cold fact

He was unaware of his popularity abroad, which partly stemmed from bootlegged copies of his album Cold Fact circulating in South Africa, where it been adopted as an unofficial soundtrack to youth protests against apartheid.

If there’s a theme or a storyline that the network wants to advance, no matter how objectively stupid it may be—fearsome migrant caravans approaching our southern border; transgender college athletes leading America into turpitudinous doom; Donald Trump being a good man and a great president—you can generally count on that theme recurring every hour on the network until it starts to seem like cold fact.

Whoever or whatever you blame, that is the cold fact.

The cracks remain unexplained; the cold fact of the matter is that the pool will have to close.

The past year slammed that lesson home for 99.9% of the world, as if we weren't already aware of that cold fact.