Sentence examples for sober realization from inspiring English sources

"It's a sort of sober realization that the future isn't like the past," he added.

Long missing has been a sober realization that even if we get significant benefits from incarceration, that comes at a significant cost".

There is the even more sober realization that even after an agreement, there will continue to be radical and rejectionist elements who oppose reconciliation and try to sabotage the process.

On July 13, Richard J. H. Johnston filed a grim report from the battlefield on "the sober realization there that at best the United States troops face a long and costly campaign to drive the invaders from South Korea".

The optimism about the uptick in returnees is checked by the sober realization that Darfur's sprawling displaced person camps — some virtual cities, with more than 100,000 people — will probably never totally disband.

A great deal of it, though, reflected a sober realization that with the failure of the intifada, the ongoing Israeli occupation and the allure of armed militias, the teachers needed to rescue an entire generation of Palestinian children.

That song is kind of about both of those things, but really is predominantly a personal story with some liberties taken about the blurred line between friendship and love, and the blurred line between sober realizations and less sober idealizations that happen in your head.

Want a metaphorically sobering realization?

In the subsequent 13 years, oncologists have come to the sobering realization these new drugs are not the holy grail after all.

Or a sobering realization that, nearly 35, he can't keep up with Paul and the five-star point guards cooking out west.

But it can also be much smaller — a quiet talk between a couple, a moment of sobering realization, even a date at a yogurt shop.