| 单词 | unreality |
| 例句 | And even that mad unreality failed to bring her to her senses. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I followed him, filled with a sense of Jack's outrageous unreality. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was a hollowness to all the accounts, an echo of unreality. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Just how she came to her senses, she never knew—but it was like passing from a world of misty unreality to one of harsh sunlight. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Wind whistling up through the jagged gash in the floor kept the myriad bits of paper circulating like alabaster particles in a paperweight and contributed to a sensation of lacquered, waterlogged unreality. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z There was an air of unreality to it all, as if the situation would somehow, someway, magically fix itself. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt a moment of curious suspension, as when you have been awake for a long time you have certain moments of unreality, of numbness, of the beginning of sleep. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The air was charged with unreality, as if she would certainly wake up in a minute. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She was in the air, and the dreamlike unreality of floating warred with the gruesome truth beneath her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Evil’s an unreality if you take a couple of grammes.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He would never break his triple promise, and he heard his own taunts with a sense of unreality. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z All the same, the sense of unreality didn’t leave her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I sat forward in my chair, suddenly conscious of the unreality of the conversation. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a strange air of unreality about the luncheon, and looking back upon it now it is invested for me with a curious glamour. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Every move I make is sodden with unreality. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A certain sleepiness seemed to precede the battle, a quality of haze, of unreality, of dust in the air, dust in the haze. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A kind of numbness and a sense of complete unreality were upon him, but he did not care; he was even glad of it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It was this unreality of character, this cartoonishness if you will, which was the secret of his appeal and what finally made his death so sad. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Another voice told him not to be a fool; and the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist's chair unreality. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I looked at them, fighting a sense of unreality. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z You might think there would have been an air of unreality about us being like that, but it didn’t seem strange at the time. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He was astonished himself, and stepped forth with a sense of unreality. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Little by little, however, and as the war became more intense and widespread, his image was fading away into a universe of unreality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But Turner, feeling a familiar unreality taking hold, could not discount the possibility that the woman was possessed of certain powers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In nighttime “reveries,” Gatsby embroidered his story, convincing himself “of the unreality of reality.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at them, fighting a sense of unreality. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to burn feeling back into him, dispelling the numbness and sense of unreality, firing him with something that was like courage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z For Eliot "our social novels profess to represent the people as they are, and the unreality of their representations is a grave evil". Novels don't need to be 'nice' 2010-10-19T10:46:00Z On the contrary, it is the very heart of society's real unreality, capable of infinitely executing itself, and endlessly dissimulating the absence of the real. "The Matrix" is basically a sci-fi "Office Space" 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z In a world increasingly lost to virtuality and unreality — the theater points to an antidote. An Antidote to Digital Dehumanization? Live Theater. 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Do you see the “fog of unreality” as similar to the idea of “false consciousness”? Not quite. “Democracy in Black”: A conversation about race in America with Eddie Glaude Jr. 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Cats faces a different challenge: can its deliberately stylised unreality let us in? Litter-ally terrifying: is Cats the creepiest film of the year? 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Anti-theatrical prejudice isn’t news; Plato banished theater from his republic because he felt it encouraged unreality. Is Theater Ridiculous? Movies, TV and Books Seem to Think So 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z But, more than that, to live with a child with a disability is to be both isolated — as this family is — and susceptible to what seems to others like an unreality. A Wheelchair on Broadway Isn’t Exploitation. It’s Progress. 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z When Dumbo accidentally gets drunk, he experiences this beautiful, dazzling musical celebration of unreality. Clip joint: the best film clips of drug trips 2010-05-19T13:11:00Z The shark in “Jaws” and the dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park” were made to look real, but even in its animated unreality, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” managed to scare a fair amount of viewers. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Those series didn’t create Trump, but maybe, I thought, they added to the air of sedation, of unreality and chaos, a sense that no one narrative is real. The Search for Pizzazz at the Impeachment Reality Show 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The diarist Harold Nicholson enjoyed visiting, but wrote that living there would be like living on the stage of the Scala theatre in Milan: "There is a ghastly unreality about it all." Cliveden's 'lost' maze restored by National Trust 2011-04-05T16:09:50Z “What they were doing was shrugging off unreality and becoming real by way of their bows,” he continued. The Curtain Call: Dip, Kiss or Curtsy? 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The effect is to emphasize the essential unreality of a play that has always been, in its own words, weird. ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Because it’s been a secret up until now, that maintains the sense of unreality. Will winning the MacArthur fellowship allow Lauren Redniss to give up her Murphy bed studio? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Then you walked over the threshold of cables into the unreality of DoSAC. The Thick of It: the agony of tight spaces 2012-08-26T19:00:00Z In “Sleepwalking in Venice,” Mlinko seems to describe how, in the midst of her own visit to that city, she found herself slipping into unreality: A Poet Who Looks at the Stuff of Daily Life and Sees Looming Apocalypse 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Not being there, though, gave his death a sense of unreality for her: “Sometimes I just think that we haven’t spoken for a long time.” Martyna Majok on Hoping for Magic, and Wishing for Ghosts 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Whenever you look behind any artist claiming to be authentic, you find the same story of invention, duplication, homage, unreality and indecipherability. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z It’s a compelling idea, and gives the mystery of her disappearance a sense of unreality. Connie Converse’s Time Has Come 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z This time, the strand of unreality is in the plot, in the physics of the world, with the existence of these doors. This Week in Fiction: Mohsin Hamid on the Migrants in All of Us 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Trump had been living in a land of unreality, and now he’s potentially living in a world of consequences. Perspective | Stormy Daniels and the bosom of chaos 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The booklet seemed to imply a not very convincing cartoon unreality. L.A. Phil's YOLA players are goodwill ambassadors near Fukushima 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z There's a clumsy jolt of unreality when the mods stream past a cinema showing Grease and Heaven Can Wait, both released in 1978: this is supposed to be 1965. Quadrophenia: Back when Britain's youngsters ran riot 2011-08-18T11:24:48Z But Tuesday night at Christie’s, Edward Hopper joined the unreality of today’s art market when his 1929 painting “Chop Suey” sold for $91.9 million, with fees, an auction high for the artist. Hopper Painting Sells for Record $91.9 Million at Christie’s 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Much of her material angles away from her actor persona and her celebrity power, a decision that burdens the performance with a preposterous unreality. “Growing,” Reviewed: What Amy Schumer Won’t Expose 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z “In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.” What Do Letters Reveal About the Creative Mind? 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The unreality is reinforced by Hollywood, much to the growing dismay of many obstetricians and gynecologists. Fertility Is a Matter of Age, No Matter How Young a Woman Looks 2011-08-31T20:39:17Z The absurdity seemed to paralyse Diane for a while; the unreality brought her to a point of near-apathy that has surely tempted many over the last 18 months. The Good Fight: in praise of Diane Lockhart, one of TV's greatest characters 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z “Professors as a class,” Holmes remarked, “dogmatize on unrealities.” Who Owns the American West? And Who Should Profit From It? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z It was an unreality that the audience at the first press screening rewarded with generous applause. Critic?s Notebook: Paris (and Cannes) in the Spring, Through Woody Allen?s Eyes 2011-05-12T21:13:58Z Their pictures were in step with the emerging digital revolution: bodies verging on science fiction – among their acknowledged influences – expressed the quest for physical perfection and the growing unreality of human relations on the net. Digital revolution: Dutch exhibition looks back on 25 years in photo-fiction 2010-07-13T12:59:00Z Of course, protests, riots and happenings can produce their own form of unreality. Ed Ruscha’s stunning Sunset Strip art project lets you tour its full length, east to west — and back in time 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Sattouf’s “cartoony” style alone — his characters have potatoes for noses and peas for eyes — conveys a sense of both reality and unreality. Review: In ‘The Arab of the Future 2,’ Back to Syria in 1984 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z In the 1980s the term emerged as a Signifier of Seriousness with incantory power over capital pundits akin to that of “Simpson-Bowles” today — and with the same air of unreality. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z Scenes like these showcase Lisa Hanawalt’s meditative, conceptual animations of the internal struggles these characters endure bleeding additional unreality into the fantasy land of Hollywood. "BoJack Horseman": Can this dark horse find light at the end of the race? 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z The temptation is to elude this labour by "making things up", by escaping into faux-realities or unrealities that are the unmediated projections of the subjective self. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z Poulenc treats Cocteau's text as devastatingly emotional, sung speech, rising only to lyric song when Elle becomes nostalgic, lyricism meant as an even more devastating state of unreality. Suzan Hanson brings immediacy, authenticity to Long Beach Opera's 'La Voix Humaine' 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z It demonstrates, he says, “the full extent of the terrifying lust for unreality that has engulfed us all.” Review | Ayad Akhtar’s play ‘Disgraced’ won a Pulitzer Prize. Now ‘Homeland Elegies’ shows what that success cost him. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Reality and unreality, the invented world of television and the real world are exchanging roles. