unreality

Example Sentences

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"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 by that point, the reunion has already taken on a peculiar sadness, a tinge of unreality that only a cruel shock of daylight and the tears on your pillow will be able to explain.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023

I think you can make somebody feel this kind of strange feeling of unreality in order to help people explain it and maybe control it a bit better.

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2023

But Turner, feeling a familiar unreality taking hold, could not discount the possibility that the woman was possessed of certain powers.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan