The Times the next day printed the opinion that " Lord George-Brown drunk is a better man than the Prime Minister sober.

In a letter to Charles Lyell about " the foul book ", he expressed his disgust: " If the book be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain ; religion is a lie ; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice ; morality is moonshine ; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen ; and man and woman are only better beasts!

" However later the same year, in a letter to Hooker, Darwin mentioned Vestiges in a more sober tone: " I should have less scruple in troubling you if I had any confidence what my work would turn out.

Even though all his work was written while he was sober, Selby continued to battle drug addiction.

His précis of the subject, published in 1827, is a sound and careful book, far better than anything that had appeared before it, and written in a sober yet interesting style.

were written in a relatively sober, absolutely friendly voice, like a friend of your father's you particularly liked and didn't mind sitting down to listen to.

The theme of the magazine − a celebration of alcohol and the seemingly bohemian lifestyles of functional alcoholics − runs counter to the message of moderation commonly found in mainstream America: regular features include " Alcocomics − Cartoons for the sober challenged ," " Post Cards from Skid Row " ( featuring poetry written by and / or for the inebriated ), " Wino Wisdom ," and " You Know You're a Drunkard When ..." The magazine also features meticulously researched articles on alcohol's place in history, including such topics as the Whiskey Rebellion and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's love of the martini.

Men women were members yet who had proven over and over again, by extremely painful experience, that they could not get sober on their own had somehow become more powerful when two or three of them worked on their common problem.

As a person now drinks to feel normal, they block out the feelings of overwhelming guilt, remorse, anxiety, and shame they experience when sober.

On August 21, 1938, Bogart entered into a disastrous third marriage, with actress Mayo Methot, a lively, friendly woman when sober, but paranoid when drunk.

Peckinpah's intake of alcohol had increased dramatically while making The Getaway, and he became fond of saying, " I can't direct when I'm sober.

There emerged an element of unpredictability, as The Replacements — when sober — gained critical praise for their live shows.

Don says he can only develop writing ideas while drunk, but he forgets them when sober.

The next citations are not found until 1955, when the May – June issue of Aviation Mechanics Bulletin included the line " Murphy's Law: If an aircraft part can be installed incorrectly, someone will install it that way ," and Lloyd Mallan's book, Men, Rockets and Space Rats, referred to: " Colonel Stapp's favorite takeoff on sober scientific laws — Murphy's Law, Stapp calls it —' Everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong '.

It is sometimes thought that Thursday was the chosen polling day as it is furthest from the Friday and Weekend before, making it therefore the day when people were most sober.

The only exception here, of course, is when one is ' depending ' on a rescuing deity in order to remain sober.

Salmon claimed — erroneously — that whereas Modigliani was a totally pedestrian artist when sober,

In making his 1981 re-recording of the Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould considered playing this variation at a slower tempo, in keeping with the tempo of the preceding variation ( Variation 16 ), but ultimately decided not to because " Variation 17 is one of those rather skittish, slightly empty-headed collections of scales and arpeggios which Bach indulged when he wasn ’ t writing sober and proper things like fugues and canons, and it just seemed to me that there wasn't enough substance to it to warrant such a methodical, deliberate, Germanic tempo.

Many people regard bondage as safer, when conducted between sober, trusted partners who are fully aware of the risks involved and the precautions necessary to ensure safety, such as informed consent.

Ask the Mayor, as we did, to close up all the saloons ... keep sober and orderly, and when you are organized, apply to the United Workingmen for orders.

Bischoff claimed that Waltman was a competent performer " when sober ," but that these periods were " few and far between ", and that " in many ways, Sean was lucky to even have a job.

The condition ( among other things ) lowers blood pressure ; it may have caused Clift to appear drunk or drugged when he was sober.

She also commented that although he was not drunk, he was not really sober either, but had very strict rules when it came to performances.

This is the way I look when I'm sober.

His performances were acclaimed when he was sober, but despite the efforts of his work associates to get him to shows sober, his abuse of alcohol resulted in occasions when he did not appear or his performances were poor.

He is overbearing and demanding of Mindy when sober, but occasionally turns up drunk and cheerful ( Brooks was a comedian noted for his " drunk " act ).

He battled alcoholism and a crack cocaine addiction in his early-to mid-twenties ; Hardy entered a rehab clinic and has been sober and clean since 2003.

Drunk or sober she was the most attractive woman in the world for me.

That would make him mad enough if he was sober.

If he was sober, which was doubtful, he'd have him get in touch with Mr. Crombie.

My head was clear, my thinking sober and I was reconciled to this Paris idea as a flop on top of all my others.

Algardi was also known for his portraiture which shows an obsessive attention to details of psychologically revealing physiognomy in a sober but immediate naturalism, and minute attention to costume and draperies, such as in the busts of Laudivio Zacchia, Camillo Pamphilj, and of Muzio Frangipane and his two sons Lello and Roberto.

Ebby Thacher, Wilson's former drinking buddy and a Grouper who followed the evangelical bent and sought out other alcoholics, presented himself to Wilson telling him he had " got religion " and was sober, and that Wilson could do the same if he set aside objections to religion and formed, instead, a personal idea of God, " another power " or " higher power ".

Surprised that Thacher was sober, and sensing a " kinship of common suffering ", Wilson, though drunk at the time, attended his first Group gathering.

Wilson's first success came during a business trip to Akron, Ohio, where he was introduced to Dr. Robert Smith, a surgeon and Oxford Group member who was unable to stay sober.

She admitted to being a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, but claimed that she had been sober for more than ten years by that point, and was not using any drugs, with the exception of prescribed painkillers due to discomfort and pain from the recent extraction of her wisdom teeth.

This new version of the game presented a more sober and serious approach to the concept of a post-nuclear world, at odds with the more light-hearted and adventurous approach taken by previous editions ; it was also the first edition of the game to include fantastical nanotechnology on a large scale.

An incriminating statement made by arrestee during the instruction, " I couldn't do that even if I was sober ", would not be the product of interrogation.

During the six-week scriptwriting process, Kurosawa and his screenwriters realized that " six sober samurai were a bore — they needed a character that was more off-the-wall.

Part of the mystique of The Replacements was the fact that the audience never knew until the start of a concert if the band would be sober enough to play.

Wilson was progressive and sober, but not a dry, and appealed to both sides.

The bridegroom – who was not drunk and thus not impotent, but was sober as always – first had dinner in the messes, then would slip in, undo her belt, lift her and carry her to the bed.

From the 1930s to the early 1960s, Soho folklore states that the pubs of Soho were packed every night with drunken writers, poets and artists, many of whom never stayed sober long enough to become successful ; and it was also during this period that the Soho pub landlords established themselves.

This was probably due to the sober dress of his Protestant sitters, more than any personal preference.

Among the club managers hiring the newly sober Hicks was Colleen McGarr, who would become his girlfriend and fiancée in later years.

By the end of the decade, Hughes ' realised his ongoing drug problem was derailing him, and by 1991 a clean, sober and fully rejuvenated Hughes returned with the vocal for the hit " America: What Time Is Love?