In these dry Texan flatlands, the overwhelming realities are the sky and the road.

That is because of a sobering truth about the television business: failure is not just an option, it's the overwhelming reality.

The overwhelming reality of the Five Points, and the one thing that all observers seem to have gotten right, was the misery.

The new government had to abandon its election promises to cut taxes in the light of overwhelming economic realities.

The currents of politics and history swirl through the film, but they are no longer overwhelming realities.

That was a retreat in the face of overwhelming political reality, but it does not mean that reform is dead.

The overwhelming reality of so many companies," he said, "is that you can't raise prices.

And then there is the reality of white power, still overwhelming in money and weapons.

"The overwhelming reality is that all parts of the region are in the same boat," he said.