Sentence examples for troubled reality from inspiring English sources
In what may serve as a cautionary tale for other cities in the developing world, Salvador's rising prosperity, on display in new shopping malls, sprawling megachurches and well-guarded gated communities, exists alongside a troubled reality.
The troubled reality of Northern Ireland has been central to drama, poetry, fiction, and the visual arts.
They were considering a second cover in a row on the troubled reality show couple, the Gosselins.
He said the roughly $440 million in charges and loan loss provisions reflect neither the troubled reality of the mortgage securities markets nor the size of E*Trade's portfolio.
Barrymore's roles as a teenager took on a harder edge, perhaps motivated by the troubled reality of her adolescence; as she discussed in her autobiography Little Girl Lost (1990), by age 13 she had to seek treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.
He's also preparing to shoot a new thriller, Suspension of Disbelief, about a writer's troubled relationship with reality.
The dream, then — the workable, pragmatic dream of a man troubled by lived reality — is a regulated hunting industry in which operators steward the land while catering to a Western taste for blood.
The Mayor's obsession with eradicating the unpleasant comportment and vaguely threatening behavior that he called "visible signs of a city out of control" suggested to some that he might be overly concerned with the appearance of chaos in affluent areas, and insufficiently troubled by its reality in poor ones.
And after my little assignment, I was even more troubled by the reality that food prices force many individuals and families to have to choose between eating (at all) or nutrition.
This creates a mental image for me of noble savages, of a simple, "pure" society that isn't, you know, troubled by the realities of the world for the rest of us; the old "first world problems" slang term strikes again.
The reality, like troubled, Ford-owned Volvo itself, is more globalised and gloomy than that.
