Sentence examples for sober realisation from inspiring English sources

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It was a cold, sober realisation that house prices were at risk of falling, so lenders needed a cushion of equity.

He continued to investigate late Restoration comedy, in 1983 with Simon Callow in Vanbrugh's The Relapse, and a sober realisation of Congreve's The Way of the World with Smith and Plowright (Chichester and London, 1984).

After the conclusion of the 1941 agreement with Russia, General Sikorski committed his people to collaboration with Russia, to the abandonment of fantastic expansionist day-dreams, to a sober realisation that if Poland was to survive at all, it could not do so in constant enmity with both great neighbours.

Perhaps Johnson really did have a last-minute epiphany, declaring for leave in the sober realisation that this was always how it might end – Scotland demanding independence, Northern Ireland's fragile political settlement at risk, Marine Le Pen jubilant, the Bank of England stumping up £250bn to stabilise the market.

Overall, Egypt's mood is one of optimism tempered by a sober realisation of the scale of the challenges ahead for the largest country in the Arab world, which is now inspiring others in the region for the first time since Nasser.

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Also sobering is the realisation, acknowledged by Ioannidis, that there's no conclusive proof that the results of later studies will not also be rescinded or modified.

But his mood becomes more sober as he describes his growing realisation that he couldn't stay.

One of adulthood's biggest moments - alongside learning that dishwater maintenance isn't optional and that going to bed at 11pm is quite nice - is the realisation that one can go clubbing sober.

The realisation dawned.

And sober.

Sober, yes.

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