The phrase "alarming reality" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or fact that is concerning or distressing.
Example: "The alarming reality of climate change is becoming increasingly evident as natural disasters occur more frequently."
Alternatives: "disturbing truth" or "worrying fact".
This alarming reality further underscores the urgent need for a new model of trade - one that protects rather than threatens our treasured fish and wildlife.
The alarming reality is that years of bad public policy mean that most will be left with no real options for getting the health care they need.
Record floodwaters have ravaged Nebraska, but as they begin to recede, an alarming reality has come into view: Hundreds of miles of highway remain impassable, bridges have been wiped out and routine drives have become treacherous ordeals.
The episode — comic as it might be to, say, Chelsea or Tottenham fans — highlighted the unstable nature of Arsenal's season and punctuated an alarming reality for a club that has long been accustomed to occupying a place among the English elite.
That quandary along with an embarrassing string of mishaps — including a 29-hour power failure affecting another, less vital cooling system — have underscored an alarming reality: two years after the meltdowns, the plant remains vulnerable to the same sort of large earthquake and tsunami that set the original calamity in motion.
Viewing femininity as weakness is the exact attitude that creates an expectation that women "owe" men something and leads to the alarming reality that one in four college-aged women is a survivor of sexual assault.
More alarming is the reality of a movement whose adherents are self-recruited and may spring up anywhere.
Hansen will use the symbolically charged 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking speech (pdf) to the US Congress - in which he was among the first to sound the alarm over the reality of global warming - to argue that radical steps need to be taken immediately if the "perfect storm" of irreversible climate change is not to become inevitable.
Chung comes to resent her mom's worn-out fable about sacrifice and divine providence, and, after a protracted and unglamorous process of filing paperwork and wrangling lawyers, she's alarmed to uncover the reality of the Chungs, her biological family.
Bennett Johnston stated at the 1988 hearing that "the greenhouse effect [is] becoming not just [cause for] concern, but alarm". Cognitive dissonance, in reality, sits at the center of this story not only in the case of the oil industry, Vitol and Johnston.
In summary, initial analysis of false alarms alone suggested that reality monitoring was less accurate for both images and emotionally negative items.
