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Example sentences for: sobering

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However, the ease with which The Bell Curve assumes this guise may be as sobering as the book itself.
And yet, it's also very sobering because we are reminded of our responsibility.
It's sobering to learn that about half the world's passenger jets contain wire insulation that could be a fire hazard.
It is a sobering thought, then, to consider that virtually all of the elements above #2 (helium, the fusion product of the hydrogen that makes up the stars, our sun included) are the result of the catastrophic blowing apart of prior suns, and that our earth and everything else in our own solar system are mere cosmic hand-me-downs from someone else's supernova.
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.