Sentence examples for sobering image from inspiring English sources

As symbolism goes, it was a sobering image.

Adams gaining sweet, sweet revenge over the world champion, Ren Cancan of China, in the Olympic final, when she dropped her rival with a left hook, was both a glorious and sobering image.

The Belushi chapter begins with the sobering image of Brillstein flying to Martha's Vineyard next to Belushi "stretched out across two cramped seats in the tiny jet, wrapped up in a body bag," then descends into eulogy mode.

The second image is the famous news photo of the 7/7 bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan, showing him in action as a caring "learning mentor" at Hillside primary school in Leeds – a sobering image of an apparently peaceable, assimiliated, community-minded guy.

Sitting down, I met a sobering image in the mirror.

Commentators struggled to reconcile the modest body count with sobering images of cars, homes, and buildings loosed from the earth and carried out to sea.

New Zealand photographer Niamh Peren confronts us with the harsh reality of our global waste crisis through sobering images of plastic eroding the Cambodian coastal town of Sihanouk.

But this rosy image of "success" ignores the larger, sobering picture of which migrant death and suffering is still very much a part.

No doubt the sober image Mr Mallya has adopted is designed to impress them.

In some ways, that sober image was what made Mr. Stoiber attractive to Germany's conservatives.

His sober image adorned advertising bill boards as well as legal tender.