City officials acknowledged that the city's ownership was an uncomfortable reality to confront.

Jeske's platform includes challenging students to face uncomfortable realities that result from guns in schools.

It is an uncomfortable reality for Thomas, who aggressively revamped the roster last year, with promises of better things to come.

Why not deal with such uncomfortable realities by stating them directly?

He urges clients to discard outdated assumptions and face up to uncomfortable new realities.

And behind that support is another uncomfortable reality.

Of course, he was to some extent screened from the uncomfortable reality.

In other states, politicians have simply hidden from uncomfortable financial reality, emulating their Washington-based cousins.

The uncomfortable reality is that while the board and the chancellor are responsible for educating a million schoolchildren, the mayor provides the money.

After too many years of living an economic illusion, we must confront our uncomfortable reality.