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sober
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sober
(of colours) plain and dull or subdued


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The plot sounds melodramatic, but Brooks makes it feel very real, and the ending is soberingly realistic, too.
He was wearing a neck brace so loosely fashioned that it looked less like a helpful medical device than a prop from a high-school play, and at 10 o'clock on this soberingly cold morning, he seemed drunk.
Soberingly, the massive proposed housing developments, if built, fall short of meeting even one year's shortfall in housing units, a deficit estimated at 50,000 to 70,000 dwellings.
 
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