Sentence examples for somewhat sobering from inspiring English sources
Although some of the findings of the study are somewhat sobering, the authors are confident that the field of whole-genome sequencing is worth pursuing.
It must be somewhat sobering for a living, evolving musician to hear his accomplishments reduced to an hourlong retrospective, no matter how sensitive and well-intentioned the retrospective may be.
Coming just ahead of a new wave of ratings' results – Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and Newsweek Green Rankings to name a few – the findings may be somewhat sobering.
The power of the Abu Ghraib photos to shock and disgust has not diminished in the intervening years, and it is, therefore, somewhat sobering to realise that those who authorised the torture and abuse of prisoners have still not been held accountable for their actions.
Yet, when we look at cybersecurity as a percentage of all VC investments, the picture is somewhat sobering.
We had passed the point where we needed to discuss what this meant for us, the stories of where we were or who we knew had become moot across these nine years, which may explain what was so sudden and (somewhat) sobering about the news.
There, too, the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard C. Holbrooke, has taken an equally bellicose attitude, although reportedly now somewhat sobered by the task's awesome challenges.
The interview included the standards -- Trump complaining about Jay Z's vulgar lyrics, telling voters that if he loses, it will have been a waste of time, and even accusing pollsters of making up their results whole-cloth -- but it was also a somewhat sober acknowledgement of where the race stands on Election Day.
The Minx Air 200 is somewhat sober in its design choices if I had to pick one word to describe it.
In an uncharacteristically genuine and somewhat sober moment, they come to the realization that they actually might like each other.