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z On the former, it appears that the unreality of reality television is enough of a part of the genre to be a central ingredient of its DNA. Reality or “Reality”?: Should NBC’s Olympics Coverage Be More Straightforward? 2012-08-08T12:00:20Z For many people it represents their most intense experience of unreality, yet it occurs at the most intimately humdrum level of life. Book Review Podcast: 'Leaving Before the Rains Come' 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z I think we do ourselves a disservice where we kind of inflate each other's egos to the point of unreality. 2010-02-04T07:50:00Z But its 78 inbound trails loped and dipped with the same pleasing unreality of Vail or Steamboat. ‘Snow Snow Snow’ at Jay Peak, Stowe and Stratton in Vermont 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Taking all of this into account, which most people won't, "Indian Matchmaking" is still as undeniably appealing as any series operating on a similar level of unreality, such as "The Bachelor" or "The Bachelorette." Remember, "Indian Matchmaking" is as much of a entertainment fable as all of romance reality 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z “I live with such a sense of unreality as if I were standing like a spectator beside my own fate,” she writes. W. G. Sebald and the Emigrants 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z While Choi was interested in the possible unreality of her characters, Hall’s theme in “Trinity” turns out to be the cast’s irreducible mysteriousness. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z He is well known for producing tension-filled, figurative scenes that often seem to slip into unreality. An unassuming storefront. A major museum. A collaboration that takes museum art to the people of L.A. 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Cassie and her mom stand together in this unreality and share meaningful time in a way they're unable to in real life. "The Flight Attendant" recap: But what about Carol? 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z The liminal space between presence and absence, reality and unreality, is often where the literature of fear unfolds — a place called the “uncanny.” The Horror Novel Lurking in Your Busy Online Life 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z There is a shimmer of unreality; perhaps it is magic unrealism. Silent Souls – review 2012-06-21T20:50:01Z The costumes are Victorian, but there’s a pervasive sense of out-of-time unreality. A Hotbed of Operatic Innovation Wins With Tradition 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Readers who prefer more virulent strains of unreality will appreciate the sneaky mind games of Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl,” a thriller rooted in the portrait of a tricky and troubled marriage. Books of The Times: ‘Granddad, There’s a Head on the Beach’ and Other Summer Reads 2012-05-24T22:43:29Z And then there was one new element, which was the unreality of the romance that can’t happen again, and is therefore perfect in your mind. Robert and Michelle King on ‘The Good Wife’ 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Sultan's best photographs capture or – to be more precise – re-create the abiding unreality of his adopted Californian homeland. Photography books of the year 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z Lovely as it was, it had an air of unreality. Review: The Mezzo-Soprano Anne Sofie von Otter at the Frick Collection 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z But nothing seemed right for this moment of uncertainty verging on unreality. Can’t Sleep? Let Stephen King Keep You Company 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Ultimately the unreality of the pop-culture cheerleader seems to reflect a deep-seated cultural yearning. Megan Abbott on Cheerleaders in Pop Culture 2012-07-27T15:27:38Z In this situation, an actor’s mispronunciation on opening night of Kalashnikov, the Russian-made rifle, was just another bit of unreality. Good acting can’t save ‘Now Comes the Night’ at 1st Stage 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z In its pulpy way the show evokes a sort of neither-here-nor-there feeling that seems widespread now in the developed world, a chronic sense of unreality. Arts & Leisure: ?Mirror Mirror,? ?Grimm? and Hollywood Love for Fairy Tales 2012-03-21T12:00:11Z Bowie responds that he doesn't care if the Lou Reed he talked to was a phony; the unreality is sometimes a better reality. Wretched David Bowie biopic "Stardust" should be launched into the sun 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z In the end, who are these fabulous unrealities hurting? "Pose" kicks off its final fabulous walk by ratcheting up the nonsense as well as its optimism 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z You begin the book by writing about a “fog of unreality.” “Democracy in Black”: A conversation about race in America with Eddie Glaude Jr. 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z And it can, in such a way that from a distance they pass for paper cutouts, giving all the scenery around them an eerie unreality. For David Smith, Sculptor and Painter, a Happy Equilibrium in White 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z He might well be a pop star on and off the road; more than one song places him among the luxuries and seductive unreality of Los Angeles. Behind the Cartoon Gorillaz, Damon Albarn Is a Man Alone 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z The very fact that “The Bachelorette” is the height of unreality made me cringe, and curious, at the thought of Rachel Lindsay descending into this set designed cave of testosterone and silk ties. A suitor on “The Bachelorette” is revealed to be . . . possibly racist 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Which brings us to the often delirious yet discomforting unreality of most museum exhibitions devoted to high fashion. Art Review: American Style at the Met and the Brooklyn Museum 2010-05-06T22:29:00Z “That kind of unreality that is propagated as reality is what people feel reminded of, and that’s why they keep coming back.” George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Is Suddenly a Best-Seller 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z “I wanted to try to cut through this sense of unreality and offer some definitions and descriptions of what we are living through.” Masha Gessen book, ”Surviving Autocracy,’ coming in June. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z I spoke with a few of the filmmaker’s collaborators, past and present, to understand what it takes to make his visions a reality — or an unreality, as the case may be. The Technical Stars Who Help Pull Off a Christopher Nolan Narrative 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z "The experience of being a soap character is pretty extreme, whereas serial drama strives to stay on the other side of that line from unreality," Fellowes says. From 'Dynasty' to 'Empire,' the prime-time soap has bubbled up again 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z This world’s puppet master pointedly goes unseen, meaning that the crystal-clear 3-D effects function more to set a mood of unreality. ‘The Bubble,’ Arch Oboler’s 1966 Sci-Fi Film 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Maybe the reality of theatrical fountains is the unreality of it, the glimpse of the fantastic. ‘Elton John of the fountain world’ shows just how far water features have come 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z It wasn’t a wan dreaminess, it was almost like a fierce upholding of unreality.” There?s Nothing Blue About Rachel Weisz 2012-03-15T13:48:06Z Yet in the first verse we also have the sense of Shelley being woken from the unreality of his life in Italy. Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z It is as funny as a Monty Python episode, and it wonderfully captures that uncanny feeling of scripted unreality that at one time or another befalls many of us citizens of the modern world. Art Review: Everyone?s 15 Minutes In a Culture of Celebrity 2011-01-13T22:44:50Z Yet his words suggest the opposite, and establish an atmosphere of unreality — what’s true, what’s false? — that will color the rest of the tour. Walid Raad’s Unreality Show Spins Middle Eastern History as Art 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z By 1957, the poet was noting that "the programme staggers on" but, crucially, continued to listen, later admitting that he was kept going by "The Archers and other forms of unreality". Archers fans prepare for shock anniversary episode 2010-12-31T14:55:45Z The sound, even as propagated by a well-managed amplification system, presents a patchy unreality. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Concert in Prospect Park 2012-07-12T22:23:49Z It all adds up to vapor, an escalating unreality made even gauzier by the indications that the earth has reached the terminal stage of its human infection. In Elvia Wilk’s “Oval,” Earth, Capitalism, and the Human Species Sink Toward Doom 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z It was difficult to escape a sense of unreality in Manhattan last week. Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips Take Different Paths to ‘Sold!’ 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z As if this alone weren't enough to throw you off balance, the programme also aimed to create a sense of unreality. Tim Etchells on performance: National Review of Live Art meets a bloody end 2010-03-25T12:19:00Z These images are enlarged to more than life-size, which heightens the individual details while lending the overall scenes a sense of unreality. Review | In the galleries: A stylish mash-up of Japanese genres and African culture 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Director Ben C. Lucas makes a case that kids caught up in an unreality of texting and viral videos don't know what to do when faced with horrifying truths. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-06-01T17:39:05Z The phantom parents added another layer of unreality, but a false one. Did You Watch ‘Stranger Things’? Let’s Talk About It 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Some of this is intentional — this is a play that frequently admits its own unreality, and Tom is admittedly pretentious. ‘Buzz,’ a New Play by Benjamin Kunkel 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z The most inauthentic part of the experience, from his point of view—aside from its essential unreality, of course—was the tight polo shirt that the wardrobe department made him wear. Who Dreams of Hunting People? 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z For all its dramatic flourishes and occasional sense of unreality, no one’s life is a soap opera. Is It Soap Opera or Real Life? It’s Both 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z But the bareness of the stage suits Coetzee's prose and gives just enough unreality to his characters to permit them to engage in inscrutably simple philosophical arguments. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-03-02T11:01:01Z The film's "unreality", he thinks, throws "a suspicion of unreality" on his new love affair. Ten of the best visits to the cinema 2010-05-14T23:32:00Z The artist might retain the bark’s original brown tones or dye the material bright red or yellow, adding another element of unreality. Review | In the galleries: Malgorzata Jablonska’s bodies of work 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Some of the images’ textures are photorealistic, but most emphasize their computer-generated unreality, their unnatural angles and fake finishes, their eerie weightlessness. Review: Wagner Would Have Liked AR, but Not This ‘Parsifal’ 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The patent unreality of the incoming "Doctor Strange" could not be at a farther remove from the carefully stitched and pustulant demons that haunt Ash Williams in "The Evil Dead" series, which feel unpleasantly alive. How will "Evil Dead" and "Spidey" director Sam Raimi fare in the MCU? It'll swallow his soul 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z “There are the people who understand that this is a matrix” — he knocked on an iron gate, to prove its unreality — “and then there are the people who buy it lock, stock and barrel.” For RuPaul, A Second Act with ‘Drag Race’ 2014-02-21T22:38:50Z “The film is almost unrelievedly brutal and without the saving grace of unreality, which makes Frankenstein’s horrors a little comic,” Frank S. Nugent wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Sunday: Grammys, ‘Girls’ and John Oliver 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z If anything, the fact that they sometimes comment on their own unreality makes them seem more real, as if they were capable of viewing their circumstances from the same perspective we do. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z As Bart and Laurie switch from sharpshooting to armed robbery, her erotic excitement is complemented by his sense of unreality. In ‘Pretty Poison’ and ‘Gun Crazy,’ Femmes Fatales With Deadly Firepower 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z However, there are great moments of unreality in Breaking Bad, too. Breaking Bad: from Mr Chips to Scarface 2012-05-18T23:03:00Z Gradually he would recalibrate his sense of reality—or unreality—and after a few weeks would bounce up again, as boisterous and obstreperous as ever. What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire? 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The movie is suffused with an air of unreality that, however, has nothing to do with inauthenticity; on the contrary, it feels deeply rooted in experience. The Wondrous Heroism of Mr. Rogers in “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Reality and unreality frequently blur in this impressive collection. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Fischer and Germann nobly try to tether themselves to reality, but when unreality hits, it sweeps everything away in its path. Steve Martin's 'Meteor Shower' plunges into the absurd at the Old Globe 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z When I’m writing novels, reality and unreality just naturally get mixed together. Haruki Murakami on Parallel Realities 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Exquisitely realistic in its patent unreality, it suggests Lewis Carroll’s White Rabbit lazily turning the tables on Alice during her sojourn in Wonderland. Strange critters: In July, Seattle art galleries contain menageries 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z The Broadway production re-creates that sensation, and a feeling of happy unreality. Ars Nova’s Brilliant Career 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The patent unreality of the incoming "Doctor Strange" could not be at a farther remove from the carefully stitched and pustulant demons that haunt Ash Williams in "The Evil Dead" series. How will "Evil Dead" and "Spidey" director Sam Raimi fare in the MCU? It'll swallow his soul 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z It suffers from the same unreality as our view of the economy. I’m stuck in my career 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z The unreality, or surreality, of a stray bluebird appearing in the dead of winter, is as likely as the movie’s evocative soundtrack of mostly obscure ’60s pop hits being heard on contemporary radio. Review: In ‘Bluebird,’ Momentary Distraction Sets Off a Chain of Misery 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Her lack—of a child, of a life—rhymes with the actress’s unreality. In Laura Sims’s “Looker,” a Sad Voyeur Mistakes Her Own Life for a Poem 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z I think you can make somebody feel this kind of strange feeling of unreality in order to help people explain it and maybe control it a bit better. What the opposite of déjà vu can tell us about cognitive delusions 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z Step off, and all kinds of unreality become equally plausible. Moon Landing Denial Fired an Early Antiscience Conspiracy Theory Shot 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z The reality TV angle is superfluous to this central conflict, and Pipes is uninterested in probing too deeply into the inherent unreality of reality TV — admittedly, a tired idea. ‘Dream Hou$e’ asks: Would you cash in by selling your childhood home? 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z And so, “to cure the multitude of its unreality,” Pampa turns to fiction. Review | Salman Rushdie’s first novel since he was attacked is a tale of magic 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Since Bolsonaro, like Trump, really was elected president, you can’t dismiss all of his populism as simple unreality, any more than you can dismiss the violence that accompanied both of the January protests. Brazil’s Jan. 6 imitation and the futility of populism 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z In a sense Santos is a sad, farcical version of where President Donald Trump has taken the Republican Party — into the land of unreality, the continent of lies. The sad tales of George Santos 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z At this point his insistence that nothing untoward has gone on and that everyone remains on the very best of terms has a hint of unreality about it. SNP Westminster leader denies plotting to oust predecessor 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z "You have this unreality in the British political system – they don't want to address the fundamental deterioration in the UK's economic position in the world." New UK finance minister faces market verdict after gutting Truss's plans 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z There is a certain unreality to my days. Life and death lessons from my very best friend 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z “The whole campaign has been conducted in this bubble of unreality,” said Tim Bale, a professor of politics at Queen Mary, University of London. As Soaring Prices Roil Britain, Its Leader Vacations and a Likely Successor Sidesteps the Issue 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The whole conversation had an air of unreality. The sad tales of George Santos 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z A student at Stevens Institute of Technology, where I teach, has endured feelings of unreality since childhood. When Things Feel Unreal, Is That a Delusion or an Insight? 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z To a certain extent, opponents of abortion say they really are in a moment of unreality. GOP lawmakers recast abortion stance, wary of voter backlash 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z And then he went deeper into unreality, accusing the government in Kyiv of disregard for the suffering of the Ukrainian people that his own forces were bombing every day. Ukrainian Forces Strike Back at Russia, as Biden Sends More Firepower 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z There are some good axioms worth repeating: “It is one of the functions of ‘horror’ writing to question the reality of unreality and the unreality of reality.” Review | In ‘Burning Questions,’ Margaret Atwood ponders an astonishing array of subjects 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z What if I’m an unknowing and unwilling contestant on a very unethical reality show? — shows that concerns about the unreality of what passes for everyday life are thriving in our cultural imaginary. Review | Our world might be a simulation. Would that be so bad? 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Not necessarily the exact same things, but the unreality of it. Before Trump, Alex Jones and QAnon: How Robert Welch created the paranoid far right 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z “There’s this air of unreality about it still, just still so hard to believe that happened and now there’s this connection.” Colorado residents still reeling from mass shooting now contend with Marshall Fire disaster 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z The original Matrix portrays its simulation as a hyper-realistic space that can be hacked to expose its unreality. The Matrix Resurrections has an incredibly smart take on showing video games in movies 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Here he was, finally living on the campus of the college he had dreamed of attending, and instead of joy, he experienced an unsettling sense of unreality. Return to campus sometimes comes with an unsettling sense of unreality 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z But in fact, it was in complete harmony with her past affinity for unreality. 2021's biggest troll: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Prevailing accounts of the mounting rivalry between China and the United States have an air of unreality. Op-Ed: How U.S.-China 'competition' could lead both countries to disaster 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z The awkward blocking between the actors accentuates the unreality, but the play eventually settles into a less awkward groove. Review: 'A Hit Dog Will Holler' tackles the private toll on Black women activists 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z “To possess the world in the form of images is, precisely, to re-experience the unreality and remoteness of the real,” Sontag concludes. Can posting a thirst trap on Instagram help you process grief after unspeakable loss? 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Derealization and depersonalization — the subjective experiences of unreality of either the outside world or of the self — are fairly common, usually transient phenomena. Return to campus sometimes comes with an unsettling sense of unreality 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z What version of the simulation are we stuck in as America continues to slip deeper into fascist unreality? America is amusing itself to death — and the media still can't face the truth 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Germany is home to the largest QAnon following outside the U.S., researchers say, with doses of American unreality delivered by nationalist actors hostile to both state institutions and immigrants. Election fraud, QAnon, Jan. 6: Far-right extremists in Germany read from a pro-Trump script 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z At this point in America's state of malignant normality and unreality I am no longer sure. Rogue general vs. rogue president: GOP cultists willing to defend Trump destroying the world 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z But it’s fair to regard the current moment as a singular age of unreality in recent United States politics. How 9/11 Ushered in a New Era of Conspiracy Theories 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z For me, a sense of unreality was most acute when we went into lockdown last March: the experience of being cut off from everything usual in my life was disorienting. Return to campus sometimes comes with an unsettling sense of unreality 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z But the truth is that many slashers, from “April Fool’s Day” to “Scream,” have embraced obsessive self-referentiality and drawn attention to their own unreality. Review: Justice or revenge? Why not both, in Stephen Graham Jones' new meta slasher novel 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z It adds a certain kind of positive unreality. Leos Carax and Sparks on sex, musicals, puppets and 'Annette' 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Now it’s become a finger pointed at anything reported that doesn’t jibe with Trump-ian unreality. What made 'The Daily Show' the most influential late-night comedy of the last 25 years 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z “The Utah State Legislature is still mired in an era of unreality,” says Daniel McCool, a political scientist at the University of Utah. The Colorado River is shrinking. Hard choices lie ahead, this scientist warns 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z These were not “delirious” hallucinations, in the sense that the subject was conscious of their unreality, but a form of reverie so powerful that it engendered a second state, akin to hypnosis. Coping Strategies of Ocean Castaways Hold Lessons for the COVID Pandemic 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Set at a fair at a children’s school, it’s part fairy tale thanks to a point of view that pivots from mother to daughter, who sees things through the glossy unreality of a little girl. L.A. is gloriously unstable ground for Sarah Shun-lien Bynum's slippery stories 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z When I watch CodeMiko, I think a lot about unreality — though not for the obvious reasons. CodeMiko will see you now 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z This means striking at the algorithms that drive traffic — the lines of code that push people down rabbit holes of unreality. 3 ways to save democracy 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Prof Alterman says the Capitol rioters, radicalised by conspiracy theories about stolen elections and satanic cabals, underscore the extent to which Trump inspired the "creation of an entire world of unreality". Who truly was the most dishonest president? 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z The air of unreality surrounding Hampden was not confined to the lack of fans at the national stadium. St Johnstone edge Livingston to lift cup 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Biden’s team had spent the transition gaming out legislation, but the exercises had an air of unreality as long as Republicans appeared likely to control the Senate. The Biden Team Wants to Transform the Economy. Really. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z The total sensory overload of the world, the intolerable pressure of reality, induces in us a feeling of unreality, of fakery, of deals and steals. Opinion | What Would David Bowie Do? 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Even today, in the modern world, rhinos are mythologized and fetishized to the point of unreality. The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Although I do not choose to watch these types of unreality shows, I believe that most of the fans view them more as a form of entertainment than a civic lesson on political correctness. Culture feedback: From Dave Chappelle to Alex Trebek, a week of post-election highs and lows 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z President Trump’s unreality television show Thursday night was the most pathetic performance in the 230-year history of the American presidency. Opinion | How to ensure our democracy works 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z This was my goal as an editor in chief of unreality. When a Journalist Becomes a Disinformation Agent 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z There is another source of inflamed unreality: the Trump White House. Opinion | Don’t Give Up on America 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Similar obsessions also run throughout Cathy O'Brien's infamous 1995 memoir, "Trance Formation of America," which, like QAnon's theories, is a fascinating mixture of truth and untruth, information and disinformation, reality and unreality. The deep, twisted roots of QAnon: From 1940s sci-fi to 19th-century anti-Masonic agitprop 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Striving for new ways to characterize the head-spinning unreality of the Trump White House, the authors of the memoirs turn to a variety of vivid figures of speech. In Trumpworld, the Grown-Ups in the Room All Left, and Got Book Deals 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z For Beethoven, lack of strength was a mystical void, a suspension between reality and unreality. Beethoven for pandemic times: How Opus 132 is journey through illness and healing 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z But the absence of fans — the cavernous stadiums, the oppressive silence, the sense of unreality — changed, somehow, the way the players expressed that talent, the way they approached the game. Do Empty Stadiums Affect Outcomes? The Data Says Yes 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z In fact, the unrealities of movie-land became a major subject of his fiction. A great Hollywood novelist, nearly lost and rediscovered 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z “You can’t be at their bedside when they are dying, you can’t go to their funeral or viewing. They just vanish. That deepens the unreality of death.” Invisible deaths: from nursing homes to prisons, the corona toll is out of sight – and out of mind? 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z At the festival, a feeling of unreality was persistent. 'We had a drag queen party': the Brits in lockdown on a Panama beach 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z As Boorstin put it, they give rise to a "thicket of unreality that stands between us and the facts of life." How "historic" are we? 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z “One of the terrible things about that shock, and the heartbreaking … unreality … nightmare quality of someone huge in your life who just disappears is not knowing what happened,” he said. Emotional Stephen Colbert tells of family plane tragedy after Kobe Bryant's death 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z "One of the terrible things about that shock and the heartbreaking unreality nightmare quality of someone huge in your life who just disappears is not knowing what happened," the host added. Stephen Colbert reflects on Kobe Bryant's death, says his dad, 2 brothers died in plane crash 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z My colleagues, the danger of an untruthful president is compounded when an equal branch follows that president off the cliff, into the abyss of unreality and untruth. Opinion | Jeff Flake: The president is on trial. So are my Senate Republican colleagues. 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Referencing a reluctance among Republicans not to find Mr. Trump at fault, Mr. Flake cautioned against following the president “off the cliff, into the abyss of unreality and untruth.” Former Arizona senator asks fellow Republicans to put ‘country over party’ at impeachment trial 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z But given the volatility of the president and his worsening condition, that should also be obvious for the public to see, in terms of his increased tweets, his greater attacks, his doubling down on unreality. Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee: Impeachment hearings must include analysis of Trump's mental health 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The attack, which happened on a sunny Friday afternoon, unfolded with an air of unreality. Stabbings Around London Bridge Kill 2 in ‘Terrorist Incident’ 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z She remembers lying on her couch watching the returns in the hallucinatory grip of a 103-degree fever, which she said added to her sense of unreality. Her lungs seemed to be a mess. But the problem that nearly killed her lay elsewhere. 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z It now seems so matter-of-fact in this state of malignant reality, the unreality of America under Trump’s regime. Historian Timothy Snyder: Here's how we escape TrumpWorld, where there's "no future and no truth" 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z I guess this is kinda funny but also our future of deep fakes and unreality, where no one knows anything for sure and everyone falls back on tribe to find certainty, fills me with dread. Analysis | The Technology 202: Facebook takes down false ad from political group. But it still won't police politicians directly. 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z During an episode, waking hours are characterized by a sense of unreality. A Mysterious Sleeping Disorder That Turns Life Into a Waking Dream 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The screen life of cancer is the screen life of all mediated global terror and unreality, too. Life as a cancer patient: ‘I was corroded, I was mutilated, I was uncertain, I was not OK’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z I feel both anger and pity, but mostly I feel the cold unreality of familial connection. My Family’s Life Inside and Outside America’s Racial Categories 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Tottenham’s run to its first European Cup final, the grandest stage in its history, was shrouded in an air of unreality even as it was happening. A Lot Can Change in 90 Days. Ask Tottenham Hotspur. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Some varieties of hallucination, various psychedelic hallucinations among them, combine a sense of unreality with perceptual vividness, as does lucid dreaming. The Neuroscience of Reality 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z This election cycle, though, rampant unreality knows no party. Opinion | Trump’s wall is child’s play compared to Bernie Sanders’s climate plan 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Despairing at the unreality of mainstream courses, she found a rare exception: a master’s in ecological economics at the University of Leeds. Economics is a failing discipline doing great harm – so let's rethink it | Andrew Simms 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z The result is an air of unreality to the campaigns, as if the energetic expansion of government can solve most problems and cure most defects of American democracy. Opinion | Americans want more from the government, so Democrats are peddling fairy tales 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z We might have spoken, but the unreality of that strange beauty, the inarticulacy of this or any miracle, silenced us. “Poetry” 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Their words evoked the strange mix of terror and unreality that reigned in the household. Couple Who Tortured 12 Children in Their California Home Are Sentenced to Life 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z His life as a Farside pilot had been a delusion, waiting to awaken to this greater unreality. The fast stuff 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The result is a riveting, deeply reported reconstruction of a disaster rooted in the odd Ponzi-like unreality of late-period Marxism-Leninism, its culture of morbid secrecy and the arrogance of its technocratic elite. ‘Midnight in Chernobyl’ reveals the nuclear disaster's untold story 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Each time we’re forced to confront and refute their unreality, we hasten the disfiguration that future violence seems more and more likely to bring about. Fear and loathing at CPAC 2019, or why I yelled at a fascist and regretted it 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z "There's an air of unreality, there's almost an air of the prime minister and her government being in complete denial about this." 'Case for independence bigger than one man' 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Give in to President Trump on this, and he will lead us deeper into unreality next time. Opinion | The ripple effect of the government shutdown 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The pillars he points to are the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intellectualism, unreality, hierarchy, victimhood, law and order, sexual anxiety and appeals to the heartland. Donald Trump’s fascist politics and the language of disappearance 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Love, loss, grief, fate, family and connection are its recurring themes, turned this way and that through overlapping realities and unrealities. Review: 'Maniac' is a riot of conflicting tones - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z In the days following her initial Instagram post, Dixon pointed out the irony that this fear – that the unreality of social media is harming people – was itself being used to justify the thousands attacking her. Instagram is supposed to be friendly. So why is it making people so miserable? 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The fascinatingly pungent “Dietland,” on AMC, is set in a similar landscape of unreality, but it’s a jagged original, treating femininity itself as the dystopian environment. Mind Games on “Maniac” and “Dietland” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z “There’s an air of unreality to the project,” said Joseph P. Schwieterman, a public policy professor at DePaul University in Chicago. Elon Musk’s Chicago Tunnel: A Breakthrough or a Pipe Dream? 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z “We can expect events to become more and more implausible until we exhaust every single possibility and the unreality loop collapses.” Unreal 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z But the President’s volatile behavior and untethered public comments in recent days suggest that the analogy misses the mark: Trump’s act today is an unreality show. “Rigged Witch Hunt,” Meet Trump’s “Red Wave” 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z For Stephen, a 24-year-old from London, the unreality led him to develop unhealthy behaviours online. Instagram is supposed to be friendly. So why is it making people so miserable? 