Sentence examples for sobering encounter from inspiring English sources
Ilasaca, just off work, was eating more heartily, but I, after a sobering encounter with alpaca-tripe soup, had stopped simply following the dining lead of whomever I was with in La Rinconada.
It reads well enough, but eating your way through it is a real trudge, a sobering encounter with murky sauces, mediocre ingredients and "fun" touches that fail to amuse.
Put more poetically, we moderns share a shocking experience of metaphysical nakedness, a constant sobering encounter with the sheer indifference of the cosmos, one devoid of any human-centric consolement, forcing upon our gaze and bodies an existential vertigo before a gaping abyss (as Michel Foucault put it in his later writings).
Our prancing artists are submitted to sobering encounters with beggars, Sri Lankan chefs and generic refugees.
Although they were cheerful and beautifully brown-eyed, we were sobered by the encounter and by the ragged condition of some of the children.
While we might be resigned to encountering objectifying speech or behavior at a bar or a beer-soaked spring-break party, it's sobering to see it codified in the form of a shared Google document.
The findings are sobering.
His conclusions are sobering.
His message was sobering.
He delivered sobering remarks.
