How To Use Real In A Sentence

Hopefully, North Norfolk will soon shake off this surreal obsession with the Lib Dems and embrace their NE Cambs neighbour's decent Tory stance. Will Iain Dale have to repay the donations ?
An imprimatur is not guarantee of theological soundness, in reality. Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West
Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality. The Lovecraft News Network
Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.

Do you really want ambient and drum'n'bass remixers stomping on your world music? Times, Sunday Times
Watching celebs suffer from hunger and lack of home comforts is somehow really entertaining. The Sun
He called the foiled butt "Really juicy and nearly perfect. Physicist Cracks BBQ Mystery
This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
A lot of schools don't really encourage team sports .
But yes, good of Prof. Adler, who I hope will be a little chary of Althousian pseudoreality in future. The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
When I ask if he spends money on anything really extravagant, he looks a bit uncertain. Times, Sunday Times
I think a lot of players from bigger clubs have spent time on loan at smaller clubs and it has really helped.
It was a bit too clean and antiseptic to be really considered an evil lair.
I really felt like both of us were gonna be excited for the other one if we won and that meant a lot.
We spent a lot of time together, well over two months, and so we really got to know each other.
If you interview a lot of conservative Democrats, even in states like Texas, you know, New Mexico, they are very concerned that Hillary Clinton on the top of the ticket would really kind of depress voter turnout and ultimately affect a lot of down ballot races. CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008
Either the recession is biting harder than I had realised or a lot of people are confused about the boundaries between fact and fiction.
I used to break-dance really badly. Times, Sunday Times
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating, people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
On paper, we're a one-person-one-vote nation; in reality, we're more than a bit of an oligarchy, in which a handful of wealthy people dominate.
Of course, Whitty himself ain’t exactly a peach; he loves him some torture, and buries knives in bellies with minimal provocation; when it comes to witch-hunting, he’s of the “burn her alive now, ask questions … well, don’t really bother asking questions, it’s just so damn fun to burn people, let’s do it some more!” school. Cry of the Banshee « Skid Roche
The receipts from his shows have long since moved from the realms of the fantastic into those of the ludicrous.
Do you think the Academy is really hip to how great Gosford Park is, or do they just like it's patina of British upper-crust respectability?
For him, cruelty was a legitimate and necessary procedure, almost a profession of faith, and European artists showed him how to excruciate a tame local reality.
And I think the resort is about 25% overpriced, considering the worn-down state of the place and the fact you can get a two-night package at the definitely more upmarket Avillion in Port Dickson (also not really PD, but a dozen kilometres south) from about RM800 as well. Vacations: Tiara Beach Resort — Fusion Despatches
Fortunately, seven unaired episodes will give fans something to really dive into.
This crossword will really tax your brain.
I think what we really need is a bipartisanship approach to healthcare.
People were simply showing their deep respect, their real admiration and their love for one they felt had touched their lives.
The calm was eerie; the vista serene and surreal. Times, Sunday Times
Setting aside such doomsday scenarios, what is really going on? Times, Sunday Times
It's really weighing her down because she's not living up to her ideals any longer.
And the prints represent Abstract Expressionism's entire stylistic range, from fast and visceral to cool and ethereal.
The real wage is measured along the vertical axis and labour services are measured along the horizontal axis.
For Rosenstock-Huessy, the vocative is the condition of dialogue and hence the real condition of a new truth. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
And then I got there and they're like, no, you're writing sketches for other people, which I had never done and I was really kind of bummed because I had auditioned like two or three times. Zach Galifianakis: A Comedic Actor Takes A Dark Turn
We believe that this directly relates to reality programming that has been instilled in our race since its conception.
With most of Bradford's other income coming from mortgage broking, estate agency and property surveying, the decent yield really is at the mercy of house prices.
Very few of us had seen a Lully opera in real life, said harpsichordist Dongsuk Shin. Historic Opera Fit for Kings County
About a meter tall if it stood erect, it must use its short, bowed legs arboreally by choice, for it ran on all fours and either foot terminated in three well-developed grasping digits. The Rebel Worlds
He handled it really well for a man who doesn't have children, is not used to having to think about money and employs a cleaner.
The site aims to find you the best real-time prices on airfares by trawling 35 airlines and travel websites.
We have here no mythicized version of a real journey but a voyage of the imagination. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
However today my race was really over when I stalled the car at the start and had to begin my race from the pit lane.
