He stared at her as though wishing he could make some dreadful reality disappear.

"Suspicion, if not proven or not true, was worse than the dreadful reality," Sickles cautioned while investigating his wife's infidelity with the District Attorney.

It was filled now with an ache that he knew would only worsen as the dreadful reality gradually set in.

What remains invisible to most of the world is the dreadful day-to-day reality behind those searing televised images - the daily lives of the Iraqi noncombatants.

The dreadful reality struck Tom so hard that he reeledon his perch.

This dreadful reality did not sink in until I was almost out of high school.

She desperately wished that she were asleep and by pinching herself could wake, up to a simpler, less dreadful reality.

They were both aware of these realities as keenly as of the dreadful reality that waited on the fourth floor of the hospital.

I hope that it will help the open minded understand the dreadful realities that many disabled and very ill people are currently facing.

The dreadful, unexpected reality of America's desertion of Chinese human rights is known to prisoners in the torture cells; count on it.