That was brutally clear as soon as they left those protective walls behind.

Their own memories were brutally clear, she believed.

The allegation that the Liberals were selling honours in return for political contributions was brutally clear.

These early months gave him a brutally clear idea of what lay ahead.

Everything in my memory of the day that Catherine was killed is just... brutally clear.

The vision was brutally clear: he had to wonder at the clarity of it.

Seen in the flesh, the cause of the war was brutally clear.

But the earthquake made brutally clear that, however remarkable their talents, these architects are operating on a very thin veneer.

The ghastly tangle of wreckage was brutally clear, but at least the bodies had been omitted.

The totalitarian system taught them in brutally clear terms about the corrupting and demoralizing effects of a government that refuses to tell the truth.