Within the Bush administration, that official's comments represent the sober (and, at least for now, prevailing) view.

The euphoria of the past months had given way to a rather sober view.

It is a bleak and sober view.

We started this project with a pretty sober view of what we could achieve.

You, ah, seem to be taking a more sober view of things all of a sudden.

But New Madrid is conditioned by its history to take a sober view of such warnings.

And this translates into some sober views on the limitations of force, especially in impoverished countries torn by internal strife.

I just have to muddle through with my own sober view that a lot has been lost here.

"The sober view is that we can expect more revelations."

Judge Parker had a more sober, but equally damaging, view.