It makes for sobering reading.

It makes for sobering and essential reading.

But these articles make sobering reading as our nation once again begins the debate over extending most-favored-nation trade status to China.

For anyone optimistic about the possibilities of cross-cultural exchange, Foumiko Kometani's new book makes sobering reading.

It makes sobering and deeply disturbing reading.

They make sobering reading today: "Is the political objective we seek to achieve important, clearly defined and understood?

The findings on the race between food supply and population make for sobering reading.

Its findings make for sobering reading.

One Justice Department official who saw the agent's daily reports said they made sobering reading.

"A Matter of Principle" will be sobering reading to many American liberals, especially those who took comfort in the near-universal European opposition to the war.