Greed might be motivation enough,: Kantor said, soberingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exile's Honor]

It was an act that is soberingly reminiscent of the risks and sacrifices undertaken by attorneys in another emerging democracy today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justice and Democracy] Reference

The cast of characters narrows down the date, somewhat soberingly, to no earlier than October 1915, and no later than the end of the Great War.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Perhaps it was because the Soviet collapse had been anticipated for so long, and its consequences were soberingly difficult to control or even to predict (page 17).    From Wordnik.com.  [The End] Reference

I can read b/w the party and panty lines enuff to know that on some level, this attractive chica thinks she and her in-your-face take on this soberingly serious subject is so HOT.    From Wordnik.com.  [nietzsche is dead] Reference

The plot is simple — a filmmaker and the challenges he faces — but is embroiled with all that is life in occupied Palestine, making an amusing, and at times soberingly real, hour of theatre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices in English » Palestine: Gaza’s Culture Of Resistance] Reference

Stephen Colbert last night made a very funny yet as always soberingly accurate explanation that people are still voting with a 60's mentality and this lady's platform would go right along with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [so we got a female vp pick from the republicans?] Reference

But, watching "Iron Man 2" earlier this week, it became soberingly clear that the film protagonist whom Tony Stark most resembles isn't fictional, but the star of a documentary that also opens Friday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Hornaday on 'Iron Man 2' and 'Casino Jack and the United States of Money'] Reference

If I recommend Elegy to my readers, it is not as a licentiously escapist entertainment, but, rather, as a soberingly eloquent expression of what our lives are all about, whether we want to think about them or not. [email protected].    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Ben Kingsley Plays Roth���s Concupiscent Kepesh as Cruz Nudes Up] Reference

Wilson, along with Queen Noor of Jordan and former Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, turned out for a news conference Sunday after a screening of "Countdown to Zero," which makes a swift, soberingly urgent case for the comprehensive elimination of nuclear weapons in a world that has gone from Cold War certainties to asymmetrical chaos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Hornaday on premieres of 'Countdown to Zero,' 'Wall Street 2,' 'Inside Job'] Reference

The ARRA's results to date, however, have been soberingly quotidian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reason Foundation - Out of Control Policy Blog] Reference

BTW, you might ... find this thread ... soberingly sad ... for various reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

I More soberingly, new research from Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands indicates that women who go through menopause early, in their early to midforties, are at higher risk for early onset dementia and death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shock of Gray] Reference

A frighteningly good film, and soberingly real.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Movie Report] Reference