Plus, Flynn was a lot soberer than his lanky opponent.
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Or perhaps the soberer and more grounded side of Donald Trump would prevail.
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There's soberer fare too: letters written to suicide and a poem alluding to AIDS.
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SOBERER sounds like something a person might say if they weren't quite … well, sober.
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And I'm not a huge fan of words where -ER is added on for no good reason, like SOBERER.
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Anyone who thought that Trump would preview a new, soberer, presidential version of himself just 50 days before he takes the oath of office was mistaken.
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Not Wallace (Patrick Wilson), Leland's cleaner and soberer replacement, whose rule book is no match for the blade of the cartel's dead-eyed fixer (John Leguizamo).
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He dropped his usual moniker for Cruz, and instead included an honorific as he referred to "Senator Cruz," part of a soberer speech in Trump Tower celebrating his win.
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The financial crisis was less a freakish confluence than an escalating series of poor decisions, each made out of self-interest or ideology, each cautioned against by soberer voices at the time.
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And some parts of Labour, famously anti-establishment under Mr. Corbyn, are fretting that they will somehow look like the soberer party in an election dominated by voters' desire for a shake-up.
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Soberer Israelis — and American conservatives — ridicule such suggestions because they believe the liberal constituency of the Democratic Party is moving leftward, toward a domain where condemnation of Israel is fashionable, and there is little Israel can do to reverse what is an American trend.
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"The clash comes when a free-spending American TV celebrity, the independent Ms. Markle, becomes the British queen's granddaughter-in-law and joins soberer ornaments on the cracked marble mantelpiece of ancient royalty," the journalist Libby Purves wrote in February in a column for The Times of London.
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As railroad lines and factories spread across the land, a soberer Marx retreated from his youthful predictions of the working class's imminent triumph and elaborated a complex theory about the operations of that system and how it would eventually collapse under the weight of such insoluble "contradictions" as a falling rate of profit.
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Thus centipede ku could be overcome by frog ku; > serpent ku would prevail over frog ku, and so on. There were also soberer, > though almost as powerful remedies: asafetida, python bile, civet, and a > white substance taken from cock's dung were all used. It is not certain what > real maladies these repellent drugs, cured, or seemed to cure. Probably they > ranged from the psychosomatic to the virus-born.
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" What America instead needed to do: :Is the soberer, less dramatic business of administering resources and plants already in hand, of seeking to reestablish foreign markets for our surplus production, of meeting the problem of underconsumption, of adjusting production to consumption, of distributing wealth and products more equitably, of adapting existing economic organizations to the service of the people. The day of enlightened administration has come. Parts of his speech had a gloomy tone: "A glance at the situation today only too clearly indicates that equality of opportunity as we have known it no longer exists." "We are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.
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Due to Cavendish being a woman author at the time, the fact that she was willing to converse with men on natural philosophy, and her theatrical sense of dress, she eventually gained the nickname "Mad Madge", and many of her contemporaries lambasted her works for their perceived eccentricity. For example, fellow scientist and Royal Society member Samuel Pepys, once famously wrote that she was "a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman" after reading one of her biographies. Dorothy Osborne reflected in one of her published letters, after reading one of the Duchess' books, that she was "sure there are soberer people in Bedlam." This was typical of the impression the general public seemed to have of her.
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Kolnai's ethical thought is characterized by strong loves and hates and expressed in terms of values and universal meanings. Broadly, his ethical thought can be described as Christian imperfectionism opposed to the elevation of morality beyond the everyday life. The negative character of moral duties was key for Kolnai, as expressed in his treatise on "Morality and Practice II:" > When we speak of 'respecting' alien property (as also life or rights) we use > that word in its weak sense of 'leaving alone,' 'not touching,' 'not > interfering with,' much as it is used in French medical language (the rash > of typhus fever 'respects' the face, i.e. in the soberer style of English > textbooks, the face 'escapes'), not in its strong sense of positive > appreciation for something distinctively noble and respectable . . .
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The palace's monumental Italianate portico, one of its most remarkable original features, has since been relocated to the Machado de Castro National Museum. Over the years, its rooms, several of which still retained their original gothic form despite the building's soberer classical exterior, would be filled with precious furniture, Old Master paintings and about 30.000 rare books, while the palace grew into a vibrant cultural salon. His collection of paintings, which at its height amounted to more than 600 pieces displayed across 10 saloons,Alberto de Sousa, "Obras de Arte do Palácio Ameal", in Gazeta de Coimbra (Year XI, nº 1176, July 9, 1921), p. 1. included a canvas then attributed to Caravaggio (Saint John the Baptist), one large drawing by Rembrandt (Head of a Man), a large Glorification of the Virgin by Rubens, The Earthly Paradise by Jan Brueghel (now in the Louvre) and two portraits of saints by Zurbarán.
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