actuality

“I thought I had a really poor memory, so I was concerned when I started this book that I’d forget all the nuanced detail,” but in actuality, when he gave himself enough space and time, he found that he could “open a collection of doors and memories.”

In actuality, if the hyper-polarization of American politics and the growing discourse around social media’s habit-forming tendencies are any indication, we politics nerds are no more prepared to set limits without structural support than the teenagers attached to their smartphones in the recent docuseries “Social Studies.”

Ono was an integral member of the group, “so this idea that Yoko somehow encroached on Chuck Berry is false. In actuality, Chuck Berry encroached on John and Yoko’s band. When Yoko chimes in, that to me is the true rock ‘n’ roll moment of that whole appearance.

The food of the common person — the meals scarfed down when everyone is too tired to cook, money is tight or the kids just need to be placated — is, in actuality, the food of the elite.

Despite the white noise and the growing parasocial hatred inflicted on Roan, she isn't an artist who can be muzzled — in actuality, it has only made her beliefs more steadfast in a political system and discourse that grows increasingly unruly.