Firefighters said a man had taken off a valve before realising gas was still leaking out. The Sun
They take up little space and give a real boost to summer and autumn colour. Times, Sunday Times
Surely you appreciate that for those who regularly attack Israel and its suporters, “Likud” is a label fraught with negative implications that have nothing to do with the political realities within Israel. The Volokh Conspiracy » Human Rights Watch Update
In the end, though, Smith was beginning to realise the futility of trying to liberate a proletariat that seemed quite content to remain unliberated.
Oddly, these TV wreck detectives are always trying to find out something which the experienced real divers nannying them around the wreck discovered when they first dived the ship 20 years ago.
And I'm not too stupid to realise this is all transference.
It's the closest part he's ever played to his real self, but the fact that he played it kind of nelly was a big risk. A Pirate's Life
Indeed, since entering 2011, I have been cautious; and except for the 14-point, first day of the year "yippee" to 1273, the SPX hasn't really done all that much. Jeffrey Saut: Waiting for a Pullback - Seeking Alpha
But I now understand how fragile its mighty wilderness really is.
Olivia notes the direction of his gaze, and realizes her robe has fallen open again.
Genital infections are spread venereally, and respiratory infections usually by inhalation.
What I really liked, from my white boy point-of-view, was Eddie taking a brief second to explain his continual usage of the N-word: because its power is lessened the more it's used.
When the matador realises the bull is weak and unable to charge much longer he will reach for his killing sword and seek to manoeuvre it directly in front of him with its head down, so that he can administer the death stroke.
Still Life with Action Figure," a particularly realist exercise, actually occurs in suburbia, where an artist son visits his artist father, who has resumed painting despite suffering from parkinsonism. Ccfinlay: You Make My Heart Sing
Had such a nice time, it was really charming in a slightly run-down way and on a beautiful little lake called Stoney Lake. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
Gamers familiar with some tracks will easily be able to pick out certain landmarks or other features from their real-life counterparts.
I just think it really spreads the word for our designs.
Private real estate trusts and partnerships may be smart plays for the long term
And it's weird, no one really gets angry at me for piking ... they just seem to look down on me, if you get what I mean. Stupid
Nilufer Bharucha, faculty in the department of English and project coordinator, explained that the term diaspora means to be scattered or dispersed across national boundaries, and has been self-consciously used today by postcolonial theorists to describe those who got displaced from their home owing to colonial politics and post-colonial economic realities. Analysis
Today, you can not only take a virtual spin in an Express LT - you can also drive the real thing.
If the Indonesian judiciary really can be influenced by political heavies, this is one occasion when I hope such influence is exerted.
It is critical to an understanding of deixis to recall that even very ‘local’ elements of context, such as a speaker's own corporeal experience and perceptual field, are susceptible of schematisation.
The scrutiny is really high and people are so invested in it. The Sun
Stahl Real Estate has applied to demolish two early 20th century buildings, but preservationists are firing back, arguing that the 190 rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments, which sit between 64th and 65th streets near York Avenue, have played a vital role housing lower- and middle-class tenants for nearly a century. New Spat Over Upper East Side Rent
Why then do we long to embrace incorporeality and flee our embodied natures?
The only realistic way is to raise Britain's laggard productivity performance.
Secondly, the other direction, that is, the completeness part, is proved by what is really known as the Lindenbaum-Tarski method. Propositional Consequence Relations and Algebraic Logic
I was watching the match in a pub without sound, and I had forgotten about it, so it was not until I got home that I realised that Langer had taken a hat trick, and that was why the West Indian fieldsmen all looked so pleased.
Yeah, it's August, but someone's really phoning it in at the Guardian.
In front of Titian's Diana and Actaeon in 2008, he explained: "When something is really convincing, I don't think about how it was done, I think about the effect on me. Lucian Freud obituary
The digital flux that frames our experience of physical and socio-political realities functions through continuous additions, subtractions, and disappearances.
Nanotechnology is in danger of being pigeonholed as a risky, hazardous and controversial business, a new study has found, because companies in the emerging field are not tackling the very real health and safety issues involved.
After the almost funereal beginning of the first movement, the clarinets introduce a lyric second theme, which is treated in the graceful manner of a siciliana. NPR Topics: News
At about the time Hanson began making his realistic figures in the 1960s, other artists were also making life-sized figures molded from actual people.
The program design is based on bus time sharing and interrupt servicing. It can renew the speeds and the directions of every motor at real time.
