Sentence examples similar to sober expectations from inspiring English sources

What we've forgotten is that anyone ever took such a thing seriously; that it was ever anyone's sober expectation (or giddy expectation) that the grim, spartan one in the superpower duo was planning to win at hedonism.

At other times, the temperature fell to the more sober expectation of a modest agreement and a second meeting before Mr. Arafat's Sept. 13 deadline for declaring a Palestinian state.

(Khrushchev's own colleagues worked it out very quickly. They ousted him from the Politburo in the autumn of 1964 and consigned the 1961 programme to unmentionable oblivion). What we've forgotten is that anyone ever took such a thing seriously; that it was ever anyone's sober expectation (or giddy expectation) that the grim, spartan one in the superpower duo was planning to win at hedonism.

The way last year blew off course in September might make skeptics of us all, undermining confidence in even the soberest expectations, the likeliest of possibilities.

"So I've been in politics long enough to know it's not a beauty contest and it tends to be the case that newcomers or people not well known to the public tend to do best, so I enter with quite sober, realistic expectations.

While the weekly level exceeded analysts' expectations, total jobless claims still inspired a sober outlook.

Corluka wants supporters to be soberer regarding expectations.

Institute director Solangi is similarly sober about his expectations.

But the museum is likely to defy expectations of sober restraint.

Compared to the sense of pressure and frustration the participants expressed in initial interviews, most of the participants had achieved a more patient and somewhat "sober" attitude towards unrealistic expectations for a "quick fix" to return to work.

As the revolutionary slogans give way to the sober reality of limited resources, expectations will have to be managed.