What's the difference between sobriety and sombreness?
Sobriety
Definition:
(n.) Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety.
(n.) Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years.
Example Sentences:
(1) While lawmakers debate how much THC (the psychoactive component in marijuana) a person can have in their blood before they're a danger on the road, Colorado's policemen have to rely on field sobriety tests.
(2) This therapy is done in three stages: (1) dryness (assessment and detoxification); (2) sobriety (achieving stable abstinence); and (3) wellness (using sobriety as a basis for personal growth and intimacy.
(3) Alcohol or drug addiction frequently produces significant psychiatric syndromes, which may resolve during periods of sobriety.
(4) The training and the alcohol counseling employment appears to be highly associated with continuing sobriety.
(5) Careful long-term, follow-up studies and continued scientific scrutiny always temper the intoxicating promise of innovation with the sobriety of scientific realism.
(6) As an alcoholic in long-term sobriety – on Christmas Day 1991, he was distracted from throwing himself off Tower Bridge by a friend offering him a glass of sherry, and soon entered recovery – Ferguson said he would not make jokes at the expense of the unwell.
(7) Shortly after their daughter’s birth, Cook said: “Zoe and I both gave up drinking so this baby is a present of our sobriety.
(8) This therapy is divided into 3 phases: achieving sobriety, maintaining abstinence, and advanced recovery.
(9) A chunky piece of ugly technology, the sobriety bracelet is used to detect even a smidgen of alcohol in the perspiration of its wearer, from whom readings are sent twice a day in order to monitor their abstinence.
(10) Consequently, such patients are difficult to treat, and they tend to relapse after achieving sobriety in a short-term treatment program.
(11) We describe how we try to estimate prognosis for future abstinence, which is based on a profile of historical features rather than a fixed period of sobriety.
(12) Hypotheses are that DMI will prolong sobriety and reduce depression secondary to alcoholism significantly more than placebo.
(13) The focus of treatment is on the identification of high risk and other problem situations, training coping skills to handle these situations, developing insight, and enhancing patients' motivation for sobriety and ongoing treatment.
(14) It was found that: (a) Gay bars were totally unrelated to the etiology in any of the informants, yet most thought that this gay bar ethnotheory could explain why there was a high incidence of alcoholism in the gay community; (b) none of the men saw being gay as a positive thing before sobriety, yet many didn't realize their non-acceptance until after sobriety was chosen; (c) accepting being gay as a positive aspect of self occurred only after sobriety was chosen and lived; and (d) not accepting being gay as a positive thing may therefore explain the etiology and thus the high incidence of alcoholism among gay American men.
(15) Many believed that homosexual alcoholics are less likely to seek help and may have more difficulty achieving sobriety.
(16) Increased utilization of alcoholism programs and self-reported sobriety at 10 weeks were assessed.
(17) It was predicted that longer periods of sobriety would be associated with less conflict and fewer struggles for control between husbands and wives.
(18) Sixteen (25.8%) said that they had maintained total sobriety for over 12 months, while 54 (87%) said that their life-style, drinking pattern and physical and mental health had improved.
(19) Today, living with sobriety makes life much easier.
(20) For those patients who are tested, sensitive and rational staff responses must be provided to prevent jeopardizing sobriety.
Sombreness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
(2) Seethetree Kingley Vale, Sussex Forget the colours of autumn; this place is sombre in colour and atmosphere but you will be walking among probably the oldest living organisms in Britain.
(3) Slowing growth, financial fragility, governments teetering on the brink of insolvency and default, and clear signs of a public backlash against the excesses of the rich and powerful: all have created a sombre backdrop to the invitation-only affair.
(4) King gave a sombre assessment of the government's challenge at a press conference to launch the Bank's quarterly inflation report.
(5) Top floor: a roomful of sombre youths vying for individual supremacy using some form of networked arcade strategy game that uses collectible cards.
(6) In sombre tones he did indeed acknowledge that there are no sunny uplands as we "now face a crisis that is the economic equivalent of war" .
(7) In March 1990, in a ceremony in the new Congress building built by Pinochet in his home town of Valparaiso - 80 miles from the capital, Santiago, and intended to remain well out of mind of the real centres of power - a sombre Pinochet handed the presidential sash over to Aylwin.
(8) Q has upped his gadget game Facebook Twitter Pinterest The brooding and sombre Skyfall scored a few points for post-modern playfulness via its introductory scene for the new Q, in which Ben Whishaw might as well have offered Bond a couple of Netflix vouchers and a year’s subscription to Cosmopolitan for all the wow factor his proffered “gadgets” achieved.
(9) Another report, Sir Derek Wanless's Securing Good Health for the Whole Population (2004), set out the sombre consequences of our slobby habits: life expectancy cut by nine years, increased coronary heart disease and diabetes, and a cost of £8.2bn to the economy.
(10) She’s very serious in her style, very well-informed in her style, it won’t be the same as David Cameron,” he said, welcoming the idea of a more sombre tone.
(11) In a sombre closing speech, Clegg warned of "a long hard road ahead", and said the economy was "our biggest concern" because "the recovery is fragile".
(12) A grand and sombre staircase - dark, looming, pitiless - leads up from the Axes to the exhibits, allowing Libeskind to play one last trick on the visitor by luring him up a final flight that goes nowhere, before his voice gives way to the memoranda of Jewish history.
(13) It is now recognized that as much as left ventricular dysfunction these ventricular arrhythmias are of sombre prognosis.
(14) South Africans have undergone sombre introspection of late with the economy slowing, unemployment sky highand, worst of all, violent unrest that included the killing of workers at the Lonmin platinum mine in August.
(15) Helen Hunt and John Hawkes are deservedly recognised for their fine performances in The Sessions, while Kathryn Bigelow 's sombre, gripping Zero Dark Thirty bags a quartet of nominations, burnishing its credentials as the dark horse of this year's Oscar race.
(16) There were reports this morning that Gaga was reluctant to perform after the death of Alexander McQueen last week and had told organisers she would only play a set that was suitably sombre (with images of McQueen projected as a backdrop apparently).
(17) In a sombre letter to his youngest child, Mohamed wrote: "Sorry because you were born where free people are behind bars, including your father."
(18) Although they may draw images of sombre and disciplined technicians in white coats, labs in the modern industrial context are a nebulous idea.
(19) Although relatively rare, stenosis must be diagnosed in view of its sombre spontaneous prognosis (one patient died 3 days after coronary arteriography), of the risk of underestimating its frequency, and of the hazards of selective coronary catheterization in such patients (one of our patients died 15 minutes after coronary exploration).
(20) In a sombre ceremony, the eight men were remembered and honoured by name as families and relatives paid their last respects.