How To Use Sobering In A Sentence
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Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
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Similarly, the political realities forced upon a nation suffering the after-effects of civil war and regicide were sobering indeed.
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If the right to recall is legislated to become a law of the land, it can have a very sobering effect on our politicians; many of them take the voter for granted.
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Yet the former England manager concedes that a far more sobering scenario could have awaited his team had they not strengthened during the mid-season transfer window.
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I laughed before sobering up quickly again and faced her with a solemn expression.
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It is sobering, in some cases, to see how much the hand of man has altered the face of nature.
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Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
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That is what you might call a sobering experience.
Christianity Today
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The sobering presentation foreboded the future of Taiwan's relationship with the United States.
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Nevertheless, for gradualists, who hoped that devolution would provide a workable and stable form of home rule that could endure for years before coming under question, recent developments have been sobering.
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It is a sobering argument and one whose subtlety may not penetrate the political/media filter that permits only sound bites and slogans to pass through.
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First up, the breaking news: On the eve of a memorial for 13 people massacred at Fort Hood, Texas, we have new information about their alleged killer and his ties to a notorious recruiter for global jihad, sobering new questions, as well, about warning signs that may have gone unacted on.
CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2009
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He said that, while the website might provide users with sobering predictions, the intention was to inform and inspire rather than terrify.
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It was the most sobering experience of my life.
The Sun
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Still, it was essentially agreeable entertainment with a wacky sense of humour leavened by slightly sobering grace notes.
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Beautifully acted, sung and danced, this retains a playful yet sobering power.
Times, Sunday Times
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Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
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It is sobering to realize that this is not a new problem.
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From the standpoint of women whose primary goal in life is career advancement, these are sobering findings.
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It is sobering to reflect that by crowning a brief but undeniably spectacular life by getting murdered in 1593, Christopher Marlowe has ensured persistent support as the one nonaristocratic candidate for authorship of "Shakespeare's" plays.
The One and Only
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It is sobering to swim at full pelt and apparently not go anywhere.
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Winter rain on the sea is so utterly sobering, especially when there is little wind.
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The effect that increasing units have on your body makes for sobering reading indeed.
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Articles examine social attitudes to unemployment and poverty through the decades, and there's also a survey of Depression and wartime cookbooks, and a sobering photograph of a Helsinki leipäjono literally "breadline" or soup kitchen in 2006.
Shadows of Recession
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Ma flashed me a look of approval for sobering him up so quickly.
WEB OF DREAMS
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The most sobering part of the book is a short passage where Guttenplan elaborates this country's history of anti-Semitism.
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This precipitous narrow track must have been a sobering welcome for the new settlers.
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The case example of the UK's Yorkshire Ripper Hoaxer however is a sobering reminder of the real link between backlog, convictions, and public safety.
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One site that does a quality job (however sobering and gloomy) of collecting dismal dots to connect, is so-called Mike Ruppert's so-called blog.
Take me out to the shell game (Jack Bog's Blog)
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I can't expect everyone to arrive at this same philosophical destination that I did on Monday, especially when they are not even on the same path; yet my "kill" experience on Monday really taught me a lot about our society and it's detachment from the "sobering realities", to say nothing of what it taught me about anti-hunters.
The Ritual: After Death, Before Venison
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The seemingly fashionable hairstyle was also described as "captivating" in Rodong Sunmun, the North Korean newspaper, which wrote: "A young man with an ambitious high sided haircut looks so sobering and stylish.
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No, it's not a sobering thought, it's a weird one.
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Recent stock market falls offered a sobering reminder of how mere economic concerns can quickly look like crises.
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The fact that this country spends more on its military than on education and health care combined is a sobering thought .
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‘Rumors of a renaissance do not resurrection make,’ he notes soberingly.
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So what can we learn from this brief and sobering foray into the world of political consulting and rough-and-tumble politics?
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Méret is arguably the most arresting figure of all, especially since her responses to the rise and fall of the Nazis become the book's sobering theme.
Review of "A Lily of the Field," a thriller by John Lawton
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It is a sobering picture, in contrast to the better prospects for the balance of payments.
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Yet he is a survivor, sticking to his sobering material and plain aesthetic no matter who his paymaster is.
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the news had a sobering effect
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Much of the film feels profoundly sad, as Donovan spares no unpleasant detail, making for a sobering look at someone so attached to the bottle.
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Is the entertainment value of a kid sobering up after anesthesia or a baby burbling at random pieces of paper worth the costs of objectifying them for public consumption, however diverting, enlightening or cathartic?
'The Kids Grow Up' turns the lens on home videos and the right to privacy
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That is what you might call a sobering experience.
Christianity Today
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Yet the former England manager concedes that a far more sobering scenario could have awaited his team had they not strengthened during the mid-season transfer window.
Times, Sunday Times
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In spite of the sobering tenor of "uprightness" in humanist pedagogical writings, the techniques practiced in schools such as Ca 'Zoiosa, especially with younger students, are more accurately characterized as jocoserious.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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The fact that this country spends more on its military than on education and health care combined is a sobering thought .
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She put her hand on my chest to stop me falling and I could feel its sobering power as her touch worked its magic.
THE MANANA MAN
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Mulligan made a career breakthrough - and gained an Oscar nomination - for her performance as asmart schoolgirl having a sobering romance with an older man in 1960s London.
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It was a sobering, teary moment that stood me well during the next fifteen years of parenting.
Christianity Today
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To see the history I was engaged with being protected to maintain the large, inspiriting Nightingale narrative was a sobering, but not baffling, experience.
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There is also a sobering running assumption that Jessica, as a woman of what the French call a certain age, is starved for love and easily hornswoggled by any handsome young man who cozies up to her.
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The bad news had a sobering effect on all of us.
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Still, it was essentially agreeable entertainment with a wacky sense of humour leavened by slightly sobering grace notes.
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It's a sobering thought that you are the least popular of a motley crew.
The Sun
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It was all very sobering, and those attending courses came away, if not nuclear disarmers, at any rate determined to do whatever lay in their power to prevent such horrors.
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It is a sobering picture, in contrast to the better prospects for the balance of payments.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the event, the meal was fine and, by the end, I was feeling slightly merry, and my companions were at last sobering up.
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This is a sobering reminder of the need for the United States to resume its leadership in an important field.
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Statistical evidence of improved output has in other cases concealed a more sobering truth.
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It is sobering now to realise that cheating has done what only world wars could do.
Times, Sunday Times
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In an effort to bring attention to the seriousness of drinking and driving, police in Oceanside, California, visited 20 classrooms with some sobering news: Several classmates of theirs had been killed over the weekend in horrific crashes: Classmates wept.
Your Friends Are All Dead--April Fools!
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Recent stock market falls offered a sobering reminder of how mere economic concerns can quickly look like crises.
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May 10th, 2008 12: 23 pm ET it won't send a "sobering message" to me. anything she wins in west virginia will be canceled out by oregon. it's over hillary. barack is kneeling down and running out the clock on this game. carol mcfarlane
What might West Virginia's primary mean?
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It is a sobering thought that many people under-estimate financial outgoings after retirement.
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Such sobering indictment sits alongside some fine, old-fashioned political polemic.
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A sobering reflection of this is the loss of $ 30 trillion dollars in equity prices globally.
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But it's still sobering reminder of the perils of war.
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It was all famous stuff, nearly all of it, anyway, and it was sobering to stroll round and see so much impressive sculpture.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
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It should be sobering that a political neophyte who has imbibed the entirety of his campaign know-how over the past two months feels it appropriate -- and hardly worth highlighting -- the fact that he will be a counter-measure to the communist and terrorist forces that the Sarah Palin-approved pundit class has been shoehorning into the public discourse.
Asher Smith: Refudiate is the New Normalcy
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Still, it was essentially agreeable entertainment with a wacky sense of humour leavened by slightly sobering grace notes.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a sobering thought that eight hundred years later European mathematics would be struggling to cope without the use of negative numbers and of zero.
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The ordeal of the bereaved families is a sobering reminder to ministers.
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Norm Sobering, Derksen Printers press room and bindery production manager, agreed with that statement.
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Genocide was the most sobering reality of all," the department said in the 2006 "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," noting that mass killings continued to "ravage" Darfur nearly 60 years after the world vowed "Never again!" following the Holocaust.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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In such a context, the term stemmer transcends sheer comic relief, into a realm of sobering relevance threatening to become terminal.
Stemmers, Part I
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With half the nation half-cut and half the nation sobering up, we decide to be shocked by ourselves.
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It was the most sobering experience of my life.
The Sun
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He'd always had his mother, a sobering figure who emanated love and protection around her youngest son, her baby.
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Looking at the success rate of Senate predictions made in April is a sobering experience.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Tushnet on Lithwick’s Lament
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It is sobering now to realise that cheating has done what only world wars could do.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's somewhat sobering to think that the device that Galileo helped to develop and used to make his discoveries is essentially the same design as the instrument that Rob was so quick to tire of and deride as a toy, a frippery.
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“The cold-blooded killing of an Arizona rancher is a sad and sobering reminder of the threats to public safety that exist in our border communities,” Giffords said.
Think Progress » Lou Dobbs: ‘I’m A Man About Building Solutions,’ Not ‘Radicalism’
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The failed bombing is "another sobering reminder of the times in which we live," the president told an audience of business leaders.
Obama says 'justice will be done' in Times Square bombing
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And in that, Mike has put together a number of essays written since the 1970s and I found it quite an education and quite a sobering thing to read those again and to see how at a particular moment in the heat of a particular argument you're inexorably pulled towards that kind of overstatement and then you have to wait until the pressure comes to the other kind of overstatement.
Rowan Williams on Writing
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He said that, while the website might provide users with sobering predictions, the intention was to inform and inspire rather than terrify.
Times, Sunday Times
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Egremont's eirenicon had been a hard saying to him; he had tried to think it over, because of his respect for the teacher, but as yet it had resulted in no sobering.
Thyrza
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It is sobering to swim at full pelt and apparently not go anywhere.
Times, Sunday Times
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A sobering thought
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It's very sobering to come home to after a day in the office.
The Sun
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But the study also offers a sobering reminder about the financial squeeze on families at the bottom.
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It is truly sobering to read how a few individuals, who were tasked with managing two malaria and two tuberculosis programs that should save the lives of thousands of their countrymen and -women, instead systematically worked to defraud these programs, stealing $5 million over several years.
Michel D. Kazatchkine: Transparency Saves Lives
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A look at old race cars, with their exposed fuel tanks and absence of seatbelts, is a sobering reminder of just how vulnerable the drivers once were.
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Once the premise has been established, the film allows Johnston to revisit four women and catch a sobering glimpse of the different lives he might have led.
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Yet he is a survivor, sticking to his sobering material and plain aesthetic no matter who his paymaster is.
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The book, albeit one sided, is a sobering look at some of the possible worlds that people have had to live through while under the rule of Islam.
“Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out” Edited by Susan Crimp and Joel Richardson (WND Books, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog
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It's sobering news that a virulent pathogen can evolve so quickly.
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It is a sobering thought that geekdom remains a predominantly male reserve.
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Jules Michelet wrote in La Régence Paris, 1879 of “coffee, the sobering beverage, a mighty nutrient of the brain, unlike spiritous liquors, increases purity and clarity; coffee, which clears the imagination of fogs and heavy vapours, which illumines the reality of things with the white light of truth; antierotic coffee, which at length substitutes stimulation of the mind for stimulation of the sexual faculties!”
Savoring The Past
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I bring you less than sobering news on the austerity front.
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To hear him speak is a sobering reminder of the ugly scars left behind by apartheid.
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Fortunately, I'm currently in the midst of sobering up a little before I go to sleep, thanks to the stiff breeze blowing in through my bedroom window.
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It is a sobering picture, in contrast to the better prospects for the balance of payments.
Times, Sunday Times
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It could be a sobering wake-up call for someone so young and so unversed in the often treacherous ways of big business and high society.
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Beautifully acted, sung and danced, this retains a playful yet sobering power.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nothing is as sobering as getting elbow checked out of the way by a cane-wielding senior citizen as they scoop you on the item of your dreams.
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That is sobering for anybody tempted to chop down rainforest and plant something more immediately lucrative.
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The role that science played in this tragedy is sobering.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Iceland is a sobering might-have-been for the Greeks.
The Euro's Tribulations
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It is a sobering picture, in contrast to the better prospects for the balance of payments.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having put the recent storms over the use of intelligence into a balanced and reasoned perspective, he concludes with the following sobering observation.
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Still, it was essentially agreeable entertainment with a wacky sense of humour leavened by slightly sobering grace notes.
Times, Sunday Times
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One sobering statistic that will be forever etched in my mind is that over 3,000 children lost a mother or father on that fateful day.
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However, a few more sobering facts may change your opinion.
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I'd also forgotten how after you get that first week of lectures prepared, the feeling of elation is quickly replaced with the sobering realization that the next week isn't even started.
Teaching Tuesday: First day of class
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The experience is sobering, a renewed effort has to be made to obtain commodes.
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Such sobering indictment sits alongside some fine, old-fashioned political polemic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Still, it was essentially agreeable entertainment with a wacky sense of humour leavened by slightly sobering grace notes.
Times, Sunday Times
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John summed it up as the super sixties, sobering seventies and ebb and flow of the eighties.
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Sobering somewhat, thinking of everything that Mister Black had told him, Kyle picked up the phone and hit redial.
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Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
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The effect that increasing units have on your body makes for sobering reading indeed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The conclusions of the meeting in Brussels came as sobering news to free-range egg producers in Yorkshire who say they would be ‘devastated’ if they had to destroy their poultry stocks.
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I bring you less than sobering news on the austerity front.
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A sobering look at how man may perceive himself in the future, particularly as ideas about genetic predeterminism takes the place of dying Darwinism.
Cooperative Blog » 2007 » October
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The book begins with an extremely useful and sobering historical account of the fields of embryology and the strong mutual neglect between embryology and mainstream evolutionary biology.
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Human mortality is a rather sobering thought; it is hardly conducive to rejoicing.
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We are not a nation of slobs, but it's a sad, sobering fact that the majority of tourists only see the bars or beaches when they are on holidays.
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It is a sobering thought that these young people, who tend to come from hard-working, aspirational backgrounds, could be behaving in ways that fit the worst parody of the old Scotland.
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It has been sobering, though, contemplating the terrible unstoppability of water.
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The area abounds with wrecks and other reminders of the war, and regularly anchoring in Tokyo Bay is a sobering reminder of why the area is known as Iron Bottom Sound.
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Joachim Kaiser, writing in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, feels that Breth totally missed the mark: ‘So soberingly artificial, so compulsively jaunty, unpoetic and empty.’
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Labour's second sobering realisation is that fear of the future is matched by a deep cynicism about politics.
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Beautifully acted, sung and danced, this retains a playful yet sobering power.
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It will be an essential reference for those working on Eocene and Tertiary floras, and is a sobering reminder to those of us who work on modern woods how difficult fossil woods are to prepare and identify.
