The photos of smiling classmates, beer bottles in hand, revealed a sobering truth.

The sobering truth is that the space shuttle is unsafe, obsolete and should be replaced.

An even more sobering truth, however, is that all unbelievers, no matter how upright they may be by human standards, will face the Lord's wrath.

That is because of a sobering truth about the television business: failure is not just an option, it's the overwhelming reality.

The sobering truth is that a sweeping capital gains tax cut won't jump-start the economy.

The defeat left St. John's with another sobering truth.

This poem must have been more than two hundred years old, and yet it still held a sobering truth.

Finally, after about a year, I discovered a sobering and shocking truth.

The sobering truth is that Congress will be trapped into a vicious trade-off.

The sobering, and liberating, truth is that our britches are not that big.