 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

“This isn’t a spoiler — he’s clean, and sober, and working in eastern North Carolina,” Mr. Cunningham said of Mr. Wood. Media Decoder: Movie About a Severed Leg Seeks Backers via Crowdsourcing 2013-05-19T22:28:02Z

That’s partly because those jokes really are meant to help change the world, which is too sober a goal for any true comedian’s antics. The Yes Men: Revenge of the Pranksters 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

I am convinced that, even at your drunkest and most vomit-prone, you are safer, less vulnerable, than you would be stone-cold sober, walking alone. Joanna Lumley meant well – despite her words on rape 2013-01-27T00:11:19Z

But if "Mommy" is‎ a hand grenade at the kind of sober family drama one normally finds at a festival, Dolan's movie also has a subtle tenderness. Cannes Film Festival shines light on maverick director Xavier Dolan 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

I’ve been a sober alcoholic for 24 years, so I know very well that my ego is my worst enemy. Two Hairstylists on Respect and Navigating Egos (Hint: It’s Not the Celebrities) 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Even stone sober, it’s easy to fall under the spell of Future’s dizzy-deep songbook. Soft, smooth and steady: How Xanax turned American music into pill-pop 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

Staying sober in college is no easy feat. Not the Usual College Party (This One’s Sober) 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

That is, about one of every fifteen people who enter these programs is able to become and stay sober. The pseudo-science of Alcoholics Anonymous: There’s a better way to treat addiction 2014-03-23T18:30:00Z

The serious moments tilt toward the preposterous, above all a climactic revelation that seems, on sober examination, to be more of a technical detail than a seismic explosion. Movie Review: ‘August: Osage County,’ With Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts 2013-12-26T15:07:50Z

She lies, he freaks out, she betrays him, he drinks, and Ralph D., continuing to spout golden nuggets of sober living, turns out to be part of the problem. Arts & Leisure: Wrestling With Recovery Is No Fairy Tale 2011-06-29T12:00:06Z

One particularly helpful young upstart with a handful of months sober insisted we were killing newcomers with our message. My sober conversion to atheism 2013-03-03T19:00:00Z

It is little more than a passing moment, a sober yet light-footed march in the third act of Mozart’s opera “Idomeneo.” This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

But its very existence is a sobering reminder about how far the star of Freaky Friday and Mean Girls has fallen. Lindsay Lohan: From 'Machete' to the 'Most Offensive' Movie Ever 2010-09-04T02:50:00Z

When she woke up in the hospital, she decided she could do one of two things: Move across the border to Mexico and disappear, or fly to her parents’ house in Wisconsin and get sober. Couple renews vows after $100K divorce proceedings: 'Extremely rare' 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

“In the 25 years that I’ve been sober, my wife estimates that I’ve read a thousand books on history,” he says. Guns N’ Roses star Duff McKagan reveals what led to his surprisingly countrified new album, ‘Tenderness’ 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

At the beginning of one meeting at Michigan last semester, a young woman introduced herself as, “One day sober.” Not the Usual College Party (This One’s Sober) 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

These days, he is a more sober, thoughtful figure, banging the drum for press regulation and writing op-eds calling for a second EU referendum. Steve Coogan: ‘Maybe I've just got flabby and middle-aged' 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

They discuss Duchess Goldblatt’s appeal, and she reveals that her followers confide in her about “trying to get or stay sober, or their marriages are unhappy or they have a child who’s terribly sick.” Who Is Duchess Goldblatt? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

"In the beginning of the video, I'm sober," explains Hart. Q&A: Hannah Hart on Drunk Cooking and Her Web Cooking Show 2011-07-05T05:35:00Z

It became an unexpected blockbuster that sold some seven million copies worldwide — about a million of them in North America — a rarity for a sober literary novel in translation. For Muriel Barbery, It’s Elves Who Are Elegant Now 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Now that Galliano has sobered up a little, it might be useful for him to acquaint himself with what kind of a guy Hitler actually was. John Galliano: the books he should have read in rehab 2013-06-05T11:50:27Z

This melancholic presence, a melding of the spiritual and the workaday, watches in sober silence as his partner mourns him, and eventually moves on. A Ghost Story Chills-and Makes You Wonder 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

He was the focus of an award-winning documentary by James Toback, "Tyson," that took a stark, sobering and sometimes cringe-worthy look at his life. Tyson ready for Animal Planet debut in new series 2011-03-04T14:09:09Z

“The judge said, ‘I don’t like the fact that you work in restaurants, because I think that’s a terrible environment for somebody trying to stay sober,’ ” Ashish said. Childhood trauma. Drugs. Alcohol. A chef who chose recovery hopes his story can help others. 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

And he’s found the perfect way to keep the fun times rolling by staying sober. A sober Brantley Gilbert still singing party songs 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Isbell has alluded in song to the turning point in his life — getting sober eight years ago — but never in the head-on manner he does with “It Gets Easier.” Summertime, and the living is uneasy for Jason Isbell 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

I wouldn’t say I’m sober, but I haven’t had a drink since November. Luis Felber Has Never Seen ‘Girls’ 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

But after the hardly less dense and even more sober Fourth on Saturday, the Prelude to Act III of Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” seemed an almost perverse choice, doing little to refresh the palate. Review: Vienna Philharmonic’s Familiar and Fierce Show of Brahms 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Ebullient songs such as “Give Yourself a Try” and “TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME,” both from 2018’s “A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships,” reveal the band’s knack for wrapping sobering honesty in exuberance. Review | The 1975’s show at the Anthem was an emotional roller coaster. That’s a good thing. 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Unsure of his ability to stay sober in New York after he got out, he relocated to Westport. Nile Rodgers: Still Chic After All These Years 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

This sobering tale prompts reflection on the eternal strife between image makers and those who fear the power of images to lead weak minds astray from paths of righteousness. ‘Object of Devotion,’ an Exhibition of Alabaster Sculptures 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

But it was a sobering reminder, welcome or not, of the ocean’s ever-present dangers: sharks, riptides, razor-sharp reefs. In Hawaii, a Swimmer’s Communion With the Wild Ocean 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The sober room — checkered floor, white tablecloths — was empty save for a table of three dweeby Swiss guys trying to eat pencil-thin foie gras canapés with a fork and knife. Médoc, From Grand Cru to Country Cooking 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Eleven years later, I find myself wondering what it means to stay “sober.” My slide back to OxyContin 2012-07-17T01:00:00Z

Meanwhile, studies of dock life intimate his mature, sober side. This week's new art exhibitions 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z

"A lot of people are getting sober in different ways, not just your traditional treatment or your 12-step meetings anymore," McLeod said. Former addict's astounding transformation to college graduate: 'Consider starting today' 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

But that is otherwise an all-too-thrilling conclusion to a bitter, ambivalent opera that ends better in the 1867 version’s sober quiet, with monks softly chanting about Charles V being reduced to mere dust. Review: ‘Don Carlos’ Finally Brings French Verdi to the Met 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

The first album he made after getting sober, “Southeastern” from 2013 — a raw chronicle of his boozy rock-bottom and fragile redemption — was his critical and commercial breakthrough. Jason Isbell, Self-Doubt and the Album That Tested His Marriage 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

“Getting sober is a really hard thing to do.” Matthew Perry on How Substance Abuse Affected His Memories of 'Friends' 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Among the many rainbow-colored products and sparkly knickknacks for sale during Pride month this year, a T-shirt briefly available from the Gap stood out for its sober design. The Lesbian Avengers Will Not Be Commodified 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

“Varick Street” is a blurry basket-weave of sober grays edged in bits of deep yellow and divided by a no-nonsense vertical of white neon. Art In Review: MARY WEATHERFORD: ‘Manhattan’ 2012-09-13T21:02:04Z

On her website is this sober reminder: “A micro pig is a piglet, then it grows.” Big porkie: why do we keep falling for the myth of the micro pig? 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

Sebastian said: “I like the feeling of it. The lightheadedness. It makes me feel sober and high at the same time. Plus it looks sleek — you smoke it, you look kind of bougie.” The Juul Is Too Cool 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

But the most sober and sensible take comes from Maria Guido. The unreasonable, degrading expectations imposed on stars' bodies 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

But it definitely made staying sober a whole lot harder. Why can’t Hollywood get bipolar disorder right? 2013-02-05T19:20:00Z

Maybe that’s why this second season feels too sober in comparison. Where did the "Big Little Lies" spark go? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

The play’s genius lies especially in the way it aligns harrowing reflection on injustice with the “Waiting for Godot” template, to sobering effect. Review | Studio’s blazing ‘Pass Over’ reimagines ‘Godot’ for the Black Lives Matter era 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

For her 40th birthday that same month, she wanted to celebrate in a way that would give her guests the “sensation their brain was melting,” but that is a tricky ask, sober. Natasha Lyonne: ‘There’s a fighter in me that wants to survive’ 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

I have reached the edge of tears in nightclubs before, but this was the first time I’ve done so sober. Dia Beacon Reopens With a Sonic Boom 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

Robin said later, “I’ve read stories about the sober curious movement, and I appreciated that he was open about not drinking.” Date Lab: Her love of mixed martial arts surprised him 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

This day marked the beginning of our new lives together, and while it was a joyous occasion, it was also very sobering. After years of long-distance dating, we bought a house together. Then COVID hit home 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z

The next night, my sober then-boyfriend came over and as we made our way upstairs, I told him about my sponsor’s suggestion. My awkward sober sex life 2012-10-28T16:01:00Z

One sympathy card from my father's sponsor explained that he knew the family might be wondering, but he wanted to let us know, "Wade had been sober for one year." Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

In his sobering song “That Funny Feeling,” which has more than 6.7 million views on YouTube alone, Burnham sums it up in one lyric: “The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door.” Can Works Like ‘Don’t Look Up’ Get Us Out of Our Heads? 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

And then there is “Black Like Me,” the steely, sober mission statement that changed the course of Guyton’s career. Nashville Didn’t Make Room for Mickey Guyton. So She Made Her Own. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

At times it’s seemed like the only sane, sober voice about political issues on television. Trevor Noah whiffs with Chris Christie 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

When I was 18, I participated in a homemade bikini contest in Springfield, Mass., dead sober, at a club called, strangely enough, the Hippodrome. How dogs rescued me from an eating disorder 2014-02-22T23:00:00Z

Both films raise sobering issues, and Ejiofor did not even conceive of his debut picture as a children’s film. 27 Ways to Keep Your Kids Culturally Engaged This Winter 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

By the novel’s end, the verdict the lovers reach on the cruelties they’ve endured and inflicted is sobering: “Everything bad gets shot at in America . . . and everything good too.” A young Irishman falls into the horrors of the American Civil War 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

They try to figure out how to continue their lives without alcohol — with one trying to be sober and one continuing down his path of chaos. Aaron Paul on Breaking Bad's 'Darkest Season Yet' 2012-07-13T14:00:21Z

Aguilera, 30, spent several hours sobering up in a West Hollywood police station before being released. Christina Aguilera arrested for drunkenness 2011-03-02T04:14:24Z

The Bristolians' singing is impeccable, and after a low-key first number they tear off their sober shirt fronts to reveal garish gold waistcoats beneath. The secret of barbershop: harmonise, project ? and smile! 2010-07-27T21:29:00Z

Despite his return to film-making, Black was drinking rather enthusiastically, and it would be a few years before he sobered up. Iron Man 3 marks a Marvel-lous return for Shane Black 2013-04-19T13:00:00Z

A phrase attributed to Hemingway — “Write drunk, edit sober” — is being invoked on Twitter today. Hemingway drank too much: Our strange, macho romance with Papa’s alcoholism 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Can Sam sober up and become a decent father to Justine? ‘GLOW’ Season 1: Watched It All? Let’s Talk 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

His reaction was to drink heavily for the next six years – a blur of alcoholism and failed jobs – before he went to rehab and got sober. Stitching together Cid's manhood: in the operating room for a female-to-male surgery 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

You are sober, you are taking responsibility for your own actions, and you are — very appropriately — working on the next step toward greater health and healing. Perspective | Ask Amy: Recovering addict feels hounded by dreams 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z

Michelle is not quite the opportunist she first seems; she’s confused and a little desperate, but honest enough to admit, after sobering up, that she doesn’t love Hubbell–but that she might, someday. TV Tonight: Bunheads 2012-06-11T15:21:43Z

They'll get their chance next weekend when three new Wevers dances — two of them playful, one intense and sobering — are premiered at "Cast the First Rock in Twenty Twelve." Seattle's Whim W'Him is troupe of the moment 2012-01-11T22:03:04Z

The collective mania now is for physical fitness, and the sober author is avid as ever. Hear Them Roar 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

With a sober eye, it effectively questions a lot of dangerous lessons that young adults absorb about body image, sex, drinking, consent and responsibility, even in the ranks of higher education. Review | ‘Actually’ anatomizes a he-said/she-said case of campus sexual assault 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

So, just to be clear, Rudy’s defense is that he gave the dumbest, most unethical advice in the history of America while stone-cold sober, got it.” Trevor Noah Tricks His Audience Into Singing ‘Happy Birthday’ for Trump 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

I always think I’m a reasonably sober, industrious, hardworking, intelligent person, and what surprises me is where they find so many others who in every one of those categories is even more so. The Post’s Marty Weil remembers when moving buildings was a snap 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

The soft-spoken redhead said he is now clean and sober. Stewart, O'Neal dedicate Farrah Fawcett Foundation 2010-06-26T07:01:00Z

At 22, she took two years off and got sober. Juliette Lewis, an ‘Imagination Freak Fairy,’ Knows Her Worth 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

It is great to walk around, and see silhouetted against the pepperpot cupolas of the National Gallery, and all that sober bronze and Portland stone in the square. Fourth plinth: Katharina Fritsch's cockerel gives Nelson the bird 2013-07-25T16:24:59Z

In the annals of political warfare, sober recitations of facts often pale next to lurid speculation. ‘Crime in Progress’ Tells the Story Behind the Steele Dossier 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

The multi-tiered wine fountain sprouting in the center could be seen as a sobering allusion to the purifying blood of Christ — but that only heightens the surrounding rainbow-colored action apparently in need of absolution. 'Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV': Splendid pomp and circumstance at the Getty 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

We moved in together—and then a sobering reality hit. So many men are miserable jerks. I should know — I used to be one too 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

"What he conveys with the tiniest inflection or quirk of a finger is immense and the sum effect of a fabulously sober comic performance," it added. 'Honeymoon in Vegas' ups ante for glitz in new Broadway version 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

“I think it’s a very sobering experience. Not hiking it would have felt like I was avoiding something.” Heat, Water, Fire: How Climate Change Is Transforming the Pacific Crest Trail 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Now, as vaccination levels rise and Americans head back to the roads and skies, sober travel, a subset of vacations once relegated only to 12-steppers and recovering addicts, is going mainstream. Hold the Tequila. The Sunrise Is All Some Travelers Need. 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

Also, you can’t save, fix or rescue any of them, or get any of them sober. Anne Lamott shares all that she knows: “Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared” 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

I always felt like an imposter until I got sober. Belinda Carlisle: ‘After my cocaine use, I can’t believe I’m not dead’ 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

Now, they are being handed a sobering lesson on its limits. Young doctors brave overwhelming coronavirus crisis 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

The Democrats, meanwhile, intuiting that their roles were more precarious, remained sober. Perspective | The Michael Cohen hearing wasn’t a hearing at all. It was cheap theatrics. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

He didn't come back on my radar until his marriage to Katy Perry, when I learned both were sober. Russell Brand is evolving his next gig: Cult leader 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z

His presentation — in an intimate setting, with no elaborate set design, no eye-popping floral display, no long-winded show notes — exuded sober dignity. Marc Jacobs marks a poetic end to a fashion season of reassuring upheaval 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Dating sober girls definitely wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. My non-addict wife 2012-09-30T13:00:00Z

When the passenger boarded the flight, he appeared to be sober. Drunk 'hooligan' on S7 flight hog-tied after behaving inappropriately 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

There’s no evidence O’Neill came to this bar, and he probably didn’t — he was sober at Tao House. Discovering Eugene O’Neill’s San Francisco 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

She faces us with sober directness, nude but for white pumps on her feet and shackles around her wrists. 'Power: Work by African American Women' delivers the voices of 37 artists in one fierce exhibition 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

“When you get sober it makes you into an alien in a way. Suddenly you’re not the same person that your friends remember,” said Nelson. Recovery Road: finally a TV show about addiction that focuses on recovery 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

But another tweeter took a more sober view of the incident. Shipping forecast capsizes England's Ashes win 2011-01-07T10:47:00Z

Kelly went cold-turkey from pills at the beginning, and was fully sober later. Ruston Kelly Survived Addiction and Heartbreak. It’s in His ‘Dirt Emo.’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

This cycle continued for an interminable decade until, after half a dozen treatment programmes, Nic stayed sober for a year and a half. The real life people behind Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carrell’s film Beautiful Boy 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z

Short chapters presented in free verse make this an easy book to read, though it’s the most sober of the three under review, thanks to the more realistic career of its protagonist. Of Mice and Men 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

Well, he consults; she keeps an eye on him as his "sober companion," hired by his father. 5 fall TV shows to watch 2012-09-07T20:32:06Z

“I wish I’d never gotten sober, never tried to be a better person,” he writes in the aftermath. For a Former Addict, Recovery Brings Only Temporary Relief 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Irons voices an Eliot who craves, desires and suffers more openly than in the sober accents of Gielgud and Guinness. Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Hawley broke it early last summer, misguidedly wearing leather shoes on a marble staircase in Barcelona, while not entirely sober. Richard Hawley – review 2012-10-06T23:05:53Z

According to Dora Wright, the production manager, the sailors were "little trouble", and gave good performances "when sober", but drink and the monotony of screen acting meant it was difficult to rely on them. Pat Jackson obituary 2011-07-12T18:12:54Z

As Katie M. Palmer explained Monday in Wired, this is sobering news for everybody. The Disneyland outbreak is the anti-vax tipping point 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

But then, nobody should expect Fox to sober up this late in the game. We’re watching the same impeachment hearings, but seeing vastly different TV shows 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

That included the first step of getting sober, then kind of getting healthy. In "Everyone's Table," Gregory Gourdet shares healthy recipes and an amazing story of perseverance 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

As summer festivals continue to expand — and as promoters fight the perception that their gatherings are drug-fueled free-for-alls, punctuated by overdoses and even deaths — the presence of volunteer sober groups is spreading. Raving Sober: Remembering Last Night in the Morning 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

But “Hacksaw Ridge,” which has already collected assorted prizes, has started to turn the tide for Mr. Gibson, who is now sober. What to Watch for at the Golden Globes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

The music, recreated with precision timing by a group of more experienced, and sober, musicians played through technologically advanced sound systems, sounds better than early concert recordings. Music: The Specials, Ska Revivalists, Enjoy a Revival 2010-04-01T21:52:00Z

After all, it had used the conservative figure of Bob Dole, former Republican leader of the Senate, to front its very sober advertising campaign. Viagra: the little blue pill that revolutionised our sex lives | Observer profile 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

In their travels, a confused Jean and a sober, capable Cal discover the baby is a real crier. ‘I’m Your Woman’ Review: On the Run With a Baby 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

This is by design a consciousness-raising show, meant to bring a sobering immediacy to a topic that has become a regular subject of television crime shows like “Law and Order: SVU.” Theater Review: ‘Roadkill’ Bears Witness to Human Trafficking 2013-06-17T02:00:09Z

Organizers said that, mirroring the more sober atmosphere in the industry after the financial crisis, the films screening this year are generally shorter than in the past. Sofia Coppola, Aronofsky lead Venice film lineup 2010-07-29T14:27:00Z

On the cover of Forbes he is in a sober blue suit, every inch the businessman. Jay-Z: good from the hood 2010-11-20T00:03:00Z

The men and women, usually seated, face forward with neutral expressions turned sober, plaintive even, by peculiar eyes shaped like warped peapods. What to see in L.A. galleries: Hot-button greeting cards, mesmerizing photograms 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

The most effective Hitler satire in recent memory would have to be Look Who’s Back, a mockumentary giving sober consideration to how today’s society would receive a revived Hitler. From Charlie Chaplin to Jojo Rabbit: an unlikely history of Nazi comedies 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

The authors offer something more sobering, more analytical and, at this point, more revealing. How Trump Is Remaking the Highest Office in His Own Image 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

I think it comes from my Irish roots, where the two most dangerous forces in any Irish community are the drunkest man and the soberest man. One man spent a decade studying hangovers. He may have found a cure. 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Tory Burch’s first runway show was a sober, merchandised view of French loveliness, with crocheted Bermudas mixed with jersey stripes, gussied-up tweed, peony prints and chiffon evening dresses hitched to the shoulder with ties. | Fashion Review: Spring?s Colorful Runways - Review - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-13T22:30:37Z

And everybody was like, "No . . . It's so clear, the demarcation that is a before and then a reaction to grief, and you're sober now. No, you will not have a hard time finding work." "That is the David Carr way": Erin Lee Carr on writing fearlessly on grief, addiction and her father 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

“It’s a sober thing,” he said of playing music. Riz Rollins does not take requests 2013-02-13T20:51:57Z

The book doesn’t sugarcoat the risks of relationships though, and the section about divorce is sobering. Risky relationships: why women are more likely to die of a broken heart 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Reading “The Plague” right after “Disgrace” was sobering. Perspective | Pandemic highlights the staying power of two 20th-century masterpieces 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

Then I called my Jesuit friend, Tom, who is a hopeless alcoholic of the worst sort, sober now for 22 years, someone who sometimes gets fat and wants to hang himself, so I trust him. I am cuckoo, but hope is coming 2012-12-12T21:01:00Z

I thought, frankly, he might be more fun drunk than sober. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

A key motivation for staying sober was her determination to find a cure for addiction. The science of addiction: a personal struggle to kick cocaine gives a neuroscientist unique insights 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

At The Martian premiere on 11 September, Toronto International film festival audiences cheered Scott’s latest venture into science fiction as a return to form, although a Guardian review was more sober in its response. Prometheus sequel to be shot in Australia or Canada, says Ridley Scott 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

He found the "sober rurality" of its countryside evocative of rural France from a century ago. Lo'Jo: tour de force 2012-07-24T17:38:57Z

Instead, he seemed sober and eager to make friends. The digested Hay festival 2010-05-31T13:15:00Z

For those on the more sober end of the spectrum, Dying might not be your cup of tea. The Spoils Before Dying: Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell make a jazzy parody 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

The island economy is nearly entirely dependent upon tourism, making for a sobering dilemma: the source of Catalina’s livelihood is also threatening its survival. Drought Tests California Tourism 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

By the end, he’s gone clean and sober, but one habit remains unkicked. Stephen Petronio Company Marks Its 30th Anniversary 2014-04-04T19:50:59Z

After such a sober, resolutely nonsensationalist introduction, the reader expects that Ms. Wade, a sociologist at Occidental College, will continue with a sober, resolutely nonsensationalist discussion of sex and the single student. Review: ‘American Hookup’ Gives College Sex Culture a Failing Grade 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

My schoolwork, my enthusiasm, not to mention my new marriage to a sober man, would all be out the door. An American alcoholic in Paris 2012-10-11T22:37:00Z

“And still it took me five years to get sober.” Richard Lewis is not as miserable as he appears. But he’s still miserable. 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

“He has a side that’s quite charming and very, very well mannered. Good manners, courtesy — when he’s sober. And I think when he gets drunk, he gets very, very difficult.” Micky Lay, Source for Falstaffian Lead in ‘Jerusalem,’ Dies at 73 2014-01-03T00:01:35Z

But the idea of a sober bartender still takes some bargoers by surprise. Among the Sober and ‘Sober Curious’? Your Bartender 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

How does a drunk person's library differ from a sober person's library? Buying books is fun, with a glass in your hand 2010-10-01T23:08:00Z

Multiplied by 130 million, it becomes a terrifying and sobering panorama of the present. | 'Last Train Home': A Family Caught in the Wheels of China?s Industrial Locomotive 2010-09-02T20:33:00Z

And it soberingly reported that “The winners of the first four seasons of the show each have added at least 20 percent to their weight at the end of the show.” “The Biggest Loser” is a broken fairy tale: Our reality TV obsession with radical transformation needs limits 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Vivid color and splashes of print were themes of the Pitti Immagine Uomo men’s wear fair here, where fresh and spirited clothes seemed to be bucking the concept that hard financial times require sober clothes. In Florence, Men’s Wear Shows Are Bright and Light 2012-06-22T14:18:33Z

His writing is precise, well-observed and witty in a sober sort of way. Seeking a way forward 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

“I was writing about alcoholism but wasn’t yet sober; I was writing about atheism, but I hadn’t gotten over my anger,” he continued. Mike Flanagan Explores His Private Horrors in ‘Midnight Mass’ 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Despite the book’s sobering title, she sprinkles in delightful esoterica along the way, while providing a guide to some of the most plausible scenarios about the end of the universe. 13 Books to Watch For in August 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

But he is now sober, thanks to the support of Johnny Knoxville and the rest of the cast, and is talking openly about his drug use for the first time in interviews. Pop Torn: 10 pieces of cultural ambivalence 2011-06-25T12:02:00Z

By the end of the first part, Prince Hal, whose father’s kingdom is suddenly threatened by rebellion, has sobered up. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

The architecture of the new plan, as if to compensate for the sober event-management calculations around which it is organized, tends toward the frenetic, like the second half of a Pixar movie. L.A. Convention Center's proposed design screams, 'conventional thinking' 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

“You don’t usually get asked to write something by Lynda, so I tried to sober up, poured myself lots of coffee and sent her the first chapter in the morning.” Surgeon, ultrarunner, thriller writer… meet the man who lives life to the full 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

Fewer counter that sobering truth with a confident, "So what?" The "Party Down" cater waiters are back, but has the now-famous cast outgrown the pink bow ties? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

Netflix’s washed-up Hollywood star has recklessly abused his power for four seasons: harassing his ghostwriter, goading his sober co-star into a bender that kills her, coming on to a friend’s teenage daughter. The Only Hollywood Abuser I Want to Hear From Is a Horse 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The first broadcasts were sober affairs: there were no personality newsreaders and the format resembled a radio bulletin over still pictures. BBC News reaches 60th milestone 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

He sought support and got sober in 2008, the same year he took his act to Cherry Grove. Daniel Nardicio: Closing a Gay Generation Gap 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

But, like the Jekyll-and-Hyde millionaire in Chaplin’s “City Lights,” the sober Harry is another matter. Movie Review: Vishal Bhardwaj’s ‘Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola’ 2013-01-12T00:51:28Z

The ensemble opened with Britten’s arrangement of Purcell’s own “Chacony in G minor” that emphasizes the sober dignity of the work with a unified, vibrato-rich sound. Music Review: Escher String Quartet Plays Britten at Lincoln Center 2012-10-28T21:26:29Z

The effect of such cheer-pressure is that a normal, sober response seems morose by comparison. | Smiley Virus 2010-12-21T23:00:09Z

He began developing a couple of films with the slightly less sober Mel Gibson, whose own implosion put an end to all of that. Iron Man 3 marks a Marvel-lous return for Shane Black 2013-04-19T13:00:00Z

Of all the skepticism I’ve encountered when talking about this movement to transform the struggling neighborhood school, the most sobering has come from my wife. Motherlode Blog: Why I Want to Choose the ‘Disadvantaged’ Local School (and Why I Might Not) 2013-05-30T18:30:20Z

While all eyes are on the final matches of this year’s World Cup, this sobering documentary follows a less-glamorous soccer tournament. What’s on TV Monday: ‘In a World …’ and ‘The Workers Cup’ 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

This installment takes a more nuanced and sober look at the media hype over crack babies. Top 5 investigative videos of the week: “Poverty is what makes the rich rich” 2013-06-02T13:00:00Z

It was my first experience of falling in love sober and, though I didn’t know it at the time, I was repeating a familiar pattern. An Anxious Person Tries to Be Chill 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

A group of sober chefs once invited Regan to participate in a collaborative dinner in the Pacific Northwest, but she didn’t go because “it was a whole lot of dudes.” How acclaimed Chicago chef Iliana Regan found her bliss in the woods 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

But it will give the pre-Oscar season, starting now, a sober, elegant French accent. Zero Dark Thirty Waterboards the Competition 2013-01-13T22:10:34Z

"He never went to work but when he was cool and sober … his courage and presence of mind never failed him … his address was genteel, and his behaviour void of all cruelty and insolence". John Mullan's 10 of the best: highwaymen 2012-05-18T21:54:02Z

"I got sober," he says, "and found that that one significant change took care of all the problems." Iron Man 3 marks a Marvel-lous return for Shane Black 2013-04-19T13:00:00Z

"If you get drunk and someone steals your wallet, does this mean it's any less of a theft than if you were sober?" Finnigan apologises for rape comments 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

While we might be resigned to encountering objectifying speech or behavior at a bar or a beer-soaked spring-break party, it’s sobering to see it codified in the form of a shared Google document. The Dehumanizing Sexism of the Harvard Men’s Soccer Team’s “Scouting Report” 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Yet the orchestra keeps needling the vocal lines with jabbing dissonances and modernist harmonic twists, so a sober subtext comes through. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

All the wild joy and blurred grief that animates Young Thug’s extraordinary discography resides quietly inside this song — a sober ballad about diamonds, kangaroos, life and death. Perspective | Best music of 2019: Lana Del Rey sings lullabies about the end of America 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

It is one example of the widening variety of freestyle sober dances in and around New York City. Where Dancing, Not Drinking, Is the Point 2010-08-04T16:26:00Z

As a screenplay “The White Sister” would require very little rewriting to become a brilliant comic vehicle for Charles Busch, but Matarazzo’s spare, sober direction makes it something quite different. DVD: The Italian Potboiler?s Master Chef 2011-06-24T16:42:02Z

As A. explained her schedule, “If I’m sober, I’m working.” Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too 2013-07-12T20:23:14Z

The vibe is by turns sober, warm, melancholic and playful to the point of near-silliness. ‘Scarlet’ Review: A Father and Daughter Endure 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

The canine robot is designed to explore remote and hazardous environments, places where sentient, sober humans fear to tread. Spot is the $74,500 robot dog of our dystopian dreams 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

And their view of how states will react to the new challenges that face them is sobering, as is their conviction that "Balkanisation" of the internet is now a racing certainty. The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen – review 2013-04-29T06:30:05Z

For all her carousing, Lohan is politically one of the good guys, and her voiceover and presence are properly sober and low-key. The Book Show | Museum of Life | Lindsay Lohan's Indian Journey | Lost Abroad ? The Parents' Story | Watch this 2010-04-01T05:45:00Z

More acutely sobering is the role that prescription drugs have played in the deaths of our most beloved pop stars, especially over the past decade. Soft, smooth and steady: How Xanax turned American music into pill-pop 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

Community spirit, and everyone mucking in, young and old, fat and thin, drunk and sober: this is joyful democracy. The 10 best paintings for winter cheer 2013-01-12T19:05:00Z

The main show begins in the 15th century, and a lot changes between the mostly solemn, sober works in the opening gallery and the vivid, effervescent Impressionist and Post-Impressionist canvases in the final one. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Medieval to Monet,’ at Wadsworth Atheneum 2012-12-29T07:06:41Z

Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, whose father had died three days before, gave a lovely, trembling, complex speech in which she remarked, “Our show started out as a political satire, but it now feels like a sobering documentary.” The Emmys Become an Actual Good Awards Show 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

I hesitate to say jokes, because, unlike the bounce and zing of the first movie, the tone here is more sober and the humor more strained. Review: In ‘The Trip to Spain,’ Everything Tastes Stale 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Perry was by all accounts in a good place, maintaining his efforts to help others to get sober and remain sober, and keeping in shape by playing pickleball. Matthew Perry's death reminds us what we need to be doing right now 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

Although prone to drunken benders between pictures, Ford was a sober, hard-working artist on the set, a taskmaster known to bark viciously at his beloved star. Hollywood’s Biggest Stars Seen Inside and Out 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ira Glass: ‘It’s a sobering thing to realise that you have a terrible boss, and you are that boss.’ Ira Glass: 'I feel like I’m actually sort of scared all the time' 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Several years ago, she got sober; at the time, she was drinking so much that her friends, who feared for her life, had started planning an intervention. Review | The juicy details of Jessica Simpson’s memoir are only part of her misunderstood story 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

But in her sober moments, Jean is overwhelmed with shame for lacking the courage to accept her responsibilities despite the cruel fate she’s been dealt. Review: ‘Glassland,’ the Brittle Territory of Love and Addiction 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

News reports that the breakup is unrelated to substance abuse, and that Ozzy is still sober. Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne Have Broken Up 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

At a recovery school, 97 percent of them will graduate clean and sober. Kristen Johnston, on Fighting Addiction and for a Recovery High School 2012-03-07T23:44:30Z

But he had gotten better at it since getting sober.  The reunion I almost skipped: I was so over family gatherings, but something made me do one more 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

There is, of course, a wide variety of films at this year’s festival that center on subjects that are happy, or at least less sobering. With Technology, Sundance Films Make It to Screen Faster 2012-01-17T23:09:59Z

I was newly sober, clueless and craving love.” 'I was fresh meat': how AA meetings push some women into harmful dating 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

In fact, right after our wedding, a close friend of my wife’s, who is sober, married his longtime girlfriend, who is also sober. My non-addict wife 2012-09-30T13:00:00Z

Does he get a buzz these days from being the most sober guy in the room? David Hasselhoff: 'If we have to go with the Hoff to pay the rent, let's go with the Hoff' 2012-08-05T19:00:01Z

It’s a sobering demonstration of the fact that sexism and racism are two sides of the same coin that usually bails out monstrous men. Review | Elizabeth Wetmore’s ‘Valentine’ is a thrilling debut that deserves your attention 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

There is no water slide at the Times Square location, which offers a more sober and family-friendly version of the Frog experience. At Señor Frog’s in Times Square, It’s Spring Break Forever 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Text that guy back totally sober on a Sunday sometime after reading one too many inspirational quotes that were meant to inspire fitness. A realistic list of New Year's resolutions I'll be sure to keep beyond January 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Honestly, being humble and sober didn’t seem anywhere near as much fun as being rich and in rehab. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z

After Trump’s victory, De Niro adopted a more sober tone. Robert De Niro v Trump: a complete history of a (mainly one-sided) beef 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

To anyone still watching and sober, it was just sort of depressing. Saturday Night Live: even Trump smooching Putin couldn't hide the election blues 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

As the film observes, Russians on New Year’s Eve were “incapable of sober analysis” of the situation unfolding. The man who filmed Putin’s rise: “Compromises I made, we all made…led us to this deplorable... 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

But while my friends who were in rehab and treating their disorders managed to stay sober, I kept on relapsing over and over again. Why can’t Hollywood get bipolar disorder right? 2013-02-05T19:20:00Z

He sobered up and quit the band a few years later. Ex-Guns N' Roses bassist leaves Jane's Addiction 2010-09-06T18:23:00Z

“The studio evolved with the clarity I gained from sobering up over the last few years,” Wood explains. Inside Ronnie Wood’s cottage studio 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

This time, I decided to try a new approach to sober weddings: being the very best guest in attendance. How I Survived Wedding Season in My First Year of Sobriety 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

A quick census of “matinee idols” who are still able to command huge audiences produces a soberingly short list of names: Clooney? Kirk Douglas was a bona fide movie star. Do they even make those anymore? 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Paris is full of sumptuous mansions and secret gardens, hidden from outsiders by sober stone facades and closed coach doors. In Transit Blog: For 'Heritage Days', Access to Hidden Paris 2011-08-26T10:00:51Z

It all fits together seamlessly, forming one sober, immersive, visceral experience. From Memento to Interstellar: our writers pick their favourite Christopher Nolan films 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

The classic advice, passed from actor to actor forced to down shots of cold tea, is that the only way to really act drunk, like a true drunk, is to try to act sober. My favourite drunk scenes 2011-03-24T10:57:08Z

Deliberately rough and sketchy, the projections have the sober effect of Mr. Glass’s music, full of scratches, erasures and humans melting into animals and back again. Music Review: ‘The Perfect American,’ by Philip Glass, at Teatro Real 2013-02-01T16:17:23Z

My preferences are smart, funny, kind, into nature, God, reading, movies, pets, family, liberal politics, hiking; I prefer sober, or sober-ish. My year on Match.com 2013-03-31T11:00:00Z

Smart, sober, chafing somewhat from her ceremonial burdens, Saskia is primed for adventure. Review | Neal Stephenson’s ‘Termination Shock’ is another prescient page-turner 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Many years clean and sober, he has the lust for life of a man who knows he’s dodged some bullets, including a cancer scare in 2017. Inside Ronnie Wood’s cottage studio 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

Child welfare authorities gave temporary custody to her mother, allowing the woman to stay involved in her baby’s care while she got sober. Take a valium, lose your kid, go to jail 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Until recently, comedy had been rapidly expanding, increasingly co-opting areas of our culture previously dominated by sober voices. If Comedy Is Making You Feel Bad, You’re Not Paying Attention 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

A camel coat, clerical and sober, was revved up by removing the sleeves and teaming it with leggings and Bermuda shorts. 2010-02-14T13:00:00Z

First impressions could hardly be more reassuring: Marshall is a soothing, sober man in colourful clothes. ‘It hits you over the head’: can I survive my midlife crisis? 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

That story has a happy ending, with him going to rehab and emerging not only sober, but also no longer needing the approval of others. John Mulaney Punctures His Persona in ‘Baby J’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

They gained access to some authorities who had never before gone on record, such as the recently retired CIA officer Lisa Maddox, who provides a sobering inside take on the subject. 'I just don't see how this ends': a sobering new film on the Afghan war 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

But all of this comes to pass after the sobering opener in the middle of the desert, as a thug holds a gun on his brother-in-law Hank. Best TV episodes of the decade, a highly subjective list 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z

After battling a drug habit for years, Haim openly talked about overcoming his addictions around the time he was promoting his reality TV series and said that he had become clean and sober. Corey Haim dies of overdose in Los Angeles 2010-03-11T06:30:00Z

“Some around him might, but I think most sober people don’t want that.” Did Fox’s Tucker Carlson play role in calming Iran pressure? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

It's a plight that's familiar to Falco, who, even though she has been sober for two decades, has made good use of her experience with alcohol abuse in playing Jackie. Edie Falco: back for a new shift on 'Nurse Jackie' 2011-03-25T13:35:09Z

Brittany said she spent 28 days in Wisconsin getting sober and working on herself, doing drug tests, buying breathalyzers and seeing a psychiatrist. Couple renews vows after $100K divorce proceedings: 'Extremely rare' 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Regarding his Hurricane Katrina-inspired piece, which hangs in a prominent spot in the Broad’s third-floor atrium, Bradford was more sober: “I just feel satisfaction,” he said looking up at the work. Star-studded gala celebrates Broad museum -- and transformation of downtown L.A. 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

This felt deeply satisfying, and he later followed it up with a smart, sobering analysis of a passage from Jeb’s 1996 book “Profiles in Character.” Trevor Noah’s “Daily Show” Début 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

But of course, Don doesn’t really relish remembering even when he is sober, and Sunday’s episode has him “not remembering” all sorts of things. 'Mad Men' Watch: Lost Weekend 2010-08-30T15:25:00Z

This wasn’t the first time that bipolar was suggested, but it was the first time I got this diagnosis while completely sober or not in the middle of a psychiatric crisis.  Still, My bipolar awakening 2012-08-15T20:59:00Z

The MoMA installation’s most sobering moment is underfoot, in the words of George Orwell: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever.” Barbara Kruger: A Way With Words 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Because of his close encounter with Lariam, he provides sobering insights into the controversial use of the drug by hospitals and the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay. David Stuart MacLean’s terrifying memoir of amnesia 2014-02-20T20:03:28Z

It took almost three years to get sober. Ask Amy: Alcoholic wants family to host no-alcohol events 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

You know, Bez not being able to stand up straight even when he was sober. John Cale: 'I don't want to end up in Pseud's Corner' 2012-09-26T08:50:35Z

Despite an annoying number of typos and writing that sometimes strains to be breezy, "The Reckoning" is a smart, sober and clear-eyed primer on the Post-American Century. 'The Reckoning': Straight talk about America's big challenges 2012-05-23T20:19:04Z

Faces and Voices of Recovery, a group based in Washington, has recruited people to speak publicly about being sober while nominally retaining their anonymity, a process they call “recovery messaging.” Challenging the Second ?A? in A.A. 2011-05-06T22:42:58Z

He may be sober, but that doesn't make him sane - a point "20/20" seemed to be making by showing several clips of a considerably calmer, healthier looking post-rehab Sheen's 1999 interview with Charles Gibson. Charlie Sheen's ego explodes on "20/20" 2011-03-02T13:30:00Z

Now sober, Armstrong will play his first comeback concert with Green Day on Friday night at SXSW. Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong writing songs for Shakespeare play 2013-03-15T10:33:22Z

I looked out the window, and I turned back and said, “I think it’s because I’ve been sober for over two years.” Jamie Lee Curtis Has Never Worked Hard a Day in Her Life 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

Not all campaigns are funny: Drama series get more sober treatment, the kind that dominates the Academy Awards, which don't have a comedy category. Make 'em laugh: Emmy marketing campaigns try humor 2012-06-15T02:06:38Z

Maybe it would be easier to be sober there. Homeless in Alaska: life and death on the freezing streets 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

“This sober, tender-hearted, very searching history of a family’s progress, comprehends in its picture of life which is distinctively American, a psychology which is universal.” Art Review: Messages That Conduct an Electric Charge 2011-03-10T23:09:03Z

Once viewed as the very definition of rural hardship, the region’s poverty rate — a sobering 31 percent in 1960 — has fallen by nearly half, according to the Appalachian Regional Commission. Can rural America be saved? A new national ‘challenge’ tries to see. 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

They’re still wearing what look like the same sober, three-piece suits. Review: ‘Penn & Teller on Broadway’ Explores the Illusions of Technology 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bayes’s production, in an adaptation by Constance Congdon that he and Mr. Epp have adapted further, is a more traditional version, which hardly means more sober. The Professor of Pratfalls 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

"When I started making records, I was sober," he told Shiflett. Police: Justin Townes Earle died from "probable drug overdose" 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

But being shocked into sobriety to save your marriage might not be a sufficiently compelling reason for you to stay sober. Perspective | Ask Amy: Alcoholic wants support to regain sobriety 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

The recent speech from the former Facebook vice president provides a sobering read. I’m struggling to find love through online dating | Dear Mariella 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

It’s sobering as we celebrate the unimaginable sacrifices of our countrymen and women in this anniversary year of the Great War. My boyfriend doesn’t like my parents. What does this mean for our future? 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Now two years sober and married, he “used to think it was some deep metaphor for bar work,” he emailed me. Chartreuse liqueur’s popularity has soared. But how do you market the elixir without offending the monks who make it? 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

Ms. Vaughn, the adventurous director of the school’s opera programs, also led a sobering revival of Weill and Brecht’s “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” in April. Opera Review: ‘The Mother of Us All,’ at Manhattan School of Music 2013-12-12T23:24:21Z

Despite the story’s silly words and jingly rhymes, its thesis is sobering and clear: Unbridled capitalism will destroy the Earth. Perspective | Is Dr. Seuss’s Lorax real? These professors may have solved a 47-year-old mystery. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

The book gives us a realistic, sober, almost unemotional understanding of how a president and his advisers should act in a crisis. Great Leadership in a Time of Crisis 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Kneeling over the toilet bowl, alone on a Saturday night, choking on Top Ramen noodles—the only binge food I could afford—I felt the same hollow desperation I’d experienced when I first got sober. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z

However, I am happy to say that I am now 44 days sober. You don’t know anything about the Osbournes marriage 2013-04-17T14:59:00Z

Amid the book reviews in the LRB by critics determined to sound sober and certain, as if they were museum docents, her reviews and essays admitted doubt. Prime Cuts From Jenny Diski’s Catalog of Intimate, Witty Essays 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

I remember something Cicero once said – "No sober person dances" – and hope my morning espresso might help. Paul Morley meets pop dance duo Mini Viva 2010-04-23T11:44:00Z

But in 1999 he withdrew from public life and moved to LA, to get sober and quit smoking pot. RuPaul: ‘Drag is a big f-you to male-dominated culture’ 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z

“The Heart Is a Shifting Sea” is a sober portrait of middle-class yearning — an earnest inquiry into what it is one might reasonably dream of finding in marriage. Marriage Can Take Many Forms in India 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Because even when I was sober, I kept going through these crazy manic periods where I’d have obsessive thoughts and even delusions. Why can’t Hollywood get bipolar disorder right? 2013-02-05T19:20:00Z

The graphic video montage of violence against people of color that accompanies Isaac Cates & Ordained’s sobering neo-spiritual “Hold On” brought the hosts of the 2020 online music festival Vox Virtual nearly to tears. 50 Years Ago, They Did Something Rare in Gospel: Tied Music to Protest 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

Shortly afterward, a young man spoke up, “I am five days sober.” Not the Usual College Party (This One’s Sober) 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

“I listened to him all kinds of ways. I listened to him high, I listened to him stone cold sober. I even played with him. I think he’s jiving, baby.” Why was Ornette Coleman so important? Jazz masters both living and dead chime in 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

But the soberer approach also underlines the flimsiness of the material. Review of ‘Chimerica’: A sprawling tale is high on dudgeon, low on insight 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

More recently, some notable deaths and a spate of chefs who are singing the virtues of healthy, sober living have given the topic a reboot, this time wrapped in the broader cloak of self-care. Chef Sean Brock Puts Down the Bourbon and Begins a New Quest 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

There’s a sobering meta-lesson in the fact that the most artful of this season’s Sept. 11 documentaries became an example of one of the very problems it diagnosed. Is 9/11 a Day, or Is It an Era? 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

Perhaps also reflecting the more sober economic backdrop, there were a greater number of visitors clutching cups of upmarket tea or coffee than the more usual champagne flutes. Chelsea Flower Show blooms defy drought and gloom 2012-05-21T17:07:45Z

I certainly wouldn't be so insulting as to suggest he wrote that sentence sober. Do you hate football and want to help the poor? Take up gambling 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

Many Americans are sobered by the unrelenting pandemic, particularly as the days of socially distanced get-togethers outdoors in the warmth of the sun are dwindling. How to make the most of your outdoor space as the pandemic drags on into fall and winter 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Basically, he stated that all the sober artists are sell-outs who make Diet Coke advertisements and lack any real credibility in the arts. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to remember that until the late 1960s, Boulder was still a sober, conservative and pious place. In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Most people, even those sober for many years, do not broadcast their history of illegal drug use. From dominatrix to professor: ‘I didn’t want my students to imagine me tying men up’ 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

But the sober part of my brain was all too aware that the cabaret show by the Naked Lady and Nurse Baby in the van was dire by any standards. Dance Review: ‘The Shining’ by Yvonne Meier 2012-12-13T23:06:57Z

Victoria slurs in response, “I’m nottt hammered! This is how I am sober!” The Bachelor Watch: Juan Pablo Goes To The Dogs 2014-01-14T04:58:17Z

He is largely sober these days, but recently fell off the wagon. Lars von Trier on filmmaking and fear: ‘Sometimes, alcohol is the only thing that will help’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Critics say such an approach colors Utah as staunchly sober and ignores years of protocol that worked just fine. Utah Oktoberfest likely to include beer after all 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

I’ll be 33 years sober in May, and I’m 66 years old. Eileen Myles: ‘My next book’s about a time-travelling dog’ 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z

Between sips, various experts — an archaeologist here, an ethnographer there — are consulted, their sober contributions grounding the wine in Georgia’s turbulent history. Review: In ‘Our Blood Is Wine,’ Raising Glasses to Tradition in an Ex-Soviet State 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

With its elliptical telling, “Clara Sola” leaves these questions unresolved, gently balancing between magic realism and the more tragic, sobering realities of our world. ‘Clara Sola’ Review: Breaking Free 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

When she nervously told him she was sober, he high-fived her. In Love and Recovery 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

I was astonished for a second time, but in a much more sobering way. How the bestseller 'The Vegetarian,' translated from Han Kang's original, caused an uproar in South Korea 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

It was a sobering few minutes amid an otherwise exuberant night. Review: Billie Eilish thrills Seattle crowd in Climate Pledge Arena debut 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

Ms. Cederna also remembers what it felt like to return to Michigan sober her senior year. Not the Usual College Party (This One’s Sober) 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

“Wow,” Isabel said as we emerged from black-box theater both sobered and grateful for an experience of language that is always one of the joys of visiting Britain. Exploring post-Brexit Britain while the pound is at an all-time low 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

However, on a March 2019 episode of her show, a tearful Williams said that she was living “in a sober house” and had a round-the-clock sobriety coach. ‘Wendy Williams Show’ ending, new Sherri Shepherd show ahead 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

The night wound down with calls for patience, as an election covered by a night of confused but sober reporting prepared to enter the dawn of punditry and spin. Blue Wave? Red Wave? Election-Night TV Was More Like a Whirlpool 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

“The most avant-garde thing you can do in the world today is live sober, because if there was ever a time you’d want to switch off all the feelings it’s now, right?” She Was About to Quit Acting. Then She Got the Role of a Lifetime. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

Evelyn's sober cabinet is the microcosm of a microcosm – infinite riches in a little room. Things get curiouser and curiouser at the Turner Contemporary 2013-05-18T08:01:28Z

As an account of a coupling, it is sobering, opening with deliberate, somber violins over which a dissonant fog settles. Review: At the Philharmonic, Enveloping and Harrowing Sincerity 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

They order a messy burger and pass out, wake up in the morning, and after an awkward, sober exchange, get drunk again on each other. How "The Company You Keep" maps the anatomy of a dangerous, network-friendly sexual thrill 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

Those pointing fingers have suggested “she was probably drunk” — although she’s notoriously sober — while others have asked what she was expecting to happen with that level of fame and that amount of jewelry with her. Though she be but little, she is fierce: Kim Kardashian West is a Shakespearean heroine for our times 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

After 23 years sober, the versatile actor reportedly checked himself into rehab for 10 days last year after relapsing in 2012. Hoffman's NYC funeral attracts Hollywood stars 2014-02-07T20:05:02Z

The passionate star, also an outspoken activist for social justice and equal rights, joined me on "Salon Talks" for a sobering conversation about the current state of politics and race relations in America. "My art is my activism": "Pose" star Billy Porter unleashes his passion and doesn't hold back 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

But the rhetorical battle between Jimmy Carter’s sober “malaise” moment and Reagan’s relentless optimism settles strangely on Luverne, as many political speeches do to ordinary people. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 5: The Butcher of Luverne 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

The baritone Stephen Powell brought a robust voice, crisp diction and sober directness to his singing of the Owen poems. Music Review: ‘War Requiem’ by Britten, With an Angelic Touch 2014-05-02T21:20:34Z

The reporter absolves the husband as “sober and industrious” but describes the wife as being “indolent and addicted to reading everything procurable in the way of romance.” How video games suck you in: “Our sense of time becomes yoked, not to the ticking of the clock, but to the pattern of our interactions” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

Of course, most sober parents will recoil at this idea, but think about it: Your children are suffering either way. Explaining Daddy’s addiction

His showman’s optimism is bolstered by a sober, even sentimental, belief in redemption. A Producer Seeks a Broadway Comeback, Mired in Offstage Drama 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

Whatever they find in themselves to get sober, that was there all along. A Word With: Craig Lucas: The Theater of Faith and Doubt, Love and Pain 2014-02-25T22:07:04Z

She goes after a more obviously deserving target in her most recent outing, “La Llorona,” a thoughtful, low-key Guatemalan movie that deploys its genre shocks inside a sober art-house package. ‘La Llorona’ Review: The General in His Horrific Labyrinth 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

It was all an insider escapade for fashion aficionados, who laughed and smiled through the sober presentation. Special Report: Haute Couture: Carven, Worth and Olivier Saillard 2010-07-06T17:38:00Z

The morning after the parties, the Nielsen numbers were in, and they were sobering. HBO and Netflix, Reluctant Rivals, Party Down After Winning 23 Emmys Apiece 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

“Caught between the tides of pain and rapture,” Parker wonders, “Will I be known and loved? Is there one that I trust?” as he starts to “sober up.” Review | Tame Impala’s freak flag flies at half-staff at Anthem show 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z

As he explained it, first we hear the experience of those who got sober before us, and then, through our own practice, we develop a faith in the fellowship, the steps and ultimately ourselves. My sober conversion to atheism 2013-03-03T19:00:00Z

With "Golden Age," Jane Smiley wraps up her sweeping Last Hundred Years trilogy on a sobering note. Jane Smiley's 'Golden Age' brings an epic tale to a solemnly fine end 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

At the same time, it’s sobering to remember just how precarious a line divides the relics we treasure from those we treat like garbage. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Today they’re the parents, which is kind of sobering to those of us who watched them when were were teens, but at least their kids actually behave like actual adolescents. Archie goes dark: The CW’s “Riverdale” serves up a classic comic book character with a twist 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Eventually, she got over the addiction, she said, and stayed sober for nine years, only to fall back into her old ways before giving up drugs again in 2009. No More Drugs or Gigolos: A Celebrity Hairdresser Comes Clean 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

It wasn't the most dramatic consequences of using — lost jobs, injuries, poor health — that spurred me to get sober. I got hooked on Uber Eats. Not as a customer — as a delivery driver 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

The show, which runs from Wednesday through Sunday, June 6, is hardly the only one that deals with sober and serious themes. Week Ahead: May 30 ? June 5 2010-05-28T15:11:00Z

On his second Sunday sober, he began to blog about it: Experiments in Sobriety 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

It is with this sobering question that Michael Harris, a Canadian journalist, begins his debut work, “The End of Absence”. Too much of a good thing 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, Taïa adroitly conveys the sobering message that, whether in the mid-20th century or in the early 21st, sexual stigma is often irremovable, and can even foreclose the possibility of a return home. Queer Exile: Three Novels About Émigrés, Lovers and Family 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

That sober tone is anchored by Mitchell Hebert’s sharp turn as the muted, pained Henry. Life is short, so touch the painting 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

For the most part, the debut was sobering, with extensive talk about the suicide rate among transgender people. ‘I Am Cait’ Scores Solid Ratings for E! 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Is it possible that you ended up with the bag by mistake, but were afraid to admit it once we sobered up?” Social Q?s: The Case of the Back-Seat Bag 2010-04-29T20:14:00Z

Typically speaking, Mr. McNairy is a buttoned-down type, a responsible new father and a fashion designer known for his work with sober, traditional brands like J. Press. Fashion Diary: The Men?s Fashion Circuit Parties in Florence 2010-06-18T19:31:00Z

“I have a friend of mine whose husband used to be an addict and she said, ‘Cheryl, I really believe it would have been easier for him to kill himself than to get sober.’” The Unlikely Comeback of the ‘Pill-Popping Dermatologist’ 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z

I don’t know if I’m allowed to talk about it because it’s not on the market yet, but it’s a life experience thing about when I got sober. Hollywood Jack-of-all-Trades Adam Shankman on His New YA Novel 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

My youngest brother started getting high at age 12, and I’ve never seen him sober since. Is my brother a pedophile? 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But there’s a happy ending of sorts, because he sobered up, married happily and survived a couple of serious hospitalizations. If you could read Gordon Lightfoot’s mind, this is the tale his thoughts could tell 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Yet behind the scenes, authorities grappled with something sobering: well-documented U.F.O. encounters involved multiple trained observers, radar data, photographs, marks on the ground and physical effects on airplanes. ‘Project Blue Book’ Is Based on a True U.F.O. Story. Here It Is. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Forsaking sensationalism for sober, procedural storytelling, the film examines the toxic effects of the Kennedy mystique on a handful of people involved in a fatal car crash in the summer of 1969. Review: ‘Chappaquiddick’ Revisits a Grim ’60s Kennedy Scandal 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

But the music is consistently sober and short on variety. Review: The New Opera 'Metanoia' Goes On, but Without Its Provocateur 2010-10-12T13:30:00Z

She states her sober date for the record and fidgets as she talks about getting her kid through school. Reciting Walt Whitman at a Drug Court in Alabama 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

The frisky holiday theater season, prancing with musicals and piping with cheer, is sobering up this week with the intense Christian voyage “The Great Divorce.” Visions of Heaven (and how to get there) in C.S. Lewis’s ‘Great Divorce’ 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

When a friend was getting sober a few years ago, he confessed his anxieties to his Irish American dad. A weeknight soufflé that's even faster than the Stouffer's classic 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z

The scenes of Chakra and the men emptying nets filled with fish are unambiguous and sobering. ‘Buoyancy’ Review: Enduring Horrors on the Sea, and Struggling to Survive 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Designers in this sober city of industry are not the collegial group you might imagine. Fashion Diary: Milan Men’s Fashion Week, the Sun Also Sets 2013-06-28T21:01:13Z

Rather, their problems point to a truth altogether more sobering. A Debut Story Collection, Filled With Characters Humbled by Love 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

"In my opinion, you would never say that to someone who is sober," he continued. “The Price of Glee”: The 10 most shocking takeaways from the docuseries about Fox's musical hit 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

And a stele devoted mainly to sober scenes from Buddha’s life doubles as a playground for dozens of cupids. Art Review: When East Met West Under the Buddha?s Gaze 2011-08-10T23:20:02Z

Her paintings, imbued with lightness and luxury before the revolution, took on a subtly sober tone in the years afterwards. Woman of the world 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

It's a sobering look at brutality and corruption, and a fascinating reminder of the courage of journalists like Williams and his director, Alex Nott. Tonight's TV highlights: The Big Silence 2010-10-21T23:04:00Z

I've been sober for a couple of years so it doesn't surprise me as much as it did. One last thing... 2010-05-07T23:08:00Z

It was a process that began when I got sober about five years earlier. My sober conversion to atheism 2013-03-03T19:00:00Z

“I had actually been drinking quite a lot, but now I’m sober,” he said. Derailed Director Cites Urge to Entertain 2011-05-20T23:26:44Z

Hoffman told 60 Minutes that he got sober at age 22 because he “got panicked for his life.” Philip Seymour Hoffman’s hard road to greatness 2014-02-03T17:30:00Z

He quit using drugs and alcohol in 1983 and remained sober for 20 years after the birth of his first son. Robin Williams' Mental Health Struggles Go Back Decades 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Adam Lambert and Lindsay Lohan getting ridiculously wasted in public: Nothing new here, except that Lady Gaga officially doesn't like one gay person, and Lindsay's really terrible at pretending to be sober. Pop Torn: 10 pieces of culture we're feeling iffy about 2011-04-02T12:02:00Z

But in trying to combine this with a brand of sober American realism they fell between stools. Review | Art of fanatical efficiency that has more to do with your Facebook feed than you think 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

“The only way it’s going to get better is if we face the harsh, stark, sobering, actually terrifying realities ahead of us — and act on them.” John Luther Adams, Praying for the Earth in Music 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

Anyway, sober calculations have shown it wouldn’t work. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z

But when you are sober, I see the dad I remember, the funny, fascinating man with a way with words and a knack for telling a story. Letter to … my dad, whose heavy drinking is out of control 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

But it's also serious, sobering stuff, and the show manages to accommodate all these different moods without trivializing the situation or tearing itself apart. CW's 'Jane the Virgin' mixes wacky and serious, with a natural ease 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Whether they’re campy or cold sober, here’s a look at how other projects are rethinking, and have rethought, the real Harding. Tonya Harding, tragic muse? Plays, films and art explore skating’s biggest scandal 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

After eliminating alcohol from their lives, some sober individuals exclusively date nondrinkers. Finding Love Without Alcohol 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

It's a sobering reminder of the bleak oppression of musicians in those cold war years and how, in this respect anyway, life has improved. War Requiem; King Priam; Caligula – review 2012-06-02T23:05:59Z

That is what the Philharmonic should reflect on in the wake of Wednesday’s sober, poignant performance. 400 Days Later, the New York Philharmonic Returns 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Her name and faintly starchy manner conjured a schoolgirl in a sober gray jumper tamely reciting her catechism. Up Close: Andrea Mary Marshall, Photographer and Shape-Shifter Pursuing the Unsavory 2013-01-02T21:18:56Z

The "Friends: Reunion" isn't in the business of looking back through time with brash clarity or sobering perspective. "Friends: The Reunion" is The One We Could've Lived Without 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

I wrote and published four books while high, but I might’ve written eight sober. Confessions of a pot addict 2013-02-18T02:00:00Z

Mr. Scott, writing in The Times in November, called it a “sober and satisfying drama.” DVDs: ?Oshima?s Outlaw Sixties,? Films by Nagisa Oshima 2010-05-15T02:28:00Z

How do I know if I can remain sober if I'm only hanging around the house? 5 ways to stay sober at a cocktail party when taking a break from alcohol 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z

As video, it’s unintentionally comic, mawkish passing for sober. For Innovation at the Grammys, Look at the Best Music Video Category 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

It’s a sober, unsettling story, but it ends on a note of optimism in America’s ability to right itself — too easily, I would argue, given everything we saw before it. When Democracy Dies in Daylight 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Otherwise, good luck finding a more sober, courteous and cool gathering of 20,000 music fans. From Ghostface to face-paint — the dismantling of Howard University’s Yardfest

It’s likely to make for stark, sobering viewing. Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

But the letter is the future, and one sobering fact will remain: the day it arrives, news of Hankison's dismissal will not be accompanied by charges in Taylor's death. In the name of the movement: Black Lives Matter Plaza, Breonna Taylor and the long road to justice 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z

What she found was a sobering reality - offers from homeowners asking sky-high rents. Royal wedding bonanza for London homeowners 2011-02-04T12:57:08Z

But exactly as he said, it's a sobering reminder, you know of something that you feel like you're in. When "Atlanta" Met the Northman: Executive producer Stefani Robinson breaks down the season finale 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

It was a sobering snapshot of an era, exposing the frailties and consequences of battle and the difficulties of re-invention. Did 'American Sniper' miss an important mark? 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

It was sobering to realize that Haley had more claim to being an American than I did. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

He explains that the episode crystallized everything he needed to realize about getting sober; it pulled him back from the brink of suicide. The grown men who love ‘My Little Pony’ aren’t who you think they are 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

The image has authority, but is a sober fiction. Julian Schnabel's Polaroids 2010-10-09T23:05:00Z

It’s a time of year when more infrequent air travelers take to the skies — often, they are not sober — adding to the unbelievable but often true catalog of unpleasant in-flight encounters. How to avoid the worst flight ever 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Watson is no longer Holmes' sober companion – a bit of a woolly set-up – so they strike a deal in order to continue their peculiar freelance crime-fighting relationship. TV highlights 26/02/2013 2013-02-26T07:00:03Z

“We want to take a sober look at Austrian history.” An Invisible Artwork Reminds Austria of Its Nazi Past 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

The Little Prince’s puppeteer, Eileen Cella, at least injects some energy with a chipper, upbeat delivery, but the show never seems anything less than sober. | 'The Little Prince': ?The Little Prince? at New Victory Theater - Review 2011-10-07T00:15:32Z

Examples include darkly comic images of Ms. Spence mimicking the extreme emotions of a stereotypical bride and a sobering one in which she displays a breast-cancer scar while wearing a racing helmet. 2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

It was sobering to realize that climbing K2 these days meant traveling through a country at war. 2010-01-14T18:35:00Z

Milch continued to gamble, betting tens of thousands of dollars on individual horse races; he had a heart attack, received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and got sober at the age of 53. David Milch Still Has Stories to Tell 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

“I was in this absurdly glamorous and indulgent setting, and then I got news of this very sobering project with such a very demanding role,” she said. 2010-01-31T05:37:00Z

The title track is Daya’s latest single, and nails her gambit of delivering a sober message — the expectations on women to be objects, not subjects — with a kind of frothy glee. Sure, Daya Wants to Visit the Club. But She Doesn’t Want to Live There. 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

The Phnom Penh hotel’s other, more sobering, claim to fame is as a residence for reporters during the Vietnam war and the Khmer Rouge era. Fatale attraction: a cocktail created for Jackie Kennedy in Phnom Penh 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

When I got sober, I listened to some of the lyrics he wrote like 'Wham, bam, oh, Amsterdam' and '1-900-S-P-A-N-K' and I just thought, 'What were we thinking?' Van Halen timeline: Hits, ego wars and revolving door singers 2012-02-22T21:40:00Z

These will be sobering issues for the government to consider in January, when, like the people of Britain, its members return to work and routine. The Ultimate Very British Problem 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

These were sad, sobering, enlightening responses – big stories told in 140 words to a stranger on a Saturday night. What is your biggest regret? Here are people's devastatingly honest answers 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

The intent itself is creative, and the underlying meta-commentary is clever and somewhat sobering. Bro, say can you see? "America: The Motion Picture" shows we're not just dumb, we're drawn that way 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

By keeping its focus admirably tight, the sober and sobering Israeli documentary “The Law in These Parts” presents a devastating case against the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. ‘The Law in These Parts’ explores justice in Israel’s occupied territories 2013-01-17T22:18:12Z

The joyride comes to a sobering conclusion, however, and it’s one that shuts down the heart for good. Almost Infamous: 10 Biopics With Memorable Antiheroes 2013-10-23T09:45:20Z

The Red Cross soon posted an official – and witty -- follow-up, noting, "We've deleted the rogue tweet but rest assured the Red Cross is sober and we've confiscated the keys." Chrysler's epic Twitter misfire 2011-03-10T16:45:00Z

Ostensibly, the program was divided into two main parts: sober music for the concert hall, opera house and church, and sassy pieces for the music hall and the ballroom. Music Review: Zubin Mehta Leads Final Concert in Festival 2014-03-17T22:11:13Z

Fast forward to today and I am sober as little as absolutely possible to get done what the world expects of me. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Downstairs, my dad watches the sobering news, and my husband catches up on podcasts. A Dancer’s Quarantine Diary: Coming Full Circle 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Also from "Coffee Week," I wrote about the importance of LGBTQ-owned cafés as sober, queer spaces. From dinner parties to "thanks for helping me move" pizza, I grieve for communal food experiences 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

He described that portion of the movie as cautionary and said he hadn’t injected drugs in about 15 years and has been fully sober for more than four. Dave Navarro’s ‘Mourning Son’ Tells the Story of His Mother’s Murder 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

I am almost five years sober, a huge deal for me. Shut up, old abusive drunk! 2012-07-04T00:00:00Z

An open mind and critical thought are like a metaphorical AA after a long bender on ideological wine: I’m proud to say that this program has gotten me three years sober. I was a right-wing child star 2012-07-08T12:00:00Z

In a sober and measured voice, punctuated by a barely contained fury, Pagels reveals how profound this advice turned out to be. A Scholar of Religion Confronts Her Own Grief 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Funny he may be, but it is Mr. Simpson who brings the show to its sobering conclusion. Review: ‘The Terrifying’ Has Paranoia and the Feeling Something’s Wrong 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Rue broke her promise to stay clean a few times, but she managed to stay sober for three months until Jules ran away from home. ‘Euphoria’ Is Back. Here’s Where It Left Off. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

He acknowledged giving them drugs or alcohol beforehand, while he stayed sober and in control. Hard lessons for lawyers in Cosby case; tougher for victims 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Daniel Anker, a filmmaker whose sober documentaries brought unsensationalized narrative power to subjects including the trials of the Scottsboro boys and Hollywood’s treatment of the Holocaust, died on Monday in Manhattan. Daniel Anker, Documentary Filmmaker, Dies at 50 2014-04-25T20:09:29Z

Twain's book is a knotty chronicle of childhood alienation, sometimes sober, sometimes comic. Charles Ray's sculptures cast a forceful modern eye on antiquity 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

It was an eloquent and sobering reminder of the affliction, felt perhaps more acutely in the current moment, but ever present in the human condition: a collective broken heart. French soprano’s serene concert at UDC is the stuff of dreams 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

This breakthrough came after years of piling up back issues of sobering magazines, hoarding clips on topics like “The Trouble in Galicia” or “Economic Peril Sets In” to read on the plane. Learning to Love Airport Lit 2012-02-17T20:39:16Z

At the edge of the parking lot, the troupers were gifted with fresh lettuce and red onions — a strong, sobering shotgunner for the ride home. An idyllic farm dinner for Stewardship Partners 2013-07-30T03:06:47Z

But when we meet her, she’s Sherlock Holmes’ live-in sober companion while he recovers from heroin addiction; she then becomes a partner in his detective work. Hooray for Joan Watson: Why well-rounded Asian-American characters matter 2014-01-22T23:59:00Z

The sobering messages of many of the quilts are balanced by the quilters’ aesthetic gifts. Gone but Never Forgotten in a Quilt 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

Sober, sensible people would just go downstairs to use a bathroom — but I was not a sober person, and sensible people would never get into this situation. Never tell anyone what I just did 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Grant sobered up, retreated to New York and joined mainstream society, working in a hospital as a Russian medical interpreter and waiting tables, though he still kept up the song writing. John Grant 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

No wonder I struggle with what to do with all this information, this mixture of artful alarmism and sober grappling with the facts on the ground. Parenting the climate-change generation 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

“He was constantly trying to help people who were struggling to find God or become sober,” Ms. Kerwin said. Lance Kerwin, ‘James at 15’ and ‘Salem’s Lot’ Star, Dies at 62 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

I’ve always had a special place in my heart for playing a gal with an addiction problem, even more so since I got sober more than six years ago. Turning a Disease Into a Sideshow 2013-07-19T18:42:51Z

It’s an amusing and at times sobering series of vignettes — a quickly inhaled highlights reel of Trebek’s life. Review | Alex Trebek’s memoir, ‘The Answer Is . . .,’ is everything a ‘Jeopardy!’ fan could want 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

Company members and guest stars appear in different guises, none more surprising than Dagmar Manzel in a rendingly sober turn from her riotous Cleopatra earlier last week. After 10 Years, Barrie Kosky Leaves His Opera House Dancing 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

And in the years after that, when she was completely sober, she became, she recalled, perhaps unhealthily dependent on singing, treating it as if it were the only thing that could save her. ‘This Is Who We’ve Been Waiting For’: A Diva on the Precipice 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a sober book that smells like fresh construction, a house built from plain hard facts. Review: ‘One of Us,’ by Asne Seierstad, on Anders Breivik’s Rampage in Norway 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

In a house as classic as Valentino, there is little room for the revolutionary, a point made clear in a sober ready-to-wear. Chanel and McQueen entice fantasy in Paris shows 2012-03-07T03:01:04Z

Think of it like Drunk History, but sober, and spooky. Lore and order: can the hit podcast become the scariest show on TV? 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

There is something about the film’s brazen mixing of incompatible elements that defies categorization, imitation or even sober critical assessment. Review: ‘The Great Silence,’ a 1968 Spaghetti Western Unchained 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

After her failed attempts at treatment, we’d hoped escaping the chaos of the city would offer my daughter some solace, and a fighting chance to stay sober. The blurred boundaries of mothering an addict 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

Living in Spain is a fairly sobering experience these days. Javier Bardem: Sinister? Me? 2012-10-12T22:00:17Z

Miyake, known for its innovative fabrics, also sent out less flashy summer basics in sober black and white prints and solids. Lanvin gets world-weary fashion crowd worked up 2010-10-01T21:00:00Z

And Shulman confirms that “I have worked with many recovering alcoholics and drug addicts who’ve reported to me that even after they’ve gotten clean and sober, they still have struggled with compulsive stealing.” Confessions of a kleptomaniac 2012-10-10T22:05:00Z

We’ve listened to it both sober and drunk, and made note of its different merits in both scenarios. Can Icona Pop Do More Than That One Hit Single? 2013-09-27T15:00:02Z

So I called my mother and said: “Can you come? I need you. But I need you to be sober. Do you promise?” A Family Drama in Three Acts 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Hip-hop dancer Jordan, five years sober and a dead ringer for Jesse, Aaron Paul’s character on "Breaking Bad." "So You Think You Can Dance" recap: Audition overdrive 2010-06-04T09:22:00Z

The film might have been a sober lesson in the erosion of our civic discourse, timed to the start of yet another 24/7 presidential campaign. Buckley vs. Vidal: When Debate Became Bloodsport 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Her first effort with a camera was a sober inquiry into Yokosuka, both the external landscape permeated by the American military presence and her own brooding memories of the place, tainted by fear and disgust. In her photos, Ishiuchi Miyako focuses on the dynamics, tensions of postwar Japan 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

Once we arrived at the village, it was pouring rain – a sobering and very visual reminder to me that this is not a story with a fairytale ending.  First village relocated due to climate change 2012-09-19T19:03:00Z

This book tells the sobering tale of two families, one Sinhala, one Tamil, on opposing sides of Sri Lanka’s civil conflict, and also weaves in detailed descriptions of the island. A backpacker’s guide to Sri Lanka: a one-month itinerary 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

In a field dominated by The Artist and Untouchable, Kassovitz's sober political thriller, Rebellion, received just one nomination, for best adapted screenplay. Mathieu Kassovitz: 'I'm not proud to be French any more' 2013-04-18T19:00:00Z

From a dramatic standpoint, at least, watching someone sober up is a lot less entertaining than watching someone get into drug-fueled jams with men half his age. Review: In ‘The Jamb,’ 2 Gay Middle-Age Friends Face a Reckoning 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

And Walter White alwaysgoes into this thing clean and sober and remains clear-eyed up to the end of season four here and does the things he does in a rational, calculating manner. Breaking Bad Q&A: Creator Vince Gilligan Talks the Finale, and the Future 2011-10-10T17:45:00Z

Judged alongside their close friend Van Zandt, who was plagued by mental illness and addiction, the Clarks could be seen as sober and stable counterweights. Postscript: Guy Clark, 1941-2016 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Juan Romero, who had gone to shake Kennedy’s hand when the senator was shot, speaks in a rare, sobering interview towards the end of the series. Bobby Kennedy: Netflix documentary shines a light on his relevance 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

How did you feel about the reports that NBC News was seriously considering "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart as the next host of that most sober Sunday morning politics show, "Meet the Press"? Comedy Central's Kent Alterman 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

And will Harry be sober enough to deliver the best man's speech? Here come the bets: Royal wedding fuels UK wagers 2011-04-26T11:28:11Z

“There is so much mad in me,” the title of Ms. Driscoll’s 2010 work, still applies to “Space,” her most sober and mature piece yet. Review: A Choreographer Alone With Her Audience and Death 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

“It never caused a relapse, but it did make me question the joy of sober life, and also consider suicide,” she said. 'I was fresh meat': how AA meetings push some women into harmful dating 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

I decided, then, that I would go sober. Alcoholism doesn't confine me any longer – and it doesn't define me either | Jack Monroe 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

He gets sober, survives prostate cancer and meets and marries David Furnish; the couple has two sons. Review | In recent memoirs, musicians reveal glamorous tantrums, plenty of drug use and the double-edged sword of fame 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

“He was supportive and not pushy about it. And he was sober, still doing things I wanted to do. I am forever grateful for that.” Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready honored for recovery work — and rocks it 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Club, a taste-making destination of pop culture criticism and interviews, is the sober companion to the satirical headlines of The Onion. Aping the Onion, the AV Club expands into video 2011-10-27T21:40:13Z

Sixteen videos show Wiseman demonstrating survival techniques, including one sobering tutorial in which he guts a chicken. App review: Lost in the wild? Don’t eat a polar bear’s liver, and other tips. 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Tarshis — who has acknowledged having a drinking problem but says she has been sober since 1988 — remembered being “nervous and uncomfortable.” Bill Cosby’s legacy, recast: Accusers speak in detail about sexual-assault allegations

Despite earlier attempts to deny that mortality, Moshfegh, now sober and approaching her 40s, feels “more embodied than I expected to be,” she said. Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Its hook — “I don’t like how sober feels” — seemed to resonate with Britons who couldn’t party during the country’s lockdowns, she said. Drum-and-Bass Is Rising Again, With Nia Archives in the Spotlight 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Members of his ensemble live together communally and develop their theatrical language in sober meditative explorations over many years. Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z

We are hoping the pope will use this sober and, I believe, judicious story to begin to healing the wounds the church also received.” Mark Ruffalo urges pope to use his new film to heal sex abuse victims 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

I’m really grateful, because the next movie I did where I was completely sober was “Cop Land,” which is one of my best performances. "Terminator 2" made — and almost ended — Robert Patrick's career 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

Except that I still had problems after I got sober. My bipolar awakening 2012-08-15T20:59:00Z

“As a journalism drama,” I earlier reviewed, “it’s as absorbing as ‘Spotlight’ and more sober than ‘All the President’s Men.’ New this Week: ‘Tina,’ ‘Runaway Bunny’ & ‘City on a Hill’ 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

And while the conditions the chimp had to endure were sobering, at least that will come to an end now that he's been found, thanks to all the attention his story received. The bizarre story of Alan Cumming's chimp pal, a missing primate mystery involving a faked death 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

The characters are sketched sparingly and are all relatively sober scientists. Back to the Hugos: Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke 2011-02-10T15:32:31Z

Another ploy is the imposing readymade, scarred by life and transferred to the white cube of the art gallery for predictably sobering effect. Art In Review: ADEL ABDESSEMED: ?Who?s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? 2012-03-15T21:44:54Z

Hamelle said Galliano has been sober for three months and is "rebuilding himself" after treatment in the United States for addiction but had yet to return to a regular professional activity. John Galliano to attend anti-Semitic trial 2011-06-21T10:40:33Z

“It was a sobering dark look at the dark side of human nature, and that pivotal moment was a real loss of innocence.” Tarantino did not tell Polanski about film set against Manson murders 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Lovers of being in the room with a play are floating in this state of protracted absence, a condition that is indeed sobering. Perspective | ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is postponed at the Kennedy Center. It’s okay to grieve. 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

"I looked right at him," she said, "and I asked if he ever made art when he was sober. His eyes went down to the ground, then up to the sky. Eventually he said 'no.'" My parents were addicted to heroin, and I had a happy childhood. Both of these things are true 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

The post was to hold himself accountable, he said, and to announce that day as his new sober date. Among the Sober and ‘Sober Curious’? Your Bartender 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

I would be sober and clear-headed; I would touch her face and say, “here you are.” Someone to hold me 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z

But Chiang sticks to a more sober dissection of anguish and attraction. In ‘Gruesome,’ love and dysfunction meet 2013-07-30T16:49:12Z

“That sobers you up, to realize you’re at the point where they’re honoring your body of work,” said Lucas, 71, who received the 2012 National Medal of Arts from President Obama. George Lucas and Carole King selected for Kennedy Center Honors 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

King says he wasn’t wearing his glasses at the time — but he was also sober that night. Marcus King, a Bluesy Rocker Who Stared Down His Own Crossroads 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

These sorts of fears, Mr. Bergen contends, are exaggerated, and he supplies some sober perspective. Review: Peter Bergen’s ‘United States of Jihad’ Surveys Homegrown Terrorism 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

"Magical Misery Tour" was his first major comedic special since he became sober, and he was sober less than a year when he made "Drunks." Richard Lewis looks back at his dark comic turns in 'Bundle of Nerves' 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Strauss’s elegy to German culture, composed in 1945, brought the concert to a sober conclusion, with Mr. Rattle drawing a warm, dolorous sound and a beautifully shaped reading from the orchestra’s 23 strings. Music Review: Having Fun Across Generations 2010-12-20T22:45:45Z

Visitors might be handed a glass of pinot but the hostess would rather stay as sober as possible as she tackles another astonishing part in a career populated by plenty of them. Fiona Shaw plays the Virgin Mary with 'no agenda' 2013-04-12T13:00:14Z

A benefit of parentally accompanied bar crawl beckoned: a car driven by a sober dad. Brotman: Family fun with kids in their 20s — a Logan Square bar crawl 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

When confronting an alcoholic about concerns with their drinking — only do this when they are sober, otherwise, it's wasted energy. Perspective | Ask Amy: Scorned husband needs a dose of cordial 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

One sobering observation in the film is that there are only two grocery stores in the West End Louisville neighborhood where the film is set, but a liquor store is on every corner. "It makes your heart beat faster": Documentary celebrates the artistic side of Louisville's West End 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

So how do the sober serious feel about the sober curious? The rise of the sober curious: having it all, without alcohol 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

I recently quit drinking - I decided to never drink again and it's been interesting performing sober because it's a totally different experience. | Grimes 2012-10-18T17:03:38Z

That production and this album, which moves gracefully from comic to sobering and back again, are therefore a coming-out party of sorts. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Andrew Parrott, Jeroen Van Veen, Ildar Abdrazakov and More 2014-02-05T19:10:59Z

I got sober three weeks after it premiered. My First Produced Play? Ah, I Remember It Well. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

The sad and sobering consequences of this encounter occupy the play’s second half. Review: A Mythic Force Rages in the Welsh ‘Iphigenia in Splott’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

In order for it to play such a constructive role, though, the U.N. clearly needs to sober up — both literally and politically. United Nations’ pot hypocrisy 2013-03-15T00:00:00Z

Like the president, he’s a virtuoso of the unfiltered blurt and tweet, the latter often launched late at night when he’s less than sober. Bret Easton Ellis, the political outrage machine who has never voted for president 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

They set up a discussion forum on the social networking site Reddit; interviewed experts; consulted books on sociology, psychology and human behavior; and dug up sober academic studies about current dating trends. Review: Aziz Ansari’s ‘Modern Romance’ Explores Dating in the Digital Age 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Ten blocks later, a parked white bike, with back baskets overflowing with dried flowers, was a sobering memorial to a cyclist who was killed by a truck there in 2006. On Two Wheels, With Water as a Companion 2011-05-05T19:29:08Z

Schneider said Williams was sober when he died and was also suffering from anxiety. Robin Williams' death highlights Parkinson's-depression link 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Perhaps something sober and sensible was what you felt you needed after Mr. Bleckmann’s dazed set? Review: Resonant Bodies Festival, a Summer Camp for Singers 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

“Drynuary” is now a word that can be uttered without giving anyone pause; sober happy hours and neighborhood juice crawls abound. Kava and the Rise of Healthy New York 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

But then the Enlightenment arrived like a second grade teacher replacing her overwhelmed substitute, and tipped the balance toward sober instruction. Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Stromae has long been devoted to addressing sober subjects in his music, which is marked by its accessibility and sophistication. Stromae’s Music Delves Into Dark Topics. His Return Is Right on Time. 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

That sober vision is the perceived wisdom about male fashion. From Jil Sander to Burberry, there were men?s wear risks in Milan 2012-01-15T19:51:37Z

Sometimes you just have to retreat from revelry and do things that are more often a sober man’s business: spend time alone, spend time with kids, read books, take walks, drink water. I don’t call it Drynuary, but I still stop drinking every year for a month. Here’s why. 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

“Another highlight, I became sober,” said Matos, who now uses both he and they as pronouns, having also embraced a nonbinary identity in the pandemic. They Finally Get to Dance on Broadway 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

Dave wrote me a letter of apology after I found out about him and my sister, and I know from our years of friendship that he would not have made that same decision sober. You slept with my sister! 2012-07-19T00:00:00Z

She argues that reactions to its sobering realities and moral and political ambiguities were expressed most authentically in landscape and in anecdotal genre painting, as well as in photography. Art Review: ‘The Civil War and American Art’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2013-05-30T19:19:19Z

But when the mood was sober, he sang with exciting confidence and detail, delivering Poulenc’s elegantly bleak “Sanglots” with subtlety and concentration. Music Review: Elliot Madore and Megan Hart in Song Continues Recital - Review 2012-01-17T23:32:45Z

In some ways “I Am Still Alive” is a sobering rejoinder to that heady event. Art Review: Simple Truths in Matters of Life and Death 2011-03-24T21:40:03Z

If you feel self-conscious staying sober when everyone else is in their cups, don’t. Glass half empty: the hangover from hell that made me tackle my drinking 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

What the industry needs isn’t more sober people, necessarily, but more transparency. Among the Sober and ‘Sober Curious’? Your Bartender 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

Haider Ackermann’s weekend show, with its sober start and crescendo of mouth-watering colors left people who love fashion with moist eyes and a sense of joy. Special Report: Fashion: Nuturing by a Style 'Angel' 2011-03-06T18:54:56Z

After I got sober he told me that when he was three he thought I lived at the airport. Belinda Carlisle: ‘After my cocaine use, I can’t believe I’m not dead’ 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

She also finally faced some harsh truths about her childhood, forgave her past self for some bad choices and decided to get sober. "Flight Attendant" boss on Cassie and Megan’s parallel journeys and a potential Season 2 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z

Nudged by Leno in a notably sober first segment, Obama reflected on the meaning of Gadhafi's death, a gruesome and chaotic demise recorded on cellphone video for all the world to see. Obama to Leno: Libya a recipe for success 2011-10-26T08:01:04Z

This time, the meeting is sober but effusive. José Andrés thinks food can fix the world, starting in Haiti

Moments like this are sobering reminders in an otherwise uplifting story. A German Opera Spotlights the Refugee Crisis, With Refugees 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

"An hour of serious, sober, public affairs journalism in the middle of the day is little short of essential," he added. Should Radio 4 reinstate Yesterday in Parliament on FM? 2010-09-23T11:53:00Z

The man who would go on to win an Oscar for "Good Will Hunting" stayed sober for two decades, until he was filming on location in Alaska in 2003. Robin Williams' life was punctuated by struggles with alcohol, cocaine 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

In his voluminous “Lectures” Nabokov is idiosyncratic and often verbally intense, but he is always a sober and serious professional: a pedagogue. ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

All around us sober Mennonites were trying not to laugh. Once upon a life: Rhoda Janzen 2010-12-26T00:04:01Z

Ms. Lynn herself has always been sober, she said; her husband and family were not. Loretta Lynn Mines a Legacy of Heartaches and High Notes 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Showtime, for instance, has just concluded a sobering six-episode documentary called “Time of Death” that chronicled the deaths of eight people with terminal illnesses. Staring at the End, in Several Senses 2013-12-13T19:29:33Z

Meryl Streep’s searing critique of Donald Trump’s imitation and treatment of the disabled New York Times journalist Serge Kovaleski was a sobering moment which brought a stunned silence to the usually boisterous Globes. Golden Globes 2017: La La Land wins record seven awards as Moonlight takes best drama 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

In Ahmed’s sober, scholarly analysis of primordial European customs, Westerners are so used to reading about unruly Arab tribes that they forget Christian Europeans are descended from societies with similar structures, values and morals. Can Islamic and European Civilizations Coexist? 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

When we meet him, he has been sober for years, and is wishing he weren’t. Review: ‘The Whirligig’ Is a Feast for Actors, by a Knowing Chef 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

In “A Distant Center,” his language is simple and direct, part encouragement, part sober reminder that a home left or lost “can’t be recovered/ except in your thought and memory.” Review | Can poetry both challenge and uplift? Four new collections show us how. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Little did he know I would have preferred late and boozy, rather than early and sober. Blind date: ‘I’d have preferred late and boozy to early and sober’ 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

She got sober more than eight years ago and has since learned to balance her dark past with what she calls “the lightness” of her present. When the playwright becomes the star: How one writer is jumping from her script onto the stage 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Artists were tasked with creating propaganda posters to sober up citizens, warning them of the dangers of excessive alcohol consumption. Prohibition, Soviet style: Propaganda posters from the 1980s 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

“I make no apology for the fact that most of the time that’s intuitive. I am doing my best – I am sober and I am responsible.” Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

A sobering thought and a reminder that those who record history control so much of what gets remembered. Pittsburgh’s Underground Railroad, Preserved and Not 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Some experts and “sober curious” veterans offered tips for becoming more thoughtful about alcohol. ‘Sober Curious’? How to Embrace Mindful Drinking 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

While Shimura’s sober scientist is one of the two major characters in Godzilla, it’s startling how minor his role is, and how uninterested the film is in providing the viewer with a circle of protagonists. ?Godzilla? the Great: New Criterion Release Celebrates the Greatest Monster Movie 2012-01-25T16:20:11Z

Human life is measured in inhuman ways in “When I Come to Die,” a sober, meticulously wrought drama by Nathan Louis Jackson set on death row in an Indiana prison. | 'When I Come to Die': When the Final Curtain Doesn?t Fall 2011-02-11T03:01:32Z

Going to college sober was a lesson in sacrifices. I was a sober college student 2012-09-23T16:01:00Z

His second marriage, to a film producer, ended in 2008 – largely because of his drinking, even though by then he was sober. Robin Williams: 'I was shameful, did stuff that caused disgust ? that's hard to recover from' 2010-09-20T07:00:00Z

It is, in sum, a grand entertainment as well as a sobering mirror for a city obsessed with money. Music Review: ‘Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny’ at Manhattan School 2013-04-25T21:26:01Z

Nancy Locke, who owns a construction company in Los Angeles, was going through a hard time eight years ago and “thought it would be a good idea to look at being sober.” Nancy Locke and Meredith Baxter: A Finish Worthy of Hollywood 2013-12-15T14:19:52Z

The things we kept landing on are: He needs to get sober and get therapy. ‘BoJack Horseman’ Creator Talks About Hollywood and Forgiveness 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, he’s determined to learn as much as possible about classical music, in the process getting a sobering education about the realities of both a professional musician’s life and the scary side of fandom. ‘The Tooth Tattoo’: music and murder on Inspector Diamond’s mind 2013-05-02T21:26:57Z

I don’t know what we said, but I remember the conversation as sober and tender. My partner didn't want children. I did. Then I got pregnant... 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

A sober man keeps his wits about him. "Peaky Blinders" and Tommy Shelby's perceived crime of sobriety 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

Just as the husband delivers this sober news, the wife — wearing an indulgent smile and the openly bored look of someone listening to the weather report — perks up. ‘Munich: The Edge of War’ Review: ‘Well Navigated, Sir’ (Not!) 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Their ultimate collision is sobering, as the supernatural possibilities of the island are stripped away. In HBO's creepy thriller "The Third Day," Jude Law makes grief the ultimate jump scare 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

My crash course in this world was sobering. Modern Love: Modern Love - Providing Comfort When a Cure Is Out of Reach 2012-12-13T18:08:15Z

And I began having to admit that maybe one of the reasons I couldn’t stay sober was that this disease I “didn’t have” was making my life completely unmanageable. Why can’t Hollywood get bipolar disorder right? 2013-02-05T19:20:00Z

Inside were some of the happiest-looking sober adults ever seen after 2 a.m. Polyamory Works for Them 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

It’s “Groundhog Day,” only more sober and scientific. Boy meets girl with endless possibilities in brainy ‘Constellations’ 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

He's regarded as a saint in UFO circles, largely for this book, a sober yet sympathetic overview of the UFO problem that excoriates the US Air Force for their failure to treat the phenomenon seriously. Mark Pilkington's top 10 books about UFOs 2010-09-01T11:29:00Z

In the “Pathétique,” rather than maximizing the grim drama and intensity of the first movement, he played with sobering directness and fascinating attention to inner details. The Pianist Rafal Blechacz at Zankel Hall 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The quick, sober follow-up question about why we all laughed felt right, and it was the zingiest moment the show. Second City comedy finds an edge at Woolly Mammoth 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

These are included to suggest the short distance between sober documentary remembrance and exploitative Holocaust kitsch. Review: ‘Because I Was a Painter,’ a Documentary About Art Made in Nazi Camps 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

The flat, wide ribbons used for the drunken noodles tasted almost caramelized, which balanced the dish’s traditional slap of sobering heat. Zabver is a delicious exception to a chowhound’s rule 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

So all of the people that had to stay moderately sober the previous year because they had to drive back to Burlington didn’t have to stay sober. “It was the tour from hell”: Inside the Grateful Dead’s last shows, and Jerry Garcia’s final days 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

By the early 1980s he was sober and had begun a prolific few decades, turning out novels, plays, poetry and journalism. Denis Johnson, Who Wrote of the Failed and the Desperate, Dies at 67 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

When footage of the exchange airs later this year, the chances are there will be no eyeball-eating or urine-drinking, but instead a sober discussion about climate change. How adventurer Bear Grylls took American TV, and Barack Obama, by storm 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

So you were doing your first comedy sober, and relatively newly sober. Rob Delaney on Writing While Grieving and the Real Work of Comedy 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

The most sobering item in the show is "Captive," in which a straight vertical line seems to be splitting the title character's head in half. At Davidson Galleries: Robert E. Marx's curious creatures 2012-09-27T00:00:08Z

Guilt, doubt, moral struggles – “Soul Punk” is one sobering dance party. Album review: Patrick Stump, 'Soul Punk' 2011-10-18T04:58:00Z

The festival's new director said in May that this year's 69th edition would be a "more sober" event than previous iterations. Has Berlusconi turned prudish? TV channel slams Venice for racy films 2012-08-21T11:41:03Z

That style is different from what you did with “When the Levees Broke,” about Hurricane Katrina, which is much more sober. Spike Lee, Exultant at the ‘Epicenter’ 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Somewhat surprisingly, given the penchant for extremity that Ferrara and Pasolini share, what emerges is mostly a sober portrait of the writer at work, with especially imaginative attention to the work itself. ‘Pasolini’ Review: One Rebellious Filmmaker’s Tribute to Another 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

She says that the “strongest argument” in favor of some of the most fantastical sounding measures tends to be a sober realism: “What’s the alternative?” Electrified Rivers and Other Attempts to Save the Environment 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

The riot of leaf shapes and hues of its water-loving plants contrast with the sober procession of specimen tree collections along the eastern edge — a contrast of traditional botanical magnificence and invented but authentic nature. Brooklyn Botanic Garden Turns Over a New Leaf 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

“The best way to do drunk acting is to not act. You act sober,” Hollander said. Tom Hollander recites rare Dylan Thomas ditty 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Even as Internet videos still circulate showing the entertainer clowning on stage in skimpy costumes, "Sweet Micky," now repackaged in a sober suit and tie, outlined his ambitious plans. Pop star reborn as statesman vows renewal in Haiti 2011-04-07T22:22:51Z

In his sober, hard-writing decades, he identified as a Christian, and questions of faith, usually in crisis, riddle his work. “What a Pair of Lungs!”: Denis Johnson’s Ecstatic American Voice 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

In this autobiography, Barack Obama’s adviser and United Nations ambassador wrestles with the need to balance her youthful idealism against the sober realism of her responsibilities as a policymaker. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Much to my puzzlement, what I found was an aesthetic and an ethos of sober, even oppressive restraint. Art Review: Refined Restraint in ‘Treasures from Korea,’ in Philadelphia 2014-03-20T12:00:02Z

Much of what I did or said during the drunken stupor that was my twenties was lost forever, but I could get down what was going on right now in this, my sober stupor. Augusten Burroughs: “What did normal people do when they stopped drinking?” 2013-04-23T00:00:00Z

She’s been sober for decades and is busy doing voice acting for a variety of projects, including “Despicable Me” films, “American Dad!” and “Doc McStuffins,” along with occasional screen roles. Original ‘SNL’ player’s memoir looks back in fondness, humor 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Partying tourists in Amsterdam are being sent a sobering new message: antisocial behaviour will be met with on-the-spot fines. Amsterdam gets tough on antisocial behaviour from tourists 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

Without stripping gears, she makes fast switches from explosive comedy to a sober emotionalism that never cloys. Review: ‘Hello, Dolly!’ Is Bright, Brassy and All Bette 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

"The sober city" goes to work as usual the next morning, determined "to keep it happening". Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z

Fitzgerald’s haunting justification — he died, sodden and sad, at 44 — was that “my stories written while sober are stupid ... all reasoned out, not felt.” ‘The Trip to Echo Spring’: On the trail of writers and drinking 2014-01-10T21:58:25Z

“Burnt Church” — the most anomalous and sobering piece in the show — incorporates rifles dug up from the World War I battlefield at Verdun. Artist recycles guns, ammo into provocative models of houses of worship 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

I was listening to a podcast, and a guest, who I believe is sober, said that every thought, action and word is an offering to God. Ego Nwodim Used to Be Obsessed With Jay-Z. Now She Is Again 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

It’s both disconcerting and entirely appropriate that the channel’s newest show, the mini-series “On Death Row,” beginning Friday night, features the sober voice and calm eye of the German filmmaker Werner Herzog. | ?On Death Row?: Werner Herzog?s Documentary Series ?On Death Row? 2012-03-08T23:18:29Z

However relevant to the story, these sober moments work less well than the outright comedy. The Elephant Keepers' Children by Peter Høeg – review 2012-10-05T21:55:11Z

I worried about things like dating without alcohol and sharing my decision to get sober with friends and family. How I Survived Wedding Season in My First Year of Sobriety 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

On the contrary, it is fiercely sober, even tragic. Ballast ? review 2011-03-17T22:05:01Z

The spartan world of Martin Koolhoven’s sober, well-made World War II melodrama, “Winter in Wartime,” is a rustic blue-gray landscape of woods and snow-covered roads through which armed German soldiers roam in trucks. | 'Winter in Wartime': Teenager Encounters Adulthood and Nazis 2011-03-17T23:08:53Z

So Linton Kwesi Johnson's sober, precise reflections on racial unrest 30 years ago were not crisis music; the Ruts' apocalyptic Babylon's Burning was. Why the Specials' Ghost Town is still the sound of a country in crisis 2011-08-09T15:42:04Z

Whether she knows he’s supposed to be sober is unclear, but her raised eyebrow is not. “Catastrophe” gives TV a realistic view of alcoholism at last 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

The implication is that the refugee crisis is forcing white, native-born Swedes to imagine other lives, and other ways of living, just like the newly sober narrator is. Two Début Novels Explore How to Be Good 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

The prologue sets the tone for the sobering rumination on mortality to come. Review | Jim Carrey the actor-writer deconstructs Jim Carrey the character in ‘Memoirs and Misinformation’ 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

He favoured sober suits and called the acts "fellas" when interviewing them, which could have been a way of ensuring against getting their names wrong. Radio: The Sound Of The 60s may not be the music you expect 2013-03-23T06:00:06Z

A sobering alternative view surfaces late when Cat Brooks, with the Anti Police-Terror Group, says “We do not believe that police departments can actually be reformed.” Review: ‘The Force’ Follows the Oakland Police From Crisis to Crisis 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Lamster’s timing is excellent: He has written the story of Philip Johnson for the age of Donald Trump, and it makes us see a side of Johnson that is, at the very least, sobering. A New Biography of the Architect Philip Johnson, the ‘Man in the Glass House’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

"Who says I want to get sober?" replies Zhang, played by Liao Fan who said he drank and put on weight for the role. Chinese directors master Nordic noir, shoot-'em-up Western 2014-02-13T15:12:54Z

On “Pilot Jones” it’s drugs that create an impregnable wall: “Tonight you came stumbling across my lawn again/I just don’t know why/I keep on trying to keep a grown woman sober.” Arts & Leisure: Frank Ocean’s ‘Channel Orange’ 2012-07-04T17:31:15Z

The American Symphony Orchestra plays with sober, purposeful energy, and the production, whose set eloquently blurs the distinction between graceful interiors and nature’s wildness, takes every twist seriously. ‘Euryanthe,’ Rarely Heard, Is Mounted at Bard 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Trading on the great British art of understatement, it’s scrupulous, sober, and tasteful throughout. ‘The Dig’ Review: Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes on a Treasure Hunt 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

A sobering portrait of a multicultural nation where a lasting peace can't be won in battle. TV highlights 11/03/13 2013-03-11T08:00:07Z

And while the story of Violet and Daisy’s journey toward a soberer recognition of their limits is not joyous, the art and craft that have gone into Condon’s production are full of joy. A big, beautiful “Side Show” on Broadway

At first glance, “Lakota America” is every inch a sober, stately work of scholarship — and one long overdue. ‘Lakota America’ Puts the Tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Front and Center 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Another guitarist, Mary Halvorson, managed to sound smiling and sober at once, with melodies of glittering sensitivity that fragmented into kaleidoscopic phrases. The Bang on a Can Marathon, Still Lovably Scruffy Online 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

Clean and sober, my new compulsion was emailing my first lover's wife. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

His book is a sober yet optimistic portrait of what he calls “love across the divide.” Books of The Times: ‘Far From the Tree,’ by Andrew Solomon 2012-11-13T13:00:24Z

Despite the bracing beauty of the wilderness, and the respite provided by cubs at play, the movie is primarily a sobering treatise on survival. Movie Review: Disney’s ‘Bears,’ Set in Alaska 2014-04-17T23:20:07Z

He’s sober now 15 months, post finishing the movie. Jake Gyllenhaal on Ambivalent Heroes and, Um, Perms 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

"I'm glad he's sober and I think it's terrific." Kutcher wants to return to 'Two and a Half Men' 2012-01-12T15:34:04Z

“It was slow and sobering,” the Los Angeles collector Eli Broad said. A Richter, Owned by Clapton, Fetches $22 Million at Christie’s 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

You stay in AA and hopefully stay sober while you go through the 12-step cycle over and over. My agnostic AA 2012-06-20T18:28:00Z

His way for most of this season was stone cold sober. "Peaky Blinders" and Tommy Shelby's perceived crime of sobriety 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

Adding to the sober nature of the premiere was the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, which sponsored the after-party. Sundance Officially Sidesteps Oscar Controversy, but Its Opening Film Doesn’t 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

After a stint in rehab, he’s now been sober for five months. The Man Behind the Ace Empire 2011-01-28T22:33:23Z

It is a vindication of Lee, whose constant drum-beat warnings about America’s racist inclinations were critiqued as outmoded under Obama, but now now sound like a sobering case of I Told You So. Why BlacKkKlansman should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

I trust they will stimulate sober discussion and principled argument as well as outright ridicule. Film: The Cinematic State of Things 2010-12-16T19:28:34Z

When we met, we were both recovering alcoholics, so I had only known him sober. ‘He collapsed at the roadside. I thought he was dead’: couples on surviving trauma 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile Wood himself, who has been battling alcoholism, revealed that he has now gone seven months sober. The Rolling Stones will never quit, says Ronnie Wood 2010-10-14T11:09:00Z

Who wanted to dignify such dumb scenarios with sober analyses? ‘How Civil Wars Start,’ a Warning About the State of the Union 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z

Depictions of sober folk tend to be earnest and altruistic, but humans drag so many bad habits into sobriety, and in Chip, we see a fairly common subspecies: the recovery dude as charming cad. TV’s quiet 12-step revolution: Prestige comedies are changing the way we see addiction, sobriety and AA 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Couples perched with sober expressions on stationary motorcycles. Review | ‘The train was moving mournful slow’: Exhibit shows haunting photos of Bobby Kennedy’s final journey 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

Cheryl Curtice, her partner and caregiver, wrote on Facebook that Ms. Taylor “passed away clean and sober, peacefully in her sleep, this weekend.” Teresa Taylor, Butthole Surfers Drummer and Face of Generation X, Dies at 60 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

The vivid, metallic pieces that ran through a sober Burberry Prorsum show were a smart way of lightening up the collection’s serious side. Fiscal Crisis Seems Far Away at Milan’s Men’s Wear Shows 2012-06-24T18:23:58Z

Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies, though, had shown that a more sober approach was not necessarily box office poison. The Godfather – but with chimpanzees: on set with War for the Planet of the Apes 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

At its worst, "Californication" comes on like a series about an addict created by addicts, but without the harsh clarity that sober hindsight provides. "Californication's" atrocious masculine fantasy 2011-01-10T16:30:00Z

The stories of these double survivors make up part of Charles Pellegrino’s sober and authoritative new book, “The Last Train From Hiroshima.” 2010-01-20T05:19:00Z

I wouldn’t necessarily recommend devouring “The Devouring” the way I did, mostly sober and with my mother. At These High-End Dinner Theaters, Classics Come With Crudités 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

There is a mythic component to the sobering and revealing mirror her circumstances now hold up to our culture. The Cruel Paradox of Linda Evangelista’s Fate 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

This movie ends with the artist marking eight months sober and finding some fulfillment in teaching. ‘Jurassic Punk’ Review: Making Digital Dinosaurs Walk 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

A few weeks ago, The Financial Times published a sobering essay on an urgent subject: loneliness in the time of Covid. ‘Wintering’ Offers Hopeful Perspective on Embracing Difficult Times 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Aaron Carter often spoke openly about his addiction and mental health issues, and said earlier this year that he had been sober for five years. Stars and fans remember Aaron Carter, lamenting ‘curse’ of childhood fame 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z

One time she stayed sober for two months, working in a local laundromat in her old neighborhood, folding and fluffing. My heroin addict friend: 'When Shelly starts using again, I will be there for her' 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

The documentary shows how your father didn’t really get clean until after the reality show, but didn’t “The Osbournes” present him as if he were already sober? ArtsBeat: Tribeca Q&A: Jack Osbourne on 'God Bless Ozzy Osbourne' 2011-04-26T13:34:00Z

It’s an old story, I guess, of two sober addicts talking each other into using again, and it’s a relief to know that I definitely don’t have to worry about with my wife. My non-addict wife 2012-09-30T13:00:00Z

The only full-blown composition was Paul Motian’s “Victoria,” a sober hymn whose melody unfurled on both piano and bass, in slow-drift octaves. Review: Eric Revis Trio Lets the Music Lead the Way at the Jazz Gallery 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

My mother's ex-partner got dry at a treatment centre she still describes as a hellhole, and came back into our lives sober. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z

Grand Slam Scene: After Rudy Stein disobeys his manager by swinging away instead of “leaning into” a pitch, we see this sobering moment in the dugout between Buttermaker and the kids. The Top 10 Baseball Films of All Time 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

But you can say this for the actor-turned-director’s serious, stone-cold sober interpretation of Mowgli & Co’s rousing narrative: It is not your father’s "Jungle Book." “Mowgli” review: Welcome to the Jungle (Book) 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Crimson, cobalt and pine contrasted soothingly with more sober grays and black. Milan Fashion Week starts on somber note 2013-01-13T00:01:07Z

Perhaps the most sobering takeaway from all of this is the realization that bad science will always be with us, but that doesn’t mean that science is bad. Perspective | How to survive a pandemic? Courage, resiliency and resistance to bad ideas. 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

And because so many people meet at bars and clubs, your options if you’re sober are significantly fewer. My non-addict wife 2012-09-30T13:00:00Z

Sawyer appeared on a recent catch-up episode of Catfish, where she admitted she was living in a sober living facility as she struggled with a drug addiction. 'Catfish' Star Ashley Sawyer Dies at 23 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

“What was the longest you were ever sober before that?” Tom Sizemore, Intense Actor With a Troubled Life, Dies at 61 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

“I was a caring, responsible father to all of these kids. But I was drinking the night before and being a drunk on the side,” he said, adding: “I found a way to get sober.” Actor Ralph Waite, patriarch on ‘Waltons,’ dies at 85 2014-02-14T05:15:51Z

Its prose can be sober, even urgent, but is also peppered with abundant sly humor. E. M. Broner, Jewish Feminist, Dies at 83 2011-06-23T05:09:08Z

This is a more sober book than his previous food memoir, “Heat.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

His mind newly on these sensible, sober and seriously professional things, Rupert tells me he does not even worry about his looks. Rupert Everett: 'Sex is over. I'm not motivated by it any more' 2013-04-21T07:30:01Z

In addition to the portraits, the show includes a sobering timeline of the history of incarceration, labor and education in the United States. Artist works with prisoners, their children 2010-08-23T18:01:00Z

“Black Swans,” a collection of autobiographical stories written after Babitz got sober. Review | A new look at Eve Babitz: Artist, provocateur and unlikely feminist icon 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

But for me and, I imagine, others, that inspirational symbolism will be overlaid by the sobering, still-fresh memories of the blood-splattered street where bombs exploded at the finish line of last month’s marathon in Boston. Art Review: ‘The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi,’ at the Met 2013-05-16T19:09:59Z

Choreographed and performed by Seattle's Sheri Brown, Diana García-Snyder and Alan Sutherland, it's a loving parody of a dance form that usually takes a more sobering approach to wayward human hungers and desires. Review: Daffy humor and high artistry kick off Butoh festival 2011-06-04T16:45:05Z

Whenever I did try to get sober, I’d find myself feeling even more sensitive, weak, and fragile then I’d been in the first place. Pain management 2012-11-08T21:57:00Z

As for his living-meme Ben Franklin tattoo, he insists he was sober when he got it, not long after he’d decided to become a rapper, but long before fans had really taken to him. Meet Blueface, the Self-Aware Rapper Who Knows He’s More Than a Meme 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

A 2005 post titled “Being Poor” was a simple, sober list that included “Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away” and “Being poor is people surprised to discover you’re not actually stupid.” In ‘Redshirts,’ John Scalzi Gives Expendables a Life 2012-07-06T22:52:40Z

