The car alarm comes as a rude reminder that this is a city of sound.

It was then that her stomach provided her with another rude reminder.

The wake had become an awakening for me, a rude reminder of my own mortality.

On Tuesday, the chancellor got a rude reminder of his predicament.

For us, 2000 will come as a jolt, a rude reminder that we are indeed getting on in years.

This case was a rude reminder that his careful self-presentation comes with a price.

A few months ago, the society rained the camp with eviction notices, a rude reminder that the residents did not own the land.

They need frequent, even rude, reminders about who employs whom.

The computer problems are also a rude reminder of the days before the nascent industry helped invigorate a stagnating economy.

That body, if made public, would be a rude reminder of how all fantasies of immortality meet reality in the end.