Sentence examples for harsh reality checks from inspiring English sources

The messages in many of his shows are harsh reality checks of his mentor's pie-in-the-sky optimism.

"A lot of independent films are harsh reality checks," Plaza says, "but this is an independent film with a blockbuster feeling".

While this hate crime is intolerable, it is also a harsh reality check.

Seriously misleading someone is obviously wrong, but so is flooring someone with an unnecessarily harsh reality check.

A harsh reality check Three months on, sitting in a rented flat in London, Wheeldon seems his usual, relaxed self.

Kenneth Mubu, shadow economic minister for the opposition Democratic Alliance, described it as a "harsh reality check for our government" and called for a parliamentary debate.

After a blistering start (five wins from the first six matches) the nine-match winless streak that followed was a harsh reality check.

But there are hollows in his cheeks that weren't, I think, there when he launched Morphoses three years ago – and he admits that the experience turned out to be a "harsh reality check".

At his best, Motlop is a damaging line breaker and team-mate Tom Hawkins believes he is committed to returning to the club in peak fitness after the harsh reality check.

Others saw it as yet another harsh reality check.

It was a harsh reality check for a bright-eyed almost doctor.