insobriety

I wish I'd been exposed to this black literary insobriety at an earlier age.

George's insobriety was disturbing and even wounding to his friends.

There'll be an open bar, but I advise a minimum of insobriety.

That also is a mode, we need not say of intoxication, but of insobriety.

The two things went together, the lack of a congregation and the 'vicar's insobriety.

Fatigue, illness and insobriety may tend to produce fragmentary responding.

Many of her proclamations focus on combating licentiousness, insobriety and vice.

Several epigrams accuse him of greed and insobriety.

Unfounded reports were spread of his insobriety.

Large-bodied people will require more alcohol to reach insobriety than lightly built people.

This includes direct tolerance, speed of recovery from insobriety and resistance to the development of alcoholism.

It is also effective for spotting "a drunk who's practiced at masking the symptoms of insobriety because he's living life drunk," he said.

Hindman relieved Rains of command in October 1862 for "incompetence and insobriety."

He wondered who would pay for them or whether the ungenerous might regard wine either as an inducement or a deliberate temptation to insobriety.

The truth is-" Suppressed belch; grim face; bitter struggle against the slanderous hint of insobriety.

Throughout Thrace it was celebrated secretly in the hills at night, and was notorious for its obscenity and insobriety.

'You disapprove of my unkingly insobriety, I see.' '

Temporarily out of Tracchia's line of vision, Harlow, all signs of insobriety vanished, moved rapidly into the first darkened doorway round the corner.

Gerald was apprehensive lest her indisposition increase during the course of the meal; but her insobriety, like her affability, seemed to have an exact and definite limit.

If I had made a similar deal with my friends last year, substituting "last guy to hit the big time" for "die," I'd be well on my way to insobriety.

Insobriety , the state of not being sober, means "drunkenness"; could Mr. Clarke have been protesting that he was not throwing his money around like a drunken sailor?

Lee Hitch and Stove Jones had spent a night of insobriety in a Mexican cantina; they were so hung over as to be incapable of carpentry.

Postclassic central Mexican traditions identified rabbits with the beverage pulque and insobriety, and by extension Macuiltochtli had a particular association with inebriation and excessive consumption.

Alsa says it's charming sentimentality when it's not maudlin insobriety, but then Alsa is a clear-eyed lady for whom one drink is refreshing, pleasurable - and enough.

Instead I am convinced they are done by those literary graffiti artists who compose the rhymes in Christmas cards and are executed in a state of tired insobriety and cynicism on new year's morning.