Mr. Zimerman, though playing with exquisite technique and élan, looks sober and mature. In Praise of Bernstein as Conductor: Movement That Mesmerized 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

It’s sobering to be reminded that as late as 1973, a male culture writer for The Village Voice was arrested for holding another man’s hand as they crossed a street in Greenwich Village. Harvey Fierstein Sings the Song of Himself in ‘I Was Better Last Night’ 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

Finally she realized that if she were going to have any chance at a normal life, she’d have to get sober. Is your kid an addict? 2012-09-27T21:25:00Z

Then, a few years ago, she got sober. “This is about a woman learning to trust her gut”: Sarah Hepola on “Blackout” and the lessons of sobriety 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Should I be offended that after I tried on this confection, availing myself of heels to prevent hem drag, a helpful but sober salesman spirited it into a backroom, as if to inspect for damage? Critical Shopper: For Kors, the Glow Doesn?t Fade 2011-04-13T22:39:07Z

As for why, exactly, he lied, Thicke says that he “had a drug and alcohol problem for the year” and “didn’t do a sober interview.” Robin Thicke Admits He Didn't Really Write "Blurred Lines," Was High in the Studio 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

With the horrible potential latent in anti-Semitism ever more apparent, any performance or hearing of this work must be cause for sober reflection, not mere mindless pleasure. Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ Has More Humanity Than Anti-Semitism 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

While mulling dunderheaded strategies to rebrand PGM, Shiv receives a sobering phone call from her assistant: all of the top divorce lawyers in New York have "conflicted out," refusing to represent her. "Succession": The Roy family wails through a loveless karaoke night 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

“Amid the book reviews in the LRB by critics determined to sound sober and certain, as if they were museum docents, her reviews and essays admitted doubt,” our critic Dwight Garner writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

But some current references strike meaningful chords, as when added to Homer's famous listing of Trojan War ships, and in a quietly sobering recitation of the major wars waged over the centuries. Theater review: 'An Iliad' proves an ancient tale can still be meaningfully and well-told 2010-04-15T20:08:00Z

I spent my nights trying to learn how to dance while sober. Pushed Into the Future When Illness Strikes (in an Unlikely Place) 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The next morning he’s sobered up and everything is back to normal, because everyone knows that Artie blows a gasket like this every year without fail. 'Raw, sad, hilarious': how Rip Torn lit up TV with The Larry Sanders Show 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

“Was there a sober person caring for your daughter?” another person commented. Mom tricks daughter, 6, into going to bed early on New Year's Eve to get 'wasted' with friends 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

But it’s still sobering to hear, in her own words, how clearly she saw the disparities and how deeply she felt them. Review: Newman and Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. Movie Star 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Sandra is an ordinary person in mundane circumstances, but her story, plainly and deliberately told, is suspenseful, sobering and, in the original, fear-of-God sense of the word, tremendous. ‘Two Days, One Night,’ From Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

His new album, “Reunions,” due May 15, includes “It Gets Easier,” a howling barroom stomp about the ongoing challenges of staying sober. Jason Isbell, Self-Doubt and the Album That Tested His Marriage 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

I took a cab back to Fenway and packed my father into the car and drove three hours north, sobering up as I went. I took my dead father to a Red Sox game 2013-03-09T15:00:00Z

He is something of a raconteur, and enjoys the fact that during the recording of an album the rest of the band will remain sober while he merrily boozes. The National: 'Our songs are about death – but in really fun ways' 2013-05-10T06:00:10Z

The “Années” as written track a more unexpected trajectory, ending not with bombast but with the third suite’s sober “Sursum Corda.” Music Review: Liszt Suites of Travel, United as a Journey 2011-03-11T23:45:19Z

I should have stayed sober, but being the alcoholic I was not aware I was at the time, as soon as I completed “T2,” I went right back to my old ways. "Terminator 2" made — and almost ended — Robert Patrick's career 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

Similarly, she loves the way that Johnson published four novels, a poetry collection, a book of stories and a screenplay in the decade after he got sober. Leslie Jamison’s Memoir Finds Its Footing in Sobriety 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

He survived cancer, and has been sober and devoutly Christian for six years, he said. Up Close: Making Peace by Serving Wings 2010-10-13T23:51:00Z

As if to underscore the point, he closes the album with a sober, chiming soliloquy, interpreting Thelonious Monk’s “ ’Round Midnight” as if by sacred rite. Review: ‘Press Enter,’ From the Pianist and Composer Romain Collin 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

Having developed that character, though, and lived it himself on and off, he sobered up, married his musical collaborator Kathleen Brennan, and raised a family on a farm in northern California. Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns 2010-05-01T23:11:00Z

Presumably it’s some part of you, even though she’s doing things that you would never do if you were sober. The drunkard’s loop: How one writer fought her way back from blackout alcoholism 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

The final moments of “Lady Bird” are more sobering. Why ‘Real Women Have Curves’ Never Got Its ‘Lady Bird’ Moment 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

His “sober” dresses, presented like religious robes on the runway, yet split down one side, have been worn on stage by the singer Beyoncé. Fashion and the Power of the Pulpit 2013-07-15T12:12:14Z

All that remained was for a newly sober Cassie to try and protect herself and finally tidy up her messy life as a few last twists played out. Kaley Cuoco Thanks You for Flying With ‘The Flight Attendant’ 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Vacationing sober, Ms. Zesati said, has completely changed her travel experience. Hold the Tequila. The Sunrise Is All Some Travelers Need. 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

More sober styles included suit jackets with zipper fastenings. Vuitton brings intergalactic vibes to close of Paris Fashion Week 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

To keep his family going, he worked in the mines, and got sober and became religious. The Zamrock Band Witch Lost All but One Member. Its Singer Carries On. 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

The choices are a bit more sober than some of the previous ones. ArtsBeat: Some More Unusual Company for Admiral Nelson 2011-01-14T17:50:49Z

It signals fresh beginnings and healthy, sober lifestyle choices. A stick-to-your ribs breakfast salad to start your day right 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

One lesson of her book is that “sober” always requires a qualifier. A Mother’s Pain, a Daughter’s Addiction 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Gorman's recitation was met with rhapsodic praise from celebrities, artists, and political organizations alike, who took to Twitter to express their own thoughts on her sober, yet hopeful outlook. Meet Amanda Gorman, the powerful poet laureate who voiced our hope for a unified, better America 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

So I went to meetings and to sober dances. 'I was fresh meat': how AA meetings push some women into harmful dating 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

The exchange is refreshing for its candor, sobering for its continued relevance and useful for what it says about Mr. Bowie’s sense of social awareness. How David Bowie Challenged MTV on Race 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

“There’s nothing that I won’t talk about in relationship to my sobriety because the honesty has to be complete and total,” says Zimmern, now 28 years sober. Andrew Zimmern moves from entertainer to advocate on his new MSNBC food show 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

When Hamza’s hospital is bombed, it is observed with sober understatement: “Targeting hospitals breaks people’s spirits.” ‘My daughter was raised during the siege of Aleppo. I had to make a film for her’ 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z

And he died sober, but the damage done was debilitating. For Some in A.A. and Other Addiction Recovery Groups, the Death of Philip Seymour Hoffman Hits Home 2014-02-07T22:41:52Z

I’ve sometimes wanted Jared Angle to be a tad less sober onstage, but here he finds notes of joy, melancholy and despair. Dance: An Illuminating Swan, Then a Pure-Dance End 2010-02-17T23:34:00Z

That links the sober, meditative “Willy B” to another sculpture in the exhibit, “Apology,” showing a Japanese man in a business suit on his knees with his eyes half-closed and his head bowed. Noted Seattle artist’s final show reveals he was vibrant to the end 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

The emerging polemic is increasingly urgent and sobering, albeit less emotionally involving than it began. Two brothers, one Christian, one Muslim, try to bridge their worlds in 'Bars and Measures' 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

One of the sobering things about this documentary looking at the sexual exploitation and internal trafficking of children, though, was its lack of unequivocally happy endings. Radio review: Safe and Sound 2011-03-21T08:00:04Z

Manafort cut a sober but swaggering figure as he entered the courtroom in a dark pinstriped suit. The Revealing Excesses of Paul Manafort’s Wardrobe 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

So, while this exhibition is fun, it marks the end of an era, and the questions it indirectly raises about the future of toys and the shaping of children’s minds are sobering to contemplate. Review: ‘Swedish Wooden Toys’ Mix Ingenuity and Education 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Which is not to say The View is going to remake itself as a sober, high-minded policy show. ABC Blows Up The View 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

After Jolie filed for divorce, Pitt became sober, according to the actor, attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Burning questions about the Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt lawsuit 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

End of that year, I got sober in a 12-step recovery program. After working as a call girl, she went to Capitol Hill to make a difference 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

At the gala the night before, Marilynne Robinson struck a sobering note when she accepted the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Garrison Keillor is coming to town 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

As a creative means to try to keep Mewes sober, the two launched the podcast “Jay & Silent Bob Get Old” in 2010. The Not-So-Silent Friendship of Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

Almost all of the addicted doctors it sees – like Simon – are sober after six months, and 90% of those will continue to be so five years later. Why doctors hide their own illnesses 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

“They were sober and we had these happy adult relationships. My parents always loved me. They weren’t bad people.” Their Story Wrote Itself 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

With catastrophic climate change bearing down on us, nuclear power has been promoted by some as an obvious solution, but this sobering history urges us to look hard at that bargain for what it is. ‘Atoms and Ashes,’ a Frightening Tour of Six Nuclear Accidents 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

One of Hayes’ aims on this tour is to get back to the roots of Irish music, perhaps reflecting a more general atmosphere of “sobering up” that permeates post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. No Paddywhackery at Martin Hayes show, just real Celtic 2013-03-08T18:10:47Z

His photographic career abruptly ended by 1972 when he moved to Memphis to sober up after struggling with alcoholism for quite some time. On Set with Celebrity Photographer Jack Robinson 2012-01-18T15:18:12Z

She has now been sober for three months. Hold the Tequila. The Sunrise Is All Some Travelers Need. 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

Giving this a sobering spin, the gallery has provided a copy of an artist’s book by the art world muckraker Hans Haacke called “Der Pralinenmeister” or, in English, “The Chocolate Master.” Art in Review: ?Sammlung Ludwig: Art of the Sixties? and ?The Chocolate Master? 2011-03-17T23:26:25Z

The hostage situation at a Texas synagogue last month was a sobering reminder of hatred with a long history. Review: A ‘Merchant of Venice’ That Doubles Down on Pain 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

“I thought, well, ok. I mean, I’m all dressed. I might as well still go. But it was incredibly sobering,” she said. Governors Awards honoree Geena Davis on advocacy and equity 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

I think that my whole work is sautéing my brain in the darkest stuff imaginable, and I can do that because I'm sober; I don't drink anymore. "That is the David Carr way": Erin Lee Carr on writing fearlessly on grief, addiction and her father 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

“It was the first time I ever saw her sober,” Mr. Mendes recalled. Teddy Geiger Tried Teen Pop Fame. Now She’s Back on Her Own Terms. 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

On this bloodletting, emotionally raw track, DMX confronts his troubled upbringing, his time in various institutions and his addictions with a sober eye. DMX: Hear 10 Essential Songs 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

For example, in NBC’s version, Mr. Mulaney’s character had gotten sober at a young age, just as the comedian did in real life, but that got lost in the transition to Fox. The Stealth Success of John Mulaney 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

Having recently watched this re-enacted in a movie, Nic, now 36 and eight years sober, struggled for a moment as he sought the right words to describe the disembodied way it made him feel. Fathers and Sons, Reliving on Film the Pain of Addiction 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

For the reader, it’s all exhilaratingly topsy-turvy, as Taubes’s first two sections are alight with literary fireworks while the last two sections settle surprisingly into more sober prose. Review | Susan Taubes’s recently reissued ‘Divorcing’ is as haunting as ever 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

The question of how to respond to the accruing and sobering reminders of our own mortality prompts two diverse responses. My parents drink far too much. What can I do? | Mariella Frostrup 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t it be fine,” Lynn begins, “if you could say you love me just one time with a sober mind?” Loretta Lynn’s New Album, and the Trail She Blazed in Country Music 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Appleton added that sober months like Dry January help people evaluate their relationship with alcohol. Does 'Dry January' actually improve your health? 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

I'm a recovering alcoholic, and got sober with the help of my family at a time when it threatened my life. Perspective | Recovering alcoholic needs support, and she’s unwilling to give it 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

PBS celebrates Native American heritage this month with programming that includes this sobering look at the United States’ forceful separation of children from their families in the 20th century. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Latin History for Morons’ and ‘Full Frontal With Samantha Bee’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

In fact, Mr. Williams got sober at 29, and Mrs. Williams at 25, after he commented, “You know, you’re a good agent, but you’d be really good if you stopped drinking.” The Power Brokers of Beverly Hills 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

He is now on antidepressants and – following substance abuse in his 20s – sober. Later-in-life virgins – ‘At my age, it becomes a red flag’ 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

The reality of a rock star's story is often more sobering than the fantasy built around them. “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” is stranger than nonfiction 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

In his New York Times review Glenn Kenny called the movie “sober, meticulous and entirely convincing in its depiction of period and mortality.” Elusive Vampire Film Steps Out of the Shadows 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

He was a sober and sobering presence, but like Lollapalooza itself, his popularity just keeps growing. Lollapalooza closes on high note 2011-08-08T02:22:00Z

Douglas' lawyers have argued he deserves 3 1/2 years in prison at most and he, too, is looking forward to redeeming himself and leading a sober life once he's out. The NYC downfall of Hollywood heir Cameron Douglas 2010-04-13T16:56:00Z

The memorial to Holocaust victims, with its sobering galleries and artifacts, inspires the sort of quiet contemplation more associated with houses of worship than art museums. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum adopts new rules to attract digital generation

This is as about as much fun as you can have sitting on your couch sober with your clothes on. Scream Queens: Glee creator is back with a frighteningly funny horror show 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

But now we get episode 3, the season’s most sobering installment, and so its most elegant in its handling of the war. Downton Abbey Watch: Missing In Action 2012-01-23T14:00:44Z

I asked him to leave until he could guarantee he would come back sober and ready to address whatever inside him was compelling him to check out. From poster mom to pariah 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

The next day came a sobering tour of Old Havana, from its colonial roots to its modern turmoil. In Cuba, as an uncertain future inches closer, it’s still a step back in time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

A poetic tribute to African-American resilience, proclaiming joy and pride in the accomplishments of artists, athletes, leaders and thinkers, along with a sober acknowledgment of the suffering of a people. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

It's mildly pleasant to see Cox and Arquette work their shtick together, and Campbell manages to keep her sober, haunted demeanor intact throughout the silliness. "Scream 4": More meta than ever! And almost as much fun 2011-04-14T00:35:00Z

Unlike some women in country music – and indeed unlike the heroines of many of her songs – she dressed conservatively and had a sober and scandal-free life. Kitty Wells obituary 2012-07-17T11:27:20Z

So when it went down the way that it did, it was a sobering experience. Their Shows Flopped. Here’s What These 7 Actors Did Next. 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

There are those of any nationality who prefer their music making simple and sober and ego free. Ren? Jacobs?s Harmonia Mundi CDs and DVDs 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z

"He was trying so hard to get clean and sober," Boole added. 'Taxi,' 'Grease' star Jeff Conaway dies at 60 2011-05-27T19:32:29Z

“Good idea!” the avatar tends to respond in a sober yet admiring tone. The audience controls the action in ‘Happy Hour,’ and, yes, you get a drink 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

“He’s been clean and sober for almost two years now. It’s a huge win for him but also for the whole family,” Estevez says with, it seems fair to assume, some understatement. Emilio Estevez: ‘Brat Pack will be on my tombstone’ 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

In the wake of the latter’s victory, it has morphed into a sobering look at the many troubling aspects of Trump’s ensuing reign. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

And so rather than Scout’s rite of passage, the play is Atticus’s, as he is wrenched from his faith in the goodness of humankind toward a more sober assessment of the limits of human decency. Review | Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is here, and Jeff Daniels soars as Atticus Finch 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

When I got sober, twenty years ago, there was a magazine article in Esquire, written by Tom Chiarella, where he outed himself to his editor and family that he was a Vicodin addict. Jamie Lee Curtis Has Never Worked Hard a Day in Her Life 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

Worlds away from the sober dark comedy of “Transparent,” “Mozart” seems at first glance to be a fanciful exercise in magical realism. ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ an Amazon Series 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

And I had no idea what to do with my sober self. Augusten Burroughs: “What did normal people do when they stopped drinking?” 2013-04-23T00:00:00Z

When I was kid, I was a sober raver. The New Club Kids 2010-11-19T23:56:00Z

If you’re so inclined, you can attend a 6 A.M. sober rave. Kava and the Rise of Healthy New York 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

And, yes, a figure of 30 percent waste worldwide is sobering. Exhibition Review: ‘Our Global Kitchen,’ at American Museum of Natural History 2012-11-24T00:51:08Z

Returning home after 15 years in the United States, Christian is a newly sober drunk dragging an arsenal of anger and resentment. Review: A Long-Buried Family Secret Explodes in ‘The Daughter’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

At its release, “Network” earned the disdain of the TV news business for depicting the industry as an arena where furious passion and uninhibited anger could supplant sober fact. Stage Version of ‘Network,’ Starring Bryan Cranston, Sets Broadway Opening 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

But to sober ears it all sounds a little sandpapered. This week's new tracks 2012-08-24T23:06:00Z

On the night she’s attacked, she stays sober because she’s planning to return to work but then falls victim to a spiked drink. Review: Michaela Coel Is Riveting in ‘I May Destroy You’ 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Another guest told a female “hostess” that she looked too sober, gave her some alcohol, and told her: “I want you to down that glass, rip off your knickers and dance on that table.” Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

For sober sightseeing, Rose Pedals also offers tours of the Willamette waterfront. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Portland, Ore. 2011-08-25T19:45:39Z

The sobering proposition is to open huge swathes of the woodland to potential logging, energy and mining projects. The bear necessities in Alaska 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

Clean and sober now for 13 years, I'm still human. I got hooked on Uber Eats. Not as a customer — as a delivery driver 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

Each season of “The Good Place” hinges upon a defining “a-ha” moment, but this one is particularly sobering. None of us are getting in The Good Place: NBC's comedy exposes the impossibility of virtue today 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

“Most of us did not get sober just to go to meetings all the time,” she said. Not the Usual College Party (This One’s Sober) 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

But the truth is that there have been a lot of miracles in my life since getting sober. My own sober miracle 2013-01-12T16:00:00Z

The sober truth, some of which emerges elsewhere in the book, is that the relationships between genes and most psychiatric diseases are still far from clear. A Nobel Laureate Asks What Makes a ‘Disordered Mind’ 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

It’s sobering to grapple with the ways we might unwittingly contribute to the mammals’ demise, like by eating commercially caught seafood. 15 books to read this fall 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

There were sobering statistics that backed up Biden’s calls for a cultural shift. What I learned from the White House's first summit on women 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

The inclusion of a sober, careful rumination on this subject would provide a crucial addition to such a heavy tome of analysis. Perspective | Burrowing deep into many rabbit holes of Mark E. Smith and the Fall 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

I almost died in the week before I started this sober journey for myself. A family dinner is never actually about how good the food is, says Andrew Zimmern 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a New York University history professor who studies dictators, says Biden is unlikely to attract a mass following of “die-hard fans” because his sober style represents a return to political normality after Trump. Is there such thing as a Joe Biden superfan? 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

“Despite its madcap romps, ‘Lady in Waiting’ can make for sobering reading, and the downside of this privileged life, with its potential for tragedy, looms,” Alida Becker writes in her review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

When he did get sober, in the ’80s, shortly after the birth of Isaiah, he joined an evangelical group and, for a while, traded tattooing for preaching. A Tragedy in the Tattoo Parlor 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The most sobering truth in this book is that truth is not persuasive, because beliefs are impervious to facts. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

Today I can see how my lack of a filter while writing about trying to get sober could actually be helpful or inspiring or life-saving to somebody. Augusten Burroughs: “What did normal people do when they stopped drinking?” 2013-04-23T00:00:00Z

But eventually, Moore says, competition reached a level so fierce it paid to stay sober. The world’s cornhole elite, chasing that one perfect toss 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

I cured it … with my mind … I can’t use the word sober because that's a term from those people, and I have cleansed myself. Charlie Sheen commits career suicide 2011-02-25T15:26:00Z

I do many other things to stay sober, a day at a time. Mirror: Teacher: Experience Needed 2011-03-11T17:26:35Z

She told the magazine that she had been sober for nearly four years. Amanda Bynes, Former Child Star, Is Released From Conservatorship 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

The annual ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival is a workout for the emotions, full of both triumphant movies about overcoming adversity and sobering ones about struggle and loss. Amid Challenges, Humanity Arises 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

“High as Hope” is the first album she’s made from both a sober and emotionally uplifted place. ‘I Never Thought I Would Talk About It.’ So Florence Welch Put It in a Song. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

How we view a man Olusanmokun portrays as serene, sober and wise is forever changed. "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" shows how war muddles the moral compass of two of its crew 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

The man, Chris Freeman, says he’s staying sober, and Graham approves. Reciting Walt Whitman at a Drug Court in Alabama 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

The sober, finely painted portraits contrast with Cuba's dilapidated buildings and pot-holed streets, colorful vintage cars and peeling pink, apricot and turquoise paint on eclectic architecture. Havana walls brought to life with murals of wide-eyed children 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Floyd’s family filed into the memorial service at North Central University in Minneapolis wearing their dignified mourning fashion: dark suits and sober dresses. Perspective | George Floyd was an ordinary man. His memorial was a reminder of that simple, powerful fact. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

We must change in order to stay sober, not to be excused from past misdeeds. Russell Brand is evolving his next gig: Cult leader 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z

In Barking in east London, he notes "robust" recent terraced houses by some less famous architects whom he describes as "sober brick austerity types". A New Kind of Bleak by Owen Hatherley – review 2012-07-06T07:00:01Z

Now, with Britain a very different place and bassist Mani – still in the Stone Roses when Screamadelica was released – admitting the sober band are "a bunch of old men", they do their finest hour justice. Primal Scream ? review 2011-03-15T18:23:03Z

They get to post photographs of themselves drunk, sober, recumbent and upside-down. To the internet giants, you're not a customer. You're just another user 2013-06-08T23:05:23Z

Moreover, Tabloid may well be Morris's swansong, a sobering thought for the man whose career has forged a decisive change in the direction of American . Errol Morris: two sides to every scandal 2011-03-10T22:34:01Z

That’s a deeply sobering marker but one that has no place in “12 Strong,” which starts as a recruitment ad before settling into a tense, unremittingly brutal combat movie. Review: ‘12 Strong’ Believes in the Brotherhood of Battle 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

I met Zachary’s mother at an AA meeting when I had just gotten sober and was still psychologically wobbly. My son, the repeat offender 2013-01-24T18:16:00Z

Ms. Carpenter stepped away from alcohol because of her family history with addiction, going sober for six months in early 2018 and taking steps to reduce her consumption ever since. Among the Sober and ‘Sober Curious’? Your Bartender 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the summer of 2020 that the tragic nature of this obscure door resonated with the sobering reminder on the marquee. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

After being arrested twice for drink driving and ordered to wear an ankle monitoring device, Morgan said it took tough talk from his then-teenage son to sober him up. Tracy Morgan critical but responsive 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

But he declined to explain how he stayed sober: “I don’t really discuss how I live my life in that regard. I have my system that works for me.” Taylor Hawkins, Foo Fighters’ Drummer, Dies at 50 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

A visitor may need help finding the enormous yet sober children’s area one level down from the street. A Glowing Shrine to the Printed Word 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

First published in France in the late 1970s and now collected for the first time in English, Nicole Claveloux’s comics are both psychedelic and deeply sober. Psychedelic Comics Like Beautiful Tattoos 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Sanger said he was sobered by offering seven leading American orchestras a chance at a $50,000 grant for a new work by an emerging female composer: Only three of the orchestras bothered to apply. Perspective | Female composers are making great strides. The classical music world isn’t helping them. ​ 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

A sober man is not easy for a drinking man to trust. "Peaky Blinders" and Tommy Shelby's perceived crime of sobriety 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

It also shows the personal cost of pitting yourself against an authoritarian regime, making "Ai Weiwei" a sobering, cautionary tale. 14 top entertainment picks for the week beginning Aug. 5-11, 2012 2012-08-01T21:20:05Z

Nancy Cripe’s son Stephen had been clean for several months, living in a sober house, when he relapsed. Sins of the mother: I blame myself for my son's overdose 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Brittany told Fox News that the couple met when they were 19 years old and living in a sober living house. Couple renews vows after $100K divorce proceedings: 'Extremely rare' 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

It's because she's nine-days sober and her body is adjusting to sleeping free of depressants, but haven't we all felt like crawling behind a row of cereal boxes to sack out at some point recently? "Single Drunk Female" isn't just sobriety TV. It's a show that makes recovery feel universal 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

The effect is alternately informative, sobering and weirdly optimistic and ineffably touching. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

To this surreal, almost post-apocalyptic scene, a remarkably sober addition has recently arrived. How social housing in Manchester has reinvented the back-to-back 2012-12-18T15:39:19Z

In sober, restrained language, he exposes the full gravity of corruption in China. To have and to hold 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

I was intoxicated and u guys were sober and could have stopped at any time. Derrick Rose rape case: alleged victim's lawyers call for NBA to investigate 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The installation is a sobering, real-world intrusion into an fantasyland where blood is more likely to be shown on a vampire’s fangs. In the galleries: The free-for-all that is Artomatic 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Discovering Buddhism and chanting a few years before I got sober at 47 was so powerful. Belinda Carlisle: ‘After my cocaine use, I can’t believe I’m not dead’ 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

Unless you need to sober up quickly, wait until morning to calculate the cost of that drink in your home currency. 36 Hours in Oslo 2013-06-12T16:47:14Z

She came on here for her last film, which was of course very sober, and she was just lovely as well. Nick Hornby gave up record stores for Spotify, cigarettes for vaping, and adapting his own books 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

Cultural traffic can move in the opposite direction, from sober to silly. Rise of the reboots gives new life to Rocky and Ghostbusters 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

This was also the soberest Golden Globes we've seen in a long time, and I have to admit, I miss my sauced celebrities. The Golden Globes' cringey attempts at diversity signaling was a joke 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Suddenly sober, he says, 'Perhaps there are already many thinking as we do. Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z

She has been sober for almost two years, now swapping substances for Peloton rides and organic meals, and has deleted most of the photos from her time deep in addiction, except for one. Hayden Panettiere, Hoping to Leave Her Struggles Behind, Is Back Onscreen 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

It's sobering, then, to recall that during its first half-century of existence, from the 1950s until the ascendance of slanted channels such as Fox News and MSNBC, TV news strove for fairness and objectivity. Ted Baxter pursued fame over journalism – but unlike today’s pundits, he didn't corrupt the news 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z

And near the end, Beatrice and Lucia’s vocal lines quiver and swoop like birds around a low, sober, sonorous chorale. At This Summer’s Aix Festival, the Only Laughter Is Bitter 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

