The phrase "a solid reality" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is firmly established or undeniable in nature.
Example: "The evidence presented in the report provides a solid reality that cannot be ignored."
Alternatives: "a firm truth" or "a concrete fact".
Macho attitudes We're sitting in a pub on one of many former London county council estates that began to spread eastward over swaths of Essex in the 1930s to accommodate the influx of workers as Ford's Dagenham dream became an all too solid reality.
Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield".
Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield … To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield". That's from George Orwell's 1946 essay "In Front of Your Nose". It seems especially relevant right now, as we survey the wreckage of America's Iraq adventure.
A whole society, he wrote, can deceive itself "for an indefinite time," and the only check on that mass delusion is that "sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality".
A solid foundation (reality) means you'll have a solid building.
If you've had that since you can remember, then you've always had an understanding or something outside of the solid reality in front of you.
Science and engineering have a way of turning what seems like fantasy into solid reality.
Roth knows that this kind of inquiry, far from robbing his fiction of reality, provokes an intense desire in his readers to invest his invented characters with solid reality, just as Nathan once invested the opaque Amy Bellette with the reality of Anne Frank.
