(1) In my day the congregation tolerated a drunken sot of an Irishman in the rectory so anything is possible.(2) How painful to behold in a family once happy, the father become a sot ; the mother in tears, and the children lamenting or imitating the vices of the parent.(3) Now we knew him, or at least a thin slice of his bio, the short, sad saga of a sot preserved among the births, graduations, weddings, and deaths.(4) Verlaine takes it's name from the famous poet and sot !(5) A few nifty lighting tricks later, and we're riding the rails with a host of yin-yang character pairs: the suited businessman and his wayward brother, the heartbroken sot and her vivacious new friend, and so on.(6) This dress cost me $1200 - my drunken sot of an ex-father-in-law swore up and down he would pay for it but didn't so I got stuck with the bill.(7) Maudling was clever, lazy, a sot and deeply corrupt.(8) One of the authors, a drunken sot , compliments Deeds, and convinces him, with Bennett's help, to go on a binge with him.(9) You could almost feel the disapproval and loathing radiating from Mother at the sight of the man she called ÔÇÿthat old sot .ÔÇÖ(10) Way back in the 19th century there was this drunken sot of an Irish kid named Liam.(11) Still, a few great individuals emerge in his work, notably a wonderful old sot .(12) He slurred the words, and to all intents and purposes appeared the drunken sot .(13) ÔÇÿLike as not the sot who wrote it all down was drunk as a lord,ÔÇÖ he added.(14) He can be the world's laziest sot when he decides he wants to.(15) On a terrific set these lost sots enact a comedy-drama whose relevance extends to the soberest souls among us.(16) But repeated references to drunkenness in the plays, plus the portraits of two sots , Sir Toby Belch and Falstaff, lead Greenblatt to suspect alcoholism.
