sobersides

You're really very handsome when you're not being an old sobersides."

Not if the sobersides have their way.

Think of the fun, the pleasure you'd get out of outwitting all the sobersides.

Would I have enjoyed that brief vacation from Miss Sobersides?

When I first met her, she had seemed rather a sobersides and no more interested in clothes than I was.

Not that he's any sobersides.

He always was a regular sobersides."

Well, Tarold thought, he could ignore that sobersides.

I'll not change into some bootlicking sobersides.

"Friendlier they are to you than they were for me, and you such a sobersides and all."

There was George Montgomery, but George was a sobersides.

Mon Dieu, you are a sobersides, aren't you?"

I figure the cult developed because the king has to have all-stops-out orgies fairly often, if he's to stay the kind of sobersides we need for a leader."

The Happiest Days - Only Sunny Smyles is merry at Sobersides School.

No, the only agenda here was entertainment, and Mr. Farrakhan is far more diverting, particularly if you're not Jewish, than a sobersides like Orrin Hatch.

'Not likely to be Mr. Sobersides Fane, for all his sheep's eyes and the way he follows her round like a dog.'

"It's not like he's a sobersides, but Bush can be goofy, Gore can be goofy; Obama is not goofy."

It was just he was a sobersides who gets up and makes long sonorous speeches and the only way to shut him up was to throw things at him."

He defended himself and Priestley in various pamphlets, such as the "Extinguisher Maker", "T. Sobersides", and "High Church Politics".

Without in any way dishonoring Guthrie (although a few leftist sobersides may demur), Mr. Bragg and Jeff Tweedy of Wilco have reimagined him.

Simmons and Pearl play it relatively straight, going for a sobersides approximation of how people might be assumed to have spoken and thought 140 years ago, but occasionally betraying themselves by lapses into modern Yankee demotic.

It may be imagination, but I think I've detected more than once a look of alarm as some stunned sobersides who actually has something original or interesting to say suddenly realizes that he has accepted an invitation to bedlam.

Mr. Tannen, who died in 1991, was a highly gregarious sort, an aspiring actor who loved the limelight, while Mr. Biblo was almost a sobersides, a quiet, reserved man who provided a counterweight to his irrepressible partner.

Well-crafted dialogue will indicate if a character is smart or dumb (Mistuh Butts isn't necessarily a moron just because he can't say appetite; we must listen to him awhile longer before making up our minds on that score), honest or dishonest, amusing or an old sobersides.