However, legends have more impact on people than the hard realities of history.

The don has scored a telling point, and brought everyone very much back to cold hard reality.

There is a cold, hard reality that must be accepted here.

That's the cold hard reality that anyone in a creative industry has to face.

This is an extremely hard reality but it must be faced.

Because nothing was ever fulfilled, she found, except in the hard limited reality.

Some hard economic realities still lie in the way, however.

Nevertheless, the system is taking on hard reality in this remote town.

I'm sure it looked great at the negotiating table, but the hard reality was that a lot of people had to leave their homes.