51.   It entertained the packed playhouse but did not skirt around the grim reality of a helpless creature trapped in a cage.

52.   It is also a day to acknowledge the grim reality that no press freedom exists in about two-thirds of the countries in the world.

53.   Supporters argued that it merely presented the grim reality of the inner-city.

54.   Their jovial manner belied the grim reality of war.

55.   When he began painting four years ago, it was only as an escape from grim reality, not a way to curry favor.

56.   For them, in-house running water is the exception, electricity iffy and sanitation-related disease -- such as cholera -- a grim reality.

57.   On the campaign trail, the fiery nationalist rhetoric looks like election razzamatazz, but the grim reality behind it is being unearthed at mass graves around Bosnia.