Sentence examples for striking reality from inspiring English sources

There are a dozen or more moments of striking reality that have nothing to do with blood and guts.

The striking reality of carnage ("sores growing like coral"), observations of the ordinary (a "blue daisy of gas" under a pan), and Foulds's sober delivery are special.

"Breath, Boom," a stark drama about gang girls, won praise for its "striking reality" from Bruce Weber in The New York Times.

Not only because it's important, and our ho-hum response so far belies the striking reality that the Defense Department believes they're closer than we knew, but also because the continued hunt for nonhuman intelligent life, amid all the uncertainty, is part of what makes us human.

In ironic fashion, Romney has tapped into the striking reality of how we now view war: We are okay with it -- so long as someone else fights it.

New Delhi, India -- India's in the midst of a rolling series of state elections, and one striking reality is that the voters Thomas Frank wishes Kansas possessed -- keenly focused on how those who govern them impact their own lives -- are found here by the scores.

But such were the striking realities of wartime Washington.

The photograph is striking, but the reality behind it may be more so.

In a 1983 review in The New York Times of Mr. Wilson's play "Our Lord of Lynchville," Mel Gussow described him as "a satiric fantasist, often creating bizarre and anachronistic worlds that bear a striking resemblance to reality once removed".

"Still Life with Mirror," a striking merger of reality and illusion, shows the doors and stoops along one of Rome's cool, stony streets reflected in a dresser mirror, where it almost looks like a painting.

In this example, the motif was so striking that, in reality, use of SLiMFinder did not add much value to the manual interpretation, except for a degree of statistical support for identified motif.