| Well-crafted dialogue will indicate if a character is smart or dumb, honest or dishonest, amusing or an old sobersides. |
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| Fred may develop into such a careful old sobersides that his mother will be ashamed of him. |
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| He has played many quips and pranks, as if to assure me he is no old sobersides. |
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| Mr Portman seems unembarrassed about coming over as a sobersides with a head for numbers. |
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| Such sobersides get knocked over by the stampede, losing their shirts or their clients. Hence the recent bubbles in asset markets. |
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| Judging from his relaxed demeanor Tuesday, Bradley may try not to seem like such a sobersides next time around. |
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| And those who mark me down as a puritanical old sobersides may be surprised to learn that it was comedians, along with the plays of Shakespeare, that first drew me to theatre. |
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| She may not be able to win the presidency herself, but so long as she stays in the headlines, hinting at a run, she makes the party's sobersides look dull by comparison. |
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