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z This is what Rachel described on the show last night as “deliberate trafficking in unreality.” Trump tells supporters, 'What you're seeing ... is not what's happening' 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Trump’s denials and deflections sound hysterical; Putin creates a sense of boring and hopeless unreality. How Putin and Trump Each Lied in Helsinki 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z I miss people thinking about the world outside the gravity field of Trumpian unreality, and about the world after Trump — the world we should be building. Donald Trump’s magical fantasy world 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z The “Rigged Witch Hunt” may have become the signature story of Trump’s unreality show, but there are many other examples. “Rigged Witch Hunt,” Meet Trump’s “Red Wave” 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Those are called “worked shoots”: the times when someone acknowledges the unreality of what’s going on around them, but in a way that advances the action within the story. To understand feuds between virtual Instagram models, you need to understand pro wrestling 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z If the reality of this wasn’t so appalling, the unreality of police lies would be laughable. Stephon Clark Was Shot 8 Times Primarily in His Back, Family-Ordered Autopsy Finds 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Trump is casting his unreality administration from Fox. Opinion | Trump, Flush With Power 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z In 1961 Philip Roth wrote an essay for Commentary called “Writing American Fiction,” in which he endorsed Benjamin DeMott’s observation that America was then experiencing a “universal descent into unreality.” Donald Trump’s magical fantasy world 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z But there is a sense of unreality in this small EU and Nato country. Journalist’s final story rocks Slovakia 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z To keep the play grounded in unreality, Rafa is surrounded by surreal side characters, including a scorned one-eyed cat. In a Play, Rafael Nadal Inhabits a New Role: Gay Icon 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z That sense of unreality is usually a sign that we are near the top of a growth period. Wrenched From Scandal to Success, Trump Looks Ahead, and Over His Shoulder 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z "There is an air of unreality about Canberra," he added. Australia debates 'city to visit' Canberra 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z He gets the kind of kick out of unreality that could be dismissed as childlike if it hadn’t molded his imagination. Philip Pullman Returns to His Fantasy World 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z “That is really a new level of unreality. It would be funny if the consequences weren’t so catastrophic,” he said. White House confusion over North Korea poses growing threat, analysts say 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z For years after the event the belief persisted that this unreality would end. Partition, 70 years on: Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie and other writers reflect 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z A grayish desaturated palette adds to the sense of unreality, but lacks visual dynamism. Dark, comedy 'Middle Man' goes on a violent crime spree with no payoff 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z For Laurent Binet, however, an author whose work treads a careful line between truth and fiction, the bistrot’s faint air of unreality seems a perfect venue. Laurent Binet: ‘I’ll vote Macron, but I hate having to do it’ 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z And when Goldenberg rose to defend the agency, Ginsburg said there was “kind of an unreality” to the government’s argument in this case, since Kokesh’s fine was relatively small compared with the amount of disgorgement. Supreme Court skeptical about SEC’s powers of ‘disgorgement’ 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Surely, it was thought, this master of unreality would adopt a different persona as he assumed the responsibility of what is arguably the most powerful position in the world. Donald Trump, the master of unreality, must be resisted at every turn | Joseph Stiglitz 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z For many in the Melbourne crowd there was a genuine unreality about it all. Australian Open: Serena Williams beats sister Venus for record 23rd slam title 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Long stretches of political inertia also lend a sense of unreality to the whole thing. The ‘tears of joy’ emoji is the worst of all – it’s used to gloat about human suffering | Abi Wilkinson 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z That unreal light is one of the defining aspects of Halpern’s Californian photographs, falling on landscapes and faces, heightening the sense of unreality outsiders often detect in LA. Gregory Halpern’s ZZYZX – California dreamin’ in the 21st century 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z If the US presidential campaign conveys a flavour of unreality, that may be because it is rooted in fiction. The 1935 novel that predicted the rise of Donald Trump 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z But this episode in political unreality demands perspective. Trump was mean to a beauty queen. How is this news? 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, in Berlin, Hitler was experiencing his own unreality, with his only ally in the world his podgy, insecure personal physician, Dr Morell. High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z A great American concept, perhaps, but how was it going over as the party’s reality — or unreality — show was being televised nationally from the Q? Making America afraid again 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z But maybe the comparative unreality of writing is precisely its advantage, how it can be abstracted from any particular material locus. “The Polish Rider” 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Tom reported being excited, but my own sense of unreality, of failure to pleasurably anticipate, grew only stronger. A Voyage to the End of the World 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z “Obviously for Elizabethans, death was much more a part of life. But on stage, it’s the ultimate unreality.” Is this a bloodbath I see before me? The 75 deaths of Shakespeare 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Two, Obama was attempting to transport to another country and people the peculiar bubble of unreality within which Americans now live. What Donald Trump doesn’t know might save us: He’s unschooled, but at least he’s no American exceptionalist or neo-con ideologue 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z “You have seemed to me like some very solid tower of strength & reality in a world which had become a world of ghosts & shadows & unrealities,” she writes. TS Eliot letters reveal anguish over failure of first marriage 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Almost inevitably, this focus produces pathological symptoms of nervous stress and unreality.” Chess is gloriously rebellious. Maybe that’s what Saudi Arabia’s mufti fears | Stephen Moss 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z For him there was an air of unreality about the episode, even at the time. How a 1970s policeman changed his mind - BBC News 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z The light had a broad, flat quality, and life an element of unreality. An Iranian Woman’s Battle to End Stoning 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Clinton was considerably more detailed in her actual speech, but the air of unreality that infused Podesta’s buzzy abridgement hung over the talk. Why we should be concerned about Hillary’s ISIS plan 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z “There’s always been this slight unreality to the whole climate-change thing,” Bill went on. Exposing the climate denial lies: Bill McKibben, the truth and the fight against the fossil-fuel industry 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z But there is still another level of unreality. The Virginia shooting's 'reality show' paradox: people on TV don't seem real | Jonathan Jones 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z If, as the Republican establishment hopes, the stargazers eventually defect, Trump will be left with the hardest core—the portion of the electorate that is drifting deeper into unreality, with no reconciliation in sight. ♦ Donald Trump and the White Nationalists 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z The team would count down that moment and celebrate it, even though it had a hint of unreality—they wouldn’t find out about the spacecraft’s success until that night. How Pluto's most spectacular image was made—and nearly lost 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The varied realties or unrealities are as nothing next to their shared status as inviolate bearers forward of the myth. America on Memorial Day: Heavily armed, dangerous, unstable 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z He still experiences “a sense of unreality” watching James in a Cleveland uniform again, back after winning two NBA championships in Miami and on a quest to bring one home. LeBron James decided to come back; for Cleveland fans, that’s good enough 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Or, rather, you might be paying too much attention to the Upworthy version of the world, in all its happy unreality. The Bad News About Good News 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Kenya Barris, creator of ABC's "black-ish," was motivated to write the comedy about an African-American family's efforts to honor its heritage in part by the unreality of what he grew up watching on television. TV networks make unequal progress toward on-screen diversity 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Despite their unreality, proved reserves define the total worldview of an oil company. The Wreck of the Kulluk 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z For those with sound mental faculties, the ability to separate a game’s unreality from the real world is easy enough. ISIS Uses 'GTA 5' In New Teen Recruitment Video 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z That promise of a doubt leaves you suspended between reality and unreality, a space described by saying: “Well, maybe?” Why we’re addicted to mysteries: How the search for the unknown has brought out the best in people 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z Mr Kennedy said what he called "voodoo economics" were at play and that there was an "air of unreality". Executive backs £78m cuts to budget 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z If we are to move away from this unreality, the U.S. must either reverse its policies or abandon its claim of being an “honest broker.” Collective Punishment in Gaza 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Maybe he should realize that most Americans – most Westerners – are brought up on movies and video games and perhaps that creates a sense of unreality and emotional disconnection. A Teachable Moment About the Holocaust 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z The unreality of time seized me, and seemed about to inflict a wretched pain, but relented. Lookback 2014-03-26T18:20:45.628Z Still, I left the conference a believer in virtual reality — or unreality. Critic’s Notebook: Oculus Rift and Morpheus Take Games to a New Dimension 2014-03-23T21:50:52Z “There is a feeling of unreality in this trial,” said Emmanuel Daoud, who represented the International Federation for Human Rights, one of the five plaintiffs, which helped bring the case against Mr. Simbikangwa. France Convicts Rwandan Ex-Officer of Genocide 2014-03-15T02:56:12Z But in other moments, it has also made me nauseatingly jealous of my friends, even as I’m aware of its unreality. Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem 2014-03-12T09:00:16Z “You just care about No. 6 and nothing else, getting into the lead and maybe winning the race. Part of my life is believing in unreality, and it’s a wonderful thing to believe in.” A Last Hurrah for Hollywood Park 2013-12-14T15:16:04Z In combat there is a sense of “unreality/in the proceedings”. The poetry of Robert Graves: After the trenches 2013-08-15T15:00:16Z A form of make-believe is the basis of society, and periods of extreme unreality like the Roaring Twenties have recurred throughout history. Gatsby and the way we live now 2013-05-31T16:27:58Z "This case has layer after layer of unreality," said Seth Gordon, 63, a former political consultant in Miami. Scandal rocks Cuban-American congressional race in Florida 2012-10-13T01:13:19Z ‘In some ways, the foundation of mathematics has an air of unreality.’ How William Thurston (RIP) Helped Bring About "The Death of Proof" 2012-08-24T18:15:05.483Z It was a brew of reprieve, nostalgia, unreality, and completeness. Michael Phelps’ legacy a testimony to hard work as much as talent 2012-08-03T00:25:22Z Yet there remains a curious air of unreality about it. George Osborne's plan B-minus calls for a statesmanlike Labour response 2012-06-15T12:51:52Z The image of the vast, looming, two‑dimensional Sturridge only adds to the slight sense of tremulous unreality. Euro 2012: Booze, brawls and corporate overload – the fan zone is back 2012-06-07T16:50:45Z A sense of unreality was only underlined by the strutting theatricals of a rightist party, Golden Dawn, which polled nearly seven percent. Insight: Greece party talks framed by unreality, punctuated by insults 2012-05-21T09:50:24Z It is only a shadowy mist--a belief: and we have to get rid of it, by knowing its unreality. A Soldier's Son 2012-04-27T02:00:37.640Z But surely there is too much solidity about the story, too thorough an atmosphere of belief around it, to suit a tale relating such airy unrealities as those. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The whole has an air of unreality which renders one doubtful about accepting any portion, but there must have been some foundation for the story. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z But the question here takes on its most human and least political form; it lets in just enough of the outside world of action to save the idyl from unreality. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z That no traces of the Protestant spirit should appear, would be next to an impossibility; and the affectation of Catholic feeling, where it did not exist, would be offensive from its very unreality. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z There may have been some one whom certain persons called the last Adam, but it is nevertheless true that what is said of him was founded upon an unreality—a thing which never happened. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z To the rake, the character of the self-controlled and virtuous becomes incomprehensible and chimerical; and his attempts to represent it are likely to be tinged with an atmosphere of unreality. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z If, indeed, the realities not reflected became unrealities, were annihilated, then there would be some sense in veiling those portions of the mirror in front of which certain features of our life are exposed. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z There thus emerges a distinction of vast importance, that of truth and falsehood, of reality and unreality, or between representation and reality. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z She came to herself possessed by a queer sense of unreality and it was moments before she could determine its source. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z How should she have known enough about men to detect the unreality in that plea? The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z Recurrent and vivid, a scene of sheerest unreality will take on an earthly air, or landscapes flamboyantly exotic will hold the peace denied by every country it has been our daily fortune to know. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z There is, indeed, a constant danger of literary unreality. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z In this unreality ethical content gets the name of Holiness. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z His satire had thus none of the limitation and unreality which attaches to the work of a student and recluse, such as Persius was. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z There was a piquant unreality, a diverting strangeness, as she smiled at him. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Far away to the north, the distant shore eluded the vision with the unreality of a mirage. Loaded Dice 2012-01-04T03:00:36.343Z In this situation, which had come about almost unaccountably, there was a strange feeling of unreality. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z There was already perceptible about it the air of unreality that marked the strand which saw the Embarkation for Cytherea. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z Perhaps, to that condition of the age we, in part, owe one of the sincerest protests against cant, and unreality of every kind, ever written. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z He was bored with his imagination because he had run through the repertoire of his fancies too often and so, slowly, his days grew more and more void of unrealities. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z It was the sole dream-touch needed to perfect his sense of the entire episode’s unreality. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z For, unless they can be read as wholly allegorical, there is an air of unreality about those enchanting pictures, as of scenes and persons that could never have existed anywhere. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z The arc lights gave the streets an absolute air of unreality and tragic strangeness. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z Living a life that seemed one long summer's day—one floral fête—with a means of existence that seemed so frail and immaterial—she conveyed an impression of unreality. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z Have, then, the unrealities, the non-essentials of existence become the realities, and have we, emerging from a world where only the essentials of existence concerned us, given them an undue importance? By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z If you take them regularly, in small doses, they increase their hold on you, until you become wrapped up in dreams and unrealities. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z It has all the fantastic unreality of Chinese dragons, and, therefore, can in no way be harmful. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z A strange unreality which can call out such real and palpable effects as a compulsion symptom! A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z It destroys confidence in the writer's carefulness or knowledge, gives a tone of unreality, and makes one feel that the whole is out of keeping. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z But I had got no further away from the feeling of unreality. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z For her the room sank into unreality and she lived in a rainbow whose colours moved and changed to the slow dignity of far-heard Pizzicato. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z But there seems nothing which is so displeasing to Christ as hypocrisy and unreality. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z I knew now that I had never loved Beatrice Haldane as a man usually loves a woman, but had offered an empty homage to an unreality. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z Let your mind be as a sharp scalpel, penetrating unrealities and falsehoods, cutting its way to the facts. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Here, in the middle of this bewildering appearance of unreality, it was telling me of so many solid facts. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z I am a victim of neurasthenia and of the sense of hollowness and unreality that goes with it. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z If you want a religion to be of any use to your soul, beware of unreality! Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z When she emptied that flask unreality became all that was real. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z The poet calls his divinity 'Love,' 'Sun,' and 'Star,' but there is an unreality in his odes to the Countess. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z A dream at best was a fantastic unreality; what he had experienced at his writing-table last night was based upon the firm foundations of reality itself. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z This deepening and enlarging of man’s universe, together with the further and more drastic discarding of illusions and unrealities, is the business of the Second Life, considered on its impersonal side. Ruysbroeck 2011-10-29T02:00:16.413Z I want men to see that unreality is one of the great dangers of which Christians ought to beware. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z She supposed she was awake now, but somehow a curious air of unreality enveiled whatever it was that was happening. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z He wanted to speak to her, but hesitated lest that certainty should turn out to be an unreality. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z The frequent changes of fortune teach us that nothing here is certain but uncertainty, nothing constant but inconstancy, nothing real but unreality, nothing stable but instability. Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z The sugar pine trunks seem like great builded columns, too large for any real tree to grow, and the "big trees" in the Mariposa Grove intensify this impression of unreality. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z They all bring out in striking colours the difference between reality and unreality in religion. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z He may be the slave of a thousand unrealities. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z It may be doubted, however, whether the effect of their writings was not to hinder the advance of true science by diverting men from the observation of nature into barren controversy over unrealities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The sense of mystery was still there, but the unreality had vanished. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z I fear there is much unreality in the name, and that nothing would be more distasteful to many of our congregations than the preacher’s attempt to make it truly descriptive of his work. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z There has never been a time, since the Church of Christ was founded, when there has not been a vast amount of unreality and mere nominal religion among professing Christians. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z He was ever looking out for the unrealities of existence. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z But in less-guarded moments, even here in a bastion of unreality, the reverberations of the uprising are felt. In Damascus, Amid Uprising, Syrians Act Like Nothing?s Amiss 2011-09-06T00:14:20Z The sense of unreality, which had been vague and fugitive a moment before, rolled over and enveloped him. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z We seem to live in a day of terrible unreality as to divine and eternal things. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z It is a refuge of lies,—a castle in the air,—a Russian ice-palace,—a vast unreality,—an empty dream. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z Little by little the events of the previous evening recurred to him, but always with that dreamlike sense of unreality that left him unable to determine what was actual and what only imaginary. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z Then he looked about him with a strange feeling of unreality, and an unexpected sensation of nervousness that manifested itself chiefly in the dryness of his throat. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z Even while he spoke the words which would have once wrung his heart, he was visited by that strange flashing sense of unreality, of the insignificance and transitoriness of Angelica's existence. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z There is a terrible amount of unreality in our prayers—a sad lack of the moral basis—a vast amount of "asking amiss." The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z What followed came back to her afterward with strange blending always of vague unreality and glaring vividness. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z In that case the religion of the Veda, of Buddha, of Zoroaster, of Mahomet, for instance, can as little be based on unreality and self-deception as Christianity. Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:34.690Z Now this representation, which has ever since been the admiration of Christendom, presents the very strongest marks of unreality. Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:31.587Z His gaze passed away from her, and she leaned back in her chair, while the sense of strangeness and unreality vanished as quickly as it had come. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z The unreality deepens in the next answer which is put into his mouth—"What did your godfathers and god-mothers then for you?" My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z The tide of good fortune was bearing him far, but memory played hide and seek with him as he walked there talking to Evelyn Porter; he was struck with the unreality of this new experience. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z The final incident completes our conviction of the unreality of the whole episode: after the sacramental blessing and breaking of bread, Jesus vanishes in a manner which removes the story from the domain of history. Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:34.690Z Dear me, how dreadful!" returned I. "But does not the fact of your only recognizing the victim, convince you of the unreality of the thing? Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z Baker added to the unreality of the situation by his greeting, done in the best "Dr. Livingstone-I-presume" manner. The Image and the Likeness 2011-08-23T02:00:33.617Z The fifth commandment is also evil in its effect on the child's mind from that same fault of unreality which runs throughout the teaching of the Established Church. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z The very nearness of the city to which they were bound added to the unreality of all that had happened. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z Now the root of all this evil was unreality. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z But unimportance is not unreality; and therefore what we shall have to say about Zeno's arguments in support of Parmenides must be mainly critical. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z We sank with chattering teeth to our cheerless beds and quivered with the ghostly unreality of this great vibrating unknown. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The prayers of the-Prayer-Book are dishonouring to God from their childishness, their unreality, their folly, their conflict with sound knowledge. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z The little group of artists had worked free from the Oriental stiffness and unreality of their first models. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z We learn also how much apparent sanctity, what dignity of worship, splendour of offerings, and pomp of architecture may go along with corruption and unreality. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z The speculations of the past as to the reality or unreality of the world of physics were baffled, at the outset, by the absence of any satisfactory theory of the mathematical infinite. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Gulls and petrels darted and fluttered about us in every direction, porpoises were making swift and curving leaps, even a few whales added to the magic and apparent unreality of it all. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z I must also draw attention to one or two cases of unreality attributed to Jesus by this gospel. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z If these axioms are not essential to all mental action, then the world is a dreamy unreality. Praying for Money 2011-07-31T02:00:09.523Z It is the same wise impatience of metaphysical unrealities which leads to Affirmative Atheism, and explains it. The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.300Z Belief in the unreality of the world of sense arises with irresistible force in certain moods—moods which, I imagine, have some simple physiological basis, but are none the less powerfully persuasive. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Of course, there would be no great difficulty in showing up the absurd unreality of every other art, if the same standard is insisted upon. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z It was, of course, that he was proving its unreality as a guide to life. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z The unreality of a representation like this must be too apparent to be argued. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z Because of this supposed 193 antagonism of interests American higher education seldom escapes an air of unreality. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z The unreality of the scene took hold of me. Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage 2011-07-18T02:00:23.520Z If the flames of war are purging it from such unrealities and abnormalities, the facts which lie at the heart of the world's faith are being saved, yet so as by fire. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z A curious sense of the unreality of it all came upon the girl. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z Everything she saw, and heard, and did, was invested with unreality; she had a vague, unfeeling curiosity about everything. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z As for the second time he half-unconsciously enunciated that single possessive it was with almost a misgiving, an uncomfortable stirring as of unreality. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z When a group, as in many stage mobs, speaks in chorus, or at best in sections, the result is unreality for many hearers and absurdity for the more critical. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z All her life she had been fed on the artificial, living on a soft pad of unrealities which softened and hid the bed-rock foundation of existence from her. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z Then the sense of unreality resumed full sway over her perceptions: she seemed to move and have her being in a strange, new world of rare and iridescent witchery. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z The blue arm is always blue, and in a very short time becomes a disagreeable unreality. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z He still felt more or less like one in a dream: there seemed to be an air of unreality about everything. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Its unrealities were vitally real, its Lilliputian sultans and pashas great potentates. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Like the attorney general, Mr Green acknowledged the unreality of taking legal action if thousands of people broke a court order, especially if they were based outside England and Wales. Injunction warning on Twitter use 2011-06-07T04:34:24Z And above all, what a delicious atmosphere of unreality pervaded the whole thing! Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z We see these pictures and admire the design and execution, but they leave us cold: we are unable to kindle enthusiasm over patent unreality. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z Our answer is, Chateaubriand’s writing is vitiated by a vein of unreality, of falseness, running through it. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z There is a sense of unreality in the appearance of the enemy. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z Most of his plays depend to a considerable degree for their dark and heavy nimbus of unreality upon a studied combination of paraphernalia in themselves neither numerous nor far-sought. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z His young face looked slightly weary from the unreality, the loneliness, strictness, and difficulty of his life; he sat looking at the Countess with a friendly, clear, but composed expression in his eyes. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z But few great men have been without such thoughts in youth, and the noblest women can remember girlish dreams of an incredible unreality. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z For there is an air of unreality diffused everywhere over the pages, meant to be realistic or nothing, of this voluminous writer. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The difference between John and myself, that is, the important difference, consisted in the fact that John’s symbolic visions were explained to be unrealities, while I was left to believe mine to be absolute verities. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z A trembling sense of unreality sometimes comes with the recognition of its preciousness and beauty. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 2011-04-26T02:00:25.180Z Meanwhile, as a background for this unreality, murmurs of talk and occasional laughter rose from the library. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z He was obsessed by a feeling of unreality which even the cold water did not dissipate. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z This is the real thing; you've been dabbling in unrealities so long that you've lost sense of the virtue of fundamentals. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z But the unreality of some of its results produced a reaction, of which an early instance is the famous Essay on the Principle of Population by T. R. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z He seemed to be existing in a sphere of unreality. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z Oppressed with a wild and hideous sense of unreality, I stared stupidly before me. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z The old sense of unreality held Allard from the moment when Vladimir awakened him three hours earlier than usual to don a costume hitherto considered reserved for evening. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z When she stood on the porch with its leafless and ragged vines flapping in the wind a kind of chill unreality seemed to shut her in. Peggy Parsons at Prep School 2011-04-01T02:00:43.170Z His forbidding manner, his black-avised scowl, and gruff voice, had for the eyes at the car window exactly the same air of unreality as the keys. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z The onward surge of the ship through the dream scene of flecked ice patches and mirrorlike water became a vision of unreality. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z “I begin to feel the unreality of California,” said Thorpe. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z He implies that imagination is a power lending an air of unreality to a creation, often like "the Effect of some melancholy Humour." Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Our invitations are from the same class, and yet, my dear Miss Cox, we feel all the unreality of this high and stately existence. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Under the renewal of the hammer-strokes, Napier's sense of a world blindly driven to some incredible doom gave to the family group, when he rejoined it, an air of unreality. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z The silent and almost solemn grandeur of the scene, the massive Alps, the deep dense woods, the calm unbroken stillness, are strong contrasts to the crash and tumult, the unreality and uproar of a theatre. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z But it is the very contrast, this very accompaniment of unreality, that makes our tragedies the harder to bear. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z We are accustomed to speak of the theatre as a repository of shams and unrealities, and to contrast it with the actualities of every-day life. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z It unconsciously invested the love-scenes with an air of unreality and grossness. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z And to Bruce it had a singular effect of unreality. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z The unreality of the whole Italian world was concentrated in this Academy, which soon had branches, imitations, colonies all over the peninsula. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z She hoped the play would catch his mind, but the play seemed devised to intensify his sense of the tawdry unreality of contemporary life. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z When most men build castles in the air, they know on what foundations their edifices are based, and through all their imaginative ardor there pierces the sharp pang of unreality. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z There is no unreality, dearest Lucy, in whatever so overcomes the brain that thought is all but madness, and so pains the heart that the whole wish is for death. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z The falling snow gave the whole picture a curious tone of unreality and dimness. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z Shadows in a place where everything was clear, cobwebs of unreality where everything was real. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z When he came back to Marjorie-370- and his home, a curtain of unreality fell between him and all these things. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z The moon, rising in her silvery glory, cast over the lonely forest and glittering river track a gorgeous mantle of light, investing all things with mystical shadow of unreality. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z In this world of forms and unrealities one may easily be mistaken in an estimate of character. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z The firelight gave it a tone of unreality, and the whole forest world seemed to pause in its whispered business as if to watch. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z Ah! to complete the impression of unreality a black bird appears of fabulous size, a monster of the Apocalypse, flying with great clamour aloft in the air. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z But ever and again she became vaguely apprehensive of some perplexing unreality in her position. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z The soft, enveloping moon shimmer lent a mystic touch of unreality to the elfin form that seemed to float in rhythmic waves against the dark background of the sal forest. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z Even allowing for a certain element of unreality and exaggeration and insincerity, is not the uniform tone of too many political speeches much too violent and even occasionally too vitriolic? The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z Both were illusory, figments of our finite minds; both could be subdivided or extended infinitely; both, therefore, were unrealities. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z The "new reality" in Davos looks suspiciously like the old unreality. Davos: An unrealistic view from the mountain 2011-01-31T07:40:00Z The inappropriateness of scenery for Shakespeare lies, mainly, in its unreality, and Mr. Craig tries to make it still more unreal. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z Enough that I sacrificed the sincerity and reality of life for unrealities, which then seemed to me the only things worth having. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Gradually the unreality of her new position and of her future expectations wore off and Sally came to regard herself as really the daughter of the Courtney Barrs. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z The unreality of objective knowledge, the limitations of the human intellect afflicted him. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z Perhaps the fact that he was not chewing tobacco lent him a certain impressive unreality. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z Moreover, his success, after Shylock’s threats in the last scene, has become a dramatic necessity, and is thus saved from an appearance of unreality, so that his love adventure develops naturally. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z That dreamy sense of unreality had clung to her with painful oppressiveness and with many a vague longing. Success and How He Won It 2011-01-23T03:00:12.077Z Out of real connexion with life as it was, it sought its subjects in the realms of the fanciful and the trivial, and with unreality of topic went of necessity deterioration of style. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z And the rest of the evening was a dreary nightmare of unreality which only expanded without changing when I tried to sleep. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z The air of unreality surrounding the Senate Debate followed a long tradition in this country. The Emperor's New Missile Defense: 2011-01-07T14:15:05.323Z It cannot be proven, but the charge is made, that far earlier he had ceased to reckon with facts and had begun to juggle with unrealities. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z The blood flooded his temples; after a second it receded, leaving him cold, numb, with a tingling sense of unreality. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Imitation of the form of great models, without the substance of thought which underlay them, led to a general unreality and essential falseness of mental life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z So here was another contrast to add to the sense of unreality; and I entered the low-ceiled and dingy little office feeling like Tennyson's Prince returning from a fight with shadows. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z But her trouble had a certain festal tinge, a certain shadowyness and unreality. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Sometimes a dog barked, or a wood-pigeon cooed, breaking the unreality of the silence, as of a deserted town. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z This is a remake that understands the unreality of nostalgia; it knows that our perception of the past is irrevocably painted by the present – hence, for example, the seamless replacement of Brosnan with Craig. The Top 20 Games of 2010: part three 2010-12-23T08:34:11Z I saw her, as raving people see objects mixed with unrealities. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z It was the imperial outpost of an occupation, or the citadel of a government never quite sovereign — bulwark or bubble, refuge or unreality. Baghdad Journal: Iraq?s Psyche, Through a Green Zone Prism 2010-06-01T00:30:00Z But an air of strange unreality hangs over the whole thing. Finance is responsible for this savage new era. But it's off the electoral agenda agenda 2010-05-02T18:00:00Z Critics say the ranch, and places like it that focus on experience as therapy — exposure to nature, animals and rules of ranch life — are islands of unreality that do not fundamentally address a child’s problems. Russian Adoptees Get Second Chance at a Montana Ranch 2010-04-27T00:05:00Z Unexpected visitor The heavy mist that shrouded the Trimdon Labour Club, tucked away on a quiet side road in rural County Durham, added to the sense of unreality around the event. Blair's back 2010-03-30T15:40:00Z For his part, Charles Kennedy, ex-Liberal Democrat chief, says there's "an air of unreality" about today because "this Budget isn't going to see the legislative light of day" because of the impending election. LIVE: Budget 2010 2010-03-24T11:33:00Z Yet a strange air of unreality will hang over this week's performance at the dispatch box. Budget 2010: With little to spend, Darling must think outside the box 2010-03-21T00:06:00Z It's no good getting into this air of unreality: 'Oh, we can't do that' ... Government rejects EU call to cut deficit 2010-03-16T09:28:00Z The unreality began setting in with three minutes left, with Tracy Porter’s interception and return for a touchdown. 2010-02-08T07:37:00Z By these means, employed with consummate skill, he attained an unprecedented degree of accuracy, and as an incidental though valuable result, demonstrated the unreality of the supposed trepidation of the equinoxes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Can it be, as would certainly appear, that superstition is still among us, that so readily we can give reality to unreality, that belief in ghosts still holds our human minds? The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker The sense of unreality, the delightful excitement that had held Caroline as in a spell throughout the night had sway with her again now; nothing was very tangible or distinct. Capricious Caroline The whole tissue, woven of laughing selfishness and self-seeking affability and mock na�vet�, now fell away, showing the being he had humbly worshipped in her naked unreality and insincerity. The Undying Past Ireland, therefore, can neither understand nor make herself understood, so long as discussion is confined to the unrealities of international politics. The Sacred Egoism of Sinn Féin A curious sense of unreality came over me in this interval, yet joined to a minute perception of all that passed, as though I could actually see the same with my eyes. Idonia: A Romance of Old London Such an understanding of the innate can imply only a world not merely of definite, substantial reality, but also of definite, substantial unreality. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker And then Jean laughed—because it would help to drive the sense of unreality from her mind, and because in his heart was only joyous laughter. The Belovéd Traitor In a letter to her brother, drawn up by Gardiner by the king’s direction, she acknowledged the unreality of the marriage and the king’s kindness and generosity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" A veil of unreality began to fall between him and the picture he had seen. Where the Path Breaks Has there never been a moment in your life when a sense of unreality has seized you? To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 It should have the dignity of a ceremony as well as its unreality, and should combine the insincere character of a romantic play with the wit and beauty that make such plays delightful to us. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man There is always a quality of unreality about a moonlit scene. The Voice of the Pack The intensity of the wavy feeling reduced her to an unreality. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath As I recall those years there is an unreality about them that I am unable to dispel. The Mystery of Evelin Delorme A Hypnotic Story Sitting in this tunnel-shaped alcove, he seemed to be in the box of a theater whence the actions and voices of the contemplated company had the unreality of an operatic finale. Sinister Street, vol. 2 "Why, was there any harm in it?" asked Stella quickly, and, as if to allay Michael's fear by so direct a question, one hand went trilling in scale towards the airy unrealities of the treble. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The twilight deepened, the snow turned gray, and then, in a vague way, the journey began to partake of a quality of unreality. The Voice of the Pack Instead he stammered some commonplace unreality about his work at Assouan and heard her agree with him that he certainly must not neglect it—and she was gone into the house. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath I. I want to thank you for your contrast between Emerson and Carlyle: “The hatred of unreality was uppermost in Carlyle; the love of what is real and genuine, with Emerson.” McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 This unreal hour added the last touch to unreality, and when Michael went upstairs and saw the books littering his room, even they were scarcely sound guarantors of his own actuality. Sinister Street, vol. 2 He hastily turned down the gas, and the stairs caught a chill unreality from the creeping dawn. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The "unreality" of persecution is not, however, a subjective matter; it means that conditions do not exist for producing the future consequences which are now anticipated and reacted to. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Time certainly proved its unreality that night; the hours seemed both endless and absurdly brief. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath Such incidents as are here alluded to shed an air of unreality over the whole. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" They are an excellent company, and go well through their tricks, and if they are a little unreal I am not the one to object to unreality in art. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" When the Underdog came upon the scene, the roar, ashamed of its unreality, had slunk off into the wilderness, and all was quiet in the gloom and the shadow of death. The Book of Gud If it could, goodness alone would have existed and been real, and evil would have been non-existence, unreality, and appearance—all by the force of the Word. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Even the drive to Carrigmore with her aunt and sister filled her with a sense of dazed unreality. The Gambler A Novel These men were unreal, Lannes and he were unreal, and it was an unreal world, in which nothing but unrealities moved. The Guns of Europe There was a dash of unreality about Mr. Skinner, and a certain want of candour, which Jack's eyes were quick to detect. Little Miss Joy Something of affectation or unreality commonly interferes with the enjoyment of his finest works. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" The proof which in the history of thought is offered again and again, be it noted, is not of the reality of life, but of the unreality and inefficacy of death. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude It was with a feeling of unreality, mingled with the borrowed excitement still at work within him, that he began his ascent of the stairs. The Gambler A Novel Objects of sense are absolute unreality, not-being, except in so far as the Ideas are in them. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Then unreality deepened to utter nightmare, passing all bounds of reason. The Book of Susan A Novel Yet Carlyle's untiring denunciation of "shams" and "unrealities" of this, as of other varieties, does not mean unqualified antipathy. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII And yet, mathematics is not dealing with unrealities, for it is everywhere concerned with real rational types and systems where such types may be exemplified. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude In his most poignant passages the voice has a ghostly ring; in his most realistic descriptions there is a dreamlike unreality. The Vagabond in Literature This is his answer to the chief question of philosophy, namely, what, amid all the appearances and unrealities of things, is that absolute and ultimate reality, from which all else is to be explained? A Critical History of Greek Philosophy He had cast a bewitching spell of unreality over the entire drawing-room that made Grace feel like both actress and audience. H. R. "You are infected by the atmosphere of unreality that pervades the spot," said she, "I do not wonder." The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life Better Miss Edgeworth any day, with all her arid utilitarianism, her realism, than the sickly sentimental unrealities of a far too popular modern school. Maria Edgeworth That sense of being unreal in a world of unreality, which she had mentioned to Susan Pickett on the day of the divorce, lasted for some time. Shadows of Flames A Novel The more hot there is, the more life, the more reality; the more cold, the more unreality and death. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy In certain crises of the emotions there is a certain sense of unreality. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident |
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