Sentence examples for a somber reality from inspiring English sources

But our euphoria was tempered by a somber reality.

"That, in terms of his family history, is at best a somber reality.

The latest budget cuts come, however, as the state faces a more than $8 billion deficit next year and strains in the current budget, a somber reality that has had an impact on many state agencies.

Behind the currency debate, lies a somber reality.

Like "The Daily Show," "Rosewater" leavens a somber reality with humor.

It's a somber reality and even Pete Lowy is dismayed at the number of small farms that falsely market their animals as pasture raised.

But the joy of coaching on the same campus has given way to the somber reality of Carter's inoperable brain cancer, a diagnosis he received last May.

But there were also reminders, seen and unseen, of the somber reality that New York City is not the same place it was before last year's attack.

In the course of refuting their arguments Ternon also sheds a highly revealing light on the somber realities of the Armenian tragedy.

"The Round House" — a National Book Award finalist in the fiction category — opens out to become a detective story and a coming-of-age story, a story about how Joe is initiated into the sadnesses and disillusionments of grown-up life and the somber realities of his people's history.

In her review, Michiko Kakutani wrote that the novel "opens out to become a detective story and a coming-of-age story, a story about how Joe is initiated into the sadnesses and disillusionments of grown-up life and the somber realities of his people's history".