Shadow cabinet sceptics have mostly kept their doubts for private conversations in Brighton this week, cowed by defeat, humbled by the realisation of how much the party drifted away from its grassroots while Blair and Brown's New Labour was in office.
By full-time, Rangers' frustration at a scoreless draw would almost immediately be offset by the realisation of the bigger picture that has dismantled their season.
But other teams ought to be worried by the realisation of what Seattle can achieve, even when he is not playing well.
It would seem that the pessimistic sentiments of a few months ago have been renewed and this has perhaps been driven by a realisation of the true impact of the cuts announced in the emergency budget.
Some argue that the regime's U-turn was forced by the realisation of the Egyptian military that their vast commercial interests were being harmed by the ban; others argue that the closure had the counter-productive effect of encouraging even more people on to the streets to find out what was going on.
Even the passages of play where nothing much happened, as when Ian Bell was doughtily gathering the singles that would send England trickling towards their second innings lead, were suffused with unbearable tension – a tension, perhaps, produced by the realisation of everyone present that England are not quite as good as everyone thought they were, and Australia nowhere near as bad.
But despite all the beautiful people, sex dolls and spectacular fetish performances, I was actually struck most by the realisation of how different the experience of attending a porn convention must be for male and female performers.
According to Kingdon, early optimism and awareness of the need for change is often replaced by the realisation of the costs of action [ 21].
We were initially motivated to investigate the molecular basis of RecX function by the realisation of functional similarities in the ability of RecX and the BRC repeat sequences of the breast cancer susceptibility protein BRCA2 to disassemble nucleoprotein filaments.
Even at just eight years old, Thomas was going through an existential crisis, brought on by the dualistic realisation of the mind-body split.
