1.   A momentary complacency that was quickly dispelled by the shock of cold reality.

2.   Yet in the very same instant the warm flutter died away to be replaced by the weight of cold reality.

3.   Anderson knows the cold reality of professional sports than most.

4.   Babbitt may have thought he could trust a longtime friend by leveling with him and sharing a cold political reality.

5.   Beyond the hoopla, however, is cold economic reality.

6.   But however much benefit comes from these cross-promotions, they can hardly insulate the company from the cold realities of the market.

7.   But in ways big and small, the Washington of cold municipal reality is falling apart.

8.   But people had long been mired in the cant, and cold reality, of sacrifice.

9.   But there is a cold reality to the National Football League.

10.   Call it the cold reality of life in Canada after growing up in the warm climate of Lagos, Nigeria, and spending the previous two decades in Houston.