Sentences with phrase «realized upon waking»

Not exact matches

Upon waking the following morning at our corporate apartment, we realized we were late for a very important date with Paine Webber (today's UBS Paine Webber).

At the end of an exhausting trip to the Big Fair, Phillip falls asleep, and upon waking up at home, he realizes something has gone very wrong: Brock isn't in the car!

(It makes for a better story if Cora upon escaping the plantation at first thinks she has found freedom, but then «wakes up» to realize it is an illusion, and moves on, into something even worse...) All of these different experiences of racism, so well described by Edie, were not specific to any one state, but rather, they are all forms of racism that have existed in the South, and some of them in the North too, at different time periods — and all have their counterparts in our lives today.