The new wing of the museum was not really in character with the rest of the building.
There is actually a dishonesty, really, about that slogan that says to keep it in the laboratory and it will be OK.
Bond really has to work in this movie - he has to set up his cover well in advance and try not to be noticed.
By the same token, if you pick up a strange rash, you will want to see a doctor in case it really is flesh-eating bacteria.
All the review really shows is the lack of good quality research on over the counter cough medicines.
It never occurred to me that you might not realize he was your father or grandfather, or great grandsire or whatever.
But it was the introduction of the breathalyser in 1967 that really thrust her into the public's consciousness, especially as she herself was a non-driver.
We had four or five moments where we did really well. The Sun
I just hadn't realised that so many straight men could be so selfish and unloving towards their offspring.
All items of the total landscaping package had to be measured in order to submit realistic costs.
Cereal song earth: Fictitious tellurion software, be together satellitic picture, map, encyclopedia and flight simulator conformity, decorate in an earth on three-dimensional model.
The investigation will try to find out where the guilt for the disaster really lies.
They don't really need the conversational crutch of football, but they engage to connect with their colleagues. Times, Sunday Times
Are you not weaving your dreams and imaginings into reality?
Indeed, there's reason to hope that even the most benighted moral equivocators may come to realize that the message is the exact opposite of the one they've been preaching.
Options of real estate assessment for property tax purposes abound.
If you're going to resort to the tried-and-true missionary position, perform oral sex on her first or take you time to ensure she's really wet before penetrating her.
They don't really have a choice Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become an alien, an aileron and an ailurophile. Lore Sj
Words regarding the necessity to change the souls of human beings to effect real change in the world should not be interpreted to mean that black religious leaders were adopting a quietistic approach to civil rights.
Also, in many classes, the prof isn't even really teaching anymore.
Keeping to a Japanese theme, I'm using soba noodles and tamari soya sauce - the real stuff, no additives or caramel, simply soya beans, salt and water.
But often our dream date is the loudmouth down the hall, our office adversary, even the scary boss -- in short, someone we avoid even standing near in real life.
I really got into gambling in a big way, and ended up playing blackjack with some pretty scary people, but it was a riot.
A client who uses aggressive tactics against you to get their way is a real liability, and you should extricate yourself from the situation as quickly as possible.
Is that something you really want to see, that kind of ossified thinking in a bureaucratic organization like Homeland Security? CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2005
The system hardware and software has been designed to realize a stable levitation.
But the outburst served to confirm the extent of his alienation from reality.
Such a seemingly innocuous observation, yet as Logan evolves from student, to writer, to secret agent, to art gallery dealer, we see how it informs a kind of amorality in his character that propels him to sleep with his college mate's girlfriend and, later, the same man's wife, marry a woman he doesn't love and then push her aside when he meets the real love of his life. SFGate: Top News Stories
By having a strapping man say Katherina's words, it is not real and not naturalistic, so it gives the audience a jolt and makes the play double edged.
This link is sort of off-topic but really not, as it's yet another case (as in the present one) of the media doing their level best to shout down "the critics" -- the nattering nabobs of negativism -- and then, years later, admitting that the "gadflies" were right all along, and that what looked like a scam, walked like a scam, and quacked like a scam was -- quelle surprise! Funky math with Mark Larabee (Jack Bog's Blog)
Rosie decides that a maternity fashion show highlighting her latest collection would be the perfect shower event because that is in no way a conflict of interest, and we soon learn the real motivation behind this choice -- a model casting montage in which LT wears a sequined capelet the color of Grimace from McDonaldland and tells the models to "serve and deliver. Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 5: Serve and Deliver
Unfortunately, in many cases, the first real symptom is a broken bone.
I was getting really determined that I would hit the ball before we stopped playing.
I don't think I look pregnant to the unknowing eye (like I've always had this little paunch), but to those who do know it's there, it's really there.
Sue always manages to upset somebody when we go out - she's a real liability.
I didn't really like this new Annabelle at all: she wasn't her old friendly self, she was hostile, brash and rude and she clearly held a large grudge towards me.
Do we really want the carpers and complainers, of whatever creed, to get programmes banned?
Although _Pyetushkov_ shows us, by a certain open _naïveté_ of style, that a youthful hand is at work, it is the hand of a young master, carrying out the realism of the 'forties' -- that of Gogol, Balzac, and A Desperate Character and Other Stories
He said:'This team really prides itself on its fielding and catching. The Sun
They are not the suits you would actually use: the aim here is simulation, not replication, so they are merely very cumbersome, which is what the real suits would have to be. Home | Mail Online
It was really cold, with a sneaky, penetrating breeze to provide an extra wind-chill.
Produced by the BBC's network current affairs unit in Manchester, Real Story will have a three series run of 28 programmes.
The foundation that administering a mechanism is company network cooperation assures with what realize synergism.
He is likely the QMJHL's best bodychecker and has turned into a real dynamo from the blue line in. USATODAY.com - Undrafted college prospects could get NHL lockout look
Most comedy relies on distorting reality.
In its favour, there is some genuine tension in the car chase sequences, and the marauding gangs of children seem not only authentic but realistically threatening.
The cloaker had begun running low on power, she realized. The Heart of the Warrior
His range of effects is unusually eloquent; there is something of the monoprint to them, as well as elements of the Surrealist techniques of decalcomania and frottage.
Does it really make sense to conceive of a tutorial existing in isolation?
Really it's a case of head versus heart.
Causes of hemoptysis in children with congenital cardiopathies, whether they undergo surgery or not, are many: extracorporeal circulation, pulmonary infections, coagulopathies, vascular disorders.
Falling masonry, backdrafts and explosions are all very real dangers facing a firefighter outside the training room.
The second is to realise when the goal is unattainable and turn the envy towards an achievable outcome. Times, Sunday Times
I realised you don't need to make the most amazing sauce with ten layers of flavour: food can be simple and beautiful. Times, Sunday Times
To counter both this and the high levels of private label saturation, bakery and cereals manufacturers are attempting to differentiate their brands, especially in growth areas such as healthy and convenient bakery products. Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed
More than one modern historian has enjoyed wrestling with the question: was Charles the Bald really bald?
Instead, the problems of the world are transplanted into the realm of attitude and behaviour; as though, if people only think right, that will make all be right with the world.
In the early 1980s, the term telepresence was coined to refer to the use of remote control and the feedback of sensory information to produce the impression of being in another place, an idea which is now part of virtual reality.
Forget about the digital divide - it's the domestic divide that really cleaves this country in two.
Between them, father and son have carved out a place where the song, the voice and the delivery of a real and recognisable emotion are paramount. Times, Sunday Times
Those two jokers may be happy in their never-never land, but it's time they recognised reality.
Of course they spoke of their brew as if it were a medicinal cure-all when in reality they produced highly refined and greatly prized moonshine.
This was the reality glossed over in television fiction; indignity, suspicion, denial of the decencies. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
We realized with a sense of growing desperation that nobody knew we were in there.
I was feeling really ill, mentally and otherwise.
It took its corporeal form in the living room, disguised as a humanoid figure made of what could be described as a giant cotton ball.
Two monks are standing in the garden of the monastery, arguing over the nature of reality when the Roshi overhears them.
I'm still unsure about this one; it could turn out really cool, or an absolute disaster ... my main motivation is that i don't wanna spend money on a haircut. decisions, decisions purchase any of the following: Kindle, iPod Touch, or MacBook Archive 2009-02-01
I thought maybe my family would like it too (little did I realize back then just how much my family does not care for Indian food), and so I made it for them, increasing the mustard seeds but massively reducing the pepper flakes for my heat-averse mother (I did not know to sub in paprika then). Tried & True Goan Style Vindaloo
It really did wipe out all the plus signs.
small and uncomplicated cars for those really interested in motoring
Real will is an attribute of consciousness, not of the sleep in which most people pass their waking lives.
I think the real target oftentimes is not the underclass so much as it is college students.
After lying on the floor in a fit of dramatics I realized what I had thought - pinky toe.
The only real surprise in last week's announcement is that he would not stand for a fourth term.
In maieutic fiction, the protagonist is faced with a problem that requires a reflective reevaluation of self, with resolution achieved not by action but by realisation, in an epiphany that is not gnosis but rather logos. Archive 2009-07-01
After years of fiscal gloom, they hope Brown will bring his political clout to the corporate realm.
The hero of philately became an immortal, but all he really invented was the idea of the glue on the back.
They put real feeling into their roles. The Sun
Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
I didn't realize the intensity of people's feelings on this issue.
I suddenly realized I was in fact wearing minging orthodontic equipment.
But protecting the right of a people to run no-accounts out of office and to have a real voice in decisions that affect them is dear to US and Taiwanese hearts.
