Our driving adventures through France, and especially through Paris, were a most sobering experience as well.

One of the book's most sobering revelations is the British proposal that would have given India its independence a full 15 years ahead of the eventual date, if only India's leaders had been able to agree among themselves.

Low-flying jets attacking British ships would provide the world with some of the most sobering and dramatic images of the war.

The most sobering by far are the Russian 'butterfly' mines often picked up by children mistaking them for plastic toys.

That fact highlights what is most sobering about China's booming economy: it can force down the value of work in any job that is at all transferable.

Goeth, played fascinatingly by the English stage actor Ralph Fiennes, is the film's most sobering creation.

Perhaps most sobering to Hollywood, several movies that were regarded as extremely well made and involved some of the top names in the business made disappointingly modest profits.

Perhaps most sobering for investors, Kodak's digital division, the area to which Kodak has hitched its future, lost $150 million in the third quarter, as much as it lost in the whole first half of the year.

Writing about Sexton's suicide, Ms. Middlebrook said, "was the most sobering part.

Some of the film's most sobering moments are Mr. McElwee's uneasy reflections on tobacco as a killer versus its beauty as a plant and its vital role in the economy of North Carolina.