How To Use Reality In A Sentence

An imprimatur is not guarantee of theological soundness, in reality. Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West
Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality. The Lovecraft News Network
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
Iin this case it uses the atomic unit of digital life - a single screen of data on a Palm, a little brick of reality we spend so much time staring at all day long.
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.

Trying to link things cross-departmentally is something that in my experience gets talked about a lot, but in reality rarely happens. The Audacity of Growth at Helpful Technology
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.
We believe that this directly relates to reality programming that has been instilled in our race since its conception.
Why then do we long to embrace incorporeality and flee our embodied natures?
Are you not weaving your dreams and imaginings into reality?
But the outburst served to confirm the extent of his alienation from reality.
Most comedy relies on distorting reality.
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.
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
Two monks are standing in the garden of the monastery, arguing over the nature of reality when the Roshi overhears them.
Her suicide bid was an attempt to run away from reality.
The film is not attempting poignant comments on reality - it aims at grace and good humour.
His dream has become a reality.
The photographs of black cotton pickers, including young children, are reminders of the harsh reality underlying the glory.
Don't let reality, get in way of your dreams. Anthony Liccione
Presumption is not reality.
That this is true is not to suggest that reality always comports with state law and college rules.
In its seeming ambiguity yet divine reality it remains free of the influence of humankind and our lusts.
No matter how outlandish and farcical some of the events become everything remains firmly grounded in a sense of reality.
In reality the record suggests that it is rare for knowingly false accusations to be made against British troops. Times, Sunday Times
He had once been an innocent child, blind to the harsh reality of the world.
In his provocative work, Clichés To Live By And The Death Of The Sixties, Anaxamander O'Flaherty, a necro-ethnolinguist at the University of Altamont, suggests that the expression, "Everything is everything," succumbed to a natural death brought on by such factors as over-utilization, deterioration of relevance, and lack of adaptability to altered states of reality vis-à-vis the American experience. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
But if the international community wants the hopeful prospects for the days, months and years ahead to materialize for Iraq, we must confront the reality of Saddam Hussein's intransigency. CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2003
We have all been guilty of it: blurring the lines between reality and fiction.
Also, please keep in mind that in order to conceal my identity I'm speaking through a harmonizer--in reality my voice sounds exactly like Keith David's. Keeping it Reeled In: Hope or Delusion?
Functionalism as a linguistic approach is different from generative and cognitive approaches in that it makes no claim as to the cognitive reality of the mechanisms it proposes - that matter is irrelevant to its usefulness.
Another timid miscreant, just before he is sent off to prison, has so far stepped out of reality and into legend that he asks to be known hereafter as ‘The Lonesome Kid’.
Shakily I splashed some cold water onto my stricken face, wishing the cold liquid to act as a reality check, maybe even wake me up from this painfully real nightmare.
This also reflects his personal hygiene, outwardly appearing clean but in reality, dirty. STUART: A Life Backwards
The result of any fruitful worldview is a firm, self-confident life order that is perceived as necessary, as a reality, about which there is nothing uncertain or disputable.
The patient perceives a distorted reality but is usually unaware that he is ill.
The grim reality is that the only way to save them is to farm them commercially.
Just suppose that cloning a human was no longer a remote possibility, but a scientific reality.
The reality is that most people have a complex, sometimes contradictory attitude to government. Times, Sunday Times
Doubtless the series will spark a rush of transsexuality-centred reality shows that, given the ready and infinite corruptibility of the form, will lose within a year all vestige of the charm of the original and become as mainstream, dreary and degrading to everyone concerned as its other reality brethren. TV review: My Transsexual Summer; Sorority Girls; and Imagine … Simon and Garfunkel: the Harmony Game
An ethics based on this undertanding focuses not on rationally finding, mapping, and teaching the real nature of reality, nor on pluralistically respecting irreconcilable differences while recognizing a simultaneous unity, but instead on drawing connections between different methods of making meaning and on coordinating the actions of people using different conceptual frameworks. Karl Higley - Spirit, Kosmos, Essence
Such people often see their lives more effectively framed by the reality metaphors that modern quantum physics and chaos theory provide.
Therefore, saccharorrhea patient wants the reality treatment this question certainly not to want to readily believe some not symbol actual suitable biography.
Her suicide bid was an attempt to run away from reality.
In reality, the only choice before them is sterilisation through tubectomies.
A poet must experience, rather than simulate reality or rely on second-hand information.
