Sentence examples for sober recognition from inspiring English sources

Instead a sober recognition has settled in Washington that little can be done to expand or improve health coverage while health care costs spiral out of control and the federal budget sinks deeper into deficit.

The movie holds itself between a sober recognition that none of us can be trusted and the more spirited, even stirring sight of lovers straining every sinew to break the cycle of disenchantment and keep their ridiculous promises.

There is also, of course, the sober recognition of the real as opposed to the ideal, as in an admiral's 1691 assessment of captains in the British Royal Navy, evaluating each with such phrases as "a good Man but young," "Good for nothing" and "Turn'd out for a Coward".

The giddy euphoria that greeted this week's hard-fought agreement to reopen the government is fast giving way to a sober recognition that the deal is very unlikely to usher in a new era of co-operation between Democrats and Republicans.

Absent from this debate is any sober recognition that a Hillary Clinton nomination, if it happens, will send the Democrats into the general election with a new and huge peril that may well dwarf the current wars over race, gender and who said what about Ronald Reagan.

And here, in essence, was the pill that many retiring dancers find hardest to swallow, and that Career Transition is nearly alone in dispensing: the sober recognition that, at least momentarily, a dancer might need to stop expecting a new line of work to match the deep fulfillment of professional dance.

"I think it is transitioning to a more sober, realistic recognition of what is achievable.

No sober reflection on community, no recognition that guns kill far more innocent people than they protect.

Make like Kim Kardashian and sober things up with advocacy for recognition of the Armenian genocide.

In recognition that women needed assistance to initiate contact with positive sober people in the community, the Sober Network Interpersonal Psychotherapy IPTT) program included interventions to build communication skills and connect participants with a sober support network (Johnson et al. 2015, p336).

As for GSA Sobers, KR Miller and MJ Procter, their names bring a smile of recognition, for they were loved by all who saw them.