Sentences with phrase «mugged by reality»

Shultz urged leaders to follow Reagan's example by setting aside doubts and taking out a climate insurance policy before we get «mugged by reality.»

«All of those claims... have now been mugged by reality.

The acting leader was described by one Blairite MP as having been «mugged by reality».

But his plan was mugged by the reality that it didn't actually touch taxes for virtually any New Yorkers.

If a neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality, has Fish been «mugged by Satan,» so to speak, and gone theocon?

But we keep getting mugged by reality.

I always knew that Richard was one of those men who had been (in Irving Kristol's famous phrase) «mugged by reality» — who had begun on the left and, appalled by what he saw there, moved rightward.

JFK was clever enough to assign credit for his policy mix to his assistants, but the documentary record is clear that his CEA got mugged by reality and overruled by its president.

Not exact matches

«You can be that sheep who pushes their earbuds in and wanders around planning on being surrounded by nothing but flowers all day long, but the reality is people get mugged, kidnapped and harmed every day.

Her dreams of becoming part of his life become a reality when Lucy sees Peter getting mugged and falling onto the tracks unconscious, whereupon she saves him from certain death by moving him out of harm's way just in the nick of time.

Reynolds mugs effectively in his fat suit (especially in his lip - sync of All -4-One's «I Swear,» positioned by director Roger Kumble to be the film's bookends), but Chris» transformation from «dweeb» to Reynolds» trademark slick asshole is strictly a movie «reality,» and Chris» reactions to plot turns are the gestures of an insane man, an idiot, or both.

Essentially, the IPCC's long denial of non-catastrophic warming has been mugged by climate change reality.