Many hockey fans, enthralled by toughness (hockey players don't even acknowledge real injuries, much less dramatize fake ones), contort themselves to justify bare-knuckled fistfights.
Psychologists have often suggested a therapeutic role for tales of horror, which allow us to acknowledge real fears but in a form made manageable through narrative conventions.
It was chance (though a Clarkson controversy is hardly an outside one), and Jon Morton has added a line in David Tennant's narration, beeped out Clarkson's name and pixelated him in the footage, to acknowledge real events and to get an extra couple of jokes out of it.
Alisa LaGamma, the Met curator who organized "Eternal Ancestors," acknowledges the real investment that Modernism had in African culture.
Unlike modernism, which looks frozen in amber, the rough-edged amateur aesthetic of the moment acknowledges that real life is in flux.
The Aboriginal affairs minister, Leslie Williams, said the response "acknowledges the real and heartbreaking trauma" caused by forcible removal and past government policy.
In the piece, he acknowledges the real satisfaction that he and other conservatives have taken in watching the President "go on offense" against the "liberal media".
But while Mr. Wasas is rhapsodic about the unique flavor of Espíritu, he acknowledges the real secret to his success lay in the drink's packaging.
In fact, as we shall see, they share a reluctance to address the real issue, and to acknowledge the real risks.
Sommerfeld acknowledges that real-life situations include other factors.
