Sentence examples for sober appreciation from inspiring English sources

After decades of global competition — the biggest difference from the thirties — American workers have a sober appreciation of their relative unimportance in the grand scheme.

FANS of design have undergone something of a shift in the last few years, from unalloyed fascination with the beauty that design can produce to a more sober appreciation tinged with issues like pollution and exploitation.

But this sober appreciation of our current state of affairs, accompanied by the mass protests and civil society campaigns by Palestinian citizens, has been insufficient, until now, to rid us of it.

The revelation today in the Guardian that the Bush administration refused to provide a green light for a unilateral Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities confirms a welcome shift in US policy away from the reckless rhetoric of confrontation, to a more sober appreciation of political possibilities.

Beliefs in miraculous folk medicine may complicate sober appreciation effects of crude extracts.

A sober critical appreciation of John Betjeman was emblazoned with a near-naked, tattooed elderly gentleman.

Me & Isaac Newton, which opens in theaters this month and screens on HBO in January, is not your ordinary sober-minded appreciation of eggheads at work.

We found that those who filled out our questionnaires were generally well informed about recent home price trends, and that their expectations for the next year's home price appreciation were actually on the sober side.

But if the show was drenched in booze, its appreciation of its subjects remained earnestly sober.

But then, having drawn the sting of years of bad coverage, and shown us his sober side, it looks as if he needs our appreciation less than he used to.

The order, which reflected a full appreciation of the mighty task ahead and yet reflected the calm, sober confidence that permeates these headquarters, was distributed to assault elements after their embarkation.