brutal reality

collocation in English

meaningsofbrutalandreality

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brutal
adjective
uk
/ˈbruː.təl/us
/ˈbruː.t̬əl/
cruel, violent, and completely ...
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reality
noun
uk
/riˈæl.ə.ti/us
/riˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the state of things as they are, rather than as they are imagined ...
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(Definition ofbrutalandrealityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thebrutalrealityis that the key parts of the mutual movement have been in serious decline for a long time.
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During the 1980s as that crisis deepens, it will be forced more and more to reveal itself in all its arrogant andbrutalreality.
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This puts the situation not only inbrutalrealitybut also in brutal terms.
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But thebrutalrealityis that we are unable at present to provide for ourselves and our citizens the social background which we all desire.
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Those astonishing figures expose thebrutalrealityof the position.
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Again, abrutalrealityis that there is a need for pest control in the last resort in order to safeguard the position of our species.
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Instead, we must face thebrutalreality.
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That is thebrutalreality.
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It captures thebrutalrealityof oppression against dalits and peoples struggle.
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The episode showed thebrutalrealityof addiction....
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Playing a role helped actors forget thebrutalrealityof their situation and provided a temporary escape from the hunger and oppression that characterized imprisonment.
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He tries and ultimately fails to reconcile his humanistic ideals with thebrutalrealityof forced labor in an imperial system.
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