Sentences with phrase «sobering facts of»

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.»

One of the most sobering facts of bodybuilding is that muscle growth is not an infinite process.

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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.