One of the most
sobering facts of bodybuilding is that muscle growth is not an infinite process.
Maybe it was just the pure vicarious thrill of «discovering the hard facts of the writer's trade,» reading of the glances of «cold disdain» thrown down upon Lucien as he walks in his cheap frock coat and out - of - fashion «Nankeen trousers» amidst the beau monde; or Lucien greeting
the sobering facts of the mercantile chicanery of publishers, for whom «books were like cotton bonnets to haberdashers, a commodity to be bought cheap and sold dear.»
Not exact matches
The
facts are
sobering: the majority
of small businesses fail within five years
of starting up.
-- Vote for fiscal conservatives who want to fix problem; — Educate ourselves (through discussions like these); and — Make personal investment decisions with a
sober understanding
of the
facts.
An even more profound and
sobering fact is that 80 %
of business buyers today say that they found their vendors as opposed to vendors finding them.
The settled conditions necessary for the writing
of sober history are altogether absent; yet the
facts imprint themselves deeply upon folk - memory, and are handed down in the characteristic form
of heroic legends.
What is
sobering in this regard is the
fact that so many
of the intellectual leaders
of our time are willing to stop with intellectual convincement.
Even more significant, from the standpoint
of human values, than the record
of uninterrupted sobriety is the
fact that even those who had had frequent slips during their AA experience had been
sober the bulk
of the time.
Dalin quotes Newsweek columnist Kenneth L Woodward as stating that Cornwell's book is «a classic example
of what happens when an ill - equipped journalist assumes the air
of sober scholarship... Errors
of fact and ignorance
of context appear on every page».
She argued that the idea
of revolution has blocked
sober, hardheaded study
of the nature and causes
of social oppression, prevented the realization that some social oppression is probably inevitable, and tended to hide the
fact that our subjection to the natural world can be mitigated but never wholly overcome.
In
fact, most are darned right proud to say they're
sober because
of AA.
It is
sober fact in the light
of which all life is most realistically to be lived.
Finally, we shall state the key concept by which a Christian conception
of history can maintain fidelity to the
facts and yield a more
sobered but still hopeful view
of the long pilgrimage
of man.
Without time for
fact checking, understanding context and
sober reflection, and with the immense peer pressure
of thousands (sometimes millions)
of people all holding the same strong opinion, how likely are we to dissent from the crowd?
The first group did in
fact have its share
of alcoholics who wandered by; but the «real» alcoholics who «really tried» (as Bill Wilson described them) were a sturdy band
of «last gasp» alcoholics who had stayed
sober for about two years since A.A.'s founding days
of 1935.
I believe that a
sober and instructed criticism
of the Gospels justifies the belief that in their central and dominant tradition they represent the testimony
of those who stood nearest to the
facts, and whose life and outlook had been moulded by them.
The
fact of evil is, therefore, a
sobering reality which God can mitigate but not eradicate, but neither is its presence God's will or responsibility.
The sway
of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties
of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold
facts and dry criticisms
of the
sober hour.
Third, it tends to help him face the
fact that his problem is not the lack
of money, which has been one
of his favorite rationalizations, but staying
sober.
These letters drove home to me the
sobering fact that the Electronic Church is a formidable threat to mainline churches today, not because it threatens to reduce income or attendance, but because it has revealed a significant failure on the part
of most mainline churches to deal with many
of the people in their own neighborhoods.
The list could go on, but there is enough here to serve as a
sobering reminder
of the capacity
of religious authorities to think themselves right when in
fact they are promulgating what is cruel and unjust.
Speculative philosophy is an attempt to think experience: not only the
fact of experience itself but also what shows itself in the welter
of all our experiences: experience drunk and experience
sober.
The
sobering fact is that out
of all the Bible references to homosexuality, every one is negative regarding its practice.
Listening to these self - declared moralists and traditionalists, it seems to me I hear from time to time a little satisfaction in the
sober fact that God, as our cultures have variously received him through the Hebrew scriptures, seems to loathe, actually abominate, certain kinds
of transgression.
The
fact that this date is the result
of the synthesis
of all
of Scripture causes May 21st, 2011 to take on very
sobering factuality.
