Sentences with phrase «sobering moments of»

And there are sobering moments of significant contemplation, such as the dire consequences of reporting regarding the fate of a man Kim specifically references in her first segment (a detail which seems horribly illogical in the first place) but these are followed by bits of absurdity, such as Kim becoming the conduit for a group of Afghan women who keep blowing up a well the marines keep digging for their benefit (shades of Fernando Leon de Aranoa's A Perfect Day here).

«During this sober moment of tragedy and horror, Nigeria wishes to re-affirm its continued solidarity with the government and good people of the U.S.» (NAN)

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It was a sobering moment in the career of a woman who during 12 years in power became a symbol of stability, leading the euro zone during the debt crisis and seeking compromise within the European Union on a deal with Turkey to stem migrant arrivals.

This moment of sober second thought caused the executives» e-mail production to drop 54 %.

There continues to be sober reflection on what the Trumpian moment means for the future of evangelicalism, and rightly so.

In one of Messiah Complex's more sober moments, Brand points out that while it would cost # 50bn to eradicate global poverty, the super-rich have # 21 trillion sitting in offshore accounts (a culture like that, he argues, needs another Malcolm X).

Yet another reaction took place in more sober moments as people of faith watched the giddy celebrations with a tangled mix of emotions.

Peter, however, in one of the more sobering moments in Acts, dispels the notion of a giddy high tide of spiritual excess by quoting the prophet Joel, who proclaims that God will pour out his Spirit upon all flesh, yielding prophecy, visions and dreams — and then proclaims that all this is God's own word:

Before concluding that under such a scenario — the lack of official federal support — the movement for a better food system for all will stall for at least four years, it is well to take a sober look at the current moment in good food matters.

Stepping aside from dangerous social factors, such as adult inebriation or adult bedsharing while under the influence of drugs, or infants sleeping alongside disinterested strangers, and ignoring (for the moment) the physical - structural - furniture and bedding aspects of «safe infant sleep» always occurs in the context of, and under the supervision of, a committed, sober adult caregiver who is in a position to respond to infant nutritional needs, crises, and can exchange sensory stimuli all of which represents just what babies depend on for maximum health.

The commemoration is a sober and reflective moment which seeks to remind the Ghanaian populace of the principles that underpinned the popular revolution.

Scientific instruments showed that the gas had reached an average daily level above 400 parts per million — just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder that decades of efforts to bring human - produced emissions under control are faltering....)

«That was an extremely sobering moment,» he recalls of those crucial minutes.

Leitch's previous foray into political documentary, the sloppy, anarchic «The Last Party» was overwhelmed by the juvenile antics of its host, Robert Downey Jr., Hoffman establishes a more sober tone, though the new film isn't without its lighter moments.

Afineevsky's «Winter on Fire,» which dealt with the citizen protests that toppled Ukraine's president, has moments of real triumph (though a postscript about Putin's plans for the country was sobering).

It's an amazing moment, astonishing in its coldness and complexity — this robbing of a child's illusions of his father existing comfortably shoulder - to - shoulder with an unflagging love of that parent, sobered but un-tempered by the baseness of the father's humanity.

Maybe we all instead ought to pause for a moment of sanity, because the sobering truth is that Michael Vick is still sorely in need of some serious counseling and rehabilitation, not a slick PR campaign selling the notion that his shedding crocodile tears and converting to Christianity on the courthouse steps means that his high crimes and misdemeanors are already behind him.

Catharsis for these girls comes not from the sweet release of death, but from those sobering moments when they finally allow themselves to cry.

To get them all done, she enlists her drug - and alcohol - addicted father, Henry (Malcolm McDowell), who devotes most of his sober moments to spouting verse that rhymes with «ring - dang - do,» and her mother, Minerva (Cathy Moriarty), an addicted gambler who's trying to earn enough money to pay off her bookie («Gong Show» emcee Chuck Barris) without having to sleep with him.

A laughable moment arises when a flailing and drunk Billy sobers up in seconds flat after his assistant (Alona Tal) calls him to inform him of a murder.

«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.

It's an iconic and sobering moment for comic book fans, who saw a villain actually capable of winning.

In a more sober moment, Helen Farias, a local union leader from the Sweetwater Education Association intoned, «The types of legislation ALEC promotes will create a two - tiered educational system, one for the privileged and one for the rest of us.»

Of course, it was proving a little difficult to think about this, since we were roaring around the southern tip of Sweden in the 2015 Volvo S60 Polestar and 2015 Volvo V60 Polestar, two high - performance cars that would make even a Swede forget to be sober and sensible for a few momentOf course, it was proving a little difficult to think about this, since we were roaring around the southern tip of Sweden in the 2015 Volvo S60 Polestar and 2015 Volvo V60 Polestar, two high - performance cars that would make even a Swede forget to be sober and sensible for a few momentof Sweden in the 2015 Volvo S60 Polestar and 2015 Volvo V60 Polestar, two high - performance cars that would make even a Swede forget to be sober and sensible for a few moments.

In a moment of clarity I realized that, while the sober part of me wanted to attend his son, a tangled, humid, inescapable part stopped me.

Away from the regular posting schedule I found the time to write some Jerry McGuire The Things We Think and Do Not Say treatises, quickly consigning most of them to trash so that they couldn't come back to haunt me at a later, more lucid and, perhaps, sober moment (I did say the holiday was good to me).

And the fact that Fisher takes a moment to remember Solid Snake instead of just immediately moving on is sobering.

Drawing inspiration from personal references including motherhood, friends, familial traditions and domestic objects and spaces, her work portrays moments of emotional and intellectual intimacy and self - reflection, translated through a sober subjectivity.

The iPad has its redemptive moments — most notably a sobering and engrossing timeline of surveillance that ranges from spies in ancient Egypt to the surveillance architecture of the panopticon to fingerprinting, and on and on.

Yet these images, sobering as they may be, appear alongside those of bodies embracing, caught in moments of erotic pleasure, suggesting that depictions of tenderness, of love lived as well as lost, offer an equally valuable form of revolution.

On top of being marvelous to look at and study, Cloud's «Quilt paintings» seem a sobering barometer for the present moment, when angst surely exceeds hope but may be losing ground.

It's sobering to consider that an exciting and concise exhibition about a 1950s New Jersey synagogue and its artworks can serve as a periscope through which we can view the New York art world of the time, postwar American architecture, suburban demographic trends and, not incidentally, a moment in the history of the American Jewish community.

In one sobering moment, a man in the midst of the crush turns his eyes directly at the viewer, and in that instant, everything changes.

For the moment, trajectories for fertility rates, particularly in Africa, are showing few signs of modulating, leading to this sobering title on the latest analysis of United Nations population data, published in the current edition of Science: «World population stabilization unlikely this century.»

aeon magazine — Jejeje — Dan Hancox — Sobering, too, is the plight of Spanish youth at the moment.