Indeed, there were moments when he was slightly too sobersided in demeanor.

"Cantilever Two," which closed the program, also began in a sobersided manner.

It is a ballet of mischievous music and sobersided choreography.

They look sobersided enough—you might easily believe them to be the board directors of a cement-maker or an accounting firm.

Although the young men were appropriately courtly, they were also rather sobersided.

At last we face the possibility of a sobersided Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting.

These young people were not going to sit and be driven mad by sobersided Yellowstone Rangers.

As a result, their sobersided interpretations lacked the playfulness and whimsy that are so important to this piece.

As sobersided etymologists of historic phrases say, hot dawg!

He was passion incarnate besides the sobersided Perkins.

A more sobersided affair made of cast iron is subtitled "Split Knot."

Sobersided planners and wide-eyed visionaries thought this astonishing pace of transformation would never abate.

Miss Humphrey's choreography often appears sobersided.

As conceded during the festivities, the program, which erupts five times a week at 7:30 P.M., isn't taken seriously by sobersided journalists.

There's some kitsch-surprise here (i.e. a cover of an Abba song) - rare in the sobersided jazz world.

That delighted the sobersided Mr. Lugar, who was dressed as usual in a dark suit and a striped tie.

At first, the dancers looked sobersided, and when Ms. Ranken burst into laughter, she was shunned by her companions, who obviously thought her uncouth.

He’s the sobersided seeker of the GOP establishment’s banner, and she’s the woman trying to make a career out of being allegedly victimized by the same establishment.

For Beshear, who presented a sobersided image of respectability and responsibility, Fletcher and his ethical problems offered a more generous target than Northup would have.

A sobersided commentator could complain that it was escapist as well, for the choreography blithely ignored any possible differences in social status between the two groups at the party.

More recently, containment was George Kennan's somewhat more sobersided contribution to cold-war foreign-policy nomenclature, followed by the Clinton Administration's engagement.

Lal Kishan Advani, leader of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, is a sobersided, meticulously articulate, scrupulously courtly man.

Although the Cuomo "new realism" smacked of the old moral relativism, the Reagan tone resonated in Democratic Senator Bill Bradley's sobersided speech later in the week.

Looking almost painfully earnest, Jim May and Lorry May, the troupe's artistic directors, portrayed such demonstrators while Joshua Morphew read a sobersided lecture on ragtime.

Sobersided critics have analyzed the high incidence of unhappy endings in his films and drawn dreary conclusions about Huston's "shallow" preoccupation with Man's isolation in what's often called "the void."