hard fact

I am sure the 2020 election will start to feel less topical as time passes, but this belief—treated as a hard fact, conclusive evidence of the deep state’s power—will continue to be cited as evidence, alongside fresh new examples of villainy, as a reason to distrust all facets of a functional government.

That hard fact has not improved my already dismal assessment of human nature.

“From my conversations with a lot of people from around the country, it has moved to DeSantis. It is a cold, hard fact.”

To learn even something as simple as to water the roots of a plant rather than its leaves was not to be dealt the harsh reality of a cold hard fact, but rather to be let into a secret.

The man offered no further details, but the exchange illustrates a hard fact of life for many residents in these farm towns: Rural parts of the San Joaquin Valley have become some of the most violent places in California, with a bustling drug trade and among the highest rates of murder and lowest rates of solving murders.