Sentence examples for facing of reality from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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

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

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

The finding that Croatian forces indiscriminately shelled civilians "flies in the face of reality, and no witness testified to that," Mr. Kehoe said.

Gelb's contention that pro-Likud Jewish and Christian evangelical forces had little to do with the current Iraq fiasco also flies in the face of reality.

This week reminded us that the government's default narratives on welfare spending and government debt and deficit falter in the face of reality.

In 1999, Chancellor Rudy Crew announced another drive to "end social promotion" that quickly had to be modified in the face of reality.

But the general rule does not apply here, and the only deference expected now is that which President Bush owes in the face of reality.