How To Use Unreal In A Sentence

Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality. The Lovecraft News Network
This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
They can sometimes recognize that their obsessions and compulsions are unrealistic.
Our analysis shows that proposed cost for the new highway is unrealistic.
It seemed completely unreal, the kisses we shared and how he said he was falling in love with me.

His St. Petersburg is another "Unreal City" whose wraithlike inhabitants leave hardly a smudge where they've passed. A Master of Technique
We rode into the clearing and the sound of the river rushing seemed almost unreal.
This whimsical but dangerous world was depicted in a monumentally epic 15,000 page, single-spaced typed novel, "In the Realms of the Unreal".
Put them in an arena, live coverage, president vs. prime minister, king vs. emperor, dictator vs. puppet ruler. It'll be like Unreal Tournament, except more fun.
All unrealizable, save for some supreme moment, did the web of Daylight's personality creep out and around her. Chapter XV
Too many clubs seem to be spending ridiculous amounts based on projected incomes which are not just unrealistic but beyond the realms of fantasy.
But the economic aims of the MFA guild would be unrealizable without its social aims, which perpetuate solidarity. Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic?
An unrealized project designed for a site in Volterra, Italy, it is represented in this exhibition by numerous drawings and a large maquette.
It would be unrealistic to expect too much from the mission, based on a ten-day visit.
They probably would have posted some unrealized stock losses in the second quarter.
The term rapidly acquired a more general usage and is sometimes used to describe any non-specific unrealistic genre scene by English 18th-century artists.
There is a comic roundelay that makes sense on its face, but if you think about it for a second, you realize how forced and unreal it is.
It is unrealistic to expect the young and naive to feel more responsibility for public expenditure than government does. Times, Sunday Times
I think it would be unrealistic if I quickly tried to make them friends within the time restraints of this story.
Solid acting oddly enough, only the train falling is totally impossible (like the Viper scenes happen every day in LA) I mean the rest of the unrealism is in check with their abilities. Sound Off: Wanted - What Did You Think? « FirstShowing.net
It may be a rather shallow and increasingly unrealistic kind of pash, but it's still there, still cooking away against all sense of reasonable expectation. Joe Cole has the talent and stage for a late-career flourish at Liverpool
Illness therefore, can sometimes reflect psychological processes which are either unacknowledged or seemingly unrealisable.
Eventually the brief day begins to feel unreal, an illusory comfort for those who cannot take the unrelenting darkness.
Kids started to mosh and for a moment I thought this was unreal.
The plan originally proposed was ruled completely unrealistic.
The fact that rigidity in the monetary unit's purchasing power is unthinkable and unrealizable does not impair the methods of economic calculation.
Covered with eye images and other biomorphic motifs (that frequently recall eccentric abstractionists such as Myron Stout and Nicholas Krushenick), these unreal botanical specimens exhibit a delightful variety.
In the meantime, his unsettling snapshots of troubled teens capture something of the unreal nature of this millennial time.
The cars and houses, while occasionally showing signs of human habitation, look unreal, like toy models set against a colored background.
It all just seems so unreal. The Sun
According to her, safe spaces are an unrealisable, archaic concept.
Many new left radicals of the 1960s came to see their hopes for radical social change in the near future were unrealistic. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
Everything took on a dreamlike sense of unreality, and faded into blackness.
The result of this admixture of the real and the unreal is confusion thrice confounded. The Somnambulists
The intention was to evoke an unreal elsewhere, an imaginary place both freaky and familiar.
If words on a page can’t compete any more with a film as regards creating a completely detailed and filmically accurate presentation of a story*, then writers will start to look for what writing can do that cinema can’t, and try and get at the reality of their subject through using superficially “unrealistic” techniques. Cheeseburger Gothic » Friday writing blog: point of view.
I have been witness to efforts by some in the Middle East to twist and distort comments made by American policymakers, Israeli leaders, and others in order to reify their fantastic but unreal constructs explaining some international event or accident or decision. Steve Clemons: Conspiracism American Style: The Daniel Levy Debate
All those reproaches aimed at us should have been directed against them, because their cinema was completely unreal.
What I find to be even more unreal is the number of these students who are admitted to universities. Test Scores and Economic Performance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The term rapidly acquired a more general usage and is sometimes used to describe any non-specific unrealistic genre scene by English 18th-century artists.
The falseness, the unreality of perpetually putting on a public face and concealing personal suffering have clearly taken their toll.