In vital activity we see, then, that which subsists of the direct movement in the inverted movement, _a reality which is making itself in a reality which is unmaking itself_. Evolution créatrice. English
This message, even when presented figuratively, uses extra linguistic referents to bring it in touch with the reality around us.
I. Burnett found that many were in reality of the ordinary gemmiparous form, such as those composing the early summer broods. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
The reality of mothering is frequently very different from the romantic ideal.
China and beyond in bands of apitherapists because in the rest of the world, apitherapy is actually an accepted reality. WN.com - Articles related to Probiotic Use In Mothers Limits Eczema In Their Babies
It was clearly a case of workers trying to use union muscle to hold off reality.
Voyeurism should never be mistaken for reality, because the reality of those horrors is only truly experienced by those living through them -- either the victims or those piecing together their "story" for the judicial system. When Reality Intrudes
a curative process, but an ardent believer of the reality of somnambular clairvoyance as an invaluable gift of certain privileged organizations. A Strange Story — Volume 01
In reality, the country's ivory controls are ineffective and riddled with corruption. Times, Sunday Times
There is what Maximus and others called a 'theandric', a divine-human reality going on there, and the icon, the image of Jesus Christ represents that theandric reality - the interweaving (not fusion or confusion) of the endless, divine resourcefulness of agency and love with the particularities of a human life. Royal Academy of Arts Byzantium Lecture 'Icons and the Practice of Prayer'
Ian was amazed at the speed at which he had catapulted back to reality.
In reality slavery did not end untile 1964, the new slave were call sharecropper, Said enough. carlo Senate apologizes for slavery
It is only by confusing them that Atkins can hold that mathematics and physical reality are identical.
Behind the question of course lies a deep ignorance of the reality of life in working class communities.
The map is a referential structure; inside a coordinate system all can be referenced laying the gridwork for reality.
(In reality, the sheet might do better than the extra glass because it traps air underneath — also a better insulator than glass!) Jason Haas can’t find lightweight bottles that don’t look cheap | Dr Vino's wine blog
Such statistics aid our understanding of population movements but they mask the bewildering complexity that was the reality of the situation.
O'BRIEN: Tobias Hollerer is demonstrating something he calls augmented reality -- three-dimensional graphics inserted into the real world using computers that you wear. CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2007
Thunder roared in the distance, and reality slapped me straight in the face.
But in reality they are not separable from other aspects of the mind.
The two reality show teams also pitch in for a group singalong, above. The Sun
In reality, pathologically murderous tyrants are fairly irredeemable.
One of the big trends in Las Vegas was the virtual reality headset. Times, Sunday Times
When we are offered a television, we are as much being sold the idea behind it as the physical reality of it.
But will swapping college to star in his own reality show do the trick? The Sun
Then she'd meet the reality: a misty white contraption like a strange sauna facility. Times, Sunday Times
Another aim is to show that the problem of direct realism versus indirect realism is of importance for the ontological analysis of social reality.
Theology has often ‘used eschatology to move into speculations about a virtual reality, something that science will not readily accept.’
So if the visible universe were the extent of physical reality, physical reality would not even remotely contain the resources required to factorize such a large number. The Simulation Argument and Christianity « Anglican Samizdat
It is not the reality of scepticism or of truth dissolving relativism, but the claim to truth of all formal argument that is affected.
String theory is a complete description of reality even though we don't understand its predictions in some extreme situations, especially those that have something to do with the ultratiny expanding universe. The Reference Frame
So again like a good politician I shall try to tailor my ideology to make it sound more attuned to a reality that surprises and confounds me.
It will slam the door shut to the possibility of connecting to a greater reality lifeline that they can make sense from.
Haraway's juxtaposition of the words ‘fiction’ and ‘reality’ illustrates the arbitrary nature of these and other binaries in Western society.
Sometimes they are approached in terms of affect: there is a painful negative hunger, or a more tender affirmatory yearning, and these modes of will oppose and supplant each other, articulating a dynamic basis to material reality (Ages 170). Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul
Where policy is radically dissociated from the reality of death, the paradoxical result is a society dominated by the logic of death.
How might we devise a system that offers students a second chance but that doesn't obfuscate reality or entice students to drop out?
A fat ego can blind a corporate executive to reality like a bad cataract.
Someone stepping on his foot shook him to reality again, Sally's big eyes willed him to stay in focus, but he just couldn't.
