This mode of irreality extends to his perceptions of her. ❋ Unknown (2008)
You may have had a similar experience—that sense of irreality and of focusing on the unimportant detail in the face of something hideous. ❋ Emily W. Upham (2010)
By the mid-1930s, his writings began to deal with existential questions, and with what Ana María Barrenechea has called “irreality.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
Some of its components are articulated through narrative commentary that stresses the irreality for Victor of characters other than the ❋ Unknown (2008)
In this regard, the "young man of rank" whose visits to Mathilda in London trigger her father's crisis and their ensuing misery represents not so much the threat of alternate sexual options as the sheer intervention of non-fictional reality ( "well-informed and agreeable in his person") into the irreality inhabited jointly by father and daughter (19). ❋ Unknown (2008)
The layers of presumption and irreality are too many to fathom. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Hannah: If there is or there is not, I should like to know then that my ignorance of its irreality is equally and justifiably real. ❋ Unknown (2009)
After 9/11, of course, George W. and crew promised Americans the global equivalent -- and Republicans the domestic equivalent -- of a 36,000 stock market and we know just where the stock market is today: only about 27,000 points short of that irreality. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There is a measure of irreality in nearly every word of that sentence. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Every story here grabs a red-hot trope or conceit and runs for the borders of irreality with it. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Comedie Humaine can be admired only as one may admire a forceful mass of things, when it is looked at from afar, through an atmosphere that softens outlines, hides or transforms detail, adds irreality. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The strange irreality of these "gifts" does not, of course, prevent us from giving them and from thinking of the whole ekphrastic gesture as a kind of ritual of exchange. ❋ Unknown (1997)
If the iproniazid and the rest of those mind chemicals hadn't been stopped, the irreality would have broken my mind. ❋ Attanasio, A. A. (1984)
And the Universe was diminished as Khrest, the wise old Arkonide scientist, expired; dying as he had lived-serenely and with a gentle smile upon his lips-as the dearest desire of his ardent manhood reappeared, released with his final heartbeat from the recesses of irreality, to welcome her eternal love home to infinite peace. ❋ Voltz, William (1976)
Humaine_ can be admired only as one may admire a forceful mass of things, when it is looked at from afar, through an atmosphere that softens outlines, hides or transforms detail, adds irreality. ❋ Frederick Lawton (N/A)
It is intended to symbolise the Nihilism, the geometrical irreality of Petersburg and Petersburg bureaucracy. ❋ Boris Pilniak (1915)
A cunningly produced atmosphere of weird irreality pervades the whole book. ❋ Boris Pilniak (1915)
Now action would not be able to move in irreality. ❋ Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy (1912)
The demand for rational unity constitutes in the bosom of atomism something like a murmur of deep underlying continuity: it expresses in the very language of atomism, atomism's basic irreality. ❋ Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy (1912)
