soberness

Yates had staid to see the destruction of every theatrical preparation at Mansfield, the removal of everything appertaining to the play: he left the house in all the soberness of its general character; and Sir Thomas hoped, in seeing him out of it, to be rid of the worst object connected with the scheme, and the last that must be inevitably reminding him of its existence.

It was, indeed, quite true that the household had not been shining examples either of temperance, soberness, or chastity.

It wouldn't be half bad," said Mary, with a soberness which impressed Ralph very much.

He had so often gone over in his mind the possibility of explaining everything without aggravating appearances that would tell, perhaps unfairly, against Bulstrode, and had so often decided against it--he had so often said to himself that his assertions would not change people's impressions-- that Dorothea's words sounded like a temptation to do something which in his soberness he had pronounced to be unreasonable.

All of them faced the things of life seriously, and their opinions seemed to reflect a double tinge of soberness, on the one hand, from the twilight hues of well-nigh forgotten joys that could never more be revived for them; and, on the other, from the gray dawn which gave promise of a glorious day.

de Bellegarde evidently appreciated the comical element in the question, but he looked at Newman a moment with extreme soberness. "I am a very good Catholic.

Our appearance, the soberness of our gait made us conspicuous.

These perplexities checking his elation imparted to his tone a soberness well in keeping with the circumstances.

But when he entered Razumov's room late in the evening it was with an unaccustomed soberness of manner, almost solemnly.

" Locsin appeared to have taken the cue from his principal, President Duterte, in a moment of rare soberness. Asked by reporters if he would allow UNHRC representatives to investigate in the Philippines, Duterte inconclusively replied, "Let them state their purpose and I will" Recall that after the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, in 2017, persisted on conducting a preliminary examination on the drug-related EJKs, Duterte ordered the country's withdrawal from the ICC.

He would come and rather than show soberness, he would pounce on me again and beat me blue and black in their presence.

This can be seen toward the end of the lecture, when the original version declares science "absolutely laughable": "The sobriety of science, which gives up on the Nothing, thus becomes absolutely laughable, speaking metaphysically." (36) In contrast, the published version drops the adverb and tones down the rhetoric: "The presumed soberness of mind and superiority of science become laughable when it does not take the nothing seriously." (37)