Sentences with phrase «sobering experience»

«That's a very sobering experience for all sorts of reasons,» she says.

«I had a very sobering experience several years ago,» he said.

Buschman, the owner and chief executive of Buschman Corp., a $ 3 - million manufacturer of parts for paper machinery, based in Cleveland, had an especially sobering experience early in the company's development: «We were in a position where we had a lot of cash, and I thought everything was going well.

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.

Were this the eighteenth anniversary edition instead of the twentieth, this might have been a much less sobering experience.

Bars cover only the first part of the river and the last hour or so can be a strenuous, extremely sobering experience if the river is low and you're rushing to beat the 6 pm deadline.

Norway's sobering experience shows how difficult it is to cut emissions in the real world, where elegant theoretical solutions are complicated by economic changes, entrenched behaviors and political realities.

«Getting a loan is a rather sobering experience now,» says Lee.

Starting a beer company on the cheap, they say, has been a sobering experience.

Since we shall not have the sobering experience of defeat, what is there to keep us steady?

We must think of experience — drunk experience, sober experience — we must go through all the possibilities.

She impressed on The Apprentice and reached the Final Five before being fired for the first time in her life in what was a sobering experience.

As loaded as the expression is in Dallas these days, Sunday's game was a sobering experience for the Cowboys and for Jones, who made that very observation more than an hour afterward as he celebrated his 54th birthday by sipping red wine in his luxury suite.

River will represent South America at the end of the year in the Club World Cup in Japan — a tournament which, in recent years, has been a sobering experience for the South Americans, and may be again this time, for the River Plate class of 2015 have plenty of heart but little of the club's traditional panache.

As an old - school married guy, it was a sobering experience after 31 years together with my wife to read Ms. Larson's piece on being «Lost» and see myself at every turn.

And he said receiving the nuclear codes was a sobering experience and «very, very scary.»

Last year's brush with the law was a sobering experience for Fabiano, a Town of Saugerties Highway Department heavy equipment operator.

Former Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne has described prison as a «humbling and sobering experience».

Disgraced former MP Chris Huhne has described prison as a «humbling and sobering experience» after he and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce were released from prison.

Former politician Chris Huhne described prison as a «humbling and sobering experience», after he and ex-wife Vicky Pryce were released.

In 1984, it was cast in aluminum by John Devitt and other volunteering veterans who vowed to share their sobering experience of the full - sized memorial with those who did not have the ability to visit the site in Washington.

Pearl Harbor was a sobering experience but well worth the time!

Seeing Rocky chase down a dock worker and demand cash in return for not breaking someone's fingers is a sobering experience, miles away from the good - natured Rocky the later films have.

She adds that coming face - to - face with students in a classroom can be a sobering experience.

They might find it a sobering experience.

Seeing so many doomed animals is a sobering experience, and one that some people are unable to face.

Judy Kishner, founder and President of SPAY OK, a non-profit spay / neuter clinic operating in north Tulsa since 2004, said, «A walk through the city shelter is a sobering experience.

Even if you're looking for a quieter and sober experience, there are a number of theatre shows, cruises and teahouses.

It is a sobering experience.

However, viewers resistant to art - world machinations and hyperbole (a crowd whose number is, apparently, quite limited) found the exhibit to be a sobering experience.

After viewing over 250 entries, juror Marvin Heiferman had this to say about the process: «To look through thousands of strong images submitted by hundreds of photographers to this year's BAXTER ST at CCNY Juried Exhibition was, simultaneously, an exhilarating and sobering experience.

Scanning through the issues to address is a sobering experience for a legally - sensitive mind.