Sentence examples for inconvenient reality from inspiring English sources

The Riot Club acknowledges this inconvenient reality, equipping its brutish reprobates with superhuman intellectual skills.

And a dispute over how to handle inconvenient reality threatens to make Europe the flashpoint of a new financial crisis.

For a long time, however, this inconvenient reality could be largely "outsourced" by the most powerful countries.

I knew then that he could not possibly see me, the inconvenient reality of me; instead, all he saw was himself in an exciting game.

A habit of ignoring inconvenient reality, and presuming that the docile media will go along, soon infects all aspects of policy.

Brainard's work, which often arranges into tart collage the stock images from a fifties childhood, is partly about managing the somewhat inconvenient reality of his survivable past: plausible parents, some artsy friends, zero tragedy.

Textbook economics overlooks such inconvenient realities.

They get to propose solutions that ignore inconvenient realities.

Kristof and WuDunn's insistence that women are fighting sexist oppression in developing countries leads them to deny certain inconvenient realities about the American right.

Or are Americans, as they have been in Kosovo and Bosnia and perhaps now in Afghanistan, turning away from the inconvenient realities of ethnic and religious differences, the depth of animosities, of struggles for power and territory?

/ v.i., usually with a hyphen / To downsize in the face of inconvenient realities intruding into pampered lives [see also: nillionaire], e.g., "Her idea of de-luxing is washing her own hair for the first time in 20 years and buying three furs at a sample sale".