Sentences with phrase «sober stories of»

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

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.

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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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Rather naively, I hadn't anticipated the more sobering aspects of my new career — the horror stories coming my way of abuse and abandonment.

Best Food Writing 2016, a book of stories edited by Holly Hughes from Da Capo Lifelong Books; wrote Ya - ka - mein: Old Sober for Edible New Orleans

A story of mine from 1992 is included below, providing a sobering sense of déjà vu.

Updated below, 12:51 p.m. A comprehensive and sobering Associated Press story by Dina Cappiello provides a valuable update on how United States policies promoting exports of coal are undercutting domestic efforts to restrict emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas released when fossil fuels are burned.

(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.

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.

I think, then, that it was the intention of this site to provide the sober scientific analysis of the facts behind the hype of the press stories, such that people wouldn't over-react to the latest natural disaster and then over-compensate when we had a year with below - normal hurricanes / tornadoes and assume that the scientist's had shouted «Wolf!»

Some details of the history are surely subject to debate and he likely got wrong, but the overall arc of the Easter Island story seems pretty clear here, and it is a very sobering one.

Real stories of hitting bottom, and the life lessons and tools used to get and stay sober.