She showed me a selection of paintings she made while sober. Nan Goldin Survived an Overdose to Fight the Opioid Epidemic 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Now, more than a decade after I quit the dungeon, and nearly 14 years sober, I have no regrets. From dominatrix to professor: ‘I didn’t want my students to imagine me tying men up’ 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wright’s sober, measured screen presence makes a sharp, dissonant contrast to his reference to both radical Islam and Jonestown, words that cut through his delivery like Klaxon horns. Review: Alex Gibney Takes On Scientology in ‘Going Clear’ 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

After a few personal crises, he sobered up. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z

“After a steak dinner with Ruben and a stroll along El Dorado Street, Billy Tully went back to the Oxford Hotel, where he had been sleeping, sober and alone, for the past week.” In California, Finding ‘Fat City’ With the Man Who Wrote It 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

“Katie in ‘Tree’ is a much more sober sort of person,” she said. Martha Wright, Who Played Leading Roles in Beloved Musicals, Dies at 92 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Ms. Jones has made the magazine much more inclusive, putting Lena Waithe on the cover and giving the interior pages a sober redesign. It Was the Hottest Oscar Night Party. What Happened? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Happy to share my orifices, but fantasies were a step too far – at least when I was sober. Want good sex? Get married 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

It attracted a record audience for a one-off TV and is a sombre, sober, unsentimental work about chance fate, the arbitrary horrors of war and people trapped in a bureaucratic machine. The Execution of Private Slovik 2012-05-26T23:05:31Z

In the sober light of day, the flaws here seem to glare and screech; under the right conditions, this is cheery genre fun. Some Guy Who Kills People – review 2012-10-04T20:30:02Z

He’s clumsy and ill at ease, an introvert with no social skills, but the cardinal has heard that he’s also good with newly sober people. I am cuckoo, but hope is coming 2012-12-12T21:01:00Z

She says Phoenix was – as far as she knows – sober during their time together, “but I was very young then. In the days before he died, though, I knew something was going on.” The untold story of lost star River Phoenix – 25 years after his death 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Jamie Lee Curtis, sober for two decades, appeared on the cover of Variety’s “recovery” issue in November. Ben Affleck Tried to Drink Away the Pain. Now He’s Trying Honesty. 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

With soft multicolored gradients layered beneath animated confetti or Doge heads, Partiful’s interface looks less like the sober grids of its competitors and more like the blurry experience of spinning across a dance floor. Is This the Least Cringe Option to Get People to Your Party? 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Letts, who has been sober for nearly three decades, says he has no explanation for the last decade’s prolific spurt of writing. Tracy Letts Can’t Fight With His Playwright 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

An American alcoholic in Paris Topics: , , , Paris, , , Something odd occurred to me when I first got sober: “If I go to Paris, how will I not drink wine?” An American alcoholic in Paris 2012-10-11T22:37:00Z

It was only when I got sober and had seen all my friends die that I realised they had a point. Alice Cooper: ‘I want my shows to take you as far away as possible from politics’ 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

Terry, as it turned out, had been sober for five years at that point, so Tom thought he was God. I am cuckoo, but hope is coming 2012-12-12T21:01:00Z

It's sobering to remember that this is just a brief interlude. Humans may notice a chill in the air 2012-09-29T23:05:01Z

Karyn said, “I’m going to tell the sober people in my life to try this.” $75 for Three Minutes at Minus 230 Degrees? Sure, We’ll Try It 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

Ms. Murphy, dancing the duet with Mr. Stiefel, finely judged the nuances in which this work shifts from cartoon to sober realism. Dance Review: At Met, Ballet Theater?s Modified American Plan 2010-06-10T21:43:00Z

She was sober but clearly not well emotionally—even though she was a therapist. My son, the repeat offender 2013-01-24T18:16:00Z

The resulting ruin is spectacular — and a sobering reminder that nature’s flux, its evolution, can change speed without notice. Perspective | Sculpture parks are a great way to see art during a pandemic. Here’s why some are better than others. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

He locks eyes with his son, and Kristian returns his gaze with a look of sober appraisal. Dancing dads are the new darlings of social media. Here’s why we need more of them. 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Over the years these women have grown older, transiting the vain decade of their 20s and the more sober decade of their 30s, and slowly settling into the slough of middle age. Books of The Times: Helen Simpson?s ?In-Flight Entertainment? 2012-03-22T21:51:09Z

For poets, playwrights, editors, and actors from the seventeenth century through much of the nineteenth, Shakespeare’s language wasn’t intoxicating so much as intoxicated: it needed a sobering intervention. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

It was a sobering moment and a reflective one for Colbert, who clearly felt indebted to Moonves — a man he described as always sticking by "The Late Show." Stephen Colbert on accused CBS boss Les Moonves: Accountability must be for everybody 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

"The Influence Machine: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life" is a valuable and a sobering contribution to the study of power in American society. 'Influence Machine' reveals how U.S. Chamber of Commerce oils the engine of politics 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

As a recovering sports junkie, sober now for about five years, I couldn’t appreciate it more. REVIEW: The Fun in "Weird Al" Yankovic's New Album, Mandatory Fun 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

To respect religion properly we need to appreciate how different people relate to different beliefs in different ways, and that constant, sober piety is the exception, rather than the rule. Lourdes: realistic about religion 2010-04-07T11:00:00Z

Announcing her win, Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman praised her poems' "sober and clear-eyed serenity" and authority, and her strong reserve. Little-known 90-year-old wins $100,000 poetry award 2010-04-15T15:17:00Z

Magic was associated with religious fanaticism that was considered distasteful to sober, modern thinkers. Hello magic and witchcraft, goodbye Enlightenment 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Tommy is mostly the same, in other words – and even sober, an excellent shot. "Peaky Blinders" and Tommy Shelby's perceived crime of sobriety 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a story of a young couple in love, and they’re also in love with drinking, and they’ve never known what it’s like to be sober together. Aaron Paul on Breaking Bad's 'Darkest Season Yet' 2012-07-13T14:00:21Z

Her story might provide a sober perspective on the pitfalls and traps that such examinations entail. My mother and Trump’s border: America has been through this “extreme vetting” before 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

But it’s also sobering to consider Lee’s creative trajectory had he been tempted by the franchise behemoth earlier in his career. Perspective | Comic books have taken over the movies. Must they take our indie auteurs, too? 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

Louis-Dreyfus said: “I think that Veep has torn down the wall between comedy and politics. Our show started out as a political satire but it now feels more like a sobering documentary.” Fantasy made reality as Game of Thrones earns record Emmy haul 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

There is no empirical data which proves that AA helps alcoholics get sober or stay sober. Let me do sobriety my way 2012-08-18T16:00:00Z

In sober moments, it is clear to me that I am mad. Music of Remembrance honors Hans G?l 2011-11-02T21:03:04Z

The essay “Why Aren’t You Laughing?” delves into his memories of his alcoholic mother, both when she was sober and when she was drunk. Review | After nine books, what more could David Sedaris have to say? A great deal. 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

Where Boyle's previous film was embraced as a jubilant, rags-to-riches drama, his latest looks set to provide more sobering fare. Danny Boyle's 127 Hours to close London film festival 2010-08-13T14:13:00Z

When I was pretending to be the easy-breezy single gal, I was buying in to the general cultural perception that single people occupy some developmental netherworld between goofy teenagers and sober marrieds. When being single stopped being romantic 2014-04-18T12:30:00Z

This sobering documentary ties that law’s aftermath to current debates on immigration, inclusion and culture. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Arrested Development’ and ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

But in “Bare” as in “Wanderlust,” what starts as a renegade feminism gives way to a soberer truth. Memoirs of an Insatiable Traveler 2011-06-03T17:37:30Z

Fans of the sober German clock making tradition would do well to look up Erwin Sattler, a 54-year-old Bavarian firm known for producing table clocks, ship clocks, grandfather clocks and pendulum clocks. Finely Made Clocks Emerge as Connoisseur Favorites 2012-11-21T16:30:23Z

I don’t think sex on the first date dooms a relationship, and yet there’s a specialness in waiting until you’re comfortable enough with someone to get naked together while totally sober. Flowers, for me?! 2012-10-07T01:00:00Z

In November 2012, Ms. Hancock, now sober, moved back to New York, and soon resumed her college studies at N.Y.U., while Mr. Dexheimer moved to yet another treatment center, the Foundation House, in Portland, Me. The Long Road to Recovery, and Then the Altar 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

Only this time he’s clean and sober and stumbling down the road to redemption. The Week in Arts: Martha Graham, ‘Ink’ and Let’s Eat Grandma 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

The process now is a little more sober. Bridget Everett Gets Fitted for a Flaming ‘Tina Turner’ Dress 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

Together, they look like an artist-army: mature, sober, purposeful, full of ideas, ready to get great, which Mr. Marshall already is. Kerry James Marshall’s Paintings Show What It Means to Be Black in America 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

“I walked through the Holocaust Museum again today… very sobering,” Duggar wrote. Duggar daughter blames the Holocaust on evolution, then compares it to abortion 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

These pastiches — a British-style drinking ditty, a sober hymn, a sincere parlor song — are the most inspired moments in the opera, run through with dissonances and the creaking out-of-tune piano Mr. Maxwell Davies calls for. Music Review: ?The Lighthouse,? From Boston Lyric Opera 2012-02-09T23:07:11Z

I was thrilled; at a year sober, I wasn’t quite ready to leave my home group, my parents, and my sober network of friends. I was a sober college student 2012-09-23T16:01:00Z

Now four years sober, Loudermilk is content to be a curmudgeon. Perspective | These TV shows have figured out Gen X’s greatest gift to society: Grouchiness 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

The only bit of real noise occurs when Monsieur Racine’s monster is unveiled in Paris, causing a riot that recalls the sobering tribulations of France after the Nazis retreated. Review: Tomi Ungerer, Bad Boy of Art, in a Reappraisal 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

She settles on a slightly generic note of sober uplift, though there’s no hiding the crushing sadness implicit in at least some of the stories. Television Review: ‘All of Me,’ an Obesity Documentary on PBS 2014-03-23T22:42:24Z

Mr. Sanderson recalled “The Old Man of Metropolis” as one of Superman’s more sobering stories. Superman Turns 80. The Red Trunks Still Fit. 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

I stayed sober and my heart did heal. I was a sober college student 2012-09-23T16:01:00Z

In “The Death of Dreams,” Mirza recounts her dream of moving lightly, with playful asides, while still having sobering moments of introspection. ‘A Dozen Dreams’ Review: Eerie Memories Bring Magic to the Mall 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gober, in collaboration with the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, presents him with sober, tender attachment. Art Review: ?Paintings of Charles Burchfield? at the Whitney 2010-06-24T21:53:00Z

Developing such diagnostic advances is exactly what the World Health Organization called for this year in a sobering global analysis of antibiotic resistance. Science scores major victory in fight against antibiotic resistance 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

So a friend gave her the phone number and name of a sober woman who might be of help. Nancy Locke and Meredith Baxter: A Finish Worthy of Hollywood 2013-12-15T14:19:52Z

Returning sober and, in the middle of the pandemic, with her grandmother dying, she struggled to deliver. Leah McSweeney of ‘Real Housewives’ Takes a Cold Plunge 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine what a sober wedding would look like, or how it could possibly be fun. How I Survived Wedding Season in My First Year of Sobriety 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

The “Waldstein” in particular was shaping up to be something special, with the jangling nervous energy Mr. Biss imparted to the first movement giving way to a suitably grand and sober adagio. Music Review: Jonathan Biss Plays Beethoven at Caramoor 2013-07-14T22:25:22Z

Although I was stone cold sober, I am fairly certain that alcohol could only have an improving effect on this kind of entertainment. Embracing the chill in Jimmy Buffett's 'Escape to Margaritaville' 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

They were "completely sober" until about five years ago, right after the couple had their second and third children, twins, Brittany said. Couple renews vows after $100K divorce proceedings: 'Extremely rare' 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Though she got sober for about a year-and-a-half after her second prison term, she ended up relapsing. Former addict's astounding transformation to college graduate: 'Consider starting today' 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

That is a sobering description of American mainstream movies in the age of global media conglomerates. Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

By the end, Beth and her friend racked up 15 hugs and some sober wisdom. Teaching civility: two daring assignments

This is entirely by design since Jones and Cage are sober and more capable of enjoying each other’s company. ‘Jessica Jones’ Episode 3: You’re a Good Person 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

Some were merely hung over, others perfectly sober, but all were intoxicated by their class prerogatives. Brett Kavanaugh’s Ignominious Place in the Long Tradition of Ivy League Carousing 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

A sober man doesn't let his guard down. "Peaky Blinders" and Tommy Shelby's perceived crime of sobriety 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

But this week, the panel was left to discuss some sobering topics, as the president of the United States continued to flout democratic norms. WATCH: Adam Schiff and Killer Mike lament America’s declining democracy on “Real Time with Bill Maher” 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

Here, the memorial to the city’s 28-year division by concrete is much more sober. In Berlin, it’s a whole new city, but the Wall’s traces remain

The realization that he had neglected the people that mean the most to him — the ones who contribute the most to his mental health — was sobering. Vivek Murthy wants to fix our mental health crisis. But how much can he do? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

“My friend died sober,” said Paul Petersen, the actor, whose organization, A Minor Consideration, provides guidance and support to former child actors. Charles Herbert, Child Star Known for Roles in ‘The Fly’ and ‘13 Ghosts,’ Dies at 66 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

The music is polished, the melodies softly appealing, the lyrics straightforward and written in the sober, simple voices of the characters. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Boy Detective Fails? and ?The Hollow? at Signature Theater 2011-09-30T23:30:21Z

Here she is, only one year sober, enabling her live-in guy, who is drinking heavily and is not nice to her. Perspective | Ask Amy: Adopted sister keeps birth family a secret 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

Jackie is a onetime dealer, newly released from prison and trying to stay sober. | 'The ___________ With the Hat': A Love Not at a Loss for Words 2011-04-12T06:30:20Z

Your suits will be slim, denims unironed, ties blue and sober, footwear confined to Oxfords and the occasional driving shoe. The Ups and Downs of Fashion in 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Blunt and sobering, “The Force” is an account of a big-city police department in crisis. Review: ‘The Force’ Follows the Oakland Police From Crisis to Crisis 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

I was just sober enough to slur, “I’ve seen a man with a face” to my friends. Hookups, sexting and unwanted threesomes: first-time dating in the age of Tinder 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z

Were we scared back from that brink, sobered to our senses by the warning image of a mushroom cloud? How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z

The oldest member of the band by a decade or so, his tone of voice leans much more towards fun than sober descriptions of the band's form and function. About Group: Alexis Taylor swaps Hot Chip for jazz improv 2011-03-31T21:29:00Z

"ThrOwn," the most ambitious work on the program, will be more elaborately staged and far more sobering. Seattle's Whim W'Him is troupe of the moment 2012-01-11T22:03:04Z

It wasn’t a conscious choice to get sober. My boyfriend, the sex addict 2013-06-10T00:00:00Z

“Dig” is a more sober affair, and through three episodes it’s generally polished and intelligent. Review: On USA’s ‘Dig,’ a Murder Investigation Takes an Apocalyptic Turn 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The parts of the show I can’t talk about — the many audience participation sequences — are both its giddiest and most sobering. Review: ‘Privacy,’ a Play That Urges You to Keep Your Smartphone On 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

He got sober in 1983, after the failure of “The Man Who Had Three Arms,” which involved a man struggling with the price of celebrity. The Playwright and a Revival of His ?Lady From Dubuque? 2012-03-03T01:10:55Z

“Maybe it’s just not the right place for me,” Paul concluded of the Loft, which he left in favor of an apartment with a sober roommate, who he hopes will help in his recovery. Seeking Sobriety in Brooklyn 2011-04-06T19:37:02Z

But now that people are older, and more sober, there has to be forgiveness, and that’s the way I feel about it. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks on the #MeToo Moment and ‘The Post’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

The novel is “serious, sober and frequently mesmerizing,” according to our critic Dwight Garner. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

He turns sober as he speaks about that weekend and President Trump’s divisive response. Spike Lee Turns a Period Piece Into a Protest of the Trump Era 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

Later, during his stay in a sober, deaf community, he starts to realize it is a culture and a way of being, Ahmed said. In ‘Sound of Metal,’ a groundbreaking portrait of deafness 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

Mr. Byrne’s film is a sober, evenhanded recapitulation of Sands’s imprisonment and death that places him in a historical context. Review: ‘Bobby Sands: 66 Days’ Lionizes an I.R.A. Martyr 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

As for Mr. Serra, while he often enjoys playing the foppish provocateur in his interviews, his film is sober, meticulous and entirely convincing in its depiction of period and mortality. Review: ‘The Death of Louis XIV’ Has a Riveting Performance at Its Heart 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Hiking through Forest Canyon Pass, nearly 11,500 feet above sea level, is a little like jumping into an ice-cold pond: It’s sobering, invigorating and takes a little getting used to. In Boulder, Colo., Back to Nature at Very High Altitudes 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

When I speak to medical students about what happens to a doctor with an addiction who gets sober, they are astonished and happy. Letters: Letters 2011-05-13T23:31:32Z

Is sobriety a new L.A. fad — is sober the new drunk? “I’m not drinking right now”: Sometimes even non-alcoholics need to stop 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

The studio audience's relaxed compliance with this sober duty helped. Live from their homes: Late night hosts are back to show we're all in this together 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

To not waste the trip, I asked Jason Fangmann, a Cruzan tour guide biding his time as a security guard, to walk me through a more sober version of the experience. The U.S. Virgin Islands clean up for the holidays 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

After Clapton got sober two decades ago, he set up the Crossroads Centre for addiction in Antigua. Eric Clapton to rock KeyArena Saturday 2011-02-24T22:49:50Z

As the clock ticks to Tuesday’s deadline for American forces to leave Afghanistan, the arts and culture sector faces a sobering new reality. Perspective | Artists and cultural workers face life under Taliban 2.0 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z

These days Brand is a new man -- drug-free, sober and married to "Teenage Dream" singer Katy Perry. Russell Brand takes sobriety to new level in "Tempest" 2010-12-08T23:20:00Z

A random sample: The New England Journal’s rather more sober assessment? Bad news: Sex doesn’t burn that many calories 2013-02-01T13:30:00Z

It may sound medically impossible to get revved up about sober, middle-of-the-road think tanks like the Bipartisan Policy Center or the Center for Responsive Politics. America Has Gone Off the Rails. Steven Brill Sees Ways to Get It Back on Track. 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

You know as a sober person, and as an "out" sober person, there was something that so resonated with me about the deception of addiction. "I would have done it": Filmmaker on indentifying with the "How to Fix a Drug Scandal" perpetrators 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

And then there’s this sobering realization: If it weren’t for patriarchal constraints, perhaps Lambert, Brown, Oberlander and van Ginkel would be household names, each worthy of her own movie. ‘City Dreamers’ Review: The Female Architects Who Laid the Blueprint 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

“I’m not talking about the guy I first met. I’m talking about now: the sober, mature, grown-up dad Julian.” Julian Casablancas' Radical Reinvention 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

More sobering, though, is learning about the 81 British troops who still were killed that first Christmas of the war, and how such spotty cessations of hostilities weren’t repeated after 1914. London’s Imperial War Museum takes visitors back into the trenches 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

But there was no fight on Friday: Wilkins stayed sober and ramrod-straight, and the music’s eagerness gradually faded from the performance. NSO’s ‘New Moves’ festival closes with Jessica Lang and Leila Josefowicz

That was one moment for me — making my grandmother cry, getting this sober feeling at 5 — because I got this rush of adrenaline from feeling terrible. Sarah Silverman's not kidding ... maybe 2011-03-24T16:26:00Z

“The thing is, I don’t plan to go. I can’t square the sober man who helped me with the man who died of an overdose in his car in a parking lot,” he said. Man sparks Reddit debate by revealing he refused to attend sponsor's funeral after relapse 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

It is with this sobering reality in mind that, perhaps paradoxically, this list of the best political "Saturday Night Live" sketches of 2018 was compiled. 10 best "Saturday Night Live" political sketches of 2018 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

We took in the charred remains of the once-vibrant hills — now as bleak and barren as the remains of a barbecue — a sobering reminder of Sant’Antioco’s fragility. Explorer: The Island of Sant?Antioco, off Sardinia, Italy 2010-03-26T07:58:00Z

This, incidentally, is how to be a friend to a newly sober person. My name is Jack Monroe, and I’m an alcoholic. But now I’m recovering… 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z

I was now sober enough to know that something was very wrong. During a Night of Casual Sex, Urgent Messages Go Unanswered 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

When Gourdet recently appeared on "Salon Talks," we talked about the new season of Top Chef, how he got sober and tips for eating healthier at home. In "Everyone's Table," Gregory Gourdet shares healthy recipes and an amazing story of perseverance 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

The hardest part of being sober is explaining it to you. Perspective | I drank every day. What kind of effect was it having on my kids? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Yet hilarious though the play is, there are aspects of Bernard's character that are no laughing matter: "There's a big distinction between playing someone who is drunk and someone who was never sober," Powell says. Playing drunk: Now, what was I shaying? 2011-03-23T21:31:10Z

Many patients who are sent to traditional drug treatment programs that are abstinence-focused end up neither “clean and sober” nor receiving good psychotherapy. 8 reasons addiction carries a stigma 2012-12-09T16:00:00Z

He said that he had been sober ever since. John Bradshaw, self-help guru who led search for ‘inner child,’ dies at 82 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Enter the “sober curious”: those who drink less or not at all,and broadcast their abstinence with pride as a part of their social media personas. The rise of the sober curious: having it all, without alcohol 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

McBride served six years of his 11-year sentence before he was released and has recently operated a sober living house in addition to performing and recording with a reconstituted Fang. Texas Punk Rock, Straight From the Pit 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

It delivers the sobering message that being a physician does not confer upon you the ability to exist outside of life. Putting Down the Scalpel, Picking Up the Pen 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

He is one man who, if he is sober will behave one way, and if he is drunk will behave another. My dad’s gone off the rails 2012-11-07T01:00:00Z

But citing Aristotle, Adam Smith and James Madison, among others, he melds history, philosophy and ideology into a sobering vision of a society in an accelerating decline. Review: Noam Chomsky Focuses on Financial Inequality in ‘Requiem for the American Dream’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

“Those were simple flows of a 17-year-old,” he said, before transitioning to the second part, a sober reflection of his “five broken hearts” and a friend’s thoughts of suicide. Aml Ameen Competes in a Poetry Slam 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

We will never know why he started using again after such a long sober period. Philip Seymour Hoffman’s hard road to greatness 2014-02-03T17:30:00Z

Driving on a lonely road to a grotesquely extravagant three-day party, David, not quite sober and bickering with Jo, hits a young man, killing him instantly. Review | Grab your ear buds: Here are three great audiobooks to distract you from reality 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

But, for the most part, the filmmaking is staid, neither sober nor frenzied but conventionally brisk. Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” Reviewed 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

“She says that the ‘strongest argument’ in favor of some of the most fantastical sounding measures tends to be a sober realism: ‘What’s the alternative?’ 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

In the wake of the Texas blackout, it’s sobering to note how many of these artworks, even the ones that don’t move, required electricity. Review | In the galleries: A focus on the intersection of art and movement 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

In hindsight, it was “a little awkward,” Lewie said, as Mosey’s fan base didn’t relate to his emotionally charged lyrics, which, in the most sobering moments, carry heart-straining reflections on friends he’s lost. Seattle hip-hop is on a hot streak. Can it finally get the national respect it deserves? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Crosby is also grateful to be alive and sober. David Crosby, ‘rock’s unlikeliest survivor,’ is having a creative resurgence 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

That this is a brutal and disgusting chapter of American history goes without saying, and yet, Hirahara and Knatz treat it in a sober way. Naomi Hirahara, Geraldine Knatz recover L.A.'s hidden history in 'Terminal Island' 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Now you’re a happily remarried, sober, churchgoing Catholic living outside Cleveland. Talk: Joe Eszterhas Sure Cleaned Up 2012-02-02T22:07:16Z

That’s what happened over the weekend to a pair of probably totally sober Saint Patrick’s Day revelers in Delaware. A sex-in-public hall of fame 2014-03-18T23:00:00Z

“Nowadays in fact it’s probably a pretty sober one-piece I guess for what’s out there. And you’re wearing ears, which is pretty funny. It’s a cartoon situation.” Holy Cottontail! The Playboy Club Is Back Again 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Could a writer have timed a more sobering scene for a nation in turmoil? Perspective | John Lewis’s death was loss for us all. But the powerful Capitol service for him was a blessing. 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

So just what is it, this tart and sweet, bubbly and flat, intoxicating and sobering concoction being dispensed from the stage of the Music Box Theater? Review: ‘Shuffle Along’ Returns to Broadway’s Embrace 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

It will be his successors who write the story of how journalism met this moment, but Rusbridger’s early assessments are among his most sober. A Revolution for Journalism — or a Death Knell? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

I know people who are, like, “Oh, if I get sober, will I still be creative or weird?” Rob Delaney on Writing While Grieving and the Real Work of Comedy 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

His book is a bitter pill, a sobering corrective. Books of The Times: Bruce Cumings?s ?Korean War,? Corrective on Conflict 2010-07-21T21:41:00Z

Jeff, a jazz pianist, is a recovering alcoholic who is almost three years sober. ‘Fourth of July’ Review: Fraught Family Dynamics From Louis C.K. 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Her one-volume history is elegant, readable, sobering; it extends a steadying hand when a breakneck news cycle lurches from one event to another, confounding minds and churning stomachs. As the News Cycle Lurches, Jill Lepore Offers a Long, Steady View of American History 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

But the festival's cheerleaders cannot ignore the sobering underlying realities. 'Insanity' of Sundance 2011-01-20T03:26:49Z

Released in 1951, the book, with its sober mien, dutiful meter and scrupulous rhymes, was praised by reviewers for its impeccable command of form. Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012: Adrienne Rich, Feminist Poet and Author, Dies at 82 2012-03-28T23:54:57Z

What are the solutions when one parent, clearly sober and in their right mind, refuses to do anything about the other’s alcoholism? Motherlode: When to Report Another Parent 2011-03-08T23:02:36Z

I was the bad boy in the '80s, and I grew older, and got sober, and had kids, and I got "The Parent Trap." Dennis Quaid on his Hollywood long game: "I never cared about having a Tom Cruise-type of career" 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it couldn't be made in today's sober times. Whisky Galore! ? review 2011-07-28T21:30:01Z

Written in 1939, “Iceman” is set in 1912 in a Greenwich Village saloon and rooming house, where patrons await the arrival of their beloved Hickey, who surfaces newly sober and full of provocation. ArtsBeat: Nathan Lane To Star in 'The Iceman Cometh' in Chicago 2011-07-14T21:46:37Z

King George VI himself pronounced the sober Elizabeth his pride and the mischievous Margaret his joy. Mad, Bad and Difficult to Know: The Life of a Rebel Aristocrat 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

Instead, with visual precision and emotional restraint — and aided by Mr. Driver’s tamped-down, sober and gently endearing performance — Mr. Jarmusch creates that rarest portrait of the artist: the one who’s happy being hard at work. Review: In Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Paterson,’ a Meditative Flow of Words Into Poetry 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Her consideration of the 2016 election, and American politics in general, is sobering. Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Is an ‘Instant American Classic’ About Our Abiding Sin 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

Perry says as much in that People profile, where he gives himself credit for “being sober today, for caring about others, for never giving up” and “helping people as much as I do.” Matthew Perry's death reminds us what we need to be doing right now 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

JOURNALIST: "Maybe it's not such a good idea if I'm bladdered and Pete emerges from the dress rehearsal stone cold sober." 'The day I shared a pint or five with Pete Postlethwaite' 2011-01-06T15:48:31Z

But there were some sobering issues about true-crime, she acknowledged, that even this satire couldn’t fully address — including the future of the genre, which she said was “already at an extreme.” ‘Based on a True Story’: The Vogue of Killer Content 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

As a musician, Mr. Mayer has almost always been sober, a blues-rock guitar wunderkind with a medium voice put in service of lightweight songs. Critic’s Notebook: John Mayer’s New Album Is ‘Paradise Valley’ 2013-08-20T22:04:17Z

Only when Ms. Houston’s success leaves Mr. Brown feeling diminished does he falter, but at the end, he’s a sober hero, and Ms. Houston is in free fall. Whitney Houston’s Story in a Lifetime Film 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

A sobering brush with textbook publishing and an inspiring fiction writing class at the Harvard Extension School clarified Ng’s determination to pursue a writing career. Celeste Ng Is More Than a Novelist 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Post-hospitalization, I ignored the doctor’s suggestion that I get sober and the nutritionist’s that I follow a meal plan. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z

The festival was the first one Mr. Brock had attended sober. Chef Sean Brock Puts Down the Bourbon and Begins a New Quest 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

I shivered at the realization that when he had made the desperate decision to leap in front of the train, he had been stone cold sober. Suicide isn’t painless 2012-08-24T19:30:00Z

I do not think there is any right or wrong way to be sober or get sober. How should we treat addiction? 2012-09-03T13:30:00Z

Dov’s words touch on stirring and sobering motifs: betrayal, dread of death, perplexity in the face of life’s mysteries. Play inspired by rabbi and his fake torahs misses its mark 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Let’s just say that his choices are not generally part of sober living. Arts & Leisure: Wrestling With Recovery Is No Fairy Tale 2011-06-29T12:00:06Z

It never loses focus on its sobering subject. Television Review: ‘Death and the Civil War,’ by Ric Burns, on PBS 2012-09-17T22:07:48Z

Marking his differences with outgoing President , who some faulted for being all-controlling and too impulsive, Hollande said he would run a "dignified" and "sober" presidency and ensure parliament plays its full role. Hollande sworn in as new French president 2012-05-15T10:00:20Z

That many of the societal problems faced by its characters remain almost exactly the same is shaming and sobering. Review: August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ Magnifies Marginalized Souls 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Don wrote in his journal back when he was sobering up. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z

Here we join a sober Jamie and his upstanding father as they allow the cameras in. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 19-23 November 2012-11-19T07:00:00Z

Both movies are sober, high-minded stories about the terrible things that men do to other men in the name of country and righteousness. Review: Tough Guys Tough It Out in ‘Papillon’ (Again!) 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

I describe myself as sober because I don’t drink alcohol and I am habitually abstinent from drugs. Let me do sobriety my way 2012-08-18T16:00:00Z

Fay Zenoff, an addiction recovery strategist, will lead a workshop for the sober curious in Mexico this September. Hold the Tequila. The Sunrise Is All Some Travelers Need. 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

A sobering experience: stops include historical lynching sites, the city’s former slave market and the old Greyhound Bus Station where 21 young Freedom Riders were viciously beaten by an angry mob in 1961. The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

The director Ciarán O’Reilly and Mr. Bean approach both the play and the part in a — excuse the pun — sober manner that underlines the material’s unsentimental perspective. Review: ‘Dublin Carol’ Gets Lost in Its Drink 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

I’d been sober a little over a year when I got the job. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z

Despite this book's early cluster of sobering titles – "Nominal Aphasia", "Walking Stick", "Macular Degeneration" – Glass Wings is no study of old age, but a series of vignettes from a full life. Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock – review 2013-06-28T17:10:01Z

To be down and sober, which is where “BoJack Horseman” meets up with its equine hero in the first of its final run of episodes, is a miserable business. "BoJack Horseman": Can this dark horse find light at the end of the race? 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

Somehow, I graduated from Samaritan Village 100 percent drug free and got a little sober job. Mirror: Teacher: Experience Needed 2011-03-11T17:26:35Z

When you need to be the opposite of tired and sober. Jerry Seinfeld slays them in Seattle with bits on this and that 2014-02-09T00:03:15Z

If you’re writing about an experience in a sober house, learn the history of rehab, the history of the specific sober house in which you lived, the chemical composition of benzodiazepine, etc. Salon’s guide to writing a memoir 2013-01-20T23:00:00Z

In contrast, Weeks took Sam from sweetly comic relief to the more sober embodiment of postwar reality. A case for an Emmy (or more) for 'Foyle's War' 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

The past two years have been sobering reminders that life can be abruptly cut short. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

But in college, when my advanced composition instructor revealed that I had a mere B+ at midterm, I was shocked and sobered. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z

In other words, part of assimilation was a crash course in sober self-awareness. Arts & Leisure: ?All-American Muslim? on TLC: Life in Dearborn, Michigan 2011-11-10T18:31:22Z

The catalog suggests that the previous treatment of William F. Cody was a sober documentary tribute. Critic's Notebook: Buffalo Bill Museum in Wyoming 2012-08-03T19:07:26Z

“I got sober right before I made it, and I had to work backwards to recognize myself again and learn how to write songs and make records again.” Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson Embrace Their Roots, as Plains 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

But this year has offered a surprising rebuttal to those assumptions about the rapper: “Gone ’Til November,” a new collection of diary entries that Lil Wayne wrote, sober, during his imprisonment. The Screwball Poetry of Lil Wayne’s Prison Diary 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

It's a sobering thought, but these crashes are preventable. How To Avoid A Single-Car Crash 2010-09-22T17:30:00Z

The tone is sober, even solemn, and while there are some good comic bits, they serve as a means to create a moody snapshot of the corner of his psyche that specializes in sabotaging relationships. This May Be the Most Polarizing Comedy Special of the Year 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The reality of daily life in Dharavi is sobering, however: Laborers work in unsafe conditions, and a lack of basic services like clean water and sanitation facilities endangers the health of residents. Mumbai, a City Both Uplifting and Heartbreaking 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

“At that time in my life, I don’t think I was completely, uh … sober? Everything came like this monsoon.” In ‘Hunters,’ Al Pacino Stalks Nazis Into New Territory 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

“I lost my grandfather,” begins one joke on the new special, before a sober pause. Political Correctness Isn’t Ruining Comedy. It’s Helping. 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

In it, he is smiling — and, according to the caption, sober. What Happened to Matthew Mellon 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

The Seafarer A man in a small coastal village near Dublin tries to stay sober during the holidays in Conor McPherson’s fantasy drama inspired by Celtic folklore. The week ahead in SoCal theater, Oct. 14-21: 'Winter Solstice,' 'Dear Evan Hansen' and more 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

But the play is also stone-cold sober once Matt, a conscience-riddled brother at loose ends, inexplicably cries. ‘Straight White Men’ hits a sweet spot — and a nerve — at Studio Theatre 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

The real miracle is that Bosker was sober enough to write it. ‘Cork Dork’ Sniffs, Swills and Spits Through the World of Wine Experts 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

The two remaining works shared some of Mr. Tiensuu’s otherworldliness, but only in passing, on the way to more sober explorations of energy, both bright and dark. Music Review: Summergarden Features Juilliard Musicians at MoMA 2012-07-23T22:16:03Z

The journalist Maurice Chammah’s sober, densely reported first book, “Let the Lord Sort Them,” promises a history of “the rise and fall of the death penalty.” Why the Death Penalty Is Dying: A New Book Tells the Surprising Story 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

A minor fit of backsliding, he said, after a year of being sober. Up Close: Notoriety in a Tight Embrace 2010-06-09T23:12:00Z

But they insist their next big decision will be made sober. British couple gets drunk, buys hotel they're staying at on honeymoon 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

As children who were beaten and abused by a violent father and neglected by an alcoholic mother, who when drunk encouraged his rages and when sober ignored them, humour helped us. The twist in the tale of my parents’ malicious will 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

As he was making albums that would influence a generation of musicians, he succumbed to drug and alcohol abuse until, in 2001, he went through rehab and sobered up. Nine Inch Nails Is Back Onstage, With a Vengeance 2013-07-25T12:00:01Z

Then there’s Ms. Weis’s work, which the choreographer Lisa Nelson, one of her longtime collaborators, aptly describes as both sober and carnivalesque. A Choreographer’s Loft, Where ‘There’s History in the Walls’ 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

The other exhibitions here strike a more sober and weighty note,  though with  some flaws: They are splintered among many buildings; there is no systematic narrative; older exhibitions mix with the new. Where the Real 'Imitation Game' Happened 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

Taking the broadest cultural and political view, the past two weeks or so have provided a solid, sobering representation of where women stand in America right now. From "Survivor" to D.C., women are showing up strong on TV, but does patriarchal America care? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

“There’s no difference in the way a sober or drinking guest reads through and orders,” says beverage director Amie Ward. Forget Dry January. We need better nonalcoholic cocktails every month of the year. 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

While there is ample zaniness in the two hours of music that follow, it is the score’s sober core that keeps the opera’s mood pleasurably disconcerting. Review: ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ by Unsuk Chin, Told With Restraint 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Zimmern talks regularly to sober chefs who are thinking about relapsing, and people who want to stop drinking. Andrew Zimmern’s Nonstop Road (and Food) Show 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Michael Caine once pointed out that a drunk person is actually trying very hard to be sober: therefore acting drunk requires a degree of reverse psychology. Playing drunk: Now, what was I shaying? 2011-03-23T21:31:10Z

But he held true to his theme, filling the set with tunes like “The Virginia Gentleman,” a crisp variation on New Orleans second-line groove, and “A Portrait of a Southern Frame,” a sober ballad. Music Review: Reggie Quinerly at Smoke 2012-12-07T21:17:04Z

We told ourselves they’d never get sober, being pampered the way we were instructed to pamper them. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z

Ned’s determination is noble, and Lancaster makes this “tragic antihero” empathetic as the film’s tone becomes increasingly somber and sobering. The 10 best movies that take place in one day 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

"We became lovers, you know? And I mean real sober lovers — it was a conscious thing," Byrum added. 7 heartbreaking Anna Nicole Smith revelations from Netflix's documentary "You Don't Know Me" 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

At the panel presentation, Ms. Britt, who temporarily dropped out of Michigan as an undergraduate, shared with the students her anxiety when she finally sobered up and decided to return to campus. Not the Usual College Party (This One’s Sober) 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

What if we go down this route of her living this new lifestyle, trying to be sober and clean up her act, and there is no excuse anymore? Kaley Cuoco Thanks You for Flying With ‘The Flight Attendant’ 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Lucky for us, Clark loves to talk in detail — excruciating, sobering, hilarious, illuminating detail. Is Brandy Clark the most empathetic storyteller in country music? 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

By this time, she said, “I wasn’t very drunk — I was close to sober,” which made her believe she could make a considered decision. Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too 2013-07-12T20:23:14Z

More sober transatlantic heralds, too, had announced that this the second attempt at adapting Dreiser's "An American Tragedy," was quite a film. Elizabeth Taylor: how Guardian critics rated her films 2011-03-24T08:30:00Z

Aiming for the sober, character-driven storytelling of “The Walking Dead,” this play tells its story with less humor and sardonic distance than you typically see in a Vampire Cowboys production. | 'Death Valley': The Undead Are Uneasy in the Untamed West 2011-07-03T21:10:27Z

Three months later, the casino resort announced a much more sober initiative, the “Wynn Las Vegas Health & Disinfection Program.” The Most Important Word in the Hospitality Industry? ‘Clean’ 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

The singer apologised to his family and friends for his "insane behaviour" and announced he was "now 44 days sober". Ozzy Osbourne denies 'split' reports 2013-04-17T09:39:24Z

The way he remembers it, she seemed sober as they chatted by the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where he was staying. Production of a Lifetime: Whitney Houston and Clive Davis 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

Together, they made a soothing, sober album that sounds not like the work of radicals, but of strategists careful not to move too far, too fast. Complete Eric B. & Rakim, a Fresh Look at Wire and a Whole Lotta Guns N’ Roses 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

We’ve all heard the sobering statistics: given a choice, straight men of all ages would rather date women in their twenties. Let's hear it for the single ladies over 30 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Apparently that’s why that particular war went so well, which sounds more like a macabre joke than a sober assessment of policy. Review: ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ Blends War Movie and Western 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

The surprise announcement, accompanied by a light-hearted video, came three months after singer Steven Tyler's sober bandmates threatened to audition replacements because they claimed he was back on drugs. Aerosmith, singer end feud for European tour 2010-02-25T20:40:00Z

These were incredibly sobering: Raj's involved the removal of the tumour, and a necessary safety margin of healthy tissue around it. TV review: One Born Every Minute; Brain Doctors 2013-02-14T07:00:13Z

I mean, no one knew who I was until I was married, two kids, sober for many years. Rob Delaney meets Sally Wainwright: ‘People say, God, you’ve got a sick mind’ 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Melissa today is sober, and a published writer at an art colony in the south of France, where she hasn’t been in 20 years, nearly half her life ago. Puberty, Slut-Shaming and Cuddle Parties in Melissa Febos’s ‘Girlhood’ 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

Sharr White has a gift for writing offbeat comedies that flip into sobering dramas and back again, keeping audiences lurching, uncertain when the next change in course is coming. In Sharr White's 'Stupid Kid,' a family grapples with the past, the audience with disappointment 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

No talk about excitement from Democrats, just lip-biting grimaces and words like “sober,” “somber” and “sad.” Washington is again captivated by an anonymous source. It’s different now. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

The result is a show that’s exquisitely balanced between keen aesthetic pleasures and sobering scientific perspective. Art, science, eco-concerns meet in ‘Vanishing Ice’ exhibit 2014-01-17T22:53:03Z

‘It’s Easy to Remember,’ ‘Everything Happens to Me,’ ‘With Every Breath I Take,’ ‘P.S. I Love You’ … Sinatra at his soberest, most dignified manliness. Memorable Sinatra Moments 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

Amid the sobering sights of twisted docks and windblown debris, we giggled when we spotted one run-aground yacht captained by a Halloween skeleton sporting a purple wig. Aboard a chartered catamaran in the British Virgin Islands: The more the merrier 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

The audience is invited to pause the show at any point, should they see the actor sobering, and immediately he is required to have another drink to chants of "Chug, chug, chug!" Fair and foul: Shakespeare in many guises at Edinburgh Festival 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Michael Phelps—the new version of Michael Phelps, stubbled, relaxed, sober, father of a baby named Boomer—emerged with the U.S. group, carrying a gigantic flag that made him look even taller. The Olympics Opening Ceremony in Rio: Let the Games Begin 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

While the Great American Beer Festival has hosted a designated drivers lounge since 2001, other festivals are now following suit and offering creative activities, spaces, and food for their sober audiences. New Perks for Designated Drivers at Beer and Wine Events 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

Magritte did not intend the image as a self-portrait, although it does physically resemble the artist, a sober presence who wore a suit and slippers when he painted and eschewed bohemian adventure. Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

He said that at those facilities, even though he wanted to be sober, he would just try to get out as quickly as possible. Recovery Boys: the documentary on what happens after opioid addiction 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Webb, who says he has been sober for 18 years, wrote a letter to the owner of Trash and Vaudeville seeking a job. Trash and Vaudeville, Still Selling Punk’s Look After 38 Years 2013-05-08T21:08:43Z

Byrne has been sober for nearly a quarter-century, and is as proud of that as he is of anything. This Time, He Stars In His Own Story 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

His name is synonymous with sober suits, sensible hair, charity work and museums. Loyd Grossman kicks out the jams 2010-03-31T21:00:00Z

I was still sober, sober and insecure, but I sang the lyrics anyway. I take to drinking 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

Caftans became so ubiquitous this summer that the fashion industry had to confront a sobering question: “Can You Wear a Caftan to the Office?” the Vogue headline read. Let It Flow! #PantsuitNation is Now Caftan Country 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Instead, it is impressively rendered fiction as a sobering agent. "When do we stop being safe here?": How the U.S. resembles this HBO show's scary alternate history 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

In the world of Big Buck Hunter, staying sharp doesn’t always mean staying sober. City Dwellers With Time to Kill 2011-05-20T22:16:28Z

But these scenes do have fillips of humor that leaven the sobering sadness. Review: Teenagers Grapple With Their Demons in ‘Wilderness’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Tellingly, these collectives are not just for the sober, but the “sober curious” – they are open to people who are still drinking, and emphasise the importance of agency and choice. Quitting alcohol: 'The joyless vision of sobriety couldn’t have been further from the truth' 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

It was sobering to feel life fleeting by. My Bill Viola Video Marathon 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

This, naturally, engenders sober, informed and understated discussion. David Mitchell: are smug Apple users losing their cachet? 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z

It's all rather wild, but having heard the editor's sober version in Part 1 you know the facts and can work it out for yourself. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2012-07-13T21:55:07Z

We were more humble by then and somewhat more sober. After Losing My Sight, Struggling to Be Seen 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

T.I. said he is now clean and sober, thanks in part to his September arrest in Los Angeles. T.I. says drug problem started with prescriptions 2010-11-22T13:19:00Z

The photos of those who drank 250 ml wine were rated as more attractive, followed by images of sober subjects. This is How Much You Should Drink to Be More Attractive 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Contrary to their image — and the hard partying that their music seemed to encourage — Mr. Hill and his bandmates kept a low, relatively sober profile. Dusty Hill, Long-Bearded Bassist for ZZ Top, Dies at 72 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

Despite moments of optimism, a sobering conclusion underlines how markedly the odds are stacked against the trio – and young people in general. TV highlights 16/01/2013 2013-01-15T20:00:01Z

After some time, I did find a few other like-minded sobers who started a meeting we named “We Agnostics” — in part an ironic nod to the very chapter most of us found so philosophically irksome. My sober conversion to atheism 2013-03-03T19:00:00Z

It wasn’t in any way the impetus for why I got sober, but I was going through a time in my life where I was, let’s just say, learning a lot about myself.” My First Produced Play? Ah, I Remember It Well. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

I am now a support system to my brother because he is putting in the daily work to recover and to stay sober. Perspective | Ask Amy: Couples’ separation leads to rift in the family 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The finale is probably the longest time we spend with Cassie sober. Kaley Cuoco Thanks You for Flying With ‘The Flight Attendant’ 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Sheen maintains he's clean and sober and there's nothing in his private life that would trigger a "default" under his contract. Sheen's legal case against studios not so crazy 2011-03-04T01:47:51Z

But sober life, like idle hands, proves to be the Devil's playground. "The Flight Attendant" returns with double the baggage and showcase for Kaley Cuoco 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

According to Hellman’s bestselling account from “An Unfinished Woman,” a sober but shaky F. Scott Fitzgerald drove her to Parker’s place at about 10 miles an hour. Ernest Hemingway's long-lost Los Angeles visit, 80 years ago today 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

“It has been a time of sober reflection or if you’re Fox News discussing those package bombs, a time for wild speculation,” he said. John Oliver on Fox News's pipe bombs coverage: 'A time for wild speculation' 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

My plan was to stay sober the entire show. 10 best moments from MTV's Video Music Awards 2010-09-13T12:36:00Z

The most sobering moment in the film for me revolves around lifestyle. "Uncut Gems" and the drive to look like a somebody, no matter what the cost 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

It’s a sobering thought, especially for those like me, secure in my middle-class world. As lockdown restrictions ease, a changed London awaits the return of foreign tourists 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

But there were also more sobering moments, like the time I found myself on a dark street with a woman who quickly crossed to the other side. My Voice Got Deeper. Suddenly, People Listened. 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

The description of the character George Smiley, for example - "his legs were short, his gait anything but agile, his dress sober" - remains in the published book. Bodleian given le Carre archive 2011-02-24T09:49:10Z

Consider the sobering title of Omar Robert Hamilton’s debut novel: “The City Always Wins.” Activists love and lose in the Cairo novel, 'The City Always Wins' 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Before they dried up in March, the movies were already sober and chaste, wary of the lunacy Diaz herself appears to have sworn off. 2002: When the Rock Went Hollywood and Movie Stars Still Ruled 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Robin Williams was sober and suffering from early stages of Parkinson's disease as well as anxiety and depression at the time of his apparent suicide, the actor's wife said in a statement on Thursday. Robin Williams was sober, had early Parkinson's at death: wife 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

The screen couple's relationship is put to the test when the wife decides to get sober. Aaron Paul trades drugs for alcohol addiction in "Smashed" 2012-10-10T19:01:51Z

“We don’t really like each other in person, sober,” she said, adding that “we literally can’t sit down and have coffee.” Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too 2013-07-12T20:23:14Z

My husband got sober for a few years and our marriage was never so good. All my parenting mistakes 2012-06-26T00:00:00Z

Her summarizing was mostly about men but once she got sober her summarizing was mostly about self-actualization. The mothering class 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

“This would be a good convo to have over the phone at a later and more sober time!!” I Bet You Think These Songs Are About You 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Rather than Cookie, a matriarch who spits sassy one-liners and has more multicolored furs than the Bible has books, Greenleaf is focused on a sober former minister who is testing her faith. Greenleaf: Oprah Winfrey's religious drama needs saving from itself 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

One of the items yesterday was a sobering chat with Big Brother's Nikki Grahame about her eating disorder. Ouch! 2010-06-04T05:45:00Z

A psychiatrist offers a sobering look at the legal system’s relationship to people with mental illness, and how the American prison system exacerbates their suffering. 16 Books to Watch For in July 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

It's a very powerful film and it's a very sober film. Cannes director Haneke faces death in moving "Love" 2012-05-20T12:49:18Z

Mr. Harris arrived early, but the noise inside the bar seemed like the wrong setting for a sober catch-up conversation that would include a dying mother. From Dating to Marriage, He Had a 5-Prong Plan 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Lear's celebrated limericks demonstrate the antic disposition of a society that loved to play truant from its sober self. Dickens, Browning and Lear: what's in a reputation? 2012-05-17T13:17:32Z

But his Amish inspiration made the dark collection seem sober — even with a flash of orange. Special Report: Fashion: Mad Men! Romancing the Suit 2011-01-21T18:31:16Z

These days, they are largely sober, though many of their old friends continue to party or remain in jail; his mother has developed what she called an addiction to coconut water. How Billy Strings Picked His Way to the Other Side 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

But it’s most interesting when McGee, after sobering up, makes an ill-advised alliance with Tony Blair. ‘Creation Stories’ Review: The Man Behind a Raucous Record Label 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

For a country that thrives on a reputation for efficiency and engineering prowess, its recent record is sobering. Budget Blowouts and Delays Blight Germany’s Major Arts Projects 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

But then, having drawn the sting of years of bad coverage, and shown us his sober side, it looks as if he needs our appreciation less than he used to. Steve Coogan: older, wiser, but as for his alter ego… 2013-07-27T23:05:40Z

As for Thomas Cromwell, the fixer who does the king’s dirty work just as he once did the cardinal’s, what is he hiding under his lawyer’s sober winter robes? Review: ‘Wolf Hall,’ by Hilary Mantel 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

This notion of hedging expectations is an apt, if sobering, takeaway from this trying parable of climate change. Review | In Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Dead Astronauts,’ time travelers try to rescue a ruined world 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Yet the rise of President Trump offered Bailey a sobering reminder that racism still has this country in a chokehold. After His Brother Commits Murder, a Journalist Revisits Their Childhood 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

And it's sobering to think that even movies as crowd-pleasing as "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight" might be a tough sell in today's Hollywood, at least on the studio level. TV is viewed as holding more promise for screenwriters than movies 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

"If you saw me sober, chances are you saw me asleep." George Jones, country superstar, has died at 81 2013-04-26T14:36:09Z

Unicef’s recent report A Familiar Face: Violence in the Lives of Children and Adolescents offers sobering statistics about the state of violence against women and girls around the world. We created the #MeToo movement. Now it's time for #HerToo 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

We imprison those whose only crime is being an addict, and I can’t even get the New York City schools to let my organization, SLAM, NYC, build a sober high school. Turning a Disease Into a Sideshow 2013-07-19T18:42:51Z

The experiment was filmed and segments are used in this show, which is performed totally sober. 7 Day Drunk ? review 2011-08-19T20:31:01Z

In fact this book draws a sobering portrait of what daily life was like for ordinary Egyptians. Books of The Times: Abrupt Regime Change in Egypt Is Nothing New. Just Ask Thutmose III. 2011-03-28T22:49:02Z

Douglas' lawyers have argued that he deserves 3 1/2 years in prison at most, and he, too, is looking forward to redeeming himself and leading a sober life once he's out. The demise of Hollywood heir Cameron Douglas 2010-04-13T07:30:00Z

When sober, my father simply reserved all of his father-daughter time for my sister, and I became a trained animal. “Sir, that is your penis!” 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

If you’re concerned, she and other sober influencers suggest trying a day without alcohol to see how difficult it is and note any differences you experience in your energy, emotions and sleep. Quarantinis are a meme of this crisis. But relying on alcohol could lead to serious problems. 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

Two warnings: The breakwater is longer than it appears, and its rocks are better traversed sober. 36 Hours in Provincetown, Mass. 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Drew was often charged with getting the bassist sober enough to play, but the resulting music was magical. Martin Drew obituary 2010-08-12T17:24:00Z

The movie, a passionate and unruly explosion of Americana, directed by Benh Zeitlin, winks at skepticism, laughs at sober analysis and stares down criticism. Movie Review: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild,’ Directed by Benh Zeitlin 2012-06-26T20:56:35Z

Roberts has now been sober for longer than he’s ever been in his adult life, outside of prison or rehab. Jake “The Snake” Roberts: “I started drinking when I was 11″ 2013-03-04T22:04:00Z

As a sober punk rock enthusiast, I've found it hard to reconcile the "live fast, die young" ethos with the decidedly unglamorous lifestyle of a writer, partner and parent. My so-called life: Jim Ruland on writing memoirs for other people 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

And following their lead were 1,400 sober bankers, politicians, socialites and classical music lovers standing and cheering too, as if the ground beneath everyone's feet had suddenly shifted. L.A. Phil alum Lionel Bringuier wows in Zurich 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

The benefit ended up as a rock concert, but one with sober underpinnings. Music Review | Tibet House Benefit: Boisterous Bliss in Celebration of an Iron Tiger Year 2010-03-01T05:55:00Z

I struggled with quitting and with shame, and I'm now 23 days sober. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Newfound sobriety causes social anxiety 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

While sober, Monroe goes full Dad Mode, Ebony says, always trying to swoop in with answers to her problems. How legal weed turned Thanksgiving into a high holiday 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Ford was fine with famous patients discussing their treatment at the center - provided they stayed sober - but the facility keeps its clients confidential. Betty Ford helped pave road to recovery for stars 2011-07-09T11:16:04Z

