"blast of reality" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a sudden, perhaps unwelcome, realization that is experienced. For example, "The email from her boss was a blast of reality - she had messed up the project and would have to start over."
The play comes like a rare blast of reality.
Disneyland packages dreams, Dismaland is a blast of reality.
It's a raw blast of reality disguised as a rustic fantasy.
Published outside the normal bounds of painfully balanced journalism, her missive gave readers an unfiltered blast of reality.
That blast of reality will deliver quite a shock to Britain's heavily indebted households.Some worry that Britain could go the way of Greece.
A win and a draw in his first two games in charge created a belief that his new career would be a stroll; a subsequent run of eight successive defeats has quickly introduced a sharp blast of reality.
The N.B.A. offered up a diversion from such blasts of reality, the purely sporting spectacle of the Miami Heat coughing up a 24-point lead in a loss to Orlando.
It was music made by and for people who felt disenfranchised by disco's dominance of black music in the 70s, who wouldn't have got past the door at Studio 54: a harsh, necessary blast of Bronx reality in the face of a genre that dealt only in glitzy escapism and camp splendour.
Liverpool's rich European history was no shield against the chill blast of Champions League reality as holders Real Madrid rode into Anfield and left them badly beaten and embarrassed.
To paraphrase the playwright David Greig, who wrote the introduction to Ms. Kane's collected works, it is as if the personal attacks that "blast" the characters also blast the fabric of reality itself.
Their work is a routine of grinding boredom broken by blasts of grotesque reality.
