Sentence examples for confronted the reality from inspiring English sources

Consumers and professional forecasters have cast off the last remnants of economic optimism, reports showed on Friday, as they confronted the reality of a long and deep recession.

She finally managed the difficult work of kicking the drug habit and confronted the reality of her behavior and her H.I.V. status.

But the candidate blanched, as if he had not quite confronted the reality that within 130 hours he could be the governor-elect.

Truman, who had written in his diary in late July that "military objectives and soldiers and sailors" were the target of the atomic bomb, "not women and children," apparently confronted the reality of the weapon for the first time.

He has said that he wants to protect civilians from Qaddafi's brutality through a limited military engagement from the air, but has not confronted the reality that those civilians were at risk because they tried to topple Qaddafi and failed, and thus will be at risk so long as Qaddafi remains in power and has any freedom of action.

This promising experiment in co-operation between the public and private realms is so young that it's only just confronted the reality of bureaucratic, difficult, stubborn details. "You know that saying about what is too good to be true, is?" asks Finn.

In his practice and in his writing, Mr. Shernoff confronted the realities of homosexual life with bluntness and compassion.

In their first meeting since their umbrella organization was created in Doha, Qatar, on Nov. 11, coalition delegates confronted the realities of the political terrain.

This documentary follows my first few months of parenthood — as my wife, Magda, and I confronted the realities of our new life.

Langston Hughes lived in what were difficult times for black Americans and he confronted the realities of racism in his work.

A nation at war should confront the reality of war.