Sentence examples for sober explanation from inspiring English sources

I tried to concentrate on Mr. Tsao's rather refreshing soft-sell approach and sober explanation of the project.

It was the most extensive and most sober explanation that Arenas had offered after spending the weekend making light of the matter on his Twitter feed.

One examines how political and cultural forces have influenced the development of the Lower East Side; the other is a sober explanation of how and why New York City became a place of continuous rebuilding.

In the days since then, commentators, analysts and pollsters have offered more sober explanations for why the polls favoring Barack Obama were so misleading.

In an introductory piece about the photos, Mikhail Kissine writes, "The few people in the surrounding emptiness give the scale of the buildings; the sober explanations, provided by the regime itself, give the scale of the folly..

The example of the Akaike curve-fitting method is meant to suggest that the connection between unity as parsimony and likelihood is not interest-relative, at least in the way that the connection between unity and explanation is (Sober 2003; Forster and Sober 1994).

But Nagel's position, as Sober understands it, entails "teleological explanations that are both true and causally inexplicable," a class for which neither Sober, nor Nagel, apparently, can offer any examples.

Sober analyzed the structure of explanations in population genetics via an analogy with the composition of forces in dynamics, treating the actual change in gene frequencies over time as the result of several different 'forces', such as selection, drift, and mutation.

We should note that if Sober is correct, then the naturalistic explanations for fine-tuning considered below (4.1.2) are likewise misguided.

It reveals the complexity and artistry of interactions among children, challenging stereotypes of simple childhood innocence and conventional explanations of development that privilege sober and sensible adult outcomes.

This squares well with basic scientific intuitions but leaves us with the question of what notion of explanation is at work (see also Elgin and Sober 2002).