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unreality

[uhn-ree-al-i-tee] / ˌʌn riˈæl ɪ ti /




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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

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.




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