Meanings of more sobering in English

Or, a more sobering thought, had she already left it too late?

Jondalar smiled, too, but then told a more sobering fact.

Tigh's next question was a lot more sobering, though.

Later, more sobering facts began to complicate things.

This was a more sobering introduction.

If you'd ever fancied yourself an actual journalist, there are few more sobering slaps to the face than attending one.

But the other, more sobering reason low-intensity conflicts make bureaucrats nervous is that they do not automatically yield to high-tech solutions.

What was even more sobering was the condition this man was in: he was engulfed in flames from head to toe!

Even more sobering was the second type of photograph included in this odd collection: cadavers laid out, as was typical at most morgues.

The more sobering fact is that the ravenous demands of the huge-scale solo show mean that anything less would be considered a failure.

As for RSL, their record-equalling unbeaten start to the year was followed by a rather more sobering run in and around the World Cup.

Monday brought more sobering scenes with queues outside social services offices, of people laid off work since the coronavirus crisis blew up, registering for welfare.

He also said one of the more sobering moments of his young presidency was having to sign letters to send to families of slain soldiers.

Norway, for example, expected a visitor boom after the spectacle took place in Lillehammer in 1994, but one study found the reality was more sobering.

If he seeks to bring the foolish to their senses-his very frown, I perceive, has a more sobering effect than the chastisement inflicted by another.

Yet, where Rivaldo was heralded as "the greatest player to ever set foot in Greece" when he arrived in pre-season, the reality is more sobering.