Sentences with phrase «sober look at»

We got into therapy which forced us to take a sober look at our relationship and do some serious soul searching about when and where and why it went off the rails.

To get out from under all of the hand - waving and finger - pointing, a sober look at the statistics does suggest the U.S. economy has made a significant recovery in the past six years.

As Mark Zuckerberg gets ready to testify to Congress, amidst calls for both regulating and perhaps even breaking up tech companies, it is time to take a sober look at where we stand with these companies, what the last three weeks have changed and the consequences for investment decisions.

Not the science is settled or the flat earth society but a sober look at the models and potential changes to make them match observations.

The Grauniad printed long extracts from TLTG in the same issue (complete with wonderfully meaningless graphs) and also gave it an editorial, «A sober look at doomsday».

«But a sober look at our world shows that the degree of human intervention, often in the service of business interests and consumerism, is actually making our earth less rich and beautiful, ever more limited and grey, even as technological advances and consumer goods continue to abound limitlessly.

We have to take a sober look at the trajectories and the immediate prospects.

A sober look at an oft - sensationalized period of American history, this thoroughly researched, highly readable book traces the roots of the Eighteenth Amendment, «the most radical and ambitious social experiment ever tried.»

But let's banish those nightmares and take a sober look at how AIs working to our advantage.

The tax law and its impacts are still considered a potential risk factor for the state, but the forecast presents a more sober look at the impact of the tax law, which includes cuts to income taxes as well as the corporate rate.

Later on, the county executive took a more sober look at the figure, saying he could be competitive if he chooses to run.

Take a sober look at how you're doing, dad.

Before concluding that under such a scenario — the lack of official federal support — the movement for a better food system for all will stall for at least four years, it is well to take a sober look at the current moment in good food matters.

«I think the ego of someone who even conceives of setting the world record in the mile doesn't allow for a sober look at things,» says Masback.

Director Adam McKay is best known for his outrageous comedy work with Will Ferrell, but here he takes a sobering look at when the housing bubble burst.

New research provides a sobering look at just how much.

The conference provided an eye - opening and sobering look at the current state of commodity food and agriculture in America.

A sobering look at a life any of us, if enough things work against us, could find ourselves living, «Survivor's Guide to Prison» is a film that should not be missed.

The film is a captivating, sobering look at the world's endangered aquatic species, but it's also a frightening revelation of what methane and carbon are doing to the ocean.

And then there's Last Men in Aleppo on Netflix, a sobering look at the remaining citizens of Aleppo bracing themselves for a siege.

Every bit as much a satire as it is a drearily honest and sobering look at our country's broken healthcare system, «Getting On» makes the typical black comedy seem lighthearted in comparison.

A sobering look at what it might very well be like to grow up lesbian in the ghetto.

A new report from the Consortium on Chicago Schools Research offers a sobering look at racial disparities in disciplinary actions at CPS high schools.

This is a sobering look at life as a child soldier, and the graphic novel format is a powerful medium for transporting the reader into the world of the story.

The Thursday sessions have been punctuated with new rounds of survey materials; Shatzkin's much - anticipated interview of WOOL author Hugh Howey's and his agent Kristin Nelson; and some sobering looks at the frequent divide between book discovery and point of sales.

He is also the author of several books including Your Money & Your Brain, and the satirical, funny and oh so sobering look at Wall Street, The Devil's Financial Dictionary.

Eric Holthaus has a sobering look at the scope of the danger posed by this monstrous storm at Pacific Standard:

Updated, 1:47 p.m. A richly variegated four - day climate change conference, concluding yesterday in Paris, provided a sobering look at the mix of environmental, social and technological trends that have created humanity's planet - size challenge — fitting seemingly infinite aspirations safely in a climate system that is showing signs of disruptive human - driven change.

Swinging back to the United States and the flood threat, The Times published a sobering look at what's happened so far along the Mississippi River, but it's clear this is just a foretaste, as the Weather Channel warned Wednesday afternoon in a piece noting the flood crest is projected to the highest since the devastating flooding of the spring and summer of 1993.

(A similarly sobering look at how Rio's divisions and issues were little different than those in Bali can be found in this archive of stories on the summit from The Times.

In concurrence with the population - threat piece, NYT in the last month or so has had two sober looks at Egypt which is by no means bad off in the developing realm.

The fine folks over at The Economist offered a sobering look at just... [more]

Putting the disturbing in dystopian, Ben Wheatley's new film High - Rise takes a sobering look at class structures, most specifically between the haves and the have - somewhat-lesses.

Not exact matches

But, before accusing others of failure, it is sobering to look at remarkable examples of poverty in boom town Perth.

A look at the history of the price of gold can be sobering.

Not so glittery A look at the history of the price of gold can be sobering.

What makes that sobering is if we look at the retail square footage per capita.

It would seem to be preferable to say that: while the crowd clamors and shouts and triumphs and celebrates; while one individual after another hastens to the place of tumult, where it is good to be if one is in search of oblivion and indulgence from that which is eternal; while at the same time the crowd shouts mockingly at God, «Yes, now see whether you can get hold of us»; yet since it is difficult in the rush of the crowd to distinguish the individual, difficult to see the single tree when one is looking at the wood, the sober countenance of eternity quietly waits.

Locating problem drinking in the moral universe neither legitimates simplistic judgmentalism nor authorizes a lack of compassion; rather, it asks that a sober look be taken at a self - destructive behavior so that the desires giving rise to it can be squarely and honestly addressed.

Glad she's sober and all, but to me it looks like a rather half hearted attempt at 15 minutes of fame.

Many people who are atheist or agnostic have gotten sober and stayed sober by replacing the bottle they worshiped with a philosophy (AA is a philosophy, by the by, a way of looking at Life and Being), with the wisdom of the group or even of humanity in general, with whatever works for them.

As I look at the kind of people that the Muslim world admires I'm increasingly convinced that they are deserving of our deep and abiding pity... and our clear - eyed, sober, realistic opposition... unclouded by political - correctness and our mistaken classification of a violent totalizing political ideology as a «religion.»

Tamper - evidence is key in some sobering instances, like when someone with a plan to harm others is looking at your products as their next opportunity.

If you look at the Kersal ward in Salford, I was out there myself and it was a pretty sobering experience, to be honest, because the hurt and the anger is painfully real in those places.

Dicker used his TALK 1300 radio show to fire back at Chartock, saying he had «laid out a conspiracy theory so far - fetched it makes Glenn Beck look sober.»

No sober Labour person looks at the party's opinion poll ratings and sees in them reasons to be entirely confident that they will win on their own at the next election.

A close look at this problem is sobering: short of catastrophic leaps in the death rate or unwanted crashes in fertility, the world's population is all but certain to grow by at least one billion to two billion people.

This sobering finding is one of many in the report, which looked at health disparities in the nation's capital.

This look feels very sober and mundane, but it's how I feel most at ease.

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