Sentences with phrase «than in reality»

Particularly in big cities, however, this often turns out to work better in theory than in reality.

The truth is, money and time blocks are usually more significant in the mind than in reality.

They are much higher than that in reality..

I think it is slightly less than that in reality but still very fuel efficient.

«It is more in concept than in reality,» said one lawyer.

It also looks better in pictures than in reality.

One of the problems of curvy women is their legs look shorter than in reality.

Here I can be free in communication and to have more friends than in reality!

Alas, writing code in film is much easier than in reality... so my genius thoughts were shot down immediately.

However, the apparent reduction in time spent on homework also raises the possibility that newly required courses were more demanding in prospect than in reality.

It allowed banks and regulators to believe their assets were smaller than in reality.

It does look better in the photos than in reality though: The furniture is old, heavy and cheaply made.

In another sense, too, the system starts to appear duly universal — both more open than in reality to new art and more entrenched.

The device often created images with colors which were a little over saturated than in reality.

Sometimes, the family road trip is a whole lot more peaceful in theory than in reality.

I think that the idea of this outfit looked better in my mind than in reality but I was quite comfortable while wearing it, nonetheless.

The items look better in the pictures than in reality.

TwinAir models are more frugal on paper than in reality.

Are the Americans aware that they are presenting a much more homogenous political landscape to the outside than in reality and that it may even skew the internal perception how different opinions are?

Obama is exactly the kind of figure that the Bradley effect says should do better in polling than in reality.

«The computer would have to be bigger than the universe, and time would tick more slowly in the program than in reality,» says Lloyd.

The top 10 lies told by women are as follows: 1) they weigh less than they do and are losing a few pounds 2) they are younger than they really are 3) they have a better physique than they really do 4) they are taller than in reality 5) they have money 6) they have a larger bust than they do 7) they are in a glamorous profession 8) they know celebrities 9) they have an assistant or employees and 10) they work in entertainment.

And when speaking to audiences of teachers, I've noted that any suggestion that «differentiated instruction» works better in theory than in reality usually elicits applause or, at minimum, a knowing and somewhat cynical chuckle.

Little more than a ruse to raise expectations of how little a customer is likely to pay for a brand - new (insert brand name), the price leader in the model range is more a presence in the brochure than in reality.

But other parts of the country, too, have their own versions of this illusion that the past was more golden than in reality, that white (and male) privilege doesn't exist, or isn't a big problem, that America is a place of equal opportunity and so poverty is always due to individual fault and not a rigged economic system...

If you find yourself reflecting on your life and the possibility of one last wild fling, hurry out and buy yourself a copy of The Mermaid Chair - because such things are usually much better in the hands of a novelist than in reality!

Also, keep in mind that Ultra Moon plays on an inverse time than in reality, so 5:00 PM in the game will take place at 5:00 AM in real life.

Both suggest the press is more interested in sensationalism than in realities, which is certainly true of MSM climate change coverage.

«This study identifies a specific property of the climate models that would tend to make the AMOC in the models more stable than in reality.»

The main problem with this argument is that there is no way to test it — we have no counterfactual of a world where we debated and researched adaptation more and earlier, where we could scientifically observe either more adaptation happening, or maybe (yes it is possible) less mitigation happening than in our reality.

This is because the troposphere is very opaque, and so the temperature gradient that would need to exist for the troposphere to be in radiative equilibrium would be far steeper than in reality.

More often, those who hide the dates on their resume are presumed to be much older than in reality; why else would they try to hide it unless they were really old!

Beyond making marriage look more glamorous than life, and divorce less noxious than in reality, the media biases people's perspective about marriage by being obsessed with bad news.

Supposedly Allen will be drafted much higher than this in reality but who knows?

Maybe they did for a while until Bill realized that sexual fidelity is easier in concept than in reality.

Midwest cash flow looks better on the paper than in reality.

«The celebrations went down a treat, with many days and moments that I will never forget,» he wrote, «In the end, the storm was greater in their minds than in reality — and I had made a lasting change.»

Both cases concern non-disclosure of assets, and the divorce lawyers believe that there could be thousands of ex-wives and indeed ex-husbands that found out following a divorce that their spouse's declaration of wealth was much less than in reality.

Thus community is championed more in theory than in reality, more as an ideal of liberal universalism than as the diverse relational structures that impose themselves upon us in everyday life.

Usually, the turnout reported in post-election surveys is much higher than in reality, and this is partly due to actual abstainers pretending that they have voted.

Others looked better on paper, such as scrapping Building Schools for the Future, than in reality.

(That probably means they use way more than that in reality.)