Then a sudden curdling of sound brings the realisation that he is deluded.
Yet a moment's thought brings the realisation that the retail trades are in the midst of revolutionary change spurred on by technological, process, and business-model innovation.
The age of 50 brings the realisation that you're in it now for the long haul, with all the hardship, labour and joy.
"It just brought the realisation home that if you weren't involved in the capital 'P' politics then you were just a bystander".
This has brought the realisation that what kind of forces Mr Putin has and the uses he might put them to matter.It is an article of faith for the Russian president that a great power must be able to project military force.
Recent advances in methods for the assembly and measurement of device characteristics of metal|molecule|metal junctions have brought the realisation of the considerable promise of the area within a tantalisingly close reach.
It may bring closer the realisation that Germany must get its labour-market incentives right, for instance by adopting more widely and strictly another British labour policy, pioneered by America: workfare, when welfare benefits are paid only if recipients engage in some activity, such as a training programme or a socially useful job.
And I smiled with pride to be part of a human race that at a time of so much negativity and gloom could bring about the realisation of Dr Martin Luther King Jnr's dream; a dream that the content of our characters would be more important than superficial differences.
Without wishing to detract from Perry's ordeal - four nights in a cell, not knowing what the future holds could not have been fun - it does bring home the realisation that in Zimbabwe one is dealing with a something of a Ruritania.
However, these actions may simultaneously bring about the realisation of other goals along the way.
