All 6 Uses of
sober
in
The House of Mirth
- "How you can LAUGH——" her friend rebuked her; and she dropped back to a soberer perception of things with the question: "What was it Bertha really told him?"†
Chpt 1.7
- For a moment her heart beat incoherently, then she felt the sobering touch of fact, and remembered that such calls were not unknown in her charitable work.†
Chpt 1.14 *
- It had certainly not been produced by Selden's arguments, or by the action of his own soberer reason.†
Chpt 2.3
- His real detachment from her had taken place, not at the lurid moment of disenchantment, but now, in the sober after-light of discrimination, where he saw her definitely divided from him by the crudeness of a choice which seemed to deny the very differences he felt in her.†
Chpt 2.3
- Her tone seemed to sober him, as it had so often done in his stormiest moments.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- The very apprehensions he aroused hardened her against him: she had been on the alert for the note of personal sympathy, for any sign of recovered power over him; and his attitude of sober impartiality, the absence of all response to her appeal, turned her hurt pride to blind resentment of his interference.†
Chpt 2.9
Definitions:
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(sober as in: Talk to me when your sober.) not under the influence of alcohol
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(sobering as in: a sobering thought) serious or calm (not silly or excited); or making one serious or less excited