Sentence examples for clashed with reality from inspiring English sources

I was struck by the way some members could stick to partisan talking points even when they pretty obviously clashed with reality.

One possible culprit -- and something not explicitly addressed by the settlement -- was the fact that a companywide values statement clashed with reality in the area of customer service.

PSYCHOLOGISTS and Wall Street traders have long known it: people and markets act on perception, whether it clashes with reality or not.

Here, too, theory could clash with reality as the models of the sub-atomic world built up by physicists are tested.Perhaps the most controversial field of all is one after Darwin's own heart: the evolution of religion itself.

As the human and economic consequences of the Arab Spring become visible in Europe and politicians opportunistically warn of a wave of illegal immigration, political rhetoric is clashing with reality.

Our pond was square, and any illusion of landscape fomented by the toy cows and cottages on its cotton banks clashed with the reality of my own huge, freckled face looking up from it when I peeked in.

The Occupy Wall Street protests clashed with the reality of the cops, and has since mostly fizzled out.

Rousseau's insistence that mothers should breast-feed their children clashed with the realities of French life, where the employment of wet nurses was more common than in any other European country, and symbolized his program for a more "natural" style of life.

I traveled with Ms. Tarapor to Syria, where I watched her tirelessly cajole, plead and argue with ministers and museum directors, whose generosity and genuine desire to share their heritage and participate in the show clashed with political realities and longstanding distrust of the United States.

There could be little dispute with what he had to say, although much of the time his remarks clashed with the harsh realities of international politics.

Asylum seekers are not the only ones to feel their idea of Denmark has clashed rudely with reality.