Elizabeth O'Reilly is a painterly realist who conveys her perceptions of reality via personalized line, color and brushstroke.
I started this blog as a creative outlet, a much needed release, an escape from reality.
It combines knowledge and technology of many scientific fields such as computer technology, computer graphics, sensor technology, biodynamics, clinical medicine and Virtual Reality.
A type of Him who was the great sin-bearer, not in mimic show as Ezekiel, but in reality Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
When you actually ignore reality for years on end, the payback is a bitch brother! ... - Boing Boing
The difference between internet and reality is so incredible.
Are we aware of evil's reality yet blind to its force and effects, unable to name and describe it?
The premise for this reality show was the old parental standby of the family row: 'Just wait until you have a family of your own. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, moon launches are spectacular, but the Space Shuttle would turn our spaceward fantasies into reality.
It's important to understand the Duggars' beliefs: The Duggars follow a conservative Christian belief system known as Quiverfull, which eschews all birth control in favor of "trusting the Lord with… family planning," says Vyckie Garrison at RH Reality Check. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Will time travel ever become a reality?
Politicians are cut off from the reality of poverty.
In reality it was rather more disjointed than that. ONE HUNDRED DAYS
Or a place in which the fanciful is allowed to commingle with reality. Words, words | clusterflock
For Cowen, the central economic reality of the past three decades is that median household incomes have barely budged, even after adjusting for inflation and other factors. Much of nation's recent growth may have been a mirage
One early morning at an elementary school bus stop, I gaily waved at the visible faces of our future leaders and innovators, children whose dreams and innocence were yet unscathed by disappointment or grim reality.
This utter tripe that is reality TV seems to be gaining in popularity.
This has meant that many studies tend to concentrate on the objective assessment of a fiscally quantifiable reality.
This powerful formula can surely represent the reality principle of the universe.
February 4th, 2009 at 4: 24 pm it drives me nuts when women say "contractions aren't that bad, they're just like bad cramps" …. please. i'm happy for women who experience relatively fast, "crampy" labours, but i think the reality for most women is a little more intense …. maybe it's just me? who knows? Celebrity Baby Blog
Nothing will bring a romantic dreamer down to reality faster than the bug, and every biting insect seems to visit us in turn.
The too - big - to - fail reality exists and with it there is enormous potential risk for the taxpayer.
If the Clinton campaign is finally accepting this reality too, however grudgingly, that is some progress. Obama Campaign Calls For 50-50 Split Of Michigan Delegates
Maybe our series provides a corrective to some reality TV. Times, Sunday Times
Dryden makes him sound a monument of dullness; in reality he is brisk, lively and journalistic.
It's a wonderful experience but it's far removed from reality.
We use Vizard Virtual Reality Software and datagloves to interact with the NPCs, developing a gesture and speech based interface.
He could tell the difference between reality and fantasy Language, under-standing, and logic were well developed.
Jaron Lanier coined the term "virtual reality" and pioneered its early development.
In reality, the Triangle is taller but narrower and through it flows the Milky Way as it arches over the sky from Sagittarius in the SSW to Auriga in the NNE. Starwatch
This is a particularly fascinating example, and if we think it through we can perceive that the preconception belies the reality.
Faced with technophobia, hyped techno-optimism, and Futurist discourses of progress that make us blind to the clumsy reality of computers, how do we think about and live with technology?
These gave smokers the false impression that a lower tar choice is somehow less harmful, whereas in reality smokers simply compensate in the way they smoke.
Faced with the reality of being alone for the first time she talked openly and honestly with John about her feelings: her disgust with herself, her fear of failing at her job, her growing conviction that her childlessness was a punishment, and the frequent wish that she could simply die and put an end to her misery. Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
Vries, "than that, on the one hand, everything which exists is conceived by or under some attribute or other; that the more reality, therefore, a being or thing has, the more attributes must be assigned to it;" "and conversely," (and this he calls his argumentum palmarium in proof of the existence of God,) "the more attributes I assign to a thing, the more I am forced to conceive it as existing. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. Colin Powell
The images act as both a mapping of the session itself, and as transitional objects that lie between inner and outer reality.
Another important branch of philosophy relevant here is metaphysics, which tries to discover the basic structure of reality.
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! Bob Marley
Brennan said that while most GPs like to think they are not being influenced, the reality was that a meal or a round of golf did influence their choices.
They did not want the real effects of the war to intrude on the reality-TV version being broadcast to the public.
Pledges for Geraldton's proposed community bank are flowing in and the working group behind the project remains optimistic the bank will become a reality.
The worrying thing is that the gap is widening between what is advertised and what people get in reality," he said. Computing
Two people can meet in virtual reality even if physically located in different continents.
Soon, it will seem uncool and very strange not to have augmented reality. Times, Sunday Times
Christ was quickened, that is to say, was active, in His own spirit state, although His body was inert and in reality dead at the time; and that _in_ that disembodied state He went and preached to the disobedient spirits. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
The romantic fantasy world that she had entered when she left the train with Ludo was dissolving in the light of reality.
The history of Tamil invasions against the only homeland that the Buddhist Sinhalese possess is not just the stuff of ancient history, but a living reality underpinned by latter-day Tamil terrorism. Buddha’s Savage Peace
I gave you this unhingement from reality: Wanted: a local prosecutor to ... Sound Politics
Hit dramas, reality shows and entertainment programmes are scarce commodities in the TV industry. Times, Sunday Times
The countdown has begun for the launch of the latest reality TV show from Endemol, the makers of Big Brother, and this really could be the one to end them all.
In reality, the danger to democracy and Scottish interests came from cronyism, reinforced by partisan voting.
Coyote has done an excellent service in detailing the reality of this necessity and you a service in reminding of it. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » This Looks Very Good
When we were Middlesex teammates, he vowed that he wanted to play for England, and he was ready to listen, learn and put in the hard work to turn his dreams into a reality.
After all, both in reality and cinema, heroism consists of self-sacrifice: the sacrifice of life and freedom.
Bear-baiting and bull-baiting were as popular as reality TV shows are today.
In customariness the spirit enters into its true reality; the person finds the good outside of himself, as a reality to which he subordinates himself, as a moral world. Christian Ethics. Volume I.��History of Ethics.
We must make efforts to translate our ideal into reality.
In order to avoid the distortions of reality that lenses produce, Strindberg often used a lensless pinhole camera of his own construction.
Any company that advertises itself as ‘fun’ is simply making a desperate and futile attempt to distract attention away from the soul-destroying mundanity that is the reality of its day-to-day life.
There was always going to be a little embellishment of reality. The Sun
Will the prosecution remain as toothless as it used to be at the times of Tatarchev, who kept talking of catching all bandits in a sack, but in reality none ever reached prison?
He would have ‘seen’ the very spatiality of the visible, the real which precedes all reality, all forms, all truth of particular sensations or constructed idealities.
And I think they a little in denial of facing reality.
“At the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, the Americans set up a display table to show Nazi atrocities,” Denier Bud began miasmically as the camera panned over the familiar objects: “A lot of bogus items, tattooed skin supposedly taken off bodies, a supposedly human skin lampshade, which in reality is just a basic lampshade, but they really went over the edge of dumb when they put this on the table.” The Lampshade
This economic reality has boosted college enrollments despite the financial difficulties.
Why is this just a daydream instead of reality? The Sun
The Technology Transfer Office (TTO) is a high performance team that guides breakthrough NUI Galway research to business reality as well as manage the NUI Galway Business Innovation Center.
There’s certainly no question about how much the band believes in this film: when Elektra Records grew concerned over the project’s escalating cost, the label considered turning it into a reality TV show this was back in 2002, when MTV’s The Osbournes was the hottest commodity on television. Chuck Klosterman on Rock
The burgeoning multitude of reality TV programmes drives me to distraction and is a deterrent to buying services that provide even more channels dispensing the same kind of dross.
However, in reality it's a little blue-green algae, known to the science world as trichodesmium, a natural occurrence along the Queensland coastline each year. Sunshinecoastdaily.com.au: The Sunshine Coast Daily
In reality, there has always been growth and development in Orthodox liturgy.
In reality, she was a former drug addict who spent three years behind bars for smuggling drugs into jail. The Sun
As a matter of fact, my brother painted very few things, at any stage of his career, as mere representations of reality, unimbued by some inventive or ideal meaning: in the rare instances when he did so, he naturally felt an indolent comfort, and made no scruple of putting the feeling into words — highly suitable for being taken _cum grano salis_. Old Familiar Faces
There is not much difference, except in the "soothfastness"; the author is closer to his subject, his imagination is confronted with something very near reality, and is not helped, as in the older stories, by traditional imaginative modifications of his subject. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
Or is it more likely a case of increased recognition of the harsh reality that acute financial problems are festering beneath the surface of the U.S. and global Credit systems?
We are all shackled to reality but free to dream of the great escape. Times, Sunday Times
… Junior Seau, now taping a Versus reality series that debuts Dec. 2 in which the ex-NFL star does things like be an MLB batboy and LPGA caddy, says he's considering returning to the NFL. Favre speculation, sitcom promos; NFL's back
He says the adverts would be worth little if they didn't sell a reality. Times, Sunday Times
When I bend anything for the sake of creativity I try to make sure the bending is part of a grand reality that then carries throughout the whole existence of the work. The art of Leviathan, Part Two: An interview with Keith Thompson
To prevent say our wits being blinded or blasted by the unaccommodated nuclear glare of Reality. Archive 2007-02-01
Black it certainly is; funny it certainly is, but, in reality, it is more of a symposium of anarchic, iconoclastic humour than a comedy in the pure sense of the word.
She undertook work experience with a tour operator to find out whether the reality matched her expectations.
It is no accident that the surge in idolatrous reality television you so abhor coincided with this call to propaganda.
The reality is that there is not enough money to pay for this project.
The distance between your dreams and reality is called action.
If a gentleman cuts canals and erects terraces in his garden, their intrinsic value will be proportionable to the land and labor; but the price in reality will not always follow this proportion.
The flight from that reality strikes me as a more profound pathology than the reality itself.
The film is, like its centerpiece child, compelling precisely because it weaves together perfection and imperfection, artistry and reality, reason and sentiment.
Fantasy and reality have always intermingled in Lancaster's works.
No other nation has ever been quite so obsessed by defining what it is, or troubled by the idea that reality might not measure up to the ideal.
- but the timeless survival saga quickly morphs into something very different: A new-fangled reality (or perhaps "surreality") TV show with life and death stakes. Ben Sherwood: Rock Stars: How the Story of the 33 Chilean Miners Breaks All the Rules
The reality though is that many women diarise ‘settling down’ for their early 30s; devoting their 20s to getting a career, travelling, socialising and having fun.
The reality, of course, is that once a designer opens an office and hires a staff, he's as much rainmaker as artist.
The reality is that leaders get restless if they are forced to sit still for long. Christianity Today
Instead, a rationalistic view of reality prevails over an affectivity which is weak and ultimately unpersuasive. High school anthology: "The Cold Equations"
The melancholic's experience is very different, partly because the loss being grieved rarely obeys the reality principle.
The reality of mothering is frequently very different from the romantic ideal.
Years of dictatorship also meant that officials in athletic circles had very little grasp on reality.
In reality, the effects of privatisation and subcontracting in community care has decimated the true potential of people that need support in the community.
For example, students and professors were in agreement that students sitting at the front of a class make better grades; in reality, this notion had been disconfirmed several years earlier.
One cannot ignore the enormous influence of advertising and media in creating reality in this era.
The couple believe that deafness is a cultural identity as well as a physical reality. Boing Boing: April 7, 2002 - April 13, 2002 Archives
In reality, the tsar proceeded with extreme caution.
In fact, what truly prevents Modi from taking the grand leap of his imagination — that is, remaking Gujarat into a kind of antiseptic global entrepôt, like Singapore and Dubai — is the ball-and-chain reality of the Indian landscape itself. India’s New Face
Not only that, the filmmakers created a provocative action film that ponders the essence of reality and identity.
Aaaaaaand time to call it a night. chaosreality is in dutch with his girl, dravengodvamp's chatting online, the booze has shifted from goofy laughter to deep introspective discussion, and I have to be at the rehab house in 5.5 hours to see Ray, so I better get my happy ass to bed. Voice Post
Her suicide bid was an attempt to run away from reality.
Step two pulled the trappings of the outside reality into this virtual world.
And indeed, though truly the most pithecoid of known human skulls, the Neanderthal cranium is by no means so isolated as it appears to be at first, but forms, in reality, the extreme term of a series leading gradually from it to the highest and best developed of human crania. Essays
But in reality he seems to have had a fairly shrewd sense of the potential scale and scope of this enterprise and to have laid the foundations of widespread recruitment with some assiduity. 'The Crusades'
The grandiose scale of events projected by the pre-event publicity was a far cry from reality.
In reality, history has shown that such transitions are wrenching and China will be no exception.

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