These pictures, all very considerable exercises in the craft of painting, are, for us, tainted by an unreality which can seem pernicious. |
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Usually you will find me with my head in a book muttering at the unreality and anachronism in some flouncy, Austen thing. |
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Enjoying stardom while shrewdly aware of its unreality, she was accessible, loyal, generous, with a pungent sense of humour. |
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The falseness, the unreality of perpetually putting on a public face and concealing personal suffering have clearly taken their toll. |
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Those who love kitsch and enjoy the unreality of stage musicals will adore the colours, because they're fully in bloom. |
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It added an air of eeriness and unreality to the situation that made Joe feel sick to the pit of his stomach. |
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It is has a sense of heightened unreality, a deliberateness that gives the characters depth despite occasionally too-smooth dialogue. |
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Two monumental still-life paintings contain much the same air of portentous unreality. |
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Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water. |
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Occasionally, some individuals say they have blurred vision, feelings of unreality, faints, blackouts or even epileptic fits. |
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Still, ideology scores high marks for the true believers who isolate themselves in a bubble of unreality. |
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There seems to be an air of unreality, as though the war were a million miles away. |
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More than anything else, this wretched film has about it an intense air of unreality. |
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Everything took on a dreamlike sense of unreality, and faded into blackness. |
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This displacement of reality through insistence on the unreality of the war becomes necessary to survive. |
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The utter falseness and deception that pervade the campaigns of the two parties have imbued the proceedings with an air of unreality. |
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In the immediate aftermath of a terrifying event, many people report a sense of unreality. |
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I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses. |
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Like the elaborately choreographed escape from default, it was a signal moment of Washington unreality, more farce than tragedy. |
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Back to bombs and rockets One man's joy in Iraq ReprintsViewed from Iraq, all this debate has an air of unreality. |
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Bosnia has shown the unreality of expecting local politicians to help manage such reforms, at least at first. |
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But I must say that I listened to the proceedings of the morning with a growing sense of unreality. |
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Facing 75 years, an air of unreality surrounds Bongiorno's antagonistic behavior. |
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To bring a sense of unreality into one just makes it impossible and perhaps gums up the works for other required procurement programs. |
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This was the sense of bizarre unreality that the Conservative government had. |
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I awoke to a sense of unreality, as in a nightmare, but I then felt Papa by my side, like an angel passing? |
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Fear is accompanied by other symptoms such as sweating, heart palpitations, hot or cold flashes, choking or smothering and feelings of unreality. |
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Philosophical rationalism had confined the gods within the realm of unreality. |
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The only drawback is that the realistic fullness of the background tends to accentuate the unreality of the melodramatic foreground. |
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Although this bold statement was watered down slightly during oral submissions it illustrates the unreality of the Local Authority's case on foreseeability. |
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When NYC Prep premiered, it got a lot of flak for the sheer gall of its unreality. |
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Adding to the air of unreality, a fair amount of the debate around avoiding a debt ceiling seemed outlandish. |
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Guided by a realized guru and avowed to the unreality of the world, the initiate meditates on himself as Brahman, Absolute Reality, to break through the illusion of maya. |
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Childhood has long been championed as a time for make-believe, but recent research has found that another form of unreality – hallucinations – is more common in children than we previously imagined. |
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The Expressionist stage neither simulated reality nor suggested unreality. |
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The calm waters of the lake reflected and exaggerated the colours and lent an air of unreality when a vagrant breeze roiled the water and caused the picture to sway and blur. |
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In at least one instance a fictional detective may be found slipping into this state of mind himself, with the curious effect that his excursions into unreality lend him a special air of reality. |
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The gulf is in these two perceptions, and I dare say there's a little bit of unreality and a lot of reality on both sides as we begin to address this problem. |
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This is the European Union, so it would have been rash to count on the plan's being implemented just because governments had promised it would be and for most of the six years an air of unreality surrounded the venture. |
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How can the fickle, rootless and irresponsible Bruno, a thief and a liar drifting in a world of unreality and fecklessness and totally addicted to all forms of instant gratification, become the father of this child? |
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There can be no civilization on the basis of unreality, of what we have called Docetism. |
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Otherwise, a dialogue develops an air of unreality. |
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The film is about the sense of unreality, of people's confinement in their own selfishness and desire to enjoy things in life, with the deadlock this also represents. |
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To do otherwise would have lent this discussion an air of unreality. |
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