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Example sentences for: sobering

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But now that the radiance of the yuletide season is fading, it's time to confront a sobering scientific truth: The more you think about the biology of parental love, the more absurd it seems.
And yet, it's also very sobering because we are reminded of our responsibility.
But it concluded that "the sobering fact remains that Africans today are poorer than they were" when Montgomery unveiled his plan.
It's a bit sobering to read that the WP 's political dean, David Broder, refuses to bury Newt Gingrich's career in public life.
However, the ease with which The Bell Curve assumes this guise may be as sobering as the book itself.