The phrase 'sobering realisation' is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to refer to a moment when someone becomes aware of a difficult situation in order to bring a sense of seriousness to the situation. For example: "John had a sobering realisation that he could not afford to buy a house just yet."
With the rise in the divorce rate has come a sobering realisation: the interests of individual family members may differ.
The sobering realisation from my research is that the mistakes made by Cosmopolitan are repeated by too many housing associations.
While the sobering realisation of age and its advance might not be everyone's idea of a ™ festival weekend experience, I will put my swingers on the line and say that it's probably the best one I've ever attended.
Thus far, the sobering realisation of clinical trials with this class of agents was that of a small activity followed by resistance developing in a few months.
It was a cold, sober realisation that house prices were at risk of falling, so lenders needed a cushion of equity.
He continued to investigate late Restoration comedy, in 1983 with Simon Callow in Vanbrugh's The Relapse, and a sober realisation of Congreve's The Way of the World with Smith and Plowright (Chichester and London, 1984).
After the conclusion of the 1941 agreement with Russia, General Sikorski committed his people to collaboration with Russia, to the abandonment of fantastic expansionist day-dreams, to a sober realisation that if Poland was to survive at all, it could not do so in constant enmity with both great neighbours.
Perhaps Johnson really did have a last-minute epiphany, declaring for leave in the sober realisation that this was always how it might end – Scotland demanding independence, Northern Ireland's fragile political settlement at risk, Marine Le Pen jubilant, the Bank of England stumping up £250bn to stabilise the market.
Overall, Egypt's mood is one of optimism tempered by a sober realisation of the scale of the challenges ahead for the largest country in the Arab world, which is now inspiring others in the region for the first time since Nasser.
Also sobering is the realisation, acknowledged by Ioannidis, that there's no conclusive proof that the results of later studies will not also be rescinded or modified.
