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sober-headed
[ soh-ber-hed-id ]
adjective
- characterized by clear, logical thinking; not fanciful or capricious.
Example Sentences
The composition accelerates empathy: the third-party outrage, expressed by the white male citizen, who is assumed to be more sober-headed than the always aggrieved black one, legitimizes our own in a way that the men’s first-person testimony would not have.
My judgment of you is sober-headed enough.
It has promised inquiries and impartial commissions to lance this perennial boil on the face of India's polity, but its critics have little patience or faith in the ruling coalition's intentions—not least because India's parliamentary system encourages rancor and opportunist point-scoring over more sober-headed efforts to cross the aisle and pursue policies in the national interest.
Well, I tried a few questions of the same sort on Capitol Hill among the sober-headed legislators.
"He always has had the reputation of being a sober-headed man, but he is all off his balance now."
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