Sentence examples for but sobering from inspiring English sources

Our chat was inspiring but sobering.

Hardly life-threatening for Germany's biggest bank, but sobering for the industry".Ille Papier-Service brings Deutsche Bank to its knees", crowed the plaintiff, a small paper company based near Frankfurt, on its website.

The Rev. Reginald T. Jackson, director of the New Jersey Black Ministers Council, called the dropping of the criminal cases appropriate, but sobering because a number of those to be released had been carrying drugs or weapons.

The company's size, with operations in 190 countries, may have also encouraged a tendency to skirt the law, which is one reason Mr. Solmssen calls his experience in Mexico "an amusing but sobering moment".

A beautiful but sobering page from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (www.caic.state.co.us) gives detailed accounts of avalanche incidents by year, with color photographs of the terrain and analysis of exactly what went wrong.

"It is really a fantastic but sobering study," says Peter Marra, an ornithologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the work.

"We're proud of that," Mr. Gelb said, "but sobered that our goals must be further enlarged.

His acceptance of this is very funny, as usual, but also sobering.

The conclusions of this study are quite interesting from a scientific and epidemiologic perspective, but quite sobering from a clinician's point of view.

But they are sobering for the opposition.

But is rather sobering that the developed world looks so completely moribund.