The sight of the Holbeck Hall hotel crashing over the East Coast cliffs in June is dramatic reminder of the damage the sea can do.
The stories of students at various campuses in the Maricopa district are a dramatic reminder of the changing face of American education.
Last year there was a dramatic reminder that defense laboratories face a continuing threat.
The rape of a comatose young woman in a nursing home near Rochester, N.Y., is a dramatic reminder of the abuses that often plague these facilities.
Rats serve as a dramatic visual reminder - spread through services like YouTube - in a way that unwashed hands and flies cannot.
But until then, cloudbursts are going to remain a dramatic reminder of the invisible complexity of the air we breathe, and how little control we have over it.
It's one of the most dramatic reminders how varied Texas is and how quickly one region blends into another.
(This story is a dramatic reminder of the difference between the Journal's news and editorial pages.)
The air remained cold enough that Liet could see his own breath, a dramatic reminder of how much moisture left his lungs each time he exhaled.
It was a dramatic reminder of a life that spanned the history of modern Israel.