From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... somewhat.
BB p.109,
To Wives
2.
... somewhat at
fault, he is sure that ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
3.
... somewhat in
practicing them.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
They can hardly fail to approve these simple principles, though the head of the house still fails somewhat in practicing them.
4.
... somewhat mysterious
skill of clergymen, from which ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us
to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.
5.
... somewhat relieved,
for he reflected that, after ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
Upon hearing this, our friend was somewhat relieved, for he reflected that, after all,
he was a good church member.
6.
... somewhat sentimental,
let them stand with us ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for
alcoholics we appear
somewhat sentimental,
let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged
this movement.
7.
... somewhat to
learn that in alcoholics the ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
It relieved me somewhat to
learn that in alcoholics the will is amazingly weakened when
it comes to combating liquor, though it often remains strong in other respects.
8.
... somewhat weak,
even cowardly.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
We were bothered with the thought that faith and dependence upon a Power beyond ourselves was somewhat weak, even cowardly.
9.
... somewhat weakened,
and faced with physical and ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
Being somewhat weakened, and faced with physical and mental readjustment to a life
which knows no alcohol, he may overdo.
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