Her fantasy family simply loses all contact with increasingly ugly realities.

It was necessary for me to reconstruct my philosophy of life, to cope with the ugly new reality.

It was a lie, an illusion to cover the ugly reality.

But the color and beauty of these murals do not hide the ugly reality.

But there was no need to remind anyone of that ugly reality; best not to dwell on it.

Once war became the ugly reality of blood and death, fewer men wanted to enlist.

The President ignored an ugly reality that was not politically convenient.

Do we really have to expose him to this ugly reality now?

As senior executives review their companies' results for the year, they are facing an ugly reality.

It is a reaction to an ugly reality in our lives.