unreality
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The percussive score by Joseph Shirley and Moses Sumney underlines this and gives the whole film an eerie, curious atmosphere, lending to a sense of unreality.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
But they are facing threats from all sides: A vengeful president; a distracted and disengaged audience used to endless scrolling and pop-pop-pops of entertainment; the creeping unreality of A.I.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2026
"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
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
You might think there would have been an air of unreality about us being like that, but it didn’t seem strange at the time.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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In the end, who are these fabulous unrealities hurting?
From Salon ● May 2, 2021
But now he’s building whole new unrealities, ones in which seeing isn’t believing—ever.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2020
In fact, the unrealities of movie-land became a major subject of his fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2020
The temptation is to elude this labour by "making things up", by escaping into faux-realities or unrealities that are the unmediated projections of the subjective self.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2013
He may be the slave of a thousand unrealities.
From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.