Sentences with phrase «sober stories»

Some are sober stories of children suffering lead poisoning or coastal communities sinking into the sea.

We have to hope that The Closed Circle is not the last word, but it is a powerfully sobering story that severely tempers any hopes that the Arab world will be moving toward the establishment of free and democratic societies in the foreseeable future.

But time and place are strong medicine for many in our world, where, to quote Flannery O'Connor, many people «ain't frum anywhere,» and where a contemporary writer like Warren's fellow Kentuckian Bobbie Ann Mason finds a sobering story in the lives of many of her characters who can't think of anything to do with themselves.

But at the same time, Brian's sobering story makes clear that millions of American children live in food insecure homes, school meals are often their only dependable source of food, yet for a variety of reasons (parental neglect, stigma, etc.) they may not be getting all the food that's being made available to them at school.

Gentle painted background scenes are overlaid with bright collages of flowers, birds, and hearts, lending a playfulness to the otherwise sober story.

That is a sobering story.

But fair organizers, along with dealers specializing in everything from old masters to Impressionist and Modern art, have a more sober story to tell.

Our selection this year covers a wide and fascinating spectrum: from the methodical use of a large - format camera to record the arc and wheel of celestial time to cutting - edge visions of contemporary pop cultures and sobering stories of forced migration that continue to captivate our attention.

My friend and colleague Libby Rosenthal has a sobering story in The Times today on the contrast between Norway's grand plan to become carbon neutral by 2030 and the reality on the ground in a country with an economy built around oil and gas production.

Today's sobering story on how economic turmoil could blunt climate - friendly energy plans, by Elisabeth Rosenthal, implies that a new kind of climate and energy trance may indeed be nigh — not one created just by dropping prices for coal and oil but also by the urgency of a global economic retreat.

Keith Bradsher and Andrew Martin have a sobering story in The Times showing declines in funding for agricultural development assistance and basic research even as the world's poorest regions face spiking prices and shortages of basic foods.

But new federal data that track college graduates into the job market tell a far more sobering story.

Not exact matches

At press time, that number continues to grow by more than 1,000 emails each day, with individuals sharing their stories and impressing upon our elected officials that a sober second thought is needed to avoid far - reaching, negative consequences.

If, as I suspect, he lays a bit too much of the blame for our ills at the feet of that all - purpose bogeyman, capitalism, the story he tells is nevertheless a sobering and instructive one.

I've been sober for 534 days (3.13.10), and my story is far more trying that this paltry editorial.

I've been able to share my story with other people, and I've had fans that come up to me and tell me, «Because you got sober, I got sober.»

This story from CNN is both sobering and inspiring.

Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.

For alcoholics who have tried and failed time after time to stay sober by themselves, for alcoholics who have tried and failed after using any one of innumerable techniques, that which finally does keep one sober becomes «God» (Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham, The Spirituality of Imperfection: Modern Wisdom from Classic Stories [New York: Bantam Books, 1992], p. 208; bold face added).

This is not the whole story; the alcoholic may be sober, the drug user «clean» — and still be in poor condition as a human being.

Despite bringing in five new players during the winter break — including Portuguese striker Hugo Almeida and Hungarian front - man Adam Szalai — and replacing coach Michael Frontzeck with successful ex-Bremen coach, Thomas Schaaf, it was same old story of HDI - Arena despair when the spring term begin on Saturday with a sobering 2 - 1 home loss to newly - promoted Darmstadt.

Dogs We hear a lot of horror stories when it comes to new babies and dogs, and the statistics are sobering: Each year dogs bite an estimated 4.5 million people, and children are by far the most common victims.

Stories like this are sobering reminder of the obesity problem in this country.

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.

The story of becoming sober more than eight years ago is one Mr. Johnson tells with candor, a key element in the biography of a 35 - year - old who gained national attention for coming out as gay to his Massachusetts high school football team, and who achieved the legislative pinnacle of New York City government on Wednesday, becoming the speaker of the New York City Council.

Kraus says that he's learned a sobering lesson from Eg 3911's story — whales are not home free once they're loosed from entangling lines.

