Sentences with phrase «sobering realities of»

However, we do understand the sobering realities of our profession and are sensitive to the unique and varied needs of our community.

This is an unflinching look that touches upon some of the more sobering realities of nature, so please use discretion before sharing this book with kids.

The Church for them is not only the sacramental intermediary of grace and the teaching authority for the true statement of the hidden mysteries of God, but also has a pastoral power by which it can contribute quite considerably to determining the concrete action of its members in the tangible and sober reality of everyday life.

But I decided some time ago that I must wake up from my naiveté, relinquish my denial and admit the sobering reality of the deafening silence of God if I desire wisdom at all.

Instead, we use the sober reality of sin to point out the sins of others and decry how ill the world has fallen.

Camille Seaman (above) captures the beauty of polar environments, and the sobering reality of climate change, in her photographs.

The script exists more in a tonal dead zone, where the broad material and the sobering reality of the situation cancel each other out, leaving a tuneless movie without the direct perspective it needs to succeed.

One sequence juxtaposes the visual embodiment of Thanos» worldview, via a small child balancing a knife on her palm (in the foreground) and the harsh and sobering reality of said idea in practice, which comes from a line of people getting massacred (in the background).

There are few things in life harder than being faced with the sobering reality of our beloved pets» shortened lifespans.

In my view, it's here that you want to be when making a decision to move forward, and not at the extremes of the sobering reality of the first hurdle or the mirage of future perfection.

Not exact matches

According to the research team the findings offer a sobering reality check: «some normally functioning people may never acquire expert performance in certain domains, regardless of the amount of deliberate practice they accumulate.»

But the sobering crash back to reality that follows, and the ensuing scramble to come up with the next piece of content that can match the previous peak, are seemingly inevitable.

While he said prices should rise eventually, he is «sober about the current realities of lower prices» for the next few years.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was so in the culture, we could have a conversation about this, a substantive, civil, sober conversation on the meaning of life and the nature of reality.

In biological discussion when a few speculative biologists point to the necessity of an «epigenetic landscape» to make sense of embryogenesis, development and growth their colleagues usually summon them back to «reality» with sober accusations of mystification.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

The reality is that few if any addicts will stay sober without a follow up program of recovery.

The Council can only become effective through setbacks and hesitations, for it will often be difficult to know how to carry out ideal concepts in the sober sphere of reality.

I'd rather be sober and (relatively) unhappy in the face of reality, living my life in this natural world, than to lie to myself and live in a fantasy world.

No factory and no office is so abandoned by creation that a creative glance could not fly up from one working - place to another, from desk to desk, a sober and brotherly glance which guarantees the reality of creation which is happening — quantum satis.

However, it is certainly very much to be desired that a sober thinker would for once explain how far this purely logical process, which recalls the grammatical rule that two negatives make an affirmative, and the mathematical rule that two minuses are a plus — how far, I say, this logical process is valid in the world of reality, in the world of qualities; whether after all the qualities are not subject to a different dialectic; whether in this case «transition» does not play a different rôle.

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.

Films about rescue operations are presented more like a horror movie than as the sobering chronicles of somebody's reality.

We're hearing denunciations — «racists,» «fascists,» «demagogue» — rather than sober analysis of the political realities Trump and the nationalist politicians in Europe are exposing.

It has been a long year for NASCAR's most popular driver, and as soon as he collapsed onto a couch in the cool of his coach, Little E let out a deep sigh and acknowledged a sobering reality: In his last season with Dale Earnhardt Inc. (DEI), the team that his father founded, he isn't likely to challenge for the Cup.

«The only thing I can see is that the reality and the responsibility are sobering,» Paul Gioia, who served as chairman of the state Public Service Commission during much of the debate over Shoreham, told the New York Times in 1989.

With the crew safely returned to the UK, Mr Blair turned his attention to the UK's relationship with Iran and back to the «sober and ugly reality» of terrorism.

