Sentence examples for sobering with from inspiring English sources

The results were sobering, with smaller scale local theatres being disproportionately affected.

But in many parts of the market, the returns for bond mutual funds are sobering, with performances that would be abysmal even for stock funds in a typical year.

The news from Southern Mississippi is more real-life sobering, with one of the three players shot in a nightclub last weekend said to be paralyzed.

The World Trade Organization's director-general, Pascal Lamy, said "the final trade numbers for 2012 are quite sobering," with developed economies notching a paltry 1 percent increase in their exports last year while shipments from developing economies grew 3.3 percent.

While this is all sobering, with education, there is hope and Cake provides an education for the viewer.

Recent news has been more sobering, with reports of several fatal toxicities in patients enrolled on T-cell trials.

Perhaps he's sobered with age.

Our prancing artists are submitted to sobering encounters with beggars, Sri Lankan chefs and generic refugees.

After bingeing on moral claret, you might say, the Bush people are sobering up with some strong black Kofi.

Stories of athletes felled by malformed hearts appear with sobering regularity.

With sobering themes and occasional profanity, this is not a production for children under 10.