Sentence examples for sobering effect from inspiring English sources

With many of her subjects, she makes use of biographical material, to sobering effect.

That "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" opens at a moment of heartbreak has no sobering effect whatsoever.

Another ploy is the imposing readymade, scarred by life and transferred to the white cube of the art gallery for predictably sobering effect.

But a new study from the United Kingdom suggests that in real life, being surrounded by sober individuals may actually have a, well, sobering effect.

When it comes to influencing public opinion, the 2016 presidential election demonstrated with sobering effect the weakening role of traditional media and the ascendant power of social networks like Facebook.

It has a sobering effect".

Deliberately rough and sketchy, the projections have the sober effect of Mr. Glass's music, full of scratches, erasures and humans melting into animals and back again.

Medium to deep blues have a more sober effect, but can be just as soothing.

I remember how hard I laughed, how flawless this imagery was, how sobering its effects are whenever I take myself too seriously.

This had the effect of sobering the room up and warming up the "we've got to work together" theme.

The global statistics on land mines and their effects make sobering reading.