| Well-crafted dialogue will indicate if a character is smart or dumb, honest or dishonest, amusing or an old sobersides. |
| Fred may develop into such a careful old sobersides that his mother will be ashamed of him. |
| He has played many quips and pranks, as if to assure me he is no old sobersides. |
| My business is to prevent young sobersides, young inkle, from appearing, to interrupt the ceremony. |
| Such sobersides get knocked over by the stampede, losing their shirts or their clients. Hence the recent bubbles in asset markets. |
| Mr Portman seems unembarrassed about coming over as a sobersides with a head for numbers. |
