Sentence examples for devastating reality from inspiring English sources

Hoover, a suburb of Birmingham, is home to the Buccaneers, a superb high school football team and the subject of an understated but obscurely devastating reality series that continues tonight with its third episode on MTV.

They range from Charles Chauvel's Jedda (1955), the first Australian feature shot in colour, to Fred Schepisi's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), which played a part in shaping debate around racial relations, to Warwick Thornton's devastating reality check Samson and Delilah (2009).

But these statistics hide the devastating reality of the number of services for vulnerable women being shut.

But we were left with the devastating reality that we had lost 295 members of our corporate family.

For the young man, Tarang Chawla, who since his sister's brutal death has become a survivor advocate, it's a devastating reality.

I felt well-versed in the subject, well‑read on the political situation, but nothing had prepared me for the devastating reality of visiting the West Bank.

And it's really about how we deal with the devastating realities that await us as the result of climate change.

But our corps members are also face to face with the devastating realities of a community that has lost so much and had to struggle for control over its own destiny.

The rise in rough sleeping is devastating – the realities of life on the streets are truly horrific: the average age of death of a homeless people is just 47, which is 30 years lower than the general population, while people who sleep rough are far more likely to be dependent on drugs or alcohol or to suffer from mental illness than the general population.

In each instance, the movie's titular protagonist, played by Saoirse Ronan, is forced to reckon with the devastating incongruity between reality and the fantasies we conjure of love.

Their reality is devastating.