Rafalski also saw how those three defensemen sacrificed their bodies in the playoffs, especially Stevens, who was feared by opponents for his brutal checks, but who accepted whatever damage he incurred rather than trying to get even and being banished to the penalty box.
Because the last thing you want to do is put an extremely fragile violin into the vagaries of the mysteriously brutal checked luggage system.
The final and most brutal reality check for him came last Saturday, when he made his County debut at Morecambe.
Like Gatsby himself, a country known for its cheery optimism is coming to terms with a brutal reality check.
Every time the market feels confident that choppy seas in international markets have calmed, Wall Street gets hit by another brutal reality check.
Spain may have dropped below England in the Fifa rankings since the World Cup, they are now ninth to England's sixth, but under new coach Luis Enrique they were by far the more accomplished team for long periods, inflicting a brutal reality check on the progress Southgate's side has made.
On Townhall, there's "Brutal Fact Check: 'Four Pinocchios' for Ocasio-Cortez on Ludicrous Single-Payer HeaLudicrous Single-Payer
A remarkable change occurs, however, when it comes to a brutal body check delivered in a timely manner to an opposing player who has touched the puck.
In his recent article on The Huffington Post, Peter Greene delivered a brutal reality check on what it's like to have one's professional life tyrannized by Teacher Time.
it's quite a brutal reality-check if you cross the line and haven't done what you thought you would".
In 2014, Wired magazine picked up on Facebook's outsourced army of moderators in the developing world, who checked brutal footage against site guidelines, in return for $500£40000) a month, and little or no support to cope with the inevitable burnout and trauma.
