So here's the note I got: It's a pretty sobering picture for the future of art.

Although the problems afflicting poor black men have been known for decades, the new data paint a more extensive and sobering picture of the challenges they face.

It is a sobering picture of what happens when politicians are able to buy votes with socialist entitlement programs.

Over all, the attack statistics, which the accountability office has been compiling since the early days of the conflict, paint a sobering picture of where the country is headed.

However, a variety of sources can still be tapped, which "present a sobering picture," according to Minxin Pei.

All this local knowledge adds up to an intriguing if sobering picture of what life is like for many of the nation's self-appointed artists.

But even if they do not signal a recession, the latest Government data paint a sobering picture of the economy.

In all this, Mr. Bloom paints a sobering if not, alas, entirely unfamiliar picture.

For few places offer a more sobering picture of murder in America than this gritty paper mill town in the Arkansas Delta.

"I think that was a very sobering picture for people."