Sentence examples for face of reality from inspiring English sources

"That's flying in the face of reality to make that statement, isn't it?" Mr Fitzgerald said.

To say the economy is at a standstill is to fly in the face of reality.

It flies in the face of reality to criticize Mrs. Merkel for providing "little leadership" on vital issues.

Strategic planning leads us to make things happen that fly full in the face of reality and opportunity.

Normally there's an inscription saying that you should be optimistic and laugh in the face of reality".

While healthy people tend to maintain unrealistic optimism in the face of reality challenging their beliefs, depressed people show systematic pessimism.

The series finale wasn't as loaded with one-liners as the show's average episode, but then it had to make room for sociological comment and a few slaps-in-the-face of reality.

HEFFERNAN -- There's comedy in the ambivalence that goes over the faces of reality characters.

Revealed in full, the voice is quintessentially Stritchian and expresses a sad, determined, dry-eyed facing of reality.

It's about the lonely facing of realities and disappointments".

The old philosophical certainties have collapsed in the face of the reality of needless suffering.