But then comes the reality check, the acknowledgement that there simply are not that many glamorous clubs out there who would either be inclined or able to take the player on.
The study also highlights the unfortunate reality that despite acknowledgement of the importance of CEA and interest in learning to conduct it, very few health care actors in Uganda have sufficient exposure to CEA for these methods to impact policy.
But to say that the change is simply an acknowledgement of reality misses the point.
Meanwhile, as the government in Baghdad has drifted deeper into dysfunction, Biden's old notion of a federal, decentralized Iraq has gone from a radical proposal to a blunt acknowledgement of reality.
But Perry's statement is more than just an acknowledgement of reality.
Sadly, for the nattering nabobs of negativism, ideological rigidity trumps any acknowledgement of reality.
"This is an acknowledgement of reality, four years into the conflict," said Julien Barnes-Dacey, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations in London.
"To me, the idea that an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement may not be possible is simply an acknowledgement of reality," said Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. peace negotiator now a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
She calls for a reality check and for acknowledgement that some childcare arrangements may be far from their cultural ideal.
It was a final stage of renunciation, an acknowledgement of the reality of passing time and strength and life.
OPEC's production cut, in fact, is little more than an acknowledgement of the reality that supply is currently too high to maintain even the current price level.
