sobriety
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The paper reports the catalyst for his sobriety was the reunion tour; it says he told the documentary the experience was too "precious" to spoil by partying.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
But not accounting for Galliano’s 15 years of sobriety, his frank apologies, and his continued remorse is somewhat unnerving.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
This new sobriety probably takes some of the fizz out of what the sociologist Emile Durkheim called the “collective effervescence” that revelers feel while partying together in large groups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Well, this is going to sound like I’m so codependent on this person, but the person who planted the seed of sobriety in my head was Bob the Drag Queen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
“I don’t buy eggs in Malta,” he confessed, with an air of slight and clandestine amusement that was the only departure from industrious sobriety Yossarian had ever seen him make.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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