Sentences with phrase «sobering reading just»
Sobering reading just before this summer's Olympic Games.
https://bookpage.com/ Not exact matches
Most comedians couldn't manage their own performance anxiety (not to mention second - hand embarrassment for other performers) completely sober, even for a month.I remember reading her post, passing judgment, and thinking: If you were drinking enough that you felt like you needed to scale back, shouldn't you do it for more than just one month?
Maybe it was just the pure vicarious thrill of «discovering the hard facts of the writer's trade,» reading of the glances of «cold disdain» thrown down upon Lucien as he walks in his cheap frock coat and out - of - fashion «Nankeen trousers» amidst the beau monde; or Lucien greeting the sobering facts of the mercantile chicanery of publishers, for whom «books were like cotton bonnets to haberdashers, a commodity to be bought cheap and sold dear.»
UPDATE: I just saw this short, sobering piece by Jason Boog, «The Financial Reality of the Genre Novelist,» which is also mandatory reading.
Further reading For a sobering reminder of just how normal massive flooding is along the Mississippi and its delta, explore the studies linked in another post by Richards at the L.S.U. law school: