Anybody else interested in a sobering influence?

Spurgeon was emotionally devastated by the event and it had a sobering influence on his life.

"That would definitely have a sobering influence on anyone," Prosser said.

Immune to temptation, the Good Girl can be counted on to have a sobering influence on any group by her very presence.

For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed for ever from the sobering influence of external danger.

Hoyt Wilson testified that Dallas had a sobering influence on the other guys.

The effect would be similar if the three superstates agreed to live in peaceful isolation, each "a self-contained universe, freed forever from the sobering influence of external danger."

He was always better when thinking for others . . . he must get back to them and their sobering influence.

Neither of them could be described as a sobering influence.

Rumor even had it that some of the younger men were becoming too carefree and in need of a sobering influence.