soberness

IPA: sˈoʊbɝnʌs

Examples of "soberness" in Sentences

She liked him for a certain stern soberness that was his, and for his saving grace of humor.
It's later and with time that a certain soberness, a certain inherent moderation normally take hold.
The Pacific has really grown on me and they both have a soberness as opposed to self-importance that will age well.
There are times, Anne dearie, when I know by your eyes that your soberness is put on like a garment and you're really aching to do something wild and young again.
For all the understandable excitement associated with a very public wedding and national occasion, there is an equally understandable public soberness this time too.
“The report was there were many tears, much soberness and humbling among the family,” Jeffs said after ordering four women and five children to leave the ranch in May 2004.
Noonan says there is a "new soberness," which makes very little sense, considering the people who destroyed the economy have been allowed to go right back to doing the same old thing.
A great deal of it was a strange language to May, but she half-disapproved of it, as entirely unlike the 'soberness' of Bridgefield ways, and like the Redcastle vicar, whom her father commonly called 'that madman.'
His penchant for harebrained schemes, his disastrous tenure as speaker of the House and his personal history, in a sense, are all part of the same issue, namely a lack of personal discipline, restraint and soberness.