hard drinking
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There is McAvoy's hard drinking, watery-eyed boss, played by Sam Waterston, who defends the show to the relentlessly commercial, highly nepotistic and unguardedly stupid cable owners.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2012
After a period distinguished by hard drinking and hard eating, has come a period of comparative sobriety, which, in teetotalism and vegetarianism, exhibits extreme forms of protest against the riotous living of the past.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert
Levinge's and Castlereagh's hard drinking and gloomy aspect at mess were popularly attributed to the witchery of the St. Aubyn.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
In an age of hard drinking he was accounted puritanically abstemious.
From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary
I deny this absolutely, and to prove the contrary, I say, the Persians had a custom to deliberate on things the most serious, and of the 153 greatest importance, after hard drinking.
From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Samber, Robert
