Sentences with phrase «sobering realization»
The phrase "sobering realization" means that something has made you aware of a serious or difficult truth, and it can make you feel more serious or thoughtful. Full definition
I would say that it is a very sobering realization that all of the pressures on all of New York's counties to provide services without properly funding the costs of those services are coming to a head in the coming budget year.
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«I think everyone left with renewed energy to tackle the AGI problems, tempered by sobering realization about how deeply rooted and multifaceted the problems are.»
Once a person or body politic accepts the broad equivalence of all supernatural beliefs, they stand but a sobering realization away from seeing them all as absurd, including their own.
A sober realization of this truth is perhaps the best lesson Muirhead has to teach his readers.
I was reading the Gospel of Matthew today and came to the sobering realization that if I were alive at the time of Jesus Christ, I probably would not have been one of his disciples.
Whatever course forward First Things adopts, it must begin with a sober realization of how truly heathen and hollow the prevailing culture has become.
If, in the currently popular colloquial style, we should call them «the Vatican 39,» we would do so in sober realization that they symbolized the breach in a dogmatic wall which for centuries past had kept Roman Catholics alienated from their hundreds of millions of sisters and brothers in Christ.
Halloween has come and gone, leaving us with extra decorations, way too much candy and a sobering realization: Halloween is expensive!
The flip side to the attractiveness of beginning something new and exciting is the sobering realization that I need to develop another entire set of unfamiliar skills and proficiencies.
Human space travel is expensive and dangerous, and there is almost no scientific justification for it (a sobering realization for the child - turned - scientist).
The Affair, Season 3, Episode 8: An unexpected cause to celebrate provokes a sobering realization in Alison.
An unexpected cause to celebrate provokes a sobering realization in Alison.
He spent every afternoon on the subway contemplating what else he could try to break through to this seemingly unreachable group of students, eventually coming to the sobering realization that nothing would work.
This sobering realization has caused an explosion in research into the understanding of pain and effective ways to recognize and treat pain in out patients.
Scientists are coming to a sobering realization: There may be no such thing left on Earth as a natural forest.
Once you've considered the first two questions, I hope you experience a sober realization: You do not yet have a complete rationale for going through with your wedding.