It is a
sober fact that quite a large number
of hedonists end by committing suicide.
In
fact after people get clean and
sober, they can be a member
of The Wolf Pack and begin to influence others at those meetings for Christ's sake.
Fact: Don't ever co-sleep with your baby after you have been drinking, regardless
of how
sober you feel.
Locking the publicly inebriated out
of harm's way in drunk tanks till they
sober up isn't going to make them less likely to do it again; in
fact it's almost an endorsement.
It was different... than what we heard at the State
of the State last year, but we just have to be very
sober about the
fact that budget documents are really where the rubber hits the road and we got ta see that.»
The committee chairman said the
fact that the party became a victim
of its own success was one
of the
sobering lessons that it learnt from its defeat.
Most
sobering is the
fact that almost 51,000 New Yorkers are now housed in homeless shelters, a figure twice that
of 1993.
This year's World Environment Day theme addresses a
sobering fact: One - third
of all food produced globally is wasted.
Protect Our Winters, an environmental advocacy group, accompanied the athletes and presented
sobering facts about the economics
of the industry: Low snow years have caused the loss
of 17,400 jobs and decreased the estimated value to the economy by over $ 1 billion since 2001.
I am not undermining the importance
of physical exercise with this
sobering statement that yes, you can in
fact overdo it in the exercise department, especially when it comes to too much cardio!
Still
sobering, though, are the
facts: The United States had a record number
of measles cases in 2014 — 644 cases in 27 states reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But I've been
sobered by the realization that so much
of what I interpreted as beguilement and wooing was in
fact just what he would do for any women in his presence, whether romantically interested or not.
Announcing the launch
of its exciting new safety and verification - orientated product update, which integrates the ID verification system used by Airbnb and easyJet, TrueView co-founder Andrew Ibbotson collected some
sobering facts about the dangers
of online dating.
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
Despite its unabashed fondness for clichés and tired tropes, Shot Caller mostly succeeds in its aims because
of Waugh's
sober, matter -
of -
fact approach to the material.
But that in itself is revealing: what 20 years ago would have been a cliched, paranoid cyber-thriller now feels like a filmed list
of sober facts — a sign
of how much the world has changed.
But in point
of fact, the movie was his fifth feature, and with his sixth and latest film, The Florida Project, Baker returns to his favored shooting format
of 35 mm, this time in the at once fantastical and
sober environs
of Orlando, Florida.
The film doesn't achieve this through raunchy language a la a gross - out teen comedy, but from very matter -
of -
fact and
sober discussions
of sexuality.
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.
«Florence is very
sober about the
fact that, just because they're having a moment, it doesn't mean that Laura is ever going to think
of her truly as an equal,» Rees said.
His mise en scène is very
sober, with deliberate pacing, no music, and muted cinematography in blue and gray hues, with things moving in and out
of frame, in and out
of focus... In a not so specific way, this made me think
of M. Night Shyamalan's visual style; the
fact that the film is about how people deal with grief, like many
of the «Sixth Sense» director's films, only furthered this impression.
Lucky for them, I'm
sober and I'm a nice guy — despite the
fact that they've already polished off the chili they promised to share with the Automobile Magazine team — so I «upgrade» from the Audi to the magazine's eight - passenger Four Seasons Honda Odyssey, which is on hand as a support vehicle, and chauffeur some
of them to the racing action.
However, the
sobering fact is that a month
of recent F - Series sales is greater than the Ridgeline's whole 2006 best - selling year.
Becky Mueller, an IIHS senior research engineer and the lead author
of the study, points out a
sobering fact, saying, «More than 1,600 right - front passengers died in frontal crashes in 2014.»
Typical
of the book series, the sport is generally broken down into eras, with accompanying
facts on achievers and achievements interspersed with articles by members
of SI's roster
of past and present first - rate journalists, including Dan Jenkins, Rick Reilly, George Plimpton, Frank Deford and the legendary Herbert Warren Wind, who offers a
sobering review
of Arnold Palmer's controversial antics at Amen Corner during the 1958 Masters.