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

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 sat forward in my chair, suddenly conscious of the unreality of the conversation.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison