| 单词 | reality |
| 例句 | He’d created an entirely new reality that now provided an escape for most of humanity. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Maybe it was everything that was going on—the reality. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We have received via post your absurd comments about our trousers, the comments revealing, as they did, your total lack of contact with reality. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The other accommodation with reality that just intonation must make is the fact that a single just-intonation tuning cannot be used to play in multiple keys. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She couldn’t get around the unfathomable reality that Giti wasn’t alive anymore. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z As we’ll see, that reality was as fraught with consequences for African history as was the absence of native domestic plants in subequatorial Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z His hatred for the King was not a reality like Mordred’s—indeed, he had little personal feeling against anybody except Lancelot His attitude was more of malice at random. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He says this like he’s trying to soothe away reality. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z It was like some heartless, survival-based reality TV show, only nobody won any money. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In reality, the pounding is of fists on the front door, and I bolt awake. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Soon, numbers and letters appear in random places around the dome, highlighting the areas where the code is generating bits of virtual reality over the actual scene. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I try to focus straight ahead as we pedal across the overpass, but I can’t pull myself away from the reality all around me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Sadly, without continued sponsorship from The Corporation, the program was canceled and replaced with new episodes of the reality show about Amish girls rooming with strippers, Girls Gone Rumspringa. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But the purpose of the fiction is to create a sense of reality which will convince the reader that the information in the dialogue is perfectly genuine. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His boss cited “budgetary problems” for the dismissal, but the reality was that Rand often worked directly for the Pentagon, and Rand bosses were reluctant to offend their employers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z While initially as a hunter/trapper when a child, and also later, I had witnessed the concept and reality of death. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Thanks to increased communications, the ‘global village’ was starting to become a reality. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I stood up, trying to realize what reality lay behind the meaning of the words . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard voices—shouts— over the cranking of the landing pad, and his mind slammed back to cold reality. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The mathematicians, however, interpreted the apparently irregular movement of the planets in the heavens as evidence that some invisible reality was causing the movement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The concert of so many different birds became so disturbing that Úrsula would plug her ears with beeswax so as not to lose her sense of reality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It’s more like a presence of something or someone on another side of this reality. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Once again, listeners are given a clue that the program’s time is passing faster than reality. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He too was forgetting the unpleasant realities of the situation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw now that my comrades were acting out a fantasy that had no relation whatever to the reality of their environment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But the warm April breeze stirred his hair, and the smell of the earth and the cry of the birds in the trees above him were a part of reality. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound of the bell brought us back to reality. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mongrelization is already a widespread reality in the South—it has been exclusively the white man’s contribution to the Southern Way of Life. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I frankly find the reality of readers wholly unappetizing.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z I guess I don't know all that much about reality TV. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z And now everything comes in quick, disjointed images, like reality is violently strobing around me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In reality she carried it on her hand in the black bandage, which she did not take off even to sleep and which she washed and ironed herself. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z If she were coming in reality he would be limited by reality. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At the very center of the problem is the naked cold deadness of one’s own self, the only reality in nature of which we can have absolute certainty, and it is unmentionable, unthinkable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Then reality jerked at her shoulders and thighs, the webbing of the jacket cutting viciously into her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was a wonderful experience to have, but the downside was that it sheltered me from reality. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In reality I know nothing about them, yet I feel it's important to express some solidarity with others who have had the rug pulled out from beneath them. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z By their obvious artificiality, they call into question the reality of landscape and figures alike. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Often the amount of amazement she wanted to feel never quite matched reality. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Aristotle was thus interpreted by philosophers as grounding knowledge in sensation, and sensation was reinterpreted as knowledge of a reality external to the perceiver. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In reality, Ebola had not yet made a decisive, irreversible breakthrough into the human race,, but it seemed close to doing that. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality sticks its fork into our flesh, leaving us standing there, together. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z But even better than the solid reality of the book in my hand was the gladsome fact that my mother and father at last understood the kind of nourishment I needed to survive. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z And it wasn’t just eastern sports scribes and fans who found themselves facing a new reality after the 1936 regatta. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I’m just pointing out that your construct has gotten out of alignment with reality.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Melquíades answered that effort at communication at times by giving forth with phrases in Spanish that had very little to do with reality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When I wake up in the morning, it’s always sort of a letdown as reality hits me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I close my eyes briefly, and when I open them I am in reality, and Amity is a dream. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Realizing their work wouldn’t be tying them to one spot, her parents decided to make their fantasy of living once in every state a reality. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The reality that I could fail and be sent home sends a shiver down my back. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I could either accept this new reality or retreat from it, and the latter outcome might end up being even worse than the first. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When you’re a teenager and you first get pregnant, you can’t understand the reality of raising a child, especially if you don’t have the father to help out or even talk to you. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The next morning, when we report for training at 7:30, reality slaps me in the face. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Someone from Barack’s administration might have said that the optics there were bad—that what the public saw didn’t reflect the president’s reality or ideals. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z For anyone who questioned that reality, Private Booker T. Spicely’s fate at the hands of a Durham bus driver served as a cautionary tale. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The stark and sobering reality is that, for reasons largely unrelated to actual crime trends, the American penal system has emerged as a system of social control unparalleled in world history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For Elizebeth, the pressing reality was that she was stuck in a job where she felt like second best, with her time worth half that of her husband’s. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z And, because I had limited myself to rendering only what Bigger saw and felt, I gave no more reality to the other characters than that which Bigger himself saw. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z This distinction between objective reality and subjective sensation was made by Lucretius. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The problem with this view is that it takes the concept of ‘reality’ for granted, whereas what we need is a history of the changing nature of reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This conferred instant credibility upon his preferred role as designated truth teller, poised to expose the chaotic reality beneath all uplifting accounts of the Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And in those moments, the reality of him being gone cuts me so sharply, like a razor. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z This has been the pattern of his life: ludicrous dreams followed by hours and days and years of work and then a reality surpassing his wildest hopes and expectations. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I myself never encountered such women and could not vouch for their reality. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t feel like she was half a world away, it felt like she was half a universe away—like she was coming to me from some alternate reality. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “I’m pretty sure you only think like that because when you’re on the road you watch those reality television shows about people who have weirdly large families.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “The facts,” says Marcus, “are that she is terrified of reality, and the Abnegation were not. Are not. And neither is your sister. To her credit.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z After the war they all determined to bring ‘high art’, as it was deemed to be, to the people, setting up various publicly funded and privately sponsored institutions to make this a reality. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Here the reality that cyclotroneering was still very much a black art reasserted itself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Like the position at Public Allies, this new job spoke to a reality I’d lived personally. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was as if nothing else existed outside our reality. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “I must not deceive myself; it was no dream, but all a grim reality.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Ah! now you are coming to reality,” I said, as I obeyed her. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The immense diversity of imagined realities that Sapiens invented, and the resulting diversity of behaviour patterns, are the main components of what we call ‘cultures’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt like running away from herself, from this new reality. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was five, I had my first true bout with testing the harsh realities of segregation. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As usual, drumming was my big escape from all this reality stuff. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The rebellions that were to shake music, however, were almost entirely divorced from political realities. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The sense that black men have disappeared is rooted in reality. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The caption would read: “Chocolate family meets vanilla family in the artificial reality that is a mall. Caramel daughter caught helplessly between the two.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z She’s popular, perhaps, but closed off—she has no close confidante to help her assess reality. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Next to the reality of the nightmares, my premonitions felt like toothless bedtime stories. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Yates was supposed to be a businessman living in New York City but in reality was as much a fiction as Campbell. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But comparing a farm like Polyface to a concentration camp is to ignore reality—the reality of domesticated animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I am staring at him, and his face morphs into abstract shapes, and I think, This is reality; everything is made of shapes; no one is human; language is shapes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But a short time after the Treaty of Neerlandia, a piece of chance took him out of his withdrawn self and made him face the reality of the world. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The assumption that the universe looks the same in every direction is clearly not true in reality. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But then he spoke after all, or rather laughed, and reality snapped back. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The reality of what he had suggested, the plan Newt was trying to convince the Keepers to accept, was starting to hit him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “The basic reality,” Sandman told The New York Times, “is that the risks that scare people and the risks that kill people are very different.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But that was the reality, and it seemed unlikely to change. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But their joined laughter fades as the reality of the moment reasserts itself. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z But there were some realities to contend with. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “The benefits of alternate reality deserve to be given to all. The bulk of our profit comes from the worlds themselves, not the hardware.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Even though she told me repeatedly that in reality she looked almost nothing like her avatar and that she wasn’t nearly as attractive in person. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I was quickly coming to grips with the reality of the situation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She’s trying to see whether or not I’m up to reality. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes they call be the “present subjunctive” and were the “past subjunctive,” but in reality there’s no difference in tense between them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They were aware of no significant anomalies where their theories failed to correspond to reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the quiet that follows, I try to imagine not being able to tell illusion from reality. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Coming from Columbia High School where we were always state champions, suddenly I felt a cold dose of reality hit me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The cool evening air and the overwhelming scent of pine hit me in the face, bringing me back to reality. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z However, as is often the case, especially for children, the anticipation proved much more exciting than the reality. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Understand his lunatic theory of matter and mind, the chilly intellect, the hot imagination, blocks and builder, reality as stress. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Having decided I was dreaming, I did what one does in dreams: I tried to understand and use the rules of this queer reality. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Sometimes I think my parents ain’t got no grip on reality. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Love as rarely exists in reality, as if a master alchemist has taken it and distilled out all the impurities, every petty disenchantment, every unworthy thought, into a perfect elixir, sweet and deep and all-consuming. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But the idea was very different from the reality. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Mohammed’s letter incensed her; it insulted her reality. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality—collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to es-cape but to find reality. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But she also knew that a final dramatic development was needed if that goal was to become a reality: gaining the support of President Woodrow Wilson for the passage of a constitutional amendment. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The loud toll of the distant Joseph Bell brought Cluny whirling back from the realms of nightmare to cold reality. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Sometimes, when there’s been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The reality of that grim period stayed locked inside him, like a code that could not be broken. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In reality, even for the most famous and apparently decisive modern inventions, neglected precursors lurked behind the bald claim “X invented Y.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The reality, though, is that all of us have done wrong. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “What about closing the reality tear in the old Machen house?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Instead she watched a lot of reality television, visited Ms. Jones across the street, and took long walks around the neighborhood. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The only thing I’ve learned from this crazy course of events is that no matter how much we try to believe David beat Goliath, the reality is that the big guy always wins. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There was yet another level of reality in Bigger’s life: the impliedly political. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Of course, the closer you got the more reality came into focus. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Then, somehow, he was up, and Manny was forcing the acrid smelling salts under his nose, forcing him back to reality. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And who’s to say if their reality was any less real than mine? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He looks off into space as if imagining that alternate reality. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She used to watch those reality shows on cable TV and yell at the screen, “How did you not know you’re pregnant?!” as actors re-created the most unbelievable scenarios. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Hallucinogen from original formula not included— simulated reality is predetermined by program master.’” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The daylight gave an even greater air of reality to the room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The two weeks in Pretoria opened my eyes fully to the stark realities of black tennis. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He calculated that the Earth was 89 million years old–an age that fit neatly enough with Kelvin’s assumptions but unfortunately not with reality. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In reality, thanks to Ellsberg’s network, the Pentagon Papers were too widely dispersed to get back. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We helped each other escape the reality of our uncertain lives, but also, we helped each other think about some important issues. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z So a bullet pulled me back to reality. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Gets me moving into that plane between dreaming and reality where only running seems to take me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Whereas my grandfather was getting used to a much more terrifying reality. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In reality, however, the gift was a joint one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In reality there had been no one, so that toward the end of college, as graduation loomed, she was convinced in her bones that there would be no one at all. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Indeed. We all want to think that way. But the sooner you confront reality, the sooner you’ll be able to move on. Forward. We must keep moving forward.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z This was the reality, and one could deal with it in a myriad of ways. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z From where we were now, running, looking at reality from this one point in time, it seemed as though the world had suddenly gone mad. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z But for some of us, reality was too painful. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He could also see that the rodent farm would never be a reality, so he decided that he had better hasten things along before some clever fellow won the heiress. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But what he had thought about it had made it real with a reality it did not have now in the daylight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z That I was just kind of hanging out watching the funeral like it was a pickup game at the park, or some kind of reality TV show. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Likewise, out on Lake St. Clair, my grandfather has been looking out for the Purple Gang, when in reality the monster is right next to him, at the wheel of the car. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was, in reality, the result of multiple and rare diseases contracted on his innumerable trips around the world. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Gradually, he learned the details of my condition, reacting to them in a milder way than my parents had, which allowed them, or at least Tessie, to begin to accept the new reality. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But when Napoleon overturned the French Republic and declared himself omnipotent military dictator, again just as Adams had predicted would happen, Jefferson quickly shifted his position to accommodate the new reality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Unlike New York, or the rest of America, Tokyo seems completely redone for virtual reality. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was as if someone had splashed water in Gregor’s face and brought reality rushing back. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It had ceased to be my childhood playground and had become its own reality, one whose physical laws were mysterious, hostile. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I wonder if other people are watching us, like we’re some kind of reality TV show. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “Sure. And Holo-streams, and virtual reality games. Tons of stuff. Traveling to see you live is a very popular vacation excursion.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He was the palpable reality that clothed the revolutionary rhapsodies in flesh and blood, America’s one and only indispensable character. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z If I couldn't help them to see the reality of our lives I would help them to ignore it until it exploded in their faces. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I was stereotyping by saying “all” teachers, when in reality it was only a handful who disliked me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Our relationship had been an escape from reality, a little utopia. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I feel that heartbeat of reality, the idea of saying these things out loud to anyone else, and realize how outlandish this all is—how insane, how impossible. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But it bristled with Lawrence’s self-confidence and his manner of intuitively grasping possibilities well ahead of realities—in this case, the production of sustained resonant proton beams with a million volts of kinetic energy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I write quotes, poems, and journal stories almost every day so that I can escape reality, because sometimes it’s unbearable. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z No matter how good a person’s rebuttals are, nothing matters if the person is living in a whole different reality. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I had long had the feeling that this was the best way to “enclose” the reader’s mind in a new world, to blot out all reality except that which I was giving him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Hazel tried to force herself back to reality. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Why would anyone give up the perfect fantasy reality just because they have to give up their freedom? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The curve, however, was no sooner rounded than Jethro discovered that the vague dread he had experienced in passing the cabin had now become a reality. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In this Gulf of uncertain light there were more illusions than realities. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an abundant Vermont lunch, more like a dinner, and at first it had no more reality than a meal in the theater. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z We felt this was the wrong strategy, but we had to recognize international realities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All such experiments are first steps toward wholly new concepts of insect control which the miracles of electronics may some day make a reality. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He paused and then said, “It’ll be my pleasure to have you play at my ranch. Maybe you can educate us about the reality we whites don’t know but should know.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After they ate, Clayton brushed his teeth and got ready for the midnight jam, even though in reality, ten fifteen was closer to the hour. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z In fact, because divorce is such a wrenching, stressful experience, it probably raises one’s risk of death, and thus the reality is quite contrary to the above misleading correlation. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z You know you can make that pirate ship as real as anything else, because there’s no difference anymore between thought and reality. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z We began coming down, but it wasn’t easy: stepping around the bodies, turning away from the stench, from the reality of the death around us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z And then she squeals into the phone and tells me about some weird outcome of a reality show about hoarders. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z There was the familiar gate, the ugly street, reality. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z With each step, reality sinks in, that David will never be able to get in here again, even if Jake were willing to help us—which clearly he won’t be. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He’d checked out; he was on some floating island made of graphite and paper where this reality didn’t exist. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Like all too many dictators, Cahokia’s rulers focused on maintaining their hold over the people, paying little attention to external reality. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The cases described, on the other hand, were predisposed to gross lapses in reality contact and extreme weakness in impulse control during periods of heightened tension and disorganization. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The men crossed the tracks and I saw the glint of their lunch buckets in the tipple light, and I came slowly back to reality. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It seemed as if all the realities of living there had finally settled in his mind, like hearing a final diagnosis of terminal cancer. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z But that is my own illusion, a hangover from a version of reality I learned in the former time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I became very depressed, escaping reality any way I could. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I woke up on another planet or in an alternate reality. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “One of the first things I put on my personal, augmented reality view was an unobstructed night sky,” Hideo says. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The cruel reality of summer was that bedtime often preceded actual dark. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z But illusionism is only one vehicle for expressing an artist’s understanding of reality. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The schizophrenic, he suggests, may have his problems with identity and reality because of flawed perceptions of his own or others’ signals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But at the time when Úrsula went to lament by his side he had lost all contact with reality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I looked at the hat and at him, thinking of Rinehart and invisibility, but knew that for him it would have no reality. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Walter couldn't escape the reality of racism, but having his own business in a growing sector of the economy gave him a latitude that many African Americans did not enjoy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The cells can do more than predict reality; they are evidently programmed with wild guesses as well. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The chance to make this into a reality. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It was too simple, and yet they had already opened up a new section of reality for me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a nice thought, even though it’s unlikely to ever become a reality. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In reality, though, I was like my friend who had worked the pumps at a service station: Even after she got home and took a shower, you could still smell the gasoline on her hands. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked, committing myself to nothing until I knew the kind of reality I was grappling with. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And Denman, to his credit, was ultimately willing to acknowledge his shortcomings when they arrived on the slopes of the mountain and reality stared him in the face. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z But one day something happened to cause me to think twice before declaring white terror more the fantasy of movies than the reality of day-to-day living. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was just a very convincing dream that I’d confused with reality. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He was dull and numb, with the reality of it, now that the morning had come. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Before they turn off the lights, Principal Wertz announces that some of the content is pretty graphic, but that it’s important we see the realities of drug use. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But when realities diverged and you found yourself on a different path from people you used to share a path with...well. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z But whether they feared it or not, each and every day of their lives they lived with it; even when words did not sound its name, they acknowledged its reality. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Sitting at the head of the table, drinking a chicken broth that landed in her stomach like an elixir of resurrection, Meme then saw Fernanda and Amaranta wrapped in an accusatory halo of reality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In reality, I am an ageless geek, with years of personal experience, a fiercely aggressive intelligence coupled with geek wit, and the education of the best online material in the world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The fact, you might say, is an epistemological shadow originally cast by a material reality: the printed book. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The stops stand for places where you can get on or off or sometimes change trains, and these are ordered into straight lines with junctions, whereas in reality they are all higgledy-piggledy. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Denial is facilitated by persistent racial segregation in housing and schools, by political demagoguery, by racialized media imagery, and by the ease of changing one’s perception of reality simply by changing television channels. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Regardless, the reality for poor blacks trapped in ghettos remains the same: they must live in a state of perpetual insecurity and fear. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The precedent he was setting may have seemed uplifting in retrospect, but at the time the glaring and painful reality was that the United States without Washington was itself unprecedented. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I asked my parents why we couldn’t have a reality show about us, and Dad said, “Because your mother and I didn’t have the foresight to have two sets of triplets. Now eat your spinach.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, although the reality seems greater each time, the pain and the fear seem less. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z And just maybe those words will turn into reality. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “He’s got all the idealism of the sixties with none of the reality checks. He’s not a criminal, he’s the exact opposite—totally innocent in every sense of the word.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z In one moment, one brief glance, reality can flip. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z "The National Socialist educational program surpasses anything of its kind in history. You see, my boys, the reality is this: It is your job to shape the fate of our Fatherland." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z An alternate reality where people talked in drumbeats and always made time to look at the ocean—and I mean really look at it too, the way Mong did. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The camps had made this a reality in the extreme. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z More worrisome over the long run was the reality of Utah politics. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She reminds me of a fitness trainer on a reality TV show. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Nor have we been entirely ignorant of the realities of the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In reality he worked as he always had. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z How could we proceed with such a different reality from the one we’d imagined? Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I guess the reality of what we’re doing just hit me. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I am worried that we may be overdoing it, taxing its meaning, to conceal an unmentionable reality that we’ve somehow agreed not to talk about in public. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A house that was more like communism, better in theory than reality? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then reality set in, like it always did. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But the reality was so much bigger, darker, and more treacherous than I had imagined. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, Illinois had Black Laws that made sure blacks like the Joneses and Isbel understood the reality: They might be free, but they were not equal. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If you spend a lot of time with nature, you inevitably run into the concept, the reality of death. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.... While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On the opposite side of the alley there was a dingy little pub whose windows appeared to be frosted over but in reality were merely coated with dust. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z This more serious discussion of settlement reflected the reality that an actual trial was quickly approaching. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Thanks to the appearance of fiction, even people with the same genetic make-up who lived under similar ecological conditions were able to create very different imagined realities, which manifested themselves in different norms and values. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She was not meant to be a nurse, and after two years she confessed it: a hospital’s realities—scenes, odors—sickened her. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z What if, we said, what if in another universe, a split reality, God reached out his finger and lightning struck the Clairmont house? We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Saying that white people are collateral damage may sound callous, but it reflects a particular reality. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z All reality, I decide, is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z But reality came in the venom the white bus driver was spitting as he reached for the side door to come after me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The reality of this is that just like in the book, not everybody works the same or cares the same. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “His success among the white man never has made him lose touch with black reality,” Malcolm X said of Parks once. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I settled into the old couch and figured this show would at least be entertaining, because as far as I was concerned, it was the furthest thing from reality. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Cooking changes the animals we eat and gives us some distance from the reality of the slaughterhouse. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In the last 10 of it, I would say I realistically experienced the physical, mental, and emotional reality of the Stone Age. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At the most obvious level, these numbers confirmed with enhanced precision the self-evident reality that slavery was a sectional phenomenon that was dying out in the North and flourishing in the South. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But the economic reality that confronted Dorothy when she came out of college made graduate study seem like an irresponsible extravagance. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Before the gritty sand, the hot sun, and my itching skin demand a return to reality. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z If I’d managed to forget reality for a second, I was fully back now. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z And when she had been taken from him her imagination had been wholly unable to lend reality to the wickedness of which he stood accused—she, certainly, did not accuse him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I could show them the ansible, but it didn’t make a very convincing Alien Artifact, being so incomprehensible to fit in with hoax as well as with reality. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Mindspeech was the only thing I had to give Estraven, out of all my civilization, my alien reality in which he was, so profoundly interested. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It was his way of coping, just dealing with the realities, and the drugs helped to ease him through the days. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I certainly had no evidence to give them that would outweigh Elijah’s authority or the evidence of their own lives or the reality of the streets outside. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z This is maybe the most far-reaching implication of the powerful lure of our technology: If it co-opts our attention, it could reshape our sense of reality. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It brought me to reality, and the facing of the immediate future. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He frowned as he did so, wondering to himself why his son had said that his new bride was so beautiful when in reality she was so ugly. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I felt that what I wanted that scene to say to the reader was more important than its surface reality or plausibility. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “My father was very old and often mixed dreams with reality,” the king said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z If only it could be transplanted into reality, she thought, but it couldn’t. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z This reshaping of events happens in a dozen ways every day, contesting reality. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s all a reality show, plotted to make the Director happy. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The uncomfortable reality is that a literal war has been waged on our most vulnerable communities, and convictions for relatively minor, nonviolent offenses have propelled mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Used to images sharp as reality, Harry was disconcerted by the change. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z There, it seemed, blacks who had the talent, the will, the resiliency, the ambition, the drive to dream, were turning their dreams into reality. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I want this new reality to be a simulation that I could manipulate if I could only make sense of it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z In reality very little was known about the proles. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The reality is that technique looks to be highly overrated. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I stare out the window at the sky and feel this smack of reality right in my heart. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z And in reality the realization of the truth discovered swept over me in a few seconds. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Percy’s embrace was so warm and comforting she wanted to stay there forever, safe and protected...but that wasn’t reality. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z As far as I was concerned, he might as well have been another white man, a Boer preferably, for he seemed so hopelessly out of touch with reality—my reality, his reality. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Realizing their work wouldn’t be tying them to one spot, her parents decided to make their fantasy of living once in every state a reality. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The infinite was as vast and cold as the ocean spreading around die ship, and in all that emptiness what Milton felt most acutely was the reality of his own buzzing mind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That year, the conversation about boys had turned from hypothetical dreams of rappers and movie stars to realities of neighbors and classmates. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The way was a gray, timeless, eventless tunnel, but at the end of it was the one shining reality—my own wife, my own house in my own street, my own bed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Percy gripped her hand and jolted her back to reality. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I had always known that arrest was a possibility, but even freedom fighters practice denial, and in my cell that night I realized I was not prepared for the reality of capture and confinement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Partly out of angry frustration and partly because I didn’t believe in its flesh reality. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t proper sleep, but a state of semi-consciousness in which daydreams and reality were nearly indistinguishable. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z "You better wake up to the reality of what that means in this country." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In reality, previews that read like a scrunched-up table of contents are there to help the writer, not the reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I can find only two people who, after the publication of Waldseemüller’s map, sought to defend the old theory against its attackers: the new reality was incompatible with the old theories. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He has a faint goatee trying hard to express itself, but it’s six months short of becoming a reality. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It was almost as if she were peering through a lens at some other, more pleasant reality. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Some part of me had apparently given up on time-distorted reality and smoothed things out. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Today you are more likely to find commentary on their “disappearance,” either as a supposed demographic reality or as a shortcoming of the middle-class imagination. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A weird and horrible new reality had opened up, devouring the world she knew and understood. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z My mind kept turning over the reality that Barack’s term as president was almost finished. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There is a fundamental disconnect today between the world of civil rights advocacy and the reality facing those trapped in the new racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But in reality they were making something that looked a lot more like a guess, and guessing, of course, leads to mistakes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Metaphysically? No. In reality? Yes. In about four minutes,” I answer. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z But once students take a break—the phrase that many use instead of “drop out”—the ideal can quickly give way to reality. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I was probably less prepared for the reality than the child crying not far from me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “We need a plan of action for this egg drop competition,” Dari said once they’d finished with the lab, and I startled at his voice, at the sound of reality. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It is my hope that the harsh reality described in this report is now clear enough that we can begin talking about solutions. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z "The years nowadays don't pass the way the old ones used to," she would say, feeling that everyday reality was slipping through her hands. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z You have, and many of us have, defeated this intention; and, by a terrible law, a terrible paradox, those innocents who believed that your imprisonment made them safe are losing their grasp of reality. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z It is always harder to cope with the disasters and tragedies one imagines than with the reality, however grim or disagreeable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Our thoughts, visions and fantasies have a physical reality. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The reality, at least in Sing Sing, was different. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Another supposed dichotomy that becomes blurred in reality is a distinction between food producers as active managers of their land and hunter-gatherers as mere collectors of the land’s wild produce. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She’d bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena’s, which had led to Mount Olympus’s first reality TV punishment program: So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The brochures didn’t state it as much, but that was the reality. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z But other physicists propose that two alternative histories, two equally valid realities, could exist side by side—the one you know and the one in which you were never born. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s been nice to forget about the Ace of Clubs and Audrey for a while, but now I’m back to the reality of it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z In reality, the fair was far behind schedule, with worse delay forestalled only by the winter’s mildness. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Underneath any joking, the reality for Russians was alarming. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “I’ll make it short. We don’t need those Make-A-Moment stations and their virtual realities. We can make our own moment right here.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I hesitated, weighing and balancing the imponderable realities. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t tell if it were a dream or reality until several heads, then many, turned to look. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The reality of her words filtered through, and the tingly magic of what had just happened between us numbed out. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Much of social reality consists of institutional facts: property, for example, or marriage. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The muck of the Bog ran from one edge of reality to the other. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Held at bay by the hate of others, preoccupied with his own feelings, he was continuously at war with reality. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wow,” I said, but my voice cracked like a kid who suddenly realized he was alone inside the bedroom of the girl he loved, which made sense, considering the oppressive reality of my surrounding conditions. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Many writers have imagined republics and principalities that have never been seen nor known to exist in reality. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z In reality, he now knew, the answers should have looked like this. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z One foot into the darkness and the sense of detachment from reality nearly made me panic. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m past the shields that protect the surface level of Warcross and have dived into the sprawling, encrypted, anonymous underground world of virtual reality that has sprung up right under the Warcross platform. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z That was a stark, powerful reality that the gentle conveniences and luxuries of this house, of now, could not touch. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z They constituted the only world I knew, the only reality. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z No one was hurt; but the terrible reality of Stalingrad was a shock after looking forward to this moment for so long. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “But a mood like that,” Rick said, “you’re apt to stay in it, not dial your way out. Despair like that, about total reality, is self-perpetuating.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z But if the idea of Mo becoming a martyr was meant to make the reality of his passing easier to take, it had totally failed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Then I’d read it over and over, adding each time a word, a phrase, a sentence until I felt that I had caught all the shadings of reality I felt dimly were there. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We are so accustomed to a naturalistic tradition of accurate reproductions that we expect art to imitate reality. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The two levels of reality reminded him of the Titan stronghold on Mount Othrys - a disorienting maze of black marble walls that randomly melted into shadow and solidified again. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Now, faced with the reality of him, and of the silver ring on his finger, she was frightened of becoming used to him, of drowning. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Eventually, I recognized that all my fresh resolve didn’t change much—I was really only trying to reconcile myself to the realities of Herbert’s death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z My argument has been that responsibility for what we know lies both with ourselves and reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The reality of the situation struck me at once, with a sharp twist in my side. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The war, which until then had been only a word to designate a vague and remote circumstance, became a concrete and dramatic reality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z All she probably sees in her mind is her brother dead on the ground, because that reality seemed so big a moment ago, it persists even after reality shifted elsewhere. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Would he ever be able to turn his idea into reality? A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Honest about the reality of war, about the loss of life in war, and about remembering those who served and especially those who died.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z What the architects’ drawings had shown him, however, was that in reality he would have far fewer than twenty-six months. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was our way of dealing with realities over which we had no control. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Layers of virtual reality, freed from the boundaries of glasses. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A moment later the projection of the earth morphed into a reality TV show called Bunker, and a hammy announcer's voice boomed at me from everywhere at once. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I wasn’t an Olympian, and the reality was it hurt to even think about it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Desdemona was quiet for a moment, trying to fathom this new reality. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Christian churches could not abandon their belief in miracles and angels, but Christians could certainly retreat from their insistence on the reality of witchcraft, demonic possession, poltergeists, levitation and second sight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics, and others with a shaky hold on reality. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Gradually, I became aware that my mind had gone haywire in a similar fashion, and I observed my own slide from reality with a blend of fascination and horror. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Lorena and I watch a reality show about a bunch of rich kids living in New York. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z These results contrast sharply with the reality of drug crime in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Daydreams had lost some of their old power; these days reality kept creeping in and ruining them with stony facts. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “May I tell you my plan? May I illustrate for you how we can make your dream of becoming a princess a reality? “ The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z In reality, she’s already looking down, studying the girl’s phone case. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z You wake up from them or reality makes them seem stupid. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z In reality he was sleeping in the room, and in the dream he was standing in it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Are we going to be on a reality TV show?” asked Haley, smiling up at a tiny camera with a blinking red light. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The very fact that slave-made sugar was so popular made it harder for the English to ignore the reality of slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But the strongest memory that Sergio could attribute to either reality or desire was the smell of his mother, close to him, warming him, holding him, all the dark night. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Behind the morphine dreams is the nightmare of reality. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Then my mom and I sit in the hard plastic chairs, and I’m confronted with the reality of the old man and his leg again. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I had to face reality: The crime scene had been destroyed by the police, and there could be no useful evidence whatsoever still inside. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “But I was soon to learn the reality...” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He never imagined a reality where these two groups of people would ever meet, but here they were, all to support Shawna and Reg and the kids at West Oakland High. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But as reality crept back into her consciousness — the chill of the cellar, the smell of it — she felt her way back to the trunks against the far wall. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z An ongoing revolution is a nuisance for historians: they prefer to write about revolutions that happened in the past—when, in reality, this one is still continuing all around us. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In Washington, DC, Jan Scruggs had been working tirelessly for eighteen months to make his dream of a memorial into a reality. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Not all was altruism and ebullience, however; certain realities still cast a pall. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z To further escape from painful reality, I created an imaginary world for myself. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if we were all part of some crazy reality show called When Billionaires Pretend to be Human. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The glow of the green dashboard lit the scrubs I wore, and that was enough to flood my mind with the reality of what had happened. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The helmet closed off the mind for contemplation of these essential realities. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This time, a layer of virtual reality lies over my view, so that the flight attendants’ names hover over their heads. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Maybe my mother did see reality in all its shades and colours, and was simply using organized religion to cultivate qualities like patience, resiliency, fortitude, hope and optimism. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave Jess the crude replica they had prepared, which was in reality an old dishcloth from Friar Hugo’s kitchen. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The reality of life here becomes clear very fast. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The box looks no more than a foot wide or high, though in reality it is slightly larger than that. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Deep down I guess I had always known my Gypsy history was merely Uri’s story, not reality. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The reality of slave violence versus stability in the long term. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations and corporations. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only when I caught sight of the red blotch on Mrs. Harker’s forehead that I was brought back to reality. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z In reality, he and Koch had plans of their own. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z That was the curse of dreaming: One woke to pallid reality, with neither wings on one’s shoulders nor goddess in one’s arms. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The dream receded and left him there, in his bed, alone—stranded in the merciless intransigence of reality, and it was as bleak a truth to his soul as the nothingness of the Elmuthaleth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Off in the distant horizon lay the reality that the task of reaching the necessary energies would overmatch the elegant bench science of Rutherford’s generation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Far removed from the conflict and the reality of what they have done. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I scrambled for a moment to come back down to reality. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I imagined what a relief it must have been for her, to realize she could trade her reality—the one she shared with me—for his. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He knows no more than they do about total reality—less, if anything: works with the same old clutter of atoms, the givens of his time and place and tongue. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z In reality, that’s not true: on the average across all industries, America’s industrial productivity is higher than that in either Japan or Germany. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This was a possible reality, a kind of life that existed all around me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z More lies we tell ourselves because reality is too much to hold all at once. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z My tears weren’t going to bring Uncle Jack back to our reality, and they certainly weren’t going to keep him from passing away. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z He rarely feels the reality of knowledge, of other men’s thoughts and imaginings, on his own pulses... Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Such spatial realities require that densely populated regions support large and complexly organized societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In reality, though, there was only the one way, and it wasn’t beautiful at all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I would think I was procrastinating, when in reality, I was memorizing the geography of the world. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Then Sydney lets off a nervous little chuckle that gives away the cold, hard reality that there’s no such thing as free water—and Hali realizes why she hasn’t seen Sydney until now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Again I was being shut out of the secret, the thing, the reality I felt somewhere beneath all the words and silences. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His visit made no difference to the only reality that mattered: their son was gone. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Though the reality and meaning of the Bible stories seemed vast and alien, I still found the stories enthralling, so I said: “The Bible stories are nice.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z As she spoke, reality changed, the look of things altered, and the world became peopled with magical presences. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In my head I'm getting ready to launch into a lecture about appearance versus reality, but I hear Alicia call, "Who is it, Mom?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For a long time, in order to create a realistic virtual reality environment, you had to render as detailed a world as possible. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Like many other Americans, Katherine bridled at the reality of the Russians’ metal moon orbiting overhead. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In reality, of course, the jailer-inmate relationship was anything but simple. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The reality, however, is that the existing hierarchy disciplines newcomers, requiring them to exercise power in the same old ways and play by the same old rules in order to survive. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The clear implication was that the sabbat was an hallucination, not a reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We must face the realities of the new caste system and embrace those who are most oppressed by it if we hope to end the new Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address meaningfully the racial realities of our time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z These words are like stars in another galaxy, light-years from his reality. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Dauntless serum gives hallucinated realities, Candor’s gives the truth, Amity’s gives peace, Erudite’s gives death—” At this, Tris visibly shudders, but Johanna continues as if it didn’t happen. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Only later, showing him out, does the girl bring him back to reality. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In a way, it seemed, he was part of the morning fog, or my own imagination, but there was also the reality of what was happening in my stomach. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The reality of Sammy’s absence came to him slowly, but there was no form or substance to the reality. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Adam blanches at this sudden reality check and Brooke raises her eyebrows in a stern rebuke. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Kvothe had stopped speaking, and while he seemed to be star- ing down at his folded hands, in reality his eyes were far away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Prosecutors, he says, lose cases all the time around childhood abuse, around issues where it is hard for people to acknowledge the reality of the terrible things people can do to one another. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I’d watch cheesy reality shows with you to pass the time. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The term ‘relativism’ is contentious, but I use it, rather than ‘constructivism’, because I want to refer to those who hold that reality does not constrain the beliefs we can hold about the real world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z —Phathmus Mouzaive: natural philosopher; liked to declare that his field was no less than “the physical laws of the universe,” but whose focus, in reality, was somewhat narrower: magnetic fields. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z As Democritus put it, ‘By convention sweet, by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention colour: but in reality atoms and void.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But even if magic was so rare it was more like myth than reality, the people of that country still loved their fairy tales. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In short, organized religion made blacks blind to, or avoid or seek to escape from, reality. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Virgil imagined an alternate reality, one where he stopped—feet firmly planted on the ground—and looked Chet Bullens square in the eye. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z In the flash between darkness and light, between dreamworld and reality, I cross a boundary. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Blissful unconsciousness became foggy awareness which transitioned into painful reality. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not know how long I remained standing there; at the time it seemed a significant period, but in reality, I suspect, it was only a matter of a few seconds. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z This is cheating, as in reality I pull them out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In the first hint that radio time isn’t moving at the same speed as reality, the announcer says that the Chicago observation occurred at 7:40 p.m., Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z And now, thinking about my future, I’m slapped with the reality that attending our dream college is no longer an option for me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Because now I feel like I am the thing the parents are afraid of, I am the reality they want to avoid. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z As much as I wanted to educate those girls about my reality, I knew it wasn’t worth arguing with ignorance. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z She thought of herself as his strength; in a world of shadows, the indisputable reality to which he could always repair. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I know that I'm eating meat bits that escape this tragically simple procedure, but the principle of my decision is intact, even if the reality is compromised. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Entering felt like walking into a different reality. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z For the alchemists, the reality of the philosopher’s stone was beyond question; within a generation their appeal to authority, to ancient texts and secret manuscripts, seemed hopelessly misplaced. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Although the public was told that Roosevelt’s injuries were minor—a slight bruising—in reality, his left leg was severely bruised. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He thought it was too bad that people spent so much time and energy investigating the supernatural when there was so much to figure out about reality. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z This presentation had lasted for more than three hours, but it had enthroned a new sense of reality in the hearts of those present, a sense of man on earth. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z To me the illusions and fantasy of the movies were the stark reality of a world I was forbidden to enter. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z My mind began racing again when a command brought me back to reality. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z To deny its powerful, subsisting reality would be to endorse a simplistic and ultimately unhelpful evasion. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z No, I wasn’t ready to believe this was my reality. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “We live here, in the OASIS. For us, this is the only reality that has any meaning.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Since the new science had yet to establish its claim to authority, that claim had to be asserted by appealing to reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The harbinger of harsh reality: You’re both whole wogs and I’m a half one. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But as always my daydreams were so much better than the reality of being with him because we now had very little in common. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t come up with any approach that connects with reality, so I start to swim my laps. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Penelope is your friend, I know, but she's also a dreamy girl who is about to learn a very important lesson about reality.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The problem lies in getting yourself out of Christmas, because when you come out of it, you have to redefine the lines between reality and imagination. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z But he couldn’t quite convince himself that it wasn't reality, in its way. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z With each step, reality sinks in, that David will never be able to get in here again, even if Jake were willing to help us—which clearly he won’t be. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Worm Creek was full of these people, people whose words seemed ripped from another reality. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z This was just another day in my strange fencing reality. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z But...his mind had touched her mind, and that seemed to him a deeper reality and even greater intimacy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z With supersonic military aircraft a reality, and the industry moving forward on commercial supersonic transport, it appeared that the “revolutionary advances for atmospheric aircraft” had run their course. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Between reality and realization, there was a pause. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z A flood of reality rushed through Park, and he looked around nervously to see if anyone had been watching them. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z It’s funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z In virtual reality, Asher looks like a standing avatar; in real life, he is paralyzed from the waist down and sits in what must be the world’s most expensive wheelchair. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In this utterly bizarre facsimile of reality, I feel as though I could just politely bid them both good-bye, walk across the room and out into the safety of the street. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Our understanding of facts is thus Janus-faced: at one moment we regard them as things, reality itself; at the next they are true beliefs, statements about reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The reality Giotto wants to convey is not just visual, while in Brunelleschi’s test pieces the whole and sole point is geometrical precision. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Kneeling on the ground, Celaena gasped for breath, unable to find her way out of the hallucination and back into reality. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z What if by accepting the reality of the dream, she lost her memories of her actual past? The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have to live in reality sometimes,” her mother continued. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I miss the old trappings— trappings that disclosed a different reality. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Your brain is creating an entire reality for you, without needing any piece of technology. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For the match to become a reality, he had to overcome the impulses of his nature. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But a bright and beautiful blur, no matter how distant, was better than a reality that was dull and gray. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z But a person can only keep reality—and anger—at bay for so long before the truth comes back again. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Meanwhile the fact that there is no danger of conquest makes possible the denial of reality which is the special feature of Ingsoc and its rival systems of thought. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The stars had come out over the silent courtyard, revealing the rubbish-strewn pavement and peeling walls in all their ugly reality. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It was a total lie—but they needed a reality check, and they wouldn’t call Mamá to confirm my story. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z In reality, some hunter-gatherers intensively manage their land. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Unhappy kids now have a medium in which they can express, instantaneously and eloquently, the reality of their lives, both to one another and to the rest of the world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I started looking toward the Smiths to provide me with the books about a different reality. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, he is not providing a demonstration in the logical or mathematical sense, but he is making some physical reality apparent. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Wilkerson not only rectifies the world’s ignorance about the Great Migration, but with twelve hundred interviews and crystalline prose she makes us understand it in its full human reality. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I was a kid in age but my mind had the reality of a grown-up, ’cause I seen these things every day! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I fell into a strange broken sleep, waking now and again to the reality of my narrow cramped position and the sight of Maxim’s back in front of me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Taken collectively, they are not simply twelve million people; in reality they constitute a separate nation, stunted, stripped, and held captive within this nation, devoid of political, social, economic, and property rights. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Warm almonds sounds kind of yuck, but in reality they taste pretty good. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Then, one by one, the horrible realities of Mars came into play. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As summer approached, the reality of the match caused such heightened curiosity that it seemed like Fischer’s every remark, his every action, was recorded around the globe. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There is no question that the historic civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s owed its existence to the summer of 1919, when organized black resistance to white abuse first became a reality. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In reality, there is no sharp break, no difference in kind, between the expert and the layman, only a difference in degree. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Protect their younger siblings from the harsh realities of the world. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z What kind of life had I lived that made the reality of this girl so strange? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Expose their younger siblings to the harsh realities of the world. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z If my decisions reflected this abysmal reality, how could things ever get better? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They took their observations of planetary movement to be good evidence for the reality of epicycles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I sometimes think Jonah and Isaac need a dose of reality, that a couple years in public school would have shown them something different,” Croteau said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z There were boys from Illinois at Wilson’s Creek, and the war for many people in Jasper County had suddenly become a sorrowful reality. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z This makes accurate clocks indispensable on ocean voyages, but it wasn’t until the eighteenth century that accurate clocks became a reality. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z And how did one learn his life "rather well"? "Young man, you're part of a wonderful institution. It is a great dream become reality . . ." "Yes, sir," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she pulled herself back to the reality that faced her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “I only interpret dreams. I don’t know how to turn them into reality. That’s why I have to live off what my daughters provide me with.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d sat in silence until some semblance of reality returned, and then left without a word, not waiting for Chaol to thank them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z This year, a network was filming a reality show about Erlan’s family. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z I learned that the way black people were portrayed on TV certainly did not reflect the much more nuanced and complicated reality. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The reality was that Wagner could only have a theatre built for him and his own pieces put on there thanks to the generosity of the very people he had previously so detested. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z That had been weeks before, and now the pillbox was under way, no longer an idea in the backyard but a reality in the dining room. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Haven’t we all been plugged in for years now, completely addicted to this world beyond reality? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This may yet be his salvation, for, if all go well, it will tide him over the despairing period; he will then, in a kind of way, wake again to the realities of life. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z We thought we were imitating the reality of white people At sunset, I would leave for home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z But, then, there are courtroom promises and deathbed conversions, and then there’s reality. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But as the reality of the moment sank in, she found the words spilling out in a torrent. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In reality, Rush’s cure probably did more harm than good. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Martin Luther King, Jr., was referring to this reality when, asked what motivated Rosa Parks that afternoon in Montgomery, he replied, “She had been tracked down by the Zeitgeist.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z That reality helps to explain why African American leaders such as Booker T. Washington urged blacks to focus on improving themselves rather than on challenging racial discrimination. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Art3mis had led me to believe that in reality she was somehow hideous, but now I saw that nothing could have been further from the truth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Bruce thought the cave was worth at least five million, but his Realtor offered a reality check. schism. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z So pleasant was her company that my father, a man loaded with initiative, decided to see what he could do to turn his vision into reality. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Her presence had a weight, depth, and clarity that nothing else did—not even Lixxa, and there were few things Lazlo knew better these days than the physical reality of Lixxa. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But then reality rolled in, along with the darkness of the cargo room. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Moving body agitatedly, stomping feet impatiently, and scurrying back to safe reality. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In reality there were about fifteen or twenty of them, all gentlemen in green hunting dress, with their horses; some in the saddle and some standing by their horses' heads. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z These two debates, about thinking and knowing, interlock because both generations have downplayed the idea that the new science was grounded in a new type of engagement with sensory reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the telecom companies weren’t paying close attention to the developing mismatch between demand and reality. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The scientific network is another term for that sociological reality: Pascal announced his discoveries to Mersenne’s network, and persuaded them that his facts were right by getting them to repeat his experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hideo's invention uses the world’s best 3-D effects generator—your own brain—to create for you the most incredible illusion of reality ever. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z To see if my reaction in reality matches my reaction in the simulation. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The vet had been right: For me this was not a city of realities, but of dreams; perhaps because I had always thought of my life as being confined to the South. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z So didn't there used to be a reality show where people had to date each other in pitch-darkness? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The “virtual reality”they had been promised for so long was finally here, and it was even better than they’d imagined. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They believed that in their mathematics they had glimpsed a perfect reality, a realm of the gods, of which our familiar world is but * Although there were a few welcome exceptions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His dream was on the cusp of becoming reality. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z But their recipes could use a bit less magic and more reality. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was the beginning of the end of reality for my mother. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z External reality has a way of being not so external after all. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But two developments that fall of 1939 placed it back in the realm of reality. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As I pulled off my visor and filed off the bus with the other passengers, the reality of my situation finally began to hit home. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A singing competition, a reality show, One-Fifteen, a celebrity dance—wait. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z A reminder taped to our refrigerator brought me back to reality: “Dr. Bauer, July 22, 2 p.m.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If anything and everything is to be treated as an actor’s judgement then the ideas of truth, rationality and objective reality become meaningless, and we can all be immortal if we choose. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The subtle, recurring confusion between illusion and reality that was characteristic of paramnesia fascinated the chaplain, and he knew a number of things about it. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In reality, however, the fisherman talked like this because he didn't know what lay to the north. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z But in reality, a whole lot of lives hung in the balance. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The dose of reality hidden in the impressive math exhibition was beginning to bother me, so I cut him off and asked him if he wanted to get another game going. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In reality, Conexco worked with Al Capone’s gang and other mobsters to supply liquor to the underworld. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The reality was all too social, he knew; other men were pursuing him, but he had comfort in a pretense, and a rhythm at least for his feet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It seemed like a nightmare where everything you take to be the rock-hard, solid basis for reality becomes unreal. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I can practically hear their hearts breaking as the reality sinks in. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And we live by the lies we believe—at least until the actual reality becomes overwhelming. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t have any augmented reality overlaid in your home,” I say as I sit. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When you wore it, it helped your brain render virtual worlds that looked and sounded indistinguishable from reality. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Silence fell down in the sifting dust, and all the leisure they might need to look around, to gather the reality of this day into their senses. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z He straightened and lifted the brick, but just at that moment the reality of it all slipped from him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z This was an accident and a witch hunt; the prosecution felt the defense had insulated itself from science and reality. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It managed to overcome limitations that had plagued previous simulated realities. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Marriage brought the sobering realities of life into focus. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z "Right. But this stuff is all, like... mystical. What we were talking about on the phone today? I was talking about reality, real people, not a bunch of hocus-pocus." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The reality of her betrayal cuts me right down to the white meat. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z In reality there would have been, as always, too few, except that the last act, a mass assault against suicidally-defended Japan, never took place. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z But he quickly accepted reality: all he had was the flashlight and his fists. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In reality we were not their opposites at all. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z 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 I thought she would return to reality when she was strong enough to face it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The president was annoyed, but understood the reality. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "The only trouble with ambition is that it sometimes blinds one to realities . . . Tell me, how many of these letters do you have?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he would go back from room to room, walking in reverse, going back over his trail, and he would find Prudencio Aguilar in the room of reality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z They create the appearance of racial equity without the reality and do so at no great cost, without fundamentally altering any of the structures that create racial inequality in the first place. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It is painful to face reality, she wrote. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “It brought you back to reality and made you realize that the boom was over and that it wasn’t going to turn around the next day. I remember gasping for breath.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt like I was playing one of those virtual reality video games. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z By the time Vivi learned how to travel there, though, reality had intruded on our plans. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In many respects, the reality of mass incarceration is easier to avoid knowing than the injustices and sufferings associated with slavery or Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z You have, and many of us have, defeated this intention; and, by a terrible law, a terrible paradox, those innocents who believed that your imprisonment made them safe are losing their grasp of reality. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Maids were expected to clean fifteen to sixteen rooms a day by themselves, and though the shifts were supposed to be eight hours long, in reality it took much longer to clean so many rooms. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z It sought for reality intensely, always as if it were not there.. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In exchange for the lie, I made a promise to myself that when I got a raise in my allowance, I would donate part of that raise to people who in reality do have diabetes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “I believe that a peaceful Asia is far nearer to reality because of what America has done in Vietnam,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z From then on, we have what sounds like one of those exaggerated fairy-stories of success, but in reality it was the result of tremendous hard and brainy work by those two friends. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z In reality, the United States wasn’t trailing the Soviet Union quite as badly as it appeared in the wake of the Sputnik crisis. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Enid Simdars embraced the strictures of Christian Science, a faith that taught that the material world and all the evil that attended it were illusory, that the only reality was spiritual. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Reagan portrayed the criminal as “a staring face—a face that belongs to a frightening reality of our time: the face of the human predator.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Another fifteen minutes and what had seemed like a laughable dream that morning had suddenly become reality: It was just me and the other guy. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Nothing that I could think of could explain the reality I saw. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so bizarre to apply those dry teachings to the eerie reality of this Wood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They were running so fast it seemed more like a dream of flying than reality. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The purpose of such irrelevant details—the pewter plates, the glorious eggs—is to create what Roland Barthes called ‘the reality effect’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But what differed was that talk was no longer sufficient, and the idea of taking action went from a wish to a reality. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z One might think that judges are the most powerful, or even the police, but in reality the prosecutor holds the cards. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z External realities of a frustrating nature she obliterated by refusing to believe in them, and when one resisted her disbelief she raged at it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Yeah, I figured any nightmare would be better than my reality. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The reality of the dreadful decision he’d made earlier squeezed his heart like a crushing fist. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Even her toad would be better than that, but this was her awful reality. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z A place I had to walk away from because of the reality of life. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But as a matter of legal reality, so various editors have told me over the years, my forensic memoir could never be published while my fellow criminals were alive. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As Blackmon notes: “The apparent demise...of leasing prisoners seemed a harbinger of a new day. But the harsher reality of the South was that the new post-Civil War neoslavery was evolving—not disappearing.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Eisenhower listened in fascination, but tactfully schooled his visitors in the realities of international arms policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But fast enough, the dire reality of the situation began to hit Thomas, and his insides turned to rot. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z War, vengeance, murder—all the themes on which the tale was strung—were so removed from modern reality, few could relate. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I got a radio DJ gig and hosted a kids’ adventure reality show on television. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z With the threat of school closing quickly becoming a reality, I appreciated going even more. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Plato had a mathematician’s sensibility—his investigations into reality took place in the mind alone. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z But there had been too much death; it was time for reality. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z What I had only been able to imagine when I first looked at the magazine picture of the ballerina had now become reality. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I once told you that, after years of being adored, it was hard for me to adjust to the harsh reality of grown-ups and rebukes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z In reality, however, even when the electrons are sent one at a time, the fringes still appear. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At the next platform, my head has cleared and the reality of what’s happened hits me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Abruptly, and rather unwillingly, Capricorn's men returned to reality. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z And one for the reality that something about me and Tanisha’s friendship doesn’t seem right. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z This was done at the insistence of many child psychologists, who felt that to mix fantasy and reality would be misleading to children. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But layers of Mist enfolded Hazel, twisting her sense of reality. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z My staff and I had spent the past two months working to turn my idea for a garden into reality, which hadn’t been easy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I guess being on a famous reality TV show kind of makes you a celebrity. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Pa has never spoken so bluntly to me before, and slowly the reality of what he says sinks in. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Until then I had rejected him, refused him his own reality. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In reality, I was much more aware of places that were off- limits by Daddy’s orders than by state mandate. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I was able to ask for help because I was in an alternate reality. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Being chased by witches and warlocks, battling monsters, even defeating demons, was nothing compared to the task of facing the reality of our father’s abandonment. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z In reality, the work wasn’t as hard as Nailer had always believed, especially with the yellow-eyed glare of a halfman looking over his shoulder, but it wasn’t exactly interesting in itself. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Antipodes had become a reality, and there was no longer any way of fitting the Earth’s land masses into one hemisphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And we did not know the date of our move, so it still seemed like an unattainable concept, not a reality. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He stood and said goodbye, and I watched him join them, taking in the easy way they joked together and imagining an alternate reality in which I was one of them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Rachel” My voice seemed to bring her back to reality. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It’s because nothing I could say would help her face the reality of it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was the reality and the threat of the armed struggle that had brought the government to the verge of negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The kinds of things that people create through this network of stories are known in academic circles as ‘fictions’, ‘social constructs’, or ‘imagined realities’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s enough to ground me in reality again. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z A handsome one, certainly, but in reality, harmless. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Much as a real mirror introduces changes of its own and does not reflect the simple truth, so this one alters the way the girl looks, revealing a deeper reality. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought the illusion would be like a creepy glitchy thing, as if one moment she’d see the illusion and the other moment she’d see the reality. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Saying this in reality was more dreamlike than the dozen bad dreams I've had about saying it. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Sometimes a vision of normal comfort obliterated reality: she saw the family in the evening gambling at the dinner table, the young people massaging their elders’ backs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever she was really scared or freaking out, the same thing always happened: she began to dissociate, reality loosening around her like a hammock deconstructing itself, spilling her out into sands of nothingness. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z As her pregnancy advanced, she seemed to be distractedly letting go of reality and turning inward in a secret, unceasing conversation with her baby. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her letter was like a handrail fixed to reality, one I could reach out and grasp when my mind began to spin. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “But on the other side, on Dada’s side, he can see that we are like this in reality.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Despite the occasional bombings in my city and the Jim Crow laws that were part of my daily reality, I felt safe as a child. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The idea was that teenagers became obsessed with the game, somehow lost contact with reality, and ended up killing themselves. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When the reality of the injury set in, when it became apparent to Boobie that there was no magic wand, the grueling regimen of rehabilitation became more frustrating and futile. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The widespread aversion to advocacy on behalf of those labeled criminals reflects a certain political reality. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I blinked back to reality, suddenly aware of everything. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I find this interesting, but it does make for suspicion of history as a record of reality. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Step outside the narrow borders of what men call reality and you step into chaos—ask Rinehart, he's a master of it—or imagination. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I am learning that a life isn’t real unless someone else knows its reality. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Dad gave me a look like he was questioning my grip on reality. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “It’s what people do on reality shows like Survivor. We help each other until, you know, everybody else is eliminated and we have to stab each other in the back.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z I think I grabbed her shoulder—I’m not sure, but then she was screaming, and I was sharply back to reality with the sense of danger. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She was always nagging people to face reality, even me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z There are at least a hundred people in line at the old ticket windows, struggling to find a place to look that isn’t a painful reminder of what our collective reality is. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z But somewhere in the back of my mind the reality is clear. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The reality was decaying, dingy cities, where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A familiar local habitation gave reality to all the mythical beings. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But in reality, an invisible line ran down the middle of Berlin, separating the communist East from the capitalist West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I feel that there are too many realities. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A whip lashed across her shoulder as she gazed around the ship, and she was quickly jolted back to reality. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Reichstag building burned down, which became the pretext for Hitler’s suppression of political dissent, Szilard was dismayed by the failure of his German friends to grasp the developing reality. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps in daylight we accept that bag to be just a bag”—she pointed with the flat of her palm as if it balanced a top—“when in reality it is a Bag Ghost.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In reality, the only thing that could be isolated in the rocky paragraphs was the insistent hammering on the word equinox, equinox, equinox, and the name of Alexander von Humboldt. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In moments the Ifrit could only be seen in the mirrors, and no longer in reality. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z This does not mean that they merely transcribe optical reality. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The truth is Alaska is for real, and with a lack of knowledge, of understanding, this reality comes with sometimes great and sometimes lethal danger. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Until then, gods had had no semblance of reality. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “The only way we know it’s true is that we both dreamed it. That’s what reality is. It’s a dream everyone has together.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She gave up her dreams and took over hard realities in their place. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But the more historically correct reality was that no one quite knew what the Republican triumph meant in positive terms for the national government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Moreover, Einstein refused to believe in the reality of quantum mechanics, despite the important role he had played in its development. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His respect for the Soviet players, from what he knew of their games, was immense, and at first, the reality of being in Russia was like being in chess heaven. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Any image is a separate and self-contained reality which has its own ends and responds to its own imperatives, for artists are bound only to their creativity. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In the weeks since her father had died, Ash’s memory of her midnight encounter with the Fairy Hunt had seemed more like a dream than reality. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For a brief moment, this was a reality. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Her mind floated lazily between reality and sleep, taking in the intermingling smells of smoke, ponya seed paste, and the surrounding trees as they creaked and rustled in the darkness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I guess that’s what made her so strong—being able to just face reality straight up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He stared, trying to grasp the reality of what was happening. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z He rips at reality and tears aside concealing veils. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But superimposed over the ruins was another layer of reality - a spectral mirage of the palace as it must have appeared in its heyday. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z But blinding yourself to the realities that our teenagers go through is like seeing a murder and turning the other way. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The reality was starting to hit me: I was going to be sent to a camp. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z No matter how often he’d thought about it, the reality came as a blow. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The lock turned; we went in, entering the doubtful reality of a hallway familiar only in daylight and bustle. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicago had the resolve to make this exposition a reality, the same resolve that had made the city the second largest in America. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Just as she let herself relax, however, her worst fears became reality. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems fair to say that Brunelleschi’s image aspires to exemplify what philosophers call a correspondence theory of truth, in which a statement or representation is true if it corresponds to external reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In one single day, with a brutal slap, life threw on top of her the whole weight of a reality that her parents had kept hidden from her for many years. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In reality I lay many hundred miles away in an alien land, and would wake, before many seconds had passed, in the bare little hotel bedroom, comforting in its very lack of atmosphere. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z As in Idaho, they’d worked themselves into a land of routine, bounded by age, social realities, money, and the Net. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing all these Grievers close up hit home with an explosion of reality—could they really fight them all? The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z At one point she came running to find me and asked, “How do you feel about the possibility of reality TV? Camera crews will follow you around and you’ll be a prime-time series.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In reality, it made no difference to her where she ate, and not at regular hours but according to the whims of her appetite. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The unprecedented price demanded—and at this embattled hour of the world’s history—is the transcendence of the realities of color, of nations, and of altars. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z My worst nightmare is now becoming my reality. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There’s much pain but there’s also something like reality. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Lourdes prefers to confront reality—the brownstones converted to tenements in a matter of months, the garbage in the streets, the jaundice-eyed men staring vacantly from the stoops. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But now that I had found the thread of reality, how could I hold on? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Americans believe in the reality of “race” as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Then the game assumed a dimension of reality. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The reality was that though people had been kind enough to include them in events, they remained very much apart. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He goes on to say that this kind of religion, which declines wisdom, even though it may call itself Christian, is in reality as anti-Christian as is atheism. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed bemused by my casual reference to his secret realities. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z For the first fifteen seconds, she stands still, as her idea of the room switches places with reality. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z For what evidence had he in reality that O’Brien was any kind of political conspirator? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z After what seems like months, but in reality is only about five days, the train stops once again. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Rush and Helmuth would have been surprised to know that their worries were turning to reality on August 3. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z From where I sat, the neighborhoods appeared placid and almost toylike, but the reality was in many cases far different. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Rebel. You should totally have your own reality show: Packing for Uncertainty.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z She knew where the boundaries lay; she knew that social reality was not reality at all, but so many rules people could not imagine breaking. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z This failure to make contact with reality is, however, characteristic of almost all of America’s “art.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All sense of physical reality slipped away—except for one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But she knew that in reality, she was simply nervous — after what Lore had said — at the idea of seeing the huntress again. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The argument itself was not new: it had already been formulated in the debate between Averroists and their opponents over the reality of epicycles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The sting of cold metal around his wrists pulls him back to reality. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z These books and toys revealed to me a new reality. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The cosmic images of dread were now gone and the external world became a reality, quivering daily before me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fair is fair and all, but reality is also reality. I’m putting down a 2.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Severo felt that it was time for his daughter to shake off her lethargy, stand firmly in reality, and learn the domestic skills that would prepare her for marriage, but Nivea thought differently. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Here I had thought they accepted me because they felt that color made no difference, when in reality it made no difference because they didn't see either color or men . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But the reality is, ladies and gentlemen, I am being merciful. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z So in reality they need never have been all at exactly the same place, only very close together. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They were ghosts themselves, caught between two worlds: the reality of their crimes, and the hereafter denied them for those crimes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In nighttime “reveries,” Gatsby embroidered his story, convincing himself “of the unreality of reality.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z At long last, reality seemed to be sinking in. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z In reality, all of those dates are merely attempts to label arbitrary points along a continuum. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then his feet touched the floor and the cool kiss of the linoleum established reality. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I focus on every muscle and bone, every reality of my own body, trying to get back into now. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z To convince myself that there was some dignity in what I planned to do, in surrendering my own perceptions of right and wrong, of reality, of sanity itself, to earn the love of my parents. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I am in reality. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The reality is that, just a few decades after the collapse of one caste system, we constructed another. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Once you get used to it, reality is as irresistible as a club, and I was clubbed into the cellar before I caught the hint. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But science as a system of knowledge is more than a social construct because it is successful, because it fits with reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The seed Coach Mustilli had planted in my mind was sprouting into reality. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z But even from here, thirty feet away, I know that the reality of her is going to match my memory. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Maybe if I fight to make Abnegation work, my act will turn into reality. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z My synthetic surroundings faded away as I focused on the game and lost myself in its ancient two-dimensional reality. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He felt himself slipping, struggling to separate reality from memory, the immediate present from the distant past. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The war was and is reality for me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z —Do you ever feel like you’re “out of touch” with reality? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Which is worse, I wonder—watching everyone you know fall into that ravine, or shaking their reality with such force that it ruins them. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Malcolm had to stand in the corridor outside the Terrace Room for a moment to regain his sense of reality. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I didn’t know one star from the other, didn’t know much of anything about the reality of space. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In the thick of play, his daydreams were so vivid that a glimpse of reality would have shocked him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Just as predictably, the piece didn’t really alter their social reality as I’d hoped. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My reality was that it was more and more difficult for my parents to clothe and feed me in high school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z DRACO: Did you know that in this other reality—the reality Scorpius saw into—I was Head of Magical Law Enforcement? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z I felt like it was me against the other team, but in reality, I had four other players on the court with me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In another reality, Leo might’ve enjoyed a walk on the beach with a pretty girl, but the farther they went, the edgier he felt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Fighting to maintain a grip on reality, I started talking to myself out loud. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z But there was no hiding from reality that morning. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "It's a risk which we must take. All of us must sacrifice for the good of the whole. Change is achieved through sacrifice. We follow the laws of reality, so we make sacrifices." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z For weeks I had studied maps, large-scale and small, but maps are not reality at all—they can be tyrants. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike lying, an imagined reality is something that everyone believes in, and as long as this communal belief persists, the imagined reality exerts force in the world. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z By African standards, Winnie was from a well-to-do family and had been shielded from some of the more unpleasant realities of life in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Silver’s sigh brings me back to reality. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z They had mules loaded down with things to eat, oxcarts with furniture and domestic utensils, pure and simple earthly accessories put on sale without any fuss by peddlers of everyday reality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Still, peace would mean a glorious sense of relief; in all his years Jethro had heard either the talk of war’s imminence or its reality. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I have imagined him afraid many times, but the reality outstrips those imaginings. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “That was our mistake, comrade. For we know now—it is all written down in the secret documents that we have found— that in reality he was trying to lure us to our doom.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The unfortunate reality we must face is that racism manifests itself not only in individual attitudes and stereotypes, but also in the basic structure of society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I opened the apartment door, put down my bag, and took off my shoes, like everything was wonderful, because I didn’t know that in reality everything was actually horrible, because how could I? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In reality, as he saw now, he had been ready to capitulate long before he had taken the decision. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I was so glad to have a purpose that I stopped thinking about the reality. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words—in reality, only one word. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In reality, the tables were populated by players of all ages; there just weren’t many children as young as him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Fresh wording and concrete images force us to keep updating the virtual reality display in our minds. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It felt like I deliberated our journey for hours, when in reality, we were there for only a few more seconds. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z In reality he would never have dared to do such a bold thing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Despite the multiple vantage points and implausible bird’s-eye view, the image works because it constitutes a self-contained reality. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He bought them some furniture and gave them some money until José Arcadio recovered his sense of reality and began to work the no-man’s-land that bordered the courtyard of the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Then again, maybe turning my Olympic dream into a reality could be as simple as the advice my friend and teammate Aly Raisman gave me at Nationals Camp that spring. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z For the first time in his life, he managed to link those didactic anecdotes with a reality he could see. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Any connection between American art and American nature is purely coincidental, but this is only because the nation as a whole has no contact with reality. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z While the TV commentator may have sounded like the voice of the Klan to C.P., in reality he spoke for the white men of wealth, power, and prestige who governed the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Such a person interposes between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Thus G. E. Moore thought it was common sense to believe in an external reality, but not in a creator God or a life after death, while these beliefs have seemed commonsensical to many people. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There were political realities there, then and now, that precluded blind faith, that discouraged one from thinking that everything, always, would work out fairly and equitably. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I have plenty of dreams, but the reality is that we’ll have to stay here until the war is over. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He accepted almost immediately the reality I’d spent a year denying. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I must tell you that they were dreams so vivid and beautiful that I am loath to wake to reality.’” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Then, as happens in my reality, all these things occurred at once: 1. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She acts gleefully impulsive, but in reality, I don’t think there’s anything impulsive about her. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They were to press the war home to its real lords—until they themselves were ready to refrain from warfare, being confronted with its reality. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It is possible—quite easy, in fact—never to see the embedded reality. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The same underworld exists now in virtual reality, except it’s called the Dark World—a dangerous virtual place where I frequently wander, searching for the criminals who like to hang out there. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He saw the golden figure of Edward Black pull ahead of him in the amazing dream of reality. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She brought it out calmly, “He developed a sense of humor—it’s an escape, you see, a method of partial escape from reality. He became a practical joker.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It was awful for Bailey and me to encounter the reality one abrupt morning. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Those symbols of great wealth and the reality of their lives too noisily clashed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The fact that I’m developing “reality criteria” is a good thing as far as he’s concerned. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Pictorial space need not conform to either conceptual or visual reality. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the Party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Whenever they had this conversation, reality became a little unhinged, as if she and the other New Smokies might really be the insane ones. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But reality had never yielded to my thoughts before. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was like Laleh belonged to that reality, but I was just a guest. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Deborah realized these movies were fiction, but for her the line between sci-fi and reality had blurred years earlier, when her father got that first call saying Henrietta’s cells were still alive. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But I am surprised your powers of observation have not already made it clear to you that he is in reality more than that. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Of course, she has no concept of the realities here. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z My head spirals into visions of a post-apocalyptic reality that I never imagined could arrive quicker than the expiration date on our milk. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Ideology,” then, had provided Jefferson with a politically attractive pro-French platform, which had turned out to have enormous rhetorical advantages no matter how wrong it proved in reality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They show Lowell to have been well aware of the skepticism expressed by other astronomers about the reality of the canals. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s based on a simple proposition: Our day-to-day reality is based on what we see and hear with what we experience. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I knew vaguely what a pass was, but not its reality. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The fact that in some realities we aren’t even, you know, married. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z The reality of Keav’s death is too sad so I create a fantasy world to live in. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were just lucky enough to have no idea of the reality I faced. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I learned the realities of gang violence not from after-school specials but when my boy Mark got jumped and beaten down for wearing the wrong color jacket. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And here, the reality was that they sat ten feet apart, she at the window, crushing geranium leaves in her hand and smelling them, he twirling around on the piano stool, saying: The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z In this very weak sense, of course, mathematics is constraining, as is all reality, but it has no independent power to coerce. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As we pass the Target tent city, I have to do a reality check. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z As Stimson recalled the moment, “it was considered exceedingly probable that we should by midsummer have successfully detonated the first atomic bomb . . . What had begun as a well-founded hope was now developing into a reality.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If Ivy thought her stomach was fluttering at the idea of crushing on June, that was nothing compared to the reality of actually asking June to a dance. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In any case he had no difficulty m proving to the other animals that they were not in reality short of food, whatever the appearances might be. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z An alternative view is that postmodernists do not want to recognize the existence of ‘reality’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Then there was the reality that funding for basic research was always in danger of cutbacks, especially in periods of economic strain. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But the reality of the situation sank like a stone in his belly. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I envy this technique and at the same time do not trust it as a mirror of reality. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z If it were not for the peach, all would have doubted the reality of the Queen Mother's visit. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z At base, though the white brings forth many arguments to justify his viewpoint, one feels the reality is simply that he cannot bear to “lose” to the traditionally servant class. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Please try to be clear, dear James, through the storm which rages about your youthful head today, about the reality which lies behind the words acceptance and integration. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Once, thinking he must have come from a tribal system which recognizes the unseen as a part of reality, I asked this man if he was not afraid of the haunted place, particularly at night. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They argued that since there seemed to be infinitely more Friedmann-like models without a big bang singularity than there were with one, we should conclude that there had not in reality been a big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But twenty thousand dollars of reality has sunk in, and my lungs have shut down again. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z In the reality of the USSR, millions of people were tortured and starved to death in the first years of the Communist Party state. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But after playing for a few minutes, I quickly became immersed in the reality created by the words on the screen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If you are ever going to be involved with the work on this preserve, you will need to learn to cope with certain unpleasant realities. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They were very much the same, each attempting to force his picture of reality upon me and neither giving a hoot in hell for how things looked to me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of the others, and all the questions they would ask, jolted Lazlo out of his survival euphoria and back into reality. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And if you were a person like my father, you began to think about how you could escape such realities. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z For a few fragile seconds, she remained as detached as the clouds overhead, suspended in an intermediate space between nightmares and dreams, where reality couldn’t reach. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z After the middle of the present century, the first danger had in reality disappeared. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She doesn’t understand why these Deckers aren’t home with loved ones, particularly those two teen boys today, who, as they were leaving, talked about how underwhelming the virtual reality experience was. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Rather than argue with Raoul’s construct of reality, I just tell him that I’m not allowed to talk to people with too many consecutive vowels in their name. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z This reality can be frustrating for those who strive to help ghetto youth “turn their lives around.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The convention that seems basic to us—that illustrations represent reality—was not immediately obvious. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In reality, although we frequently draw such a contrast, hunter-gatherers in some productive areas, including North America’s Pacific Northwest coast and possibly southeastern Australia, became sedentary but never became food producers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I loathed them all as they passed me by, loathed that what passed for courage and endurance was in reality apathy even in the face of death. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The Conclusion stands back and asks what the consequences are of recognizing the reality of the Scientific Revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I don't think my sister derived any pleasure from blowing my carefully crafted reality to pieces, but maybe she couldn't handle being alone in her teen angst. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Deaf to his calm reasoning, to his sense of reality, Arcadio reproached him in public for his weakness of character. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Eventually, the shock began to wear off, and the reality of what had just happened started to sink in. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “He needs to accept reality at some point.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “It’s just like jumping into a cold pool. The anticipation is much worse than the reality. Take the leap, and I promise all will be well.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Seeing one reality, and believing it’s something else entirely. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Nor were they of smooth gold leaf as in reality, but were patterned instead in fish-scale tiles of darker gold and brighter, so the sun didn’t merely glint on them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “A lot of stuff can make you anxious. I’m sorry you’ve been carrying around something like that. What a thing to be thinking about! But sometimes everyone needs a reality check, right?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I was snapped back into the reality of having to converse. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The story played over and over and over again, like watching a movie in virtual reality where it doesn’t really seem like you—like it’s real—but you can feel every blow, every break. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And Em’s dad reminded Bridge of Em’s mom—he watched reality TV and always knew what meme was going around. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z In reality a moth perched on his brow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The reality of the room fell from him; the vast city of white people that sprawled outside took its place. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “And then we can have our own reality show about our relationship.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The picture captures precisely the reality the painter witnessed in Clara’s house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet when I walked out of the election night party, full of hope and enthusiasm, I was immediately reminded of the harsh realities of the New Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “Snouts! Like pigs! It’s this other reality, where she looks like a supermodel but she’s the ugly one. Get it?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I’m hoping the pain will help me hang on to reality the way it did for Peeta. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The two days at Mona's cottage had been a reprieve from cold reality, but now, as they made their way down an overgrown trail that surely hadn’t seen human traffic in generations, that reality returned. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z My social circle is, in reality, not a circle. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the reality of who enrolled looked slightly different. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But to borrow a Buddhist phrase, eventually came a setting face-to-face with pure reality. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee's endearing characters, Atticus Finch and his precocious daughter, Scout, captivated readers while confronting them with some of the realities of race and justice in the South. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z O'BRIEN That's true, but in reality it depends on how the jury sees the case. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The dream was an appealing one, the architects agreed, and no one doubted Chicago’s sincerity in imagining this fantasy precinct of lagoons and palaces, but the reality was something else entirely. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Away from the office, Barack and I talked endlessly, over leisurely walks around Hyde Park dressed in shorts and T-shirts and meals that seemed short to us but in reality went on for hours. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It’s as if they operate in two realities simultaneously. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Thomas’s heart sank as he snapped back to reality and remembered how grim the world had become. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And in spite of her determination and excitement at being so close to their destination, she couldn’t erase the reality that for now the three of them were hungry and thoroughly exhausted. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in the telling, something of the reality of the dream came through to the others, so that they were awed by her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z "Of course she does. But she has you around to give her a reality check from time to time." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The falling of the tree was simply a natural reality, like the passing of another day. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Then she inhaled sharply and squeezed her arms around her body, the painful reality hitting her that her father would never again discover a new word or idea to share with her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z If you prefer an “academic life” as a retreat from reality, do not go into biology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But the reality of it was in those eyes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “I’m sick of pretending it doesn’t exist, just to make other people feel more comfortable. How about they just get comfortable with my reality?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Members of Parliament were being confronted with the reality of slavery, just as audiences at Clarkson’s lectures were when he showed shackles and whips. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z After the brutal reality of things Waterside, it seemed to me as if I had stumbled into a formal ball. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The reality is, I may not make it to the courthouse in the morning. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Therefore I concluded that Colonel Arbuthnot and Miss Debenham were in reality well acquainted, and were for some reason pretending to be strangers. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Phenomena are too subjective: they are appearances, not realities; things and particulars are too much in the real world: none of them corresponds to that peculiar blend of reality and thought which is the fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In conversation they papered over the grim realities of their jobs with cheery euphemisms. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s why I go to school so far away from home so I can escape my reality. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Sure, I love the idea of our family’s archenemies turning into sycophantic suck-ups, but when the strange actually materializes into reality, it definitely leaves you reeling. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I know all too well how it is when the beautiful visions you’ve been fed don’t match up with reality. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z In his notebook for 1905, for example, there is an entry on January 21: “Double canals came out by flashes, convincing of reality.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn't sleep all night; a fog-horn was groaning incessantly on the Sound, and I tossed half-sick between grotesque reality and savage frightening dreams. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The nagging weight on her shoulder brought Magdalys back to reality. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Armed conflict between communism and democracy was no longer a frightening possibility but a terrifying reality. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The sun was bright and gave the day a hard reality as we climbed up the steps to the second floor. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a part of the virtual reality, a simulation. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In reality, I had no idea if that was true or not. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “When they open their eyes to reality they’ll find accomplished facts.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It would be tempting to invite her in, for in the depths of grief, sometimes one cannot tell the difference between illusion and reality. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I would kill her and teach them reality. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a delusion that would put me on a collision course with reality at the US Secret Classic meet the following July. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Its dreams were so malicious, so fitful, that Hazel felt herself losing her grip on reality. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He knows it, and the knowledge gives him more reality than most people own: a solidness of being, a substantiality, a human grandeur. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Against all reality, I even envision the Doorman eating it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He was naive about the reality I was trying to explain to him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z In reality, the machine was set up right on the ground, as simple as you please. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z She’d been too young back then to truly appreciate the severity of things like terms and conditions, and only after Baba had died had the terrible reality shown its true face. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Sometimes I think people take reality for granted. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I embrace him with everything I have, and for a moment, he feels so real that I think, no, wait, this is reality! Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z It seemed as if some penetrating lucidity permitted her to see the reality of things beyond any formalism. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Apparently, people of the Old Stone Age made no clear distinction between image and reality. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z At least once they got there, reality would replace uncertainty and they would be able to do something, to act. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Just a dream, he told himself, though reality wasn’t much better. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Stomach- sleepers like me were in retreat from reality, given to dark perception and the meditative arts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Talking to you,” she said, “your reality is so warped. It’s like talking to someone who wasn’t even there.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But in reality his is only a little boy, a little boy who feels helpless and unable to protect his own family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was too stark, not redeemed, not made real with the reality that was the warm blood of life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The cat leaped on to an overhanding rock, and as the hollow, raucous howl went ringing back and forth again the dogs turned questioningly, their eyes straining to seek the reality of the call. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor did reality improve as the day unfolded. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I don’t understand why they are looking at me as if I am a strange animal, when in reality, we look very much the same. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z When spring came and Clara was able to get some rest, her tendency to escape reality and lose herself in daydreams became more pronounced. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was brought back to reality by an almost thunderous knocking on my kitchen door. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His body was warm in the predawn cold, and formed something solid and certain in Tally’s shaken reality. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In the months to come they would draw together even more closely just as I would hold to them—my moment of separateness a foreshadowing, but not yet a reality. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z From this stupor he was aroused to a more immediate sense of reality by the impact on his cheek of a well-aimed packet of chewing-gum. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Years earlier, Dr. Treisman spoke of the idea that our very sense of reality gets established by what we pay attention to. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Maybe, like Laura Cramp, when pressed up against the rocky reality of their son's death, the Millers’ faith finally started to crack. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It was as if the world below us were slowly fading away like the dream it was, and only we existed now on a tiny island of reality here on this hilltop. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have no sense of reality. You’ve never taken stock of how the world really is. You put your faith in utopian values that don’t even exist.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My dream is slowly becoming a reality, but my next and most important step lies ahead of me ... in college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Redemption jumped at the sound, the way the words scraped against reality and echoed inside skin. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z But before long, the party was over and grim reality set in. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There is nourishment in the desert for myth, but myth must somewhere have its roots in reality. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Public fact becomes private reality, and the seasons of a Midwestern town become the Moirai of our small lives. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z If the last few months have proven anything, it's that I don't need more theory, but rather more experience with reality. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “In those days, a government denial was all it took to make a reality disappear.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I know, but...can’t we stay? Please help me ignore reality a little longer.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z But it was hard to hold on to that feeling as reality reasserted itself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Psycho” had a sudden mental-ward reality about it, a systematic, diagnostic sound. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z This reality was so far outside anything she could’ve tried to imagine just a few weeks ago. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I probably would’ve sat there for the rest of the day, staring at the lava and trying to remember what my name was, but the sea demons jarred me back to reality. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Which brought me back to reality really, really fast. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I do the same—exit the car, I mean—but my grip on reality is feeble at best. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z I could never be on one of those reality TV shows where a camera keeps staring and staring, watching everything I do. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It forced reality on me and kept me sane. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In 1712 the Industrial Revolution and the age of steam lay far in the future; by 1836 they were a reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But then reality kicks in when I see that line in front of me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Although I wanted a miracle in school, and knew full well that the miracle should somehow involve academic study, in reality I spent my time reading. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The same principle would also prolong the harsh realities of life for poor blacks like Ann Atwater, let alone for the equally poor, and increasingly threatened, whites like C. P. Ellis. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I’m sure he feels guilty, but honestly, I don’t even have the energy for it, or to imagine anything other than this nightmarish reality that is actually my life. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I did not want to look away from the reality. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But I also knew that this was a result of my activism, and it was a new reality I needed to accept. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Often these images emanate from BET or black-themed reality shows and thus are considered “authentic” expressions of black attitudes, culture, and mores. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I had to be responsible for my own escape, and I could see from watching television the reality of what I wanted. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was the sort of thing that Alex had seen a thousand times in films and on television, and he was shocked by how different the reality was. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The cold night air is reality at last: indifferent to me as a stone face carved on a high cliff wall to show that the world is abandoned. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z That is just ordinary deviation from external reality. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s Henry who brings us back to reality. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z All those scenes I had admired on the candy boxes were even more impressive in reality. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z We all sat there for a minute, looking like we were smiling, but in reality, not. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Eighteenth-century English and French scientists rejected the ample testimony as to the reality of meteorites, as we reject stories of alien abduction. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I snap back to reality and realize that Renee is standing to get her certificate. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to me that Rebecca had no reality any more. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And there had been times when it had seemed to have a mysterious sort of reality about it. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Absorbing these psychosocial realities created all kinds of distortions and difficulties that manifest themselves today in multiple ways. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Tonight she and Lazlo had sought solace in each other and found it, and they had hidden in it, blocking out reality and the hate they were powerless against. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was the clock ticking on the wall that brought me to reality again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The group charged that Charles was conceited and vain, having an opinion of himself that exceeded reality. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Get in there, boy!” the order was repeated, louder than before, and I jolted back to reality. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z For him, drama rather than historical narrative was the way of constructing the appearance of reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Science belongs to the very extensive class of activities which combine the natural and the artificial, which are constrained by both reality and culture. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z However, in reality, women and girls like Maria often learned—and performed—much of the work required of their family businesses in addition to their household duties. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In reality, Jews numbered about 523,000 out of a population of 67 million people in Germany, less than 1 percent. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She was becalmed in a magnificent adolescence, more and more impenetrable to formality, more and more indifferent to malice and suspicion, happy in her own world of simple realities. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I was too young to question Papa's new reality or whether my childhood memories were ever real. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The reality of it was no worse than the anticipation had been. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I came face-to-face with reality later that evening as I read the Gazette headlines: “Last of 225 GFs Leave School; Arkansas National Guard in Charge.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The moment its bottom touches the edge, I can already see the worst-case scenario playing in my head, but it isn’t until he lets go of the Comet that my worst fear materializes into reality. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “What Daddy means is that sometimes Uncle Jack isn’t...all the way in touch with reality.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The colossus of Wagner is an inescapable reality of late-nineteenth- century music, indeed of recent Western civilisation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It may seem at first blush that cooperating with the system while urging good behavior is the only option available, but in reality it is not a liberation strategy at all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He left St. Louis for a job editing a rural Michigan newspaper but found that the realities of being a small-town editor did not live up to the fantasy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z How could Boyle, one of the key figures of the Scientific Revolution, be so totally convinced of the reality of alchemical transmutation? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The reality of what this meant started to set in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As he jumped, and after he had jumped, he felt no better, he felt worse, the reality of it was far more appalling than he could have imagined. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “No, the most useful maps are grounded in reality. Mazes can be real, too. Made from hedges in a garden. Mostly, though, they’re artificial, imaginary.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Jeanne starts to laugh, which seems to bring Master Bacon back to reality. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It’s strange, because in reality, I’m not the leading guy. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Back and forth you could go, confirming the exact correspondence between reality and image, making and unmaking your own world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Somewhere up there, Tris’s voice pierced the simulation I was under, and I felt her hand on my chest, drawing me back to reality. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I learned to use my imagination to shape my reality and harness it to serve my needs. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Already, I’m trying to figure out what kind of new virtual reality they have installed in their headquarters. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was as if she was painting herself another reality. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It would be a true nightmare except that at the same time good, sweet memories are given even more strength, more reality. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Leaning back in the soft chairs of their offices with plenty of time on their hands to talk and reflect, they said they had come to grips with the hard reality of the world. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was willing to exchange soul-destroying suspicion for heartbreaking reality. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Vermeer’s mastery of light’s expressive qualities elevates his concern for the reality of appearance to the level of poetry and subsumes its visual and symbolic possibilities. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z At home on Euclid Avenue, I felt powerless in the face of a new reality. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z That orphan's dream suddenly became a reality for me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The memories were better than any reality I would see today. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z But Stella felt the tension in her mother’s arms, and she knew that in reality, fear hugged them both. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I became afraid, since I could no longer tell the difference between dream and reality. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The reality is that you can focus your attention on one very specific thing, not everything in your field of vision. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Then we turned up Church Street and rented this reality DVD, Life Against Death, which had a lot of cliffs, as well as fires, animal attacks, and skydiving accidents. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z If that was the reality, then every meal would have the poten-tial to be a perfect meal. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z This, too, I felt, made for a richer illusion of reality. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The way to achieve the ultimate liberation through lifelessness is to cease paying heed to the illusion of reality. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z These realities suggest—if the past two decades of endless war somehow did not—that the drug war is doomed to fail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Before I could argue, I heard the backroom door slam shut, loudly, and it snapped me back to reality. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z But in reality he was the son of Zeus, who had visited Amphitryon’s wife Alcmena in the shape of her husband when the general was away fighting. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In the reality she constructed for herself nothing had been wrong before her brother fell off that pallet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The ability to create an imagined reality out of words enabled large numbers of strangers to cooperate effectively. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in striking contrast to the messy reality of the workaday world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All order, I’ve come to understand, is theoretical, unreal— a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world—two snake- pits. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Words scratched on a page trying to capture a reality that overwhelmed me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, since perceptions tend to become realities, the natural tendency of the mass media to accentuate the anomalous, combined with an innumerate society’s taste for such extremes, could conceivably have quite dire consequences. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel’s eyes were stormy and distant, the way they’d been in the House of Hades - like she was peering into a different layer of reality. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It would only be the briefest glimpse, and then she would snap back into reality, knocked slightly off balance, and Pol or Kaede or Tali would ask her if she was all right. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Travis said in a horrible British accent, imitating his mom’s favorite cooking reality show host from the Food Network. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z But now, as we were stepping back into reality and moving forward with our lives, it became difficult to focus on the relationship. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Please try to be clear, dear James, through the storm which rages about your youthful head today, about the reality which lies behind the words acceptance and integration. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Scientific knowledge is not, in reality, unalterable truth, even if it appears to be. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I think, in reality, I raised my finger to my lips and said, “Shhhhh,” so she wouldn’t say anything else as we spiraled into the center of that wish circle. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Then Jack would snap back to reality, his stomach almost turning inside out from hunger, his body infested with lice, men around him dying from hunger, disease, and sorrow. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “Did you ever wonder if what you believe is reality? I mean, that beyond this is a real reality that’s more real than the reality you know?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Yet the assumption that Lawrence and Teller would work together in unalloyed harmony turned out to be an instance of hope triumphing over reality. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The reality, though, is more painful and tiring than I had imagined. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Because she was stuck in her house, Jinjoo had no concept of what was happening in the outside world, where occupation by the Communists had become a reality. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z After a while, time seemed to lose its reality. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Intentions always look better on paper than in reality. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z What had been a dream was a reality. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In reality, there are only a few New Guinean—like populations in the Philippine/western Indonesia area, notably the Negritos living in mountainous areas of the Philippines. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She exists in an in-between place, middle class on paper but squeezed in reality. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z This lighthearted banter is all very amusing, but reality will prove otherwise. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “The English don’t know reality or the world as you do, sir,” I said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing the key listed there snapped me back to reality. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They lost their sense of reality, the notion of time, the rhythm of daily habits. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “It just doesn’t make sense,” Moms will say, flipping the channel to a baseball game or some reality show we all like. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Her family’s reality had expanded when Pet was added to it, but everyone else still lived in that other world, the one where creatures from other realms didn’t exist. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z You’re still young, yet already you know a different reality about white people; namely, that they are of two kinds—good and bad. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that reality is a whole lot better. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This chapter has pointed instead to a sociological reality—the scientific network—and more concretely, the small crowd that surrounded Périer on the summit of the Puy-de-Dôme. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Women in general, and Marina in particular, weren’t his number one concern when he faced up to the enormous reality that his country was at war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It’s a good thing that, at the height of my glory, I was suddenly plunged into reality. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I stared, my mind trying to adjust memory to reality. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I shake my head, snapping back to reality, feet moving me toward the stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z In reality, the United States wasn’t as gullible as it had been portrayed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Zsuzsa recalled: “I tried to convince him in the beginning about the realities, telling him the facts, but soon I realized that it was impossible to convince him, and I tried to change the topic.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The overall bluntness of much of my life, the enforced reality of it, kept me from completely believing in things like psychic abilities, especially those from animals or other possible fairy tales. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Thus, according to the American College Dictionary, a fact is ‘something that actually exists; reality’ and also, or alternatively, ‘a truth known by actual experience or observation; something known to be true’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As her words fell upon my new ears, I endowed them with a reality that welled up from somewhere within me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Even without the maybes, there was no getting around the brutal reality that, for a couple of days there in October, I’d known how, and when, someone was going to die. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We would probably have gone on and discussed the war and agreed that it was in reality a calamity for civilization, and perhaps would have been better avoided. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Because of this cold reality, most jockeys would ride through virtually anything, and they shrugged off the grisliest injuries. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Power over matter— external reality, as you would call it—is not important. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The utopia that our ancestors could only dream of is our reality. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Are you saying that all those tales you tell Ash have any basis in reality?” he said in disbelief. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The reality began to sink in, and I slumped under its weight. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “No,” he gasped, surfacing fast to be spilled back into reality like someone beached by the crash of a wave. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Provides an illusion of reality—puts together all their facts with a gluey whine of connectedness. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I am saying, rather, that control must be geared to realities, not to mythical situations, and that the methods employed must be such that they do not destroy us along with the insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes old copies of the Field come my way, and I am transported from this indifferent island to the realities of an English spring. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “That the famous Aech, renowned gunter and the most feared and ruthless arena combatant in the entire OASIS, was, in reality, a...” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The minute I walk inside, reality crashes down around me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I'm here on a temporary basis, but each day gives me more time to adjust to my new reality. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It was like living in a dream, the reality of which might change at any moment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He summoned his energies and lifted his head and struck out desperately, determined to rise from the grave, resolved to force upon Max the reality of his living. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I shouted, starding her back to reality, “Wait, Ma! There’s something else. Something I want you to have before I go.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Aureliano José, who was then finishing his military training, finally woke up to reality and went to sleep in the barracks. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Luckily, I had access to the OASIS, which was like having an escape hatch into a better reality. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But when he sees that pill bottle—and the label reading “Keflex”—he has to reevaluate his whole concept of reality. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I found the reality of what she was saying beyond my understanding; yet, emotionally, I believed her wholly. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z For him, it was an escape from reality, from feeling the blows . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice in the dark had proved not to be supernatural, but the reality was frightening enough. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Freshly dug graves and a crowded infirmary bore silent witness to the reality of war. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I tumbled down into reality, hot-handed and self-conscious, with my face aflame, and began to stammer my apologies. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The reality of her body wasn’t something she liked having reflected back at her in the form of a photograph. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I cleaned acres of glass shelving, changing my tempo now to work faster, holding every nuance of reality within the focus of my consciousness. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The shifting light in my bedroom starts to reflect from the pool outside my balcony, and the glow startles me back into reality. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It is a cheery contrast to our reality and the reason we are traveling such a long and unknown road. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Even if the fabulous Brotherhood was a reality, there still remained the difficulty of finding one’s way into it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I didn’t have the luxury of taking reality for granted. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He sat looking at Jethro as if he, in turn, doubted the reality of his senses. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with all the warnings, the reality of being the only black student in a white school was worse than she had expected. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z This logic may seem like splitting hairs, like an argument as mystical as Newton's “ghosts,” but in reality it’s not. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was not an erotic love, but a love of shared madness, of conversations that were electric and boundless, of ambitions that ran beyond realities.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I’m not ready for the rowdy, bustling reality of New York to reassert itself yet. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z In the past, also, war was one of the main instruments by which human societies were kept in touch with physical reality. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Instead, my profound discomfort will be a springboard that will propel me toward a better reality. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She went for two hundred and eighteen dollars in a hasty exchange, a drop in price occasioned by the realities of the local market. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He shook himself back to reality and turned to face the oncoming Grievers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Could he really have been seeing her all this time, telling me that she was hassling him, harassing him, when in reality they were making plans to meet up, to sneak around behind my back? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an odd part of our reality. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In reality, technologies must be not only acquired but also maintained, and that too depends on many unpredictable factors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You just want to manipulate this whole thing so it looks like it wasn’t your fault. Well, sorry! A million tears don’t change anything. They don’t change reality.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I shook my head, hoping for a reality reboot, but the giant fly guy in the cloak just continued to...exist. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Skilled in the practicalities of developing dreams into reality, we work with you to reach your goal. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I dragged myself back from Christmas at Manderley to the realities of the wagon-lit. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t hurt much, but it brings me back to reality. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Of course in reality the day unfolded nothing like that neat and orderly schedule. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Apparently you are afraid of someone who has some contact with reality, who can truthfully describe to you the offenses which you have committed to canvas.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Because in reality, he said, “rehabilitation is not our job. The truth of it is that we are warehousers of human beings.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In reality, there must be some truly “earliest X,” with all claims of earlier X’s being false. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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