Her suicide bid was an attempt to run away from reality.
You know how sometimes SF/Fantasy is referred to as "speculative fiction", in an attempt to encompass all types of non-realistic fiction, and also to avoid the stigma of genrefication?
The adjustable straps on the top make the fit really secure, too. The Sun
But in the madhouse there is sometimes less madness than in real life as Antonio's ‘change’ demonstrates.
The way to be happy is to be a real, thorough-going, true-hearted Christian.
This job title presto changeo is just like the presto changeo of MK77, really bad if Saddam uses it, not so much if the US uses it the same way. Think Progress » Woodward Reveals Important Clues About White House Smear Campaign
His desire to realize Henry VIII's plan to subdue French influence in Scotland and achieve the union of the Crowns became an obsession.
And he's actually kind of a neo Republican, a new version of Republicans that could really redefine that party and rejuvenize it. CNN Transcript May 9, 2008
Now the inclusion of this is a real sickener. Times, Sunday Times
So I put the guitar on clean, put on the delay effect, and I arpeggiate the chords at the right speed to get this really crazy thumping sound. All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Tuesday, 19 February 2008 first signs of spring - centre piece of the month february pick whatever flowers you get at the supermarket to make this little basket filled with flowers. ranunculus are my favourites and available all over the place at the moment, so i chose to put them into this flowery centrepiece. the orchid is quite fancy but you just really need one to pimp this up (and it keeps for ever!). a rose or two, some ivy and green leaves from the forest and you are all set. to get started line a basket with some foil and trim on the edges. soak some floral foam in water and place in the basket, when soaked wet (can be really, really wet - it will have to work as a vase to the flowers), eventually cut and trim the floral on the edges, so that it resembles an arch. trim flowers and green leaves and stick into pot. start doing so on the bottom of foam, working upwards until you have an even flowery centrepiece. make sure foam stays moist - adding some water from time to time. Archive 2008-02-01
They realized it would be suicidal to resist in the face of overwhelming military superiority.
Consequently, the practical politicians and their realistic programs can create nothing but a disaster.
Traitorfish said: I know that’s clichéd, but I really never liked Captain America - a superhero that nationalistic is nothing but creepy. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Death of Captain America
Frankly, they're really only safe on fairer skin types, such as blonds, redheads with blue, green eyes.
It is doubtful if he realized that a parasol is a purely feminine adjunct; -- although the Mistress always declared he did. Further Adventures of Lad
It would also release more time for doctors, who would no longer need to cope with people presenting illness as a cover for their real aim - the chance to talk to a sympathetic person about their personal problems.
Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power. 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
The film is not attempting poignant comments on reality - it aims at grace and good humour.
His dream has become a reality.
The only thing really official was the fact that if captured, he was certain to be shot as a spy.
In fact, that it isn't, really, a sci-fi film makes it so successful.
But when they realized they were being disobedient they were prepared to change. Christianity Today
They can sometimes recognize that their obsessions and compulsions are unrealistic.
It was really good fun and they were all keen sailors and enthusiastic. Times, Sunday Times
It does cut deep that no one will get to see the real me. The Sun
The film starts off realistically and then develops into a ridiculous fantasy.
While I am sharply critical of American unilateralism and realpolitik masquerading as the defence of liberty, at times I find our own moralizing irritating.
All this material reveals Daley as a writer of more variegated talents than was previously realised.
There were hosts on it and about it, and then Dr Duthoit forgot all about what we call the realities and facts of life, forgot that this sort of thing does not happen, and watched what was happening. Dr Duthoit’s Vision
The ambiguity inherent in that fantasy of unpinning suggests not only the male desire, but also the very real potential of a female "wildness" that desires release.
Much later, Tomlinson realized that the hotel had already been hit and that all the journalists were either fleeing their rooms or helping evacuate the mortally wounded reporters.
But even if some of the facts aren't I new to us, we look to thinkers and policymakers like him not only for fresh syntheses, but also for responsive and realistic answers to the problem.
The photographs of black cotton pickers, including young children, are reminders of the harsh reality underlying the glory.
I think the one that's really obvious is when he's running through the parkade and it's yellow.
He might be 900 feet tall, and gentle as a lamb in real life, but Micky Clarkskies has got a manic look in his eyes that reminds one of the bulging diabetical look Biggie used to charm the ladies. Our Top 10 Picks to Play Notorious B.I.G. | Best Week Ever

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