Sentences with phrase «sober assessment of»

Projective identification is produced mostly by your unconscious, magical expectations about being personally completed rather than any sober assessment of reality.

Thus far, rather than a sober assessment of their future prospects, the prices of many cryptocurrencies have exhibited all the classic hallmarks of bubbles, including new paradigm justifications, broadening retail enthusiasm, and extrapolative price expectations reliant in part on finding the greater fool.

It's a tough question — one that is better answered by a sober assessment of your skills rather than the sentimental opinion of your mother.

And I'll totally ignore the fact that WGI had a perfectly accurate and sober assessment of the science on Himalayan glaciers.»)

A more sober assessment of the number of turbines needed based on 2011 production data from EIA is in excess of 4,000 units and perhaps 5,000.

Valuable course, most so in its sober assessment of the likelihood of an aspiring author ever getting a publishing deal.

We aimed to produce a sober assessment of current conditions and guarded optimism about a new tack.

Based on Naomi Alderman's novel, Disobedience is a sober assessment of the insularity of faith, a movie that can be both frustratingly simple and thuddingly bleak.

Management of emerging risks in life science and technology requires new leadership and a sober assessment of the legacy of Asilomar

• Government pay frozen for five years • PM orders cabinet to keep differences private • Osborne gives sober assessment of economy

This has involved a fairly sober assessment of how many genuinely Cabinet - grade people he has on his team (he struggled to get into double digits).

His sober assessment of this election result is that it's a mixture of 1992 and 1997.

Getting drunk on Morley tends toward Blue Labour solutions when sober assessment of British history points in the opposite direction: toward social liberalism and economic liberalism.

Last week's New Climate Economy report was a good example of giving a sober assessment of the challenges (rapid urbanisation, growing populations, resource constraints, climate change), accompanied by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people's lives.

With the publication of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to A Meaningful Life, William Deresiewicz's sober assessment of contemporary higher education was both praised and lampooned by commentators across the spectrum.

In his sober assessment of the current state of post-conciliar Catholicism, Ross Douthat argues that Cardinal Newman's 1845 theory of doctrinal development should be updated to account for subsequent developments.

Niebuhr felt that no reconstruction could take place until a sober assessment of power had been given.

David Mills offered a sober assessment of how much of the abortion regime lies outside federal law.

Our sober assessment of empirical data was accompanied by an ironic defiance of any prescribed emotion.

On the contrary: The Mind of God is rather a reappraisal of reductionism (its sweeping generalizations about the nonexistence of things like the mind and the soul) and a most refreshing if also sober assessment of the limits of mathematics and the physical theories it supports.

Let's have a sober assessment of this industry.

Fortuna Advisors, a financial consulting firm that compiles a buyback scorecard, has a particularly sobering assessment of the strategy's effectiveness.

On the same day President Barack Obama met with three Americans who thwarted a terrorist attack last month on a train headed for Paris, U.S. Rep. John Katko delivered a sobering assessment of the United States» surface transportation security.

More importantly, I chose Scientific American because the magazine publishes sober assessments of science, often by scientists themselves.»

Here's another comment by David providing a pretty sobering assessment of whether reason can ever dominate deeper human traits, including tribalism and what might be called «now - ism,» as societies weigh choices in the next few decades:

Keith Kloor, blogging on the session at Collide - a-Scape, included a sobering assessment of the scientist - journalist tensions over global warming from Tom Rosensteil, a panelist and long - time journalist who now heads up Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism:

Not exact matches

Starting a business is hard, and if you did a really sober - minded assessment of the risks and likely outcomes, you'd probably never get started in the first place.

Mr. Futterman's reference to quantum computers solving problems by a «leap of intuition» is therefore less a matter of sober scientific assessment than rhapsodic misdirection by a scientist who should know better.

This statement can be persuasively defended, not on the basis of some theological presupposition, but as a sober historical assessment.

Come on CC you talk about «realism» and sober assessment and then advocate replacing 4 or 5 of the 1st X1.

I think a sober assessment is that up till now, almost all of us who work in theoretical physics have failed to live up to Einstein's legacy.

These are the conclusions of the first systematic analysis of the economic cost of Arctic melting, which delivers a sobering antidote to other, more upbeat assessments that say melting in this area would improve access to minerals on the ocean bed, increase fishing and create ice - free shipping lanes.

All the same I sincerely hope you decide to check out some of the published, peer - reviewed journal articles in the link below that provide a more sober and realistic assessment of the potential benefits and risks of low - carb eating.

Kiki demands that its audience pay attention and listen to its seven main interlocutors, who, in addition to Mizrahi and Pucci Garçon, include Gia Marie Love (shown before and after her transition), the speaker of the film's most sobering assessment: «Our community is on very intimate terms with death.»

It was sobering to see the significant difference between what students could do in their exercise books during their lessons versus that they then couldn't do on a delayed and contextually varied end - of - unit assessment.

«Canadians tend to be, I would say, sober and pragmatic in their assessments of things and they're a little less inclined to take big, crazy risks like some of the people in the states are.»

[Response: My French is good enough for me to question whether this is a «sober» assessment of the situation.

J. Michael Wallace of the University of Washington, someone whose views I've tracked closely for decades, had this sobering assessment (I've asked him to clarify what he means by «irreversible» given various papers (e.g., 1, 2, 3) cutting against that idea and will add an update when it comes):

«Potentially serious» sounds like a very sober assessment and a firm refutation of Max's «CAGW» hysteria.

A sober assessment will acknowledge that fossil fuels are remarkable sources of energy — cheap, energy dense, and widely available.

«A sober, cogent, and courageous assessment of a future not dictated by fate, or economics, or limits to technology, but by the most egregious leadership failure in history.

And, unfortunately, anyone who expects to find a rigorous, sober and factual assessment of the past in Bringing Them Home will be sorely disappointed.