sobering
Example Sentences
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Today the Sudan remains, in Mr. Hart’s sobering assessment, “one of the most dangerous places on the earth.”
This is a notable and perhaps sobering parallel, but it does not necessarily discredit contemporary psychiatry, as Ms. Antonetta seems to imply.
Drowned out in all the hoopla, however, were some rather sobering caveats.
From Los Angeles Times
Nathalie Tocci, an Italian political scientist, has some sobering advice for well-meaning prosecutors weighing such cases: “I don’t think you can get it right.”
From New York Times
“The only way it’s going to get better is if we face the harsh, stark, sobering, actually terrifying realities ahead of us — and act on them.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
