There was no sensation but grief at the awful reality before him.

Even fear can make no one immune to that awful reality.

Inevitably, you are forced to compare the awful reality of what is happening with the ideal view of it.

I watched Dave's face become a mask and his eyes retreat into the past, blotting out the awful reality.

He had always had a secret fear of underground places and now they were manifesting themselves into awful reality.

Threatening to pull her under and away from this awful reality.

Making jokes helps us to deal with the awful reality.

And after a while when the awful reality of what had happened finally set in, she had begun to draw.

It could be argued that the images of dead and captured American forces were far more damaging than the awful reality they portrayed.

Pyongyang has long tried to deny this awful reality.