It can, admittedly, be hard to distinguish between being idealistic and being unrealistic.
But the evidence tells us that harbouring strong hope is unrealistic. Times, Sunday Times
More recent comments have drifted in the direction of the threat to social partnership being created by unreal pay expectations.
The scheme is expensive, confused, unworkable and unrealistic.
What made the drama so compelling was its inexorability and its absence of hope, and a feelgood get-out clause would be lame and unrealistic. TV review: Public Enemies; The Fat Fighters; King George and Queen Mary: The Royals who Rescued the Monarchy
TY to everyone who wrote in about reminding people about this feature especially Megan from the Because I Read Twilight I Have Unrealistic Expectations In Men facebook group. Twilight Lexicon » MTV Awards Write In Campaigns
And what opponents of the United States could not be delighted that the current administration, in the name of unrealizable ideals, has made a project of destabilizing the whole world by abandoning friendly countries and allies because it is too delicate and self-concerned to tolerate that they are at times unsavory? Memorial Day Beyond Stone and Steel
4 You have what you think of as a dream, some sort of aspiration that seems to you to be unreal, a pipe-dream. THE BOOK OF THE DIE
A hike must be "hiked" to be real, the "grub" must be munched by the side of a stream, and the wild things venturing out for crumbs must be "seen to be appreciated," as the "ad" says; so that it would seem unreal to attempt to put into words the glories of a day in the woods with the Wellingtons. Jane Allen, Junior
National realpolitik is becoming unreal, not only in Europe, but throughout the world.
With over $5 billion in realized and unrealized losses, it's unlikely that new money invested in Mercury will dull its tax edge.
The first was that the projected rise in exports was unrealistic. Times, Sunday Times
But what the reconciliation is there on four, the column that's called subtotal in the very center of the page will include the unrealized gain on insured derivatives, a $104.8 million. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
Aware of this still unrealised potential, the government is working to break any possibility of organised labour using a divisive pay structure.
It is unrealistic to expect that this will have no impact on your relationship. Coping with Stress at Work
It can, admittedly, be hard to distinguish between being idealistic and being unrealistic.
Demands for a picturesque and playable turf in place by tourist season make waiting for appropriate seasonal temperatures an unrealistic option for most turf managers.
But the evidence tells us that harbouring strong hope is unrealistic. Times, Sunday Times
That usually meant that his head was full of empty worries and unrealistic plans.
MEDICAL dramas are attacked by a doc who says they're unrealistic. The Sun
To the more highly pitched self-consciousness this life had become a burden, and in the miseries of the present, one hoped for a future life in which the pain and vulgarity of the unreal life of earth would be completely laid aside ([Greek: Enkrateia] and [Greek: anastasis]). History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
But their persecution complex is unbecoming because it is unrealistic.
Film sets are unreal settings for real romance. The Sun
For such patients, it may be unrealistic to mandate abstinence as a requirement for treatment.
That sensation of disembodiment—pleasurable during a kiss, aversive when you first suffer the death of a loved one—is common in first experiences, as are feelings of heightened reality or unreality.
But it is unrealistic to suppose that they will act without public stimulus.
But the women who gleam from the pages of the glossies set up unrealistic and hard-to-sustain goals.
It has a wonderful atmosphere about it, with larger-than-life characters and a slightly unreal, fantasy feel.
Renée's dreams of returning to Australia were financially unrealisable; indeed, the nuns at Mortefontaine dismissed her when the boarding fees fell into arrears.
She said: 'It was unreal to see it all. The Sun
How could these critics of Raphael's unrealistic depictions of the world turn around and paint endless pictures of Ophelia?
The first was that the projected rise in exports was unrealistic. Times, Sunday Times
If I fail," and Warren was dumbfounded, even after the unreal scenes which had prologued this situation. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play
Variable and fixed costs are traditionally assumed to be linear. Describe why this assumption is unrealistic.
With Padmanabhan's keen sense of the telling detail in human situations, that theoretical world seems too unreal and far-fetched.
A Department of Justice spokesperson rejected suggestions the move was a political gesture which would prove unrealistic when challenged.
Their response, however, consists of a pathetic mixture of pious wishes and unrealistic hopes.
There are many who feel that the players are being completely unrealistic in their demands.
It favours social equality but accepts that economic equality is an unrealistic objective.
