Sentences with phrase «sobering reality check»

Robotic planetary exploration began a half century ago with sobering reality checks: our nearest neighbors — the moon, Mars and Venus — were fairly horrible places for life.

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.»

Even the soberest reality check does little to undermine my enthusiasm for the Switch, however.

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 bill.

Part of its latest report is devoted to tracking the progress of clean energy, technology by technology, repeating a sobering reality check that it carries out each year.

The news was another sobering reality check that climate change is here, and in Episode 5, we meet more people who've been affected by it.

After all, the «headline risk» of being perceived in a bad light by the public can sometimes be a sobering reality check on whether the entity is not treating a consumer fairly, or whether the complianant is just off base.

Google may be promoting Android Wear with the sleek, circular Moto 360, but here's a sobering reality check if you were hoping for a subtle smartwatch: It's not here yet.