Sentence examples for stinging reality from inspiring English sources

A delicately regal grande dame, once a famous Kyoto beauty, becomes one of Downer's most valuable acquaintances, but first delivers a stinging reality check.

The speech marks a departure from her more watery (if also pleasant) previous public addresses by publicly – and personally – acknowledging the stinging reality of black women's uniquely perilous journey.

INDIANAPOLIS — The gap between expectations and reality stung hard, leaving Carmelo Anthony to split the difference Saturday night in his final postgame soliloquy of the season.

So to many of us, this week's Human Rights Watch report outlining just how many of the foiled terrorist conspiracies were, in reality, sting operations conducted by our own government – well, that came as no surprise.

The reality stung for a moment.

In reality, sting operations regularly cross the line into entrapment.

Insecthood, for his victim, is a phantasmal extension of his own multifaceted idea of himself: as immigrant outcast, seething sensualist, Dostoevskian Underground Man, undetectable thief, future inheritor of the earth, agent of exposure among the hypocritical bourgeoisie and all-round connoisseur of the tang and sting of reality.

Latest to feel the sting of reality on their cheek is Mota.

It's a lot easier to add features than it is to take them away, and all of those who signed up for the service with the expectation of unfettered movie access for a low monthly fee are starting to feel the sting of reality.

With Denver's victory Sunday over Cleveland, the Jets' playoff hopes officially ended, and the bitterness of that reality still stings Edwards.

Stinging and tickling.