Yet what we are likely to get is piecemeal, fragmented stories of «breakthroughs» with incomplete details, more sober publication in science journals that appear later, news commentary that lasts a few days, and very little systematic effort to think through what policy should be.

Is never sober — If you've noticed that they can't have sex or do anything enjoyable without being drunk or high, and all of their stories begins with «So, I was so wasted this time...» — it's time to politely excuse yourself.

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This fact based story from the mid 50s American penal system is a sobering and dramatic reminder of how many states treated mentally ill patients, criminal or otherwise

In the end, there are a lot of images staying with you: Morton dancing, the slow camera flights over the desert, the neat gimmicks of technology, the sobering solution to the story.

From a simple story of personal struggle, Zhao coaxes forth a stirring ode to a little - seen, hard - scrabble way of life and a sobering portrait of masculinity in crisis.

An entertaining film about sobering true events, this is the story of notorious screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who defied McCarthy's communist witch - hunt hearings in the late - 1940s and was blacklisted by Hollywood for more than a decade...

Trey Edward Shults» stark, sobering, and quietly fascinating It Comes at Night is for genre fans who are in the market for something more cerebral and personal than the average «end of the world» story, and it finds a place alongside Carriers (2009), The Battery (2012), and Aftermath (2015) as low - key, provocative subversion of standard post-apocalyptic material.

It's the story of Stanley Phillips (John Cusack), a sober, unassuming sales manager at a home supply store.

A terrific true story is oddly underplayed in this sober, sedate drama about reconciliation and making peace with the past.

Though he is best known for his sobering 1953 masterpiece Tokyo Story, the apex of his portrayals of the changing Japanese family, Ozu began his career in the thirties, in a more comedic, though still socially astute, mode, with such films as I Was Born, But... and Dragnet Girl.

Where other directors — Allen, for instance — might treat this same setup and characters with a certain eye - rolling absurdity, Turturro's script, direction, and performance all point to a sober, old - school romanticism that suggests Fioravante's sexual prowess and financial success aren't so much an unlikely professional success story as a burden and a barrier to the life he wants to be living.

The film is a story about redemption, but without the cut and dry contrast of the drunk life versus the sober life.

The hotel isn't haunted but the guest is in «War Story,» an unusually sober, serious - minded American indie about a war photographer (Catherine Keener) who retreats from view following the death of a colleague in the war zone.

Having been on the Croisette before with his debut film Un 32 août sur Terrre (Un Certain Regard), and the Directors» Fortnight was home for his epic short Next Floor and sobering Polytechnique, the Quebecois helmer saw his critically lauded Incendies and Enemy receive a pass from the fest, but it was this work that ultimately convinced backers with deep pockets to have the auteur filmmaker move onto large - scale productions (Prisoners, Story of Us, the Blade Runner sequel), and in turn Sicario is now among the hopefuls for the Palme d'Or.

As with any Holocaust story, the inescapable gravity of the fact that these horrors really happened inside civilization not so long ago impresses a sobering sense of reality on the viewer.

Chavela's life story is at once inspirational and sobering as this film paints a full, unflinching picture of Vargas's struggles.

It's a credit to the film's sober, down - to - earth tone that Lars And The Real Girl isn't as insufferably precious as it sounds; everyone onscreen cares enough about Gosling's plight to keep the story's basic ridiculousness from seeming too cartoonish.

In October, The New York Times Magazine ran a sobering cover story about the rise of anxiety in American teens, and how parents, therapists, and schools are responding.

Alsenas blends friendship, romance, and musical theater with some sobering topics in this story, offering readers the opportunity to think through some weighty matters on their own.

So when a fellow writer me to a story on how shoppers find books on Amazon, I found the information informative, sobering, but not too surprising after I thought about it.

How she gets there, the hilarious and sobering things that happen to her, the personal and professional entanglements that spring up everywhere, the pitfalls of remaining old - school when all about her are tattooed, self - indulgent, young millionaires — this is the smart, funny, outrageous, wonderful story of Full Court Press.

Jonathan's story is sobering.

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.