Two of the most respected scholars in the field of democracy offer up a sober, dispassionate look at the current state of affairs — and arrive at some disturbing conclusions. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Earlier, "completely sober and incapable of functioning," he introduced the finale: "This is the last episode of 'Mad Men.' I will be in the audience watching. Leave me alone afterwards if you don't like it." 'Mad Men' gang has a big day as Matthew Weiner's series ends 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

“My generation is so concerned with capturing the moment we say we’re living in, that we remain sober enough to take and edit a selfie,” says Lindsay Kaplan, a 28-year-old working in marketing. We are the lamest generation! 2013-06-01T13:00:00Z

It would have been easier for her to get sober and stay sober. Whitney Houston's mother has words for Bobby Brown 2013-01-28T21:35:13Z

Moreover, we each bear the weight of a devastating diagnosis and a sobering prognosis. Michael J. Fox Reviews a Thoughtful Memoir on the Challenges of Living With Disability 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

But the poem is something more sober, and more unsettled: a five-movement composition in the key of unfulfillment, with, as its opening and closing theme, love that is not simply abandoned but “murdered,” “discarded.” The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Following an indigenous Andean woman as she seeks the child who was taken from her on delivery, it blends sober verite with surreal atmospherics. Streaming: Star is Disney+ for grownups – but is it any good? 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Sheen suffered a minor heart attack a year into the shoot, sobered up, and became deeply involved in the Catholic faith he was brought up in by his Irish mother and Spanish father. Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen Collaborate on ?The Way? 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z

It is a stunning display of Mr. Stella’s use of light and shadows, colors and shapes to create on canvas a tropical floral world that feels both familiar and unfamiliar, joyous and sober. An Urban Painter’s Fantastic Floral Visions 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

A clean and sober Taylor held on to her newfound health for a few years, until pain from a crushed vertebra sent her back to pills and booze. Elizabeth Taylor, legendary actress, dies at 79 2011-03-23T13:57:00Z

Directed by Andy Abrahams Wilson, the film starts with a look back at the awful days when the disease first surfaced, a familiar story now but still sobering. | 'The Grove': ?The Grove,? for World AIDS Day on PBS ? Review 2011-11-30T22:21:08Z

Noel, whose success as a father is dependent upon remaining alcohol-free, discovers that it's not so easy to stay sober. Maeve Binchy's 'Minding Frankie': one motherless baby, many willing minders 2011-02-03T00:02:03Z

Instead, the young women emerge from their convalescences more sober, more attentive to their misdeeds, better suited as life partners for two different, sober, attentive men. In Jane Austen’s Pages, Death Has No Dominion 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

This was the most sober evening of seasonal cheer I can recall in the singer’s long-running tradition of annual Christmastime fetes, which in earlier days evoked the glossy bonhomie of TV variety specials. Review: Michael Feinstein’s Holiday Ode to Judy Garland 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

But his approach to country still toes a sober line, as if he might get booted for insubordination at the slightest misstep. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-24T22:23:00Z

Be that as it may, she was fresh-faced, sober and ready to talk through seven photos she had taken during her recent travels across the East and West Coasts. The Dog Days of Michaela Watkins 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

To its credit, Clinton’s memoir is serious, sober and substantive. Book Review Podcast: Hillary Rodham Clinton's 'Hard Choices' 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Forty-eight and sober for several years, he’s done fixing himself and can now train his eye on everyone around him, looking for holes that need to be patched. New Music: New Music From Miguel Zen?n and Red Hot Chili Peppers 2011-08-29T22:37:58Z

Opinions that are never tested are mere prejudices, and Shawcross presents a sober account of debates you are unlikely to hear. Justice and the Enemy by William Shawcross ? review 2012-02-10T11:00:01Z

Police found an open bottle of beer in his car and smelled alcohol on his breath.Goutos told the jury Tuesday that they saw "the sober Richard Bolling" on the witness stand. Chicago cop guilty in fatal DUI 2012-01-18T21:32:00Z

That was sobering, but it was even more startling that the story didn’t end with his death. The TV Watch: Shock but No Awe in ‘Homeland’ Season’s End 2013-12-16T23:02:44Z

When Mr. Sheen got sober during a hasty hiatus and was willing to film his eight remaining episodes, Mr. Burg said Mr. Lorre wanted to write only four. Television: Charlie Sheen Stars in ‘Anger Management’ on FX 2012-06-13T12:00:00Z

Mussorgsky had never written an opera when he created this often brusque, raw, darkly sober, oddly spare score about a troubled czar and his troubled country. Review: After a Met Opera Milestone, ‘Boris’ Brings Another 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Referring to his most recent movie, a sober, uplifting drama from 2016, he added. Eddie Murphy Is Bringing Eddie Murphy Back 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

The movie is small, but the part, playing an alcoholic hipster trying to get sober, was big and special. Smashed's Mary Elizabeth Winstead: Scream Queen to Oscar Contender 2012-10-12T12:00:52Z

I had tried to drink and drug myself to death just in the weeks prior to getting sober. A family dinner is never actually about how good the food is, says Andrew Zimmern 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

When I'm sober, this worries me a bit. Buying books is fun, with a glass in your hand 2010-10-01T23:08:00Z

This isn’t news, but it is still sobering to see the planet ruined one backhoe at a time. ‘Earth’ Review: Humanity Is Digging Its Own Grave 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

I think all the things that happened in the past year are really sobering. Q&A: Rapper D Smoke takes patient walk to Grammy recognition 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

Many nonprofits and government agencies link that excess to a sobering shortage: the one in six Americans who lack a reliable supply of nutritious food. Why entrepreneurs are suddenly finding the beauty in ugly produce 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

It dawned on me that we were all sober. Drug search in the Panama Canal: How my high school adventure at sea almost ended 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

My awkward sober sex life Topics: , , , Sex Life, , This is how it begins. My awkward sober sex life 2012-10-28T16:01:00Z

Hughes's judgment may have a kernel of truth, and yet the juxtapositions and disjunctions that characterise Polke's art reflect processes of thought to which even the most sober observer can relate. Sigmar Polke obituary 2010-06-14T17:40:00Z

And he's newly sober, quitting drugs and drink over the past year. Ronnie Wood announces solo album 2010-08-24T13:25:00Z

That said, the architecture is modern, sober and solid. Moynihan Train Hall: It’s Stunning. And, a First Step. 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

For Barnaby and the others raised along its banks, the sensational and the sobering have always uneasily coexisted. 'I'm indigenizing zombies': behind gory First Nation horror Blood Quantum 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

The show's simplicity is undeniably pleasing, but its self-conscious elegance prettifies emotions and actions, dilutes the tragedy and sends you out into the night feeling jolly rather than sobered. The Suit – review 2012-05-24T13:27:17Z

I’m finding it sobering to see us all at home, and get a little emotional each time I log on. A Dancer’s Quarantine Diary: Coming Full Circle 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

So how do you venture out for a locally crafted beer without having to condemn one of your friends to the sobering designation of “driver?” Barhop by ferry for a beer-filled weekend in Bremerton and Port Orchard 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

You knew the composer of Glass’ sober “Evening Song No. 2” from the first few notes, less so the curiously wistful “For Bob” by Reich. Philip Glass, Pat Metheny, k.d. lang, Audra McDonald all turn out for a tribute to a Nonesuch guy 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

I tell him he was particularly convincing as the sober academic Eddington. David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' ? interview 2011-08-19T21:58:02Z

Compared to The Big Flame, which covers not dissimilar ground, this is a sober, unblinking treatment, eliminating the flourishes of his 60s work. Ken Loach – all his films ranked! 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

“It’s the only press conference I ever had when I was sober,” he said. Lars Von Trier Wants to Turn All His Movies Into Diamonds 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

As with David Copperfield, the story of his life begins with his birth, in his case in a trailer to a hapless, precariously sober teenage mother. An Appalachian Elegy, Hillbillies Not Included 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

You need either to “game this out” sober next time or see your rationalizations for what they are. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Fears that a second kid would ruin their perfect life 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

The words are sober, almost clinical: “A Human Being Died That Night.” Review: ‘A Human Being Died That Night,’ a Look at an Apartheid Assassin, at BAM 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

Competent, sober and reliable parents guide children through this process. Perspective | Ask Amy: Unreliable parent leaves a legacy of guilt 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

Cleanly written, with a measure of sympathy and perhaps a little understandable mystification beneath the sober writing, “Dreadful” inspires a curious combination of fascination, pity and revulsion. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z

He had been a heavy drinker, but in interviews in recent years he spoke of being sober — with occasional slip-ups. Greg Giraldo, Insult-Humor Comic, Dies at 44 2010-09-30T05:32:00Z

She is a recovering bulimic and alcoholic who became sober for marriage and motherhood. Got Sober. Got Married. Got Shafted. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

You will win, because nine out of 10 times they will be drunk and sober you should be able to destroy any drunk person in an argument. 5 ways to stay sober at a cocktail party when taking a break from alcohol 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z

“Lincoln” and “Django Unchained,” the one a sober historical drama and the other a wild and bloody live-action cartoon, are essentially about different solutions to the same problem. Movie Review: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ Stars Jamie Foxx 2012-12-24T20:07:04Z

There was an impromptu howl at the moon, and Mr. Cotner suggested a 30-second sprint on the beach to restore us to a sober version of Rimbaud’s “total derangement of all the senses.” ‘Island Night,’ a Walk Across Fire Island 2012-09-06T22:22:25Z

When Chandler, in despair after the death of his wife, Cissy, visited London in 1955, Natasha helped him sober up and soon found herself as the object of his devotion. The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

For all his success, Vance was sobered by the trajectory of his medium. Jim Vance was a TV news fixture for decades, in a largely transient town 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

The 52-year-old revealed he has been sober for two years and has been trying to make amends and possibly return to work. Galliano 'didn't mean' racist words 2013-06-05T12:57:55Z

In the mid-1970s she begins casting some foam sculptures in aluminum, lead and bronze, destroying them while contrasting their comical forms with the sober, more lasting materials of traditional sculpture. Art Review: Artful Commentary, Oozing From the Walls 2011-02-17T21:27:55Z

“Premeditated robbery-homicides are rare because they require a level of planning and sober enterprise seldom encountered among the island’s indolent felons.” Books of The Times: Beach Reads From Stephen King, Kevin Kwan, Carl Hiaasen and More 2013-06-06T21:14:31Z

Five months ago, I started drinking again after being sober for three years. My agnostic AA 2012-06-20T18:28:00Z

Once sobering figures about daily losses sustained by both newspapers were out of the way, it was industry analysis peppered with lively asides. The Media Show 2010-05-20T07:00:00Z

A sober man is not easy for a drinking man to trust. "Peaky Blinders" and Tommy Shelby's perceived crime of sobriety 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

Her “sober date,” she told the group, many nodding their heads encouragingly, was July 8, 2011. Not the Usual College Party (This One’s Sober) 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

“Duncan had come full circle,” she said, “creating his wonderful life, sober and so proud of the fact that he had always supported himself as a working artist.” Duncan Hannah, Artist and ’70s Chronicler, Dies at 69 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

My first sober wedding — a few weeks later, in November — was a black-tie affair in New York City. How I Survived Wedding Season in My First Year of Sobriety 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

If you hate meetings and therapy, ask a sober coworker or relative for  advice. New Year’s is a bad day to quit sniffing glue — or anything else: Make those resolutions, sure, but don’t dream of starting today 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

McKibben wrote “The End of Nature” 30 years ago, an early warning about climate change, and his new book is another, sobering call to arms. The 10 books to read in April 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

The audience found themselves faced with a more sober experience than anticipated. Prom 2: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg 2010-07-18T20:45:00Z

Blacking out, and behaving in ways we don't remember and may be shocked to be told about when we're sober. From "You" to "Barry," we're fascinated by audacious grifters: The man who deceives us and himself 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

On Friday celebrity attorney Robert Shapiro signed on to the case after Lohan moved into a sober living facility that he founded. Lindsay Lohan due in court to report for jail term 2010-07-20T13:39:00Z

It struck me as a sobering remark then, just as it does today, but maybe I’m starting to see his point. Things we lost in a hurricane 2012-11-12T20:46:00Z

The results, which vividly deploy colorful swirls and sharply angular geometry in their accounting of 19th-century income and property ownership, are as eye-poppingly intriguing as their information is sobering. New Haven’s Art Scene: Always Excellent, and Now Reopening 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Or was I still above a buzz, afraid to be under the influence, insistent I could have a fine time completely sober? I take to drinking 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

I would rather sit in my boucle jacket at a Parisian café with a cup of petit café in one hand and my sober husband’s hand in the other. An American alcoholic in Paris 2012-10-11T22:37:00Z

So he moved to LA, got sober and began to do music for films like "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby." MC5's Wayne Kramer returns to jail with guitars 2012-03-03T22:31:05Z

Bynes has said in interviews that she has been sober for several years and she is studying at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. Judge ends lengthy conservatorship for actor Amanda Bynes 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

Simple Minds sing backup vocals for an intermittently sober Iggy Pop, and so on. ‘Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm’ Review: Rockers Ripping It Up 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

She is also the leading voice of the sober curious movement, whose rationale is that most everyone could benefit from stepping back to honestly appraise their relationship with booze. The rise of the sober curious: having it all, without alcohol 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

Doctors at the meeting shared sobering statistics and personal stories in urging the AMA to sharpen its focus on obesity prevention. AMA wants obesity education 2012-06-21T13:46:00Z

Its reach is long, its narrative fresh and the arc of its account sobering to say the least. The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

“The only restaurants that used to be in Portobello were the kind of places you ended up in to sober up,” said Mr. Despard, a longtime resident of the neighborhood. Then, a Vibrant Jewish Hub. Now, a Culinary Hotbed. 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Fortunately for both his audiences and his cardiovascular health, Mr. Black modulates the rage in his 90 or so minutes of stand-up, transforming from sober glowering to jabbering-like-a-lunatic only to punctuate a key point. Theater Review: ‘Lewis Black: Running on Empty,’ at Richard Rodgers Theater 2012-10-11T02:00:00Z

Mr. Daniels is newly divorced and finally sober. Review: With ‘The Correspondence,’ a New Contender in the Ring 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

In these works, issues of coming out, growing old, being Black and staying sober are what drive the plots – and true love doesn't conquer all. The sex scene isn’t disappearing — it’s simply shifting from clichéd fantasy to messy reality 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z

“There is something about the film’s brazen mixing of incompatible elements that defies categorization, imitation or even sober critical assessment,” Scott wrote. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Avengers’ and ‘She-Ra’ 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

After pointing out that he has “a big fat soft spot in my heart for orphans,” a well-lubricated Babe points out that if our moms had been sober, a lot of us wouldn’t be here. | 'Johnny Baseball': Babe Ruth Sings at American Repertory Theater 2010-06-09T21:49:00Z

In it, Tokita is simultaneously alert, guarded, sober, dapper, even raffish. At SAAM: A lost art-history chapter restored 2011-12-07T23:48:10Z

And they have to be sober and realistic about the conclusions they draw from their research. Are kids from religious backgrounds really more selfish than their nonreligious peers? 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

By his own admission, he got clean and sober and has now been in a 19-year relationship with partner David Furnish, with whom he is raising a son, while continuing to perform around the world. How Elton John redeemed self from 'disgusting' past 2012-08-03T19:35:41Z

After that long stint I moved to St. Paul for an even longer saga of sober living residences. “I should be among the dead”: Young, white, and economically advantaged, I was hungry for meaning and found heroin instead 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

“I was sober. I was loud and proud on panels, but I had internal reservations. I had few friends and felt like I wanted to be more a part of the school.” Not the Usual College Party (This One’s Sober) 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

The combined conditions of life as a black-market capitalist and life as 30-something jetsam circling a debt whirlpool keep Emily rotating through states of sober agency and abject alarm. The Reinvention of Aubrey Plaza 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

Sibelius' final symphony — the remarkable No. 7 — is on the bill this week, plus Bartok's beloved "Concerto for Orchestra" and Britten's sobering "Violin Concerto No. 1." Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-04-20T22:18:11Z

“It was so stupid, looking back – it was a ridiculous reason – but Owen was sober at the time and on our second date he ordered a milkshake. I was like: ‘Who does that?’ 'I wanted sex on my terms, and it was': readers on the joy of losing your virginity in your 30s 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

“Not that he was sober enough to remember,” Mr. Lahr, the theater’s literary manager at the time, recalled. John Lahr’s Biography of Tennessee Williams 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

Their brave struggle -- and Bar-Lev's insightful documentary -- are a sobering reminder that civilian vigilance is never misplaced. 2010-02-04T00:35:00Z

Wolfe expressed hope that the monument would be a place for reflection, education "and sober thought." UN seeks designs for memorial to slavery victims 2011-09-30T22:50:08Z

Now his kids are 15 and 17, and he’s been sober for three years. Absent father no longer: men confront stereotypes to become involved parents 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

While they vary in size from small student-run organizations to large embedded university programs, the aim is the same: to help students stay sober while also thriving in college. Not the Usual College Party (This One’s Sober) 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

But the Giorgio Armani collection, which the designer defined backstage as “sober — but refreshed,” was more than an update of the familiar. Armani Shows Soft Tailoring, Prints and Padding 2012-06-26T17:29:11Z

When I got sober this last time, I made a commitment to do whatever it was my doctor suggested and that included starting on a regimen of anti-depressants, mood stabilizers and anti-psychotic medication. Why can’t Hollywood get bipolar disorder right? 2013-02-05T19:20:00Z

"Cos I'm getting tired of doing this show sober." Ministry – review 2012-07-24T17:00:01Z

She has a propensity to puncture some of Shears's more sober pronouncements with one-liners. Scissor Sisters: 'Sexuality is a universal thing' 2010-06-17T20:30:00Z

Apart from personality and taste, what else might account for what Mr. Jacobs’s sober detractors perceive as his ignorant hotheadedness? Ren? Jacobs?s Harmonia Mundi CDs and DVDs 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z

It produced, of course, a kind of heady lightness that was difficult to attain while sober. The healing power of the peach 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

Sooner or later, however, every girl sobers up. Zoella’s fall from grace: Why we demand so much authenticity from our YouTube stars 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

There were sober bombers printed with a pattern reminiscent of foliage in a dentist’s office. Zegna Turns Jackets Into a World View 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

It’s as declarative and as sobering a statement as any in this book — but Walker refuses to leave it at that. ‘How to Make a Slave’ Offers Restless, Brilliant Thoughts About Race 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

"It was good because most of the time Mike was in the house, he wasn't sober and he was causing problems," said Ortiz-Magro. 'Jersey Shore' cast looks ahead as ending nears 2012-10-04T13:34:09Z

It was sobering to see Meghan’s mother become distressed after Meghan said she felt so overwhelmed by the constant attacks she wanted to take her own life, which is horrendous. ‘Harry & Meghan’: A Second Serving of Reviews for the Netflix Series 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

A sober chronicle of victimization and empowerment, the movie tracks Mari’s search for her daughter Shannan, who vanished after meeting a client. ‘Lost Girls’ Review: Honoring the Gone Girls, With Sorrow and Rage 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Before getting sober in October 2017, Ms. Cromwell described dating as unstable. Finding Love Without Alcohol 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

Gevinson’s final letter, for November’s “Evolution” issue, is a sobering read. Rookie Brought the Inclusive Spirit of Zines to the Internet Era 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

It was both impressive and sobering to watch the skill with which Mr. Wicki synchronized the music of this vast score to the movie. Review: In ‘The Lord of the Rings in Concert,’ Musicians in Sync With a Soundtrack 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

To live a sober life doesn’t just mean quitting drinking. John Goodman: ‘I’ve broken all kinds of laws’ 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Even the soberest of historians may find themselves wishing the film-makers had fictionalised the trysts a little further. Girl with a Pearl Earring: plenty of style, but not a whole lot of substance 2013-07-25T09:21:38Z

And in the countdown to Brexit, no one in a position of power in the UK can offer anything but sober statistics about the future fallout of our national act of self-harm. My father believes the world is ending – and is abusive to my mother | Mariella Frostrup 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

We've read sober nonfiction books chronicling it and thoughtful fiction by soldiers — some with MFAs — who are beginning to process what they saw there. Mark Doten's 'The Infernal' a darkly twisted take on Iraq war 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

A sobering look at the 10 children and teenagers who were killed by guns on Nov. 23, 2013. 10 Books We Recommend This Week 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

In a written statement, Ms. Pappano added, “We must ensure that nothing like this happens again,” and said “this is a time that demands sober self-reflection and openness.” Long Wharf Theater’s Artistic Director Fired Over Sexual Misconduct Accusations 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Culture of Recovery led her to discover “a talent you never knew you had till you got clean and sober,” she said. In Appalachia, Crafting a Road to Recovery With Dulcimer Strings 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

The other sobering thought triggered by Dear Photograph is that the site is only possible because of the relative permanence of analogue photography. Why digital photographs won't be around forever 2011-08-13T23:05:54Z

“It's hard to find a good man,” my grandma had cautioned me over and over, but “good” according to her meant not physically abusive, financially self-sufficient, relatively sober — a low bar to clear. How I became an adventurous woman 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Stay completely sober, however, and you’ll really see the dating world for what it is: three hours of enforced socialising with someone whose outgoing voicemail message says only, “Yes, I’m free.” Don't talk politics, sex or the ex: 10 ways to ruin a date 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

I got sober as I had gotten f-ed up—alone, under my own power. Let me do sobriety my way 2012-08-18T16:00:00Z

If you choose to stay away from alcohol and also hang out with sober students, your sexual choices will be intentional and your risk of STDs, assault and unintended pregnancy decrease. Ask Amy: College-bound girl worries about pledge to parents 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

So in timing and spirit, this is a Black Lives Matter “Roots,” optimistic in focusing on its characters’ strength, sober in recognizing that we may never stop needing reminders of whose lives matter. Review: ‘Roots’ for a Black Lives Matter Era 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wood, now sober, was able to attend the premiere on Tuesday night, where he was applauded as, somehow, the straight man in the film, despite mummifying and then losing track of his own leg. Sundance 2015: Writers Made Photogenic, Crazy Tales Made Poignant 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

It recalled the day when men’s clothes were sober — yet this collection was not sad, but rather thoughtful and practical. Special Report: Fashion: Let It Rain! The Dark Side of Summer 2011-06-24T17:09:53Z

It was right around when I got sober and stopped doing drugs. “I’m in love with being on display”: Adult film star Asa Akira on her insatiable love of porn 2014-05-04T00:00:00Z

According to witnesses, the suspect did not appear to be sober during the altercation. Restaurant patron arrested for punching worker, biting customer over facemask regulations 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z

Bill and I were neighbors in the Springs — and friends when he was sober. From Doodling on Napkins to Acres of Art 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Shot in silvery black and white, it downplays the romanticism of later versions for a more sober, bittersweet study of familial togetherness and resilience amid hardship. Streaming: Little Women – where to watch the best previous adaptations 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

Perhaps their sober vision can be traced to how much further “Six” has taken Moss and Marlow than they ever imagined. ‘Six’ was shut down on the day it was set to open. It’s finally getting its big Broadway night. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

He doesn't allow himself to get sentimentally in his own light or to pull focus from a sober, deeply felt effort of recollection and recreation. The Crumb Road by Maitreyabandhu – review 2013-07-05T17:30:00Z

It’s kind of a truism among actors — I remember being told this when I was training — that the way to appear drunk is to try and be sober. Ritchie Coster on Playing the Drunk Mayor on 'True Detective' 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

And “Snowden” is, by Mr. Stone’s standards, a strikingly sober film. Review: ‘Snowden,’ Oliver Stone’s Restrained Portrait of a Whistle-Blower 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Buried deep in the article is a quote from the BBC whispering that the documentary, one of three in Maxwell's series Conspiracy Road Trip, doesn't endorse conspiracy theories but exposes them to sober investigation. Michael Richards revisits his racist rant … and the bonuses of being Brucie 2012-10-02T15:01:48Z

At times the collection was sober — as in a shapely suit with the trellis work on the pockets or a dress with braided sleeves. 2010-01-29T05:30:00Z

What’s particularly sobering about that figure is that while small, it’s actually a record for the department. A superhero for the 21st century: NYC’s first trans firefighter battles male-dominated culture of FDNY 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

He’s enormously proud of being asked to be the voice of TS Eliot by the poet’s widow, Valerie; he hopes his gentle, sober radio reading of Four Quartets is among his best work. Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Strolling Las Vegas Boulevard and meandering the upscale casinos I hadn’t made it into yet, at some point in the single-digit hours I realized that, the entire night, I had been entirely sober. One thing can get a buttoned-up millennial feminist to praise Las Vegas: Britney Spears 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Ham muses rhetorically, sitting in his expansive corner office at the Creation Museum, his first, more sober foray into the family entertainment business, which celebrates its 10th anniversary on Memorial Day. A giant ark is just the start. These creationists have a bigger plan for recruiting new believers. 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

It's about a man on parole and trying to live clean with his volatile girlfriend, who is far from sober. Chris Rock adds Broadway to his funny resume 2011-03-06T14:25:08Z

The look is plain and sober, presenting the ingredients as they really should be tasted. Tea Together Jams: Successful Spread Trading 2010-10-14T14:30:00Z

“My dad didn’t really get sober until I was 19,” Affleck said, becoming guarded all of a sudden. Ben Affleck Tried to Drink Away the Pain. Now He’s Trying Honesty. 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

“It’s a good place to sober up after a night’s work.” Welcome to life in a Vegas diner at 5am: 'Good morning … or good evening' 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

In particular, “the whole ‘sober curious’ movement has caught our attention.” The Holidays Are for Martinelli’s 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

Taylor has been sober ever since but retains the shame and regrets of his habit. James Taylor’s strength was melancholy. Now he must cope with contentment. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Early on, he told me he was on probation for drug-related offenses, which was forcing him to remain clean and sober. Modern Love: A Lost Child, but Not Mine 2011-07-28T22:12:45Z

But there’s something particularly clarifying about the hundred-days framing, especially as it’s presented in this elegant and sobering book, which shows how an unimaginable political transformation can happen astonishingly quickly. A Sobering Look at How Quickly Hitler Transformed Germany 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Like Richard, he is sober, thereby missing out on pubs and clubs – “the main route for kids in the 90s to have gotten together with someone”. Later-in-life virgins – ‘At my age, it becomes a red flag’ 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Everett/Rex Features Party Down is a touching, sobering about a Los Angeles catering crew staffed with out-of-work actors, writers and comedians who pour drinks and serve canapes while waiting for their big break. Your next box set: Party Down 2013-01-17T16:00:01Z

He said he didn't believe in keeping track of the sober time because "if you're walking around hanging on to your time, it's only a matter of time before it goes." Charlie Sheen quiets down some after manic spring 2011-09-14T16:57:08Z

“I knew that my lifestyle was crazy and out of order. And six months later, I got sober and clean and have been ever since,” John said. Elton John credits Ryan White’s family with saving his life 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z

He said he's been sober for 22 years and has a loving partner and son. Elton John: 'I shouldn't be here today' 2012-07-23T20:26:10Z

With its portrait of America in extremis after the shock of Pearl Harbor, the novel offers sobering parallels to today, like the demonization of immigrants, the rise of America-first nationalism, the slippery nature of truth. Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z

In her June song “Sober”, she sings “Momma, I’m so sorry, I’m not sober anymore.” Singer Demi Lovato reported hospitalized for apparent heroin overdose 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z