unreality

Example Sentences

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There is, though, an anachronistic unreality to all of this.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2025

"Mr Bridgen's case as pleaded and evidenced so far does not have an obvious quality of unreality," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2025

It sticks with us because of how vividly it captured the hysterical unreality of living in a turbulent age, and how it picked at the scabs crusting over the face of the American dream.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2024

But there is a seduction to the unreality of these images, too.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024

They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner