unreality

Example Sentences

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The High Court ultimately described some of his submissions as having a "distinct air of unreality".

From BBC • May 24, 2025

Herbert Simon said, "If you go down this path you're basing all of economics on the principle of unreality."

From Salon • Feb. 1, 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

Some of the images’ textures are photorealistic, but most emphasize their computer-generated unreality, their unnatural angles and fake finishes, their eerie weightlessness.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2023

She was in the air, and the dreamlike unreality of floating warred with the gruesome truth beneath her.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor