It was a real awakening for Tel." She hesitated.

Then, my vision of the hall of dragons, and now this real awakening to a worse reality.

"It's been a real awakening for the toy industry," Ms. Souza said.

"Do you think we're going to need that kind of real awakening, or are we fully alerted to this danger now?"

This is a real awakening of consciousness.

"That was a real awakening to me," she said.

There was a real awakening when the dancers started to acquire some of the freedom Balanchine always encouraged.

"My real intellectual awakening had come in the 60's," he told me.

Lang was most strongly influenced by Caird, who gave the boy's mind "its first real awakening".

But was it a real awakening?