Sentence examples for sober acknowledgment from inspiring English sources
He never directly addressed the jobs report in a speech that mixed celebration for the auto industry's revival and sober acknowledgment of lingering pain in the general economy.
The Holocaust Memorial Museum, across the Mall, offers a sober acknowledgment: for millions, this was a lifetime an entire edifice, not simply a floor.
Here they balance respect for the romantic imperative that is part of the movie's Hollywood DNA — there is lots of soapy, sincere talk of soul mates and endless love — with a sober acknowledgment of the limits of romanticism.
So there was little fire from the Jets, only a sober acknowledgment that their offense, in particular, was in trouble and that their mental state was -- as Groh volunteered in his postgame remarks last Sunday -- vulnerable to internal fissure.
Francis Ford Coppola's forgotten "Gardens of Stone," made in 1987 but set in the same period as "Coming Home," is much better — a mournful elegy for the dead in Vietnam and a sober acknowledgment of the grit and the honor of military men.
Woolf's deliciously frolicsome tone, with the narrator merging the mock-serious voice of a sober biographer with a frank acknowledgment of the impossibility of teasing out truth from the mists of history, comes through with its bright, pealing wit.
He nodded in acknowledgment.