But for the majority of postdocs, the most positive effect may well be a sobering dose of reality

From the examples chosen a pattern emerges that requires a period of sober reflection by any minister or civil servant involved in the planning of major technological projects, for far from the comfort of scientific truth underpinning their decisions, the reality is that the degree of uncertainty involved would appear to reduce the process to a sophisticated form of gambling, with awesome consequences awaiting a wrong decision.

Some people think that these continual reminders about how important it is to get rid of excess pounds will keep us motivated to stay on a diet or put in our daily gym time, but the reality is sobering.

There is a sobering payoff in terms of the tragic futility of filmmakers» attempt to capture reality — although, if you've seen Noah Baumbach's While We're Young, you may come out of Garrel's film feeling that, unlike failed Parisian documentarists, their New York counterparts at least get to mix some fun with their agony.

The support cast deserves a share of accolades, too, for ensuring that the palpable production, one well grounded in a sobering, inner - city reality, never hits a false note.

They might have been a tad disappointed to discover that the Winnebago Man is now frail and in failing health, however just such sobering touches of reality are what make this tenderhearted bio-pic worth its while.

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.

John Curran's new film, Chappaquiddick, which dramatizes the car crash and the days that followed, is a damningly even - handed work, a sober reconstruction that slowly, but surely, digs into the queasy realities of scandal management.

A study on American homelessness in the shadow of Disney World with stylistic inspiration from The Little Rascals, the film is balanced perfectly between sober reality and optimistic spirit.

However, the research has also documented the sobering reality that children most in need of the nation's best schools are the least likely to attend them.

Their profiles are juxtaposed against sobering statistics and research, among them, this shocking reality: There are 3.2 million public school teachers in the United States; 1.8 million of them will soon retire, and there aren't many candidates yearning to take their place.

The brave new world we face is one whose promise of endless bounty has been replaced by sobering reality: selling books is frigging hard even in the best of times, and these are no longer the best of times for indies.

UPDATE: I just saw this short, sobering piece by Jason Boog, «The Financial Reality of the Genre Novelist,» which is also mandatory reading.

It not only reflects a mainstream recognition of this unfortunate trend, but is also sobering reminder of today's economic reality: homeowners» equity has been halved since 2005, leaving more than 15 million consumers underwater on their mortgages, and more than 6.5 million of those 30 % or more underwater.

Veterinarians» loss of their AVMA Group Health Insurance delivered the sobering reality that we need to be ready for the changes occurring in our health insurance system.

The contrast with the newspaper's black - and - white columns of words invites meditation on alternate versions of reality: one sober, the other exuberantly irrational.»

With Reality and Reflection, Sense and Sensibility (2017), salon conversations of six people with distinct backgrounds, interests and personalities were recorded to showcase how alcohol influences their emotions, subjects of interest and desires which they might not be willing to share while sober.

Of course, that statement contains a potential internal inconsistency that presents a sobering reality check for anyone seeking consensus among a vastly different range of parties — whether they are 192 rich and poor countries tussling over a climate treaty or 50 states, with varied levels of dependence on fossil fuels, pondering a climate bilOf course, that statement contains a potential internal inconsistency that presents a sobering reality check for anyone seeking consensus among a vastly different range of parties — whether they are 192 rich and poor countries tussling over a climate treaty or 50 states, with varied levels of dependence on fossil fuels, pondering a climate bilof parties — whether they are 192 rich and poor countries tussling over a climate treaty or 50 states, with varied levels of dependence on fossil fuels, pondering a climate bilof dependence on fossil fuels, pondering a climate bill.

Among other things, he offered a sobering reality check in the face of a big, and largely wishful, push for a carbon tax as a budget fix.

While these developments are to be celebrated, there remains a sobering reality: they still leave a lot of headroom for China to expand its coal power plant capacity between now and 2030, even though its coal fleet is already more than twice the size of the US coal fleet.

are choosing not to grapple with the sobering reality that in the study of climate - change, good science requires moral confidence.

Perhaps the most sobering, largely shrouded, reality is that the nations some have pointed to as the new climate leaders lose some of their luster on closer examination.

The Main Question What are the neodenialist odds that Hansen - style super-CAGW is a sobering scientific reality that requires of us all, a thoughtfully - conceived «Plan B»?