Sentence examples for a stark realisation from inspiring English sources

It was a stark realisation: they didn't know the half of it, and the scope of the problem was uncharted.

It was a stark realisation that anyone could be raped and for many of us, that incident robbed us of our innocence.

At the end of one such trip, Gilmor had a stark realisation on the flight back to her home in Connecticut.

After seven years of waiting, the start of 2012 brings with it a stark realisation that the Games are frighteningly close.

It was just a very stark realisation of the effects of climate change.

While studying I ended up visiting quite a few factories and I just had this stark realisation that there are people behind the things that we buy, not just systems.

Once I finally made this stark realisation, it was the beginning of a new life for me.

It will also have to face the stark realisation that the demands of the 2012 conference – a cessation of violence by both the government and armed opposition, release of prisoners, freedom of movement for journalists, freedom of association and full humanitarian access – have never been implemented as the Syrian crisis has worsened steadily over the last year.

The inspiration for the exhibition came two years ago during the summer of 2010 when Parkin came to the "stark realisation" that her children were growing up and, "to a point", away from her.

But the stark realisation of the numbers do seem to jolt him into life.

He also discussed the stark realisation that 4.4 billion people do not have access to the Internet, and that we will not become truly global until that statistic changes.