Accordingly, where ISJs introverted, sensory, judging types maintain and enjoy their hobbies all their lives, INJs tend to lose interest when the fluid nature of unrealized meaning takes expressible shape and has meaning for others. Archive 2009-08-01
It is unrealistic to expect the young and naive to feel more responsibility for public expenditure than government does. Times, Sunday Times
It is unrealistic to expect them to be able to solve the problem immediately.
The park being cunningly transmuted from the unreal to the real, by sinister forces. Boing Boing: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
She felt it immediately; an unreal sensation, as though the ground had dropped from beneath her.
It is unrealistic to expect these changes to happen overnight.
In fact, over the past few years, consistently close to double-digit inflation, high salary increases, and unrealistic property values have begun to threaten our future economic vitality.
Many outsiders conclude from this teaching that the conception of the world as something unreal lies at the root of the so-called disinterestedness preached in India. Sadhana : the realisation of life
To think that it came from my dad's shop is just unreal.
It's just unreal to think what happened so soon after. Times, Sunday Times
As an avid opposer of terrorism, I hope this unrealistic adventure of Prabhakaran, who has been in the forefront of bloodshed in Sri Lanka in the name of creation of independent Elam, will give a lesson to the terrorist organizations world over to give up arms and return to main stream of life. Sri Lankan Army Captures Mullaittivu Town, the Last Citadel of LTTE
But there was an announcement of the potential return of Development Land Tax (on unrealised gains on undeveloped land).
When I talk about reductionist explanations, I don't mean uniformly working our way down to the level of sub-atomic wavicles, and dismissing everything else as unreal.
Forcing small businesses to take on the same costs and tax burdens as national retail businesses is unrealistic, unfair and will "unbalance the playing field" between giant retailers and small-business retailers on the Internet, Mr. Cohen said at Wednesday's hearing. Sales-Tax Measures 'to Cost Us Big'
Because of the current shifts and perhaps unpredictable forces in today's labour market, these demands may seem unrealistic.
As for Italy, though Mehmed sent an invasion force to southern Italy in 1480, he died the following year with his dream of conquering Rome unrealised.
So-called firewalls that would make sure the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing are unrealistic to say the least. WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: April 2002 Archives
It was unreal. Like some crazy childhood nightmare.
Businessmen with their suits and briefcases, mother's with their crying children and overstuffed luggage, it all seems so unrealistic.
TV and Hollywood do a good job of entertaining but often portray an unrealistic view. The Sun
The premise remains interesting, but the plot is cluttered with schemes and counter-schemes that seem unrealistic at best and pointless at worst.
A money moon blurs the line between being generous and making unrealistic promises. The Sun
What makes this hypothetical unusual and unrealistic is the unambiguously objective manifestation of intent in the advertisement.
In the 'rules' of the fictional universe where FTL is possible, that was a brilliant strategy in the fight and unreal in its portrayal on the screen. Battlestar Galactica: Razor - To Watch Or Not?
Sarraute did in fact state over and over again that her chief preoccupation in writing was to reveal to the reader a previously hidden reality, using the imperfect and distinctly unreal, or at least nonmaterial, tool that is language.
Perhaps it was unrealistic to expect dramatic economic changes.
She said for the 10th time since I'd told her my extraordinary news, ‘This is just unreal.’
They can offer a completely unrealistic price. Times, Sunday Times
We've had some epic battles and it'd be unreal to play him in the final here. The Sun
this conversation is getting more and more unreal
‘He's so brave it's unreal,’ explained his mum, Heather.
It was about faith, it was about feminism, it was about a lot of things, but ultimately, we were always showing that marriage was something valuable in a culture that often idealizes it in a spiritually unrealistic way or throws it away as a kind of disposable value, and I think we actually accomplished that. Big Love: A Series Finale Postmortem with Creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer
Most have an unrealistic idea of what they should look like as many celebs have had surgery. The Sun
The New Zealand Aquaculture Council believes that the provision is unrealistic and unworkable.
She recognized the symptoms: the fuzzy warmth, the sense of detachment, the strange air of unreality. CHAMELEON
But this project went unrealized, and after Caesar's assassination he was proscribed by Mark Antony: his library at Casinum was plundered, but he escaped to live the rest of his life in scholarly retirement.
More than anything else, this wretched film has about it an intense air of unreality.
The main problem is that most of the passion takes the form of rage - about the combination of ridiculous workload and unreal expectations.
The snow drifted around them, making the entire scene look unreal.
Sharon's long standing demand for seven days of total quiet has been so utterly unrealistic it boggles the mind.
But we do not need to solve this conundrum, for the picture painted is unreal.
Thunder, lightning and a torrential downpour provided an unreal prelude in the futuristic San Nicola stadium.
This is incredibly unrealistic and not terribly conducive to the story itself.
Random flukes and quirks such as interlocked arms (which also leave you wide open) keep things spicy, but never feel unrealistic. Computer And Video Games
By forcing the internet to be accessible to everyone, there is a risk that we are levelling it down, reducing its potential to suit many competing, latent, unrealised needs.
It's unrealistic, but that's beside the point - it's just good entertainment.
Identify and uproot irrational beliefs that lead you to place unrealistic demands on yourself.
In other words, health reform was a classic bait and switch: Sell a virtually unrepealable entitlement on utterly unrealistic premises and then the political class will eventually be forced to control spending. The Massachusetts Health-Care 'Train Wreck'
To his surprise he didn't feel too weak. Light-headed certainly, and with a sense of unreality, but able to walk.
‘I don't think it's unrealizable,’ said Siksay.
This lack of genuine relationships with other human beings is characteristic of the unreality of Capitol Hill.
Though a generation of musicians learned from him, came to listen to the proper voices of the instruments of the orchestra because of him, though music became increasingly pictural, ironic, concrete because he had labored, his own work still appeared ugly with unrealized intentions. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
Hard to put your finger on, but realistically unreal. Times, Sunday Times
First-time investors have unrealistic expectations and little knowledge of the dangers inherent in backing young companies. Times, Sunday Times
Also unrealized project of Panther flame - thrower tank was proposed.
This relationship was unrealistic, and doomed from the outset, came between Wilde and his art, and became his ruination.
But throughout the past half-dozen years there has been a stubborn tendency to flirt with unrealistic ambitions. Times, Sunday Times
But the episode had been so brief, so unreal.
The final version of this enigmatic character is in one sense an embodiment of Christian gentleness, but it is a gentleness deeply flawed by lack of self-knowledge, confused desire and passivity – an ironic picture which reflects what some would indeed see as Christlikeness, yet incorporates an oblique recognition of something like a Nietzschean critique of Christianity as dealing in unrealities and depending on the resentment of the weak. Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 4: God and the Artist
Believe it or not, this was a pejorative term, implying unrealistic ambitions.
Religion is very important to many Americans as part of civic culture, and to pretend that government is completely uninvolved is quite unrealistic.
Some of our expectations about the speed of recovery of our emotions are totally unrealistic. Know Your Own Mind
SDN: By infiltration, or subornation of associates, or just not being an unrealistic and or naive person such as yourself. The Volokh Conspiracy » Assassination, Self-Defense, and the Koh Speech
However tentative these gestures, however unrealized the ambition to create a new European and a new international order, the end of the cold war forced such questions on to the agenda.
It seemed so unreal and remote and fantastic and so totally away from this earth.
And even an unreal cognation was inferred from real agnation not based on blood: e. g. an adoptive child might claim succession under the edict among cognates if he had omitted to assert his civil law right as an agnate.
All these characters envision the island as a space of freedom and unrealized potential.
It was thought so unrealisable that no less a figure than Charles Lindbergh described it as ‘the Everest of aviation’.
Bart Verheggen from wuttsupwiththat, has pointed out the site UnrealClimate's real name may be "blogal cooling", but others suggest that the name of the anti-site is just made up with 'real' and 'climate' in reverse order (although they would have to swap '. org' with 'ists. com'). RealClimate
The figures suggested by Trives are grossly inflated and completely unrealistic having regard to the exigent circumstances.
The lack of materials meant that teachers must either use lecture and recitation or spend unrealistic amounts of time scrounging for materials and planning creative lessons.
Believe it or not, this was a pejorative term, implying unrealistic ambitions.
Some in the medical establishment dismissed it as a manipulative, sentimental weepy and criticised it as unrealistic. Times, Sunday Times
The sight of her face in each of the posters brought home the unreal situation we are in. The Sun
It would be unrealistic to expect such a process ever to be completed.
And here, in the unforgetable crypts of man's unwritten history, unthinkable and unrealizable, like passages of nightmare or impossible adventures of lunacy, he encountered the monsters created of man's first morality that ever since have vexed him into the spinning of fantasies to elude them or do battle with them. LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
On what might seem an unrelated note, the performance of American stock analysts was woefully inadequate in ferreting out and making public the all-too-obvious weaknesses in the mortgage securitization field, and the greed of all too many institutional investors in seeking “quick and unrealistic profits” was a major factor in creating the circumstances that led to the mortgage meltdown and the current recession. Writing the Whole Enchilada « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
A retired paramedic today claimed that ‘unrealistic’ Government targets were forcing ambulance crews to drive unsafely so they get to 999 callouts within the expected time limit.
Enjoying stardom while shrewdly aware of its unreality, she was accessible, loyal, generous, with a pungent sense of humour.
Another technique involved the upward revaluation to estimated fair market value of any long-term assets, such as land, and the recording of unrealised holding gains, which also diminished deficits.
It was unreal. Like some crazy childhood nightmare.
It would be unrealistic therefore to see implementation as an event but more as an ongoing process of experimentation and development.
To his surprise he didn't feel too weak. Light-headed certainly, and with a sense of unreality, but able to walk.
Still, ideology scores high marks for the true believers who isolate themselves in a bubble of unreality.
A money moon blurs the line between being generous and making unrealistic promises. The Sun
What worries me about the way this modest and thoughtful policy has been rolled out is the unreal expectations invested in it by politicians, and the ideological message in which it is wrapped.
But the Americans were quite unrealistic about the time needed for so difficult an undertaking. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
‘It would have been amazing to play there, completely unreal,’ added 25-year-old Bell.
The project was probably doomed on the drawing board by an unrealistically ambitious plan.
Usually, Margaret is much too ‘smart’ to believe something so fantastical, so unreal.
In general, _an interest is an unsatisfied capacity, corresponding to an unrealized condition, and it is predisposition to such rearrangement as would tend to realize the indicated condition_. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
As well as being badly written, it is too long, too vague, too pompous, too rhetorical, too unrealistic and too boring.
When he did acknowledge her existence he talked in dismissive and unrealistic terms.
It would be ideal if all sexual congress took place between consenting couples in love but unfortunately this is unrealistic.
It is unrealistic to expect the country to have the amenities that urban areas have.
Justice is utopian and unrealistic. Christianity Today
And even if it could somehow be shown that the evil of such events is ‘unreal’ in some abstract metaphysical sense, would that take away the reality of our feeling that it was evil?
Just to be there was unreal, but the stress was unbelievable.
The enemy was invisible and money unreal. Times, Sunday Times
It was a false prospectus; they knew it was unrealistic. Times, Sunday Times
Liberals are consoling themselves that incoming presidents often set unrealistic goals. Times, Sunday Times
And then the young couple discussed how unreal Madonna's leotarded bottom looks in that video. Parties, leotards and celebratory tuna
In fact, over the past few years, consistently close to double-digit inflation, high salary increases, and unrealistic property values have begun to threaten our future economic vitality.
In Corean, we just say Hanguk or even refer to Choson, but changing the country's English name to those would be even more unrealistic than a simple letter change. Languagehat.com: RENAMING THE HAN.
The gorgeousness is in the imagery not in the language; the words are weak while the sense, as in the classical Scandinavian books, is strong; and here the Arabic differs diametrically from the florid exuberance and turgid amplifications of the Persian story-teller, which sound so hollow and unreal by the side of a chaster model. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
She felt curiously unreal, as if she were in the midst of a dream.
One view sought the origin of the crisis in the abstract and unrealistic demeanour of the rapidly evolving, mathematised neoclassical theory that was incapable of answering important economic policy questions.
The party began to take on an unreal, almost nightmarish quality.
Thoughts have some characteristics of fancy, of freedom, even of unreality, which are wanting to the prosaicness of heavy material things. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps
Of course, as in any stylized comedy, the characters are slightly unrealistic.
Before, thoughts of Angela seemed distant, unreal, like a hallucination or an imaginary tale.
Since glow-worms, fireflies, electric eels and many fish exhibit a similar phenomenon, the statement is not unrealistic.
Rhetorical arguments, often unrealistically extreme, hold sway.
Many economists consider full employment an unrealistic goal.
He added: 'It was unreal at the time but afterwards we were all as white as sheets and it could have so easily turned out very differently. Times, Sunday Times
Apologies to Plato, but the idea alone of a great painting is not ultimately worthy of attention; and a great painting hidden in an attic can only represent unrealized potential.
It is either an unrealisable wish-list that will prompt howls of derision, or a stark reminder of the size of the job facing us.
Wherever financial markets are absent or repressed, savings go unused, productive economic opportunities go unrealised and risks go undiversified.
It seemed totally strange and unreal. Times, Sunday Times

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