Sentences with word «unreality»

Second, absolute idealism could be used to show the ultimate unreality of matter.

Perhaps the above all contain some grain of a semblance of a shade of a resemblance to reality, or at least to the fevered exercise in unreality that is the transfer market.

The Kierkegaardian literature has both a striking pertinence and an air of unreality about it.

If we neglect either side of the distinction, we lapse into unreality not only in our description of humanity but also in our description of reality.

Less astutely, Bloom opined that Rowling «feeds a vast hunger for unreality» and that the mass appeal of Harry Potter is a «mania.»

Update of classic experiment finds that «spooky action at a distance» goes hand in hand with unreality

Charles Seife is a professor of journalism at New York University and author of Virtual Unreality: The New Era of Digital Deception (Penguin Books, 2014).

Many conservatives do have an «unreality bias».

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You know, I think I am beginning to see Unreality in a very positive light.

Characteristic of Gnosticism, as of Dr. Altizer, is the sense of a radical split within the divinity; and also characteristic of both is the faith that the radical split is overcome by acknowledging the ultimate unreality of one side of the split — in Gnosticism, the evil, worldly side will eventually become nothing; in Dr. Altizer's thought, the transcendent side has assumed the negative sign and either will become, or has become, nothing.

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And yet, the strange unreality of the present political atmosphere in the country means that lines that would seem overwrought in any other era carried the awful force of truth.

«If humans can not control the realities with which they are faced, then they will invent unrealities over which they can maintain the illusion of control.»

When the line between dreams and reality disappears and anything - goes unreality takes hold, the movie becomes a meaningless jumble of grand but goofy images.

If they seem to have a relative unreality (so to speak) it is because they are potential, not actual; they are unfulfilled, like packets of seeds or boxes of fireworks.

As Bennis and Mitroff argue, most of us are uncomfortable with unknowns and mysteries so we create unrealities to fill in the blanks.

They might as well be empty unrealities initiated by nonexistence.

It is a pure abomination to the Lord, an alien unreality, a waste element, to be sloughed off and negated, and the very memory of it, if possible, wiped out and forgotten.

But maybe the oppressive unreality of evaporating modernity can prompt the mind to seek for something more enduring.

Pavel, does not provide an alternative to reality, a fantasy, or «a repudiation of this world for the sake of a better one whose unreality [makes] it more malleable to our wishes.»

And once opposition to same - sex marriage is judged to be discriminatory, no institution that declines to substitute unreality for reality will remain unaffected.

When society systematically denies the difference between male and female in law and custom, our fundamental dignity is diminished, the image of God within us is obscured, unreality becomes legally established, and those who refuse to conform are regarded as irrational bigots.

The absence of Iraqi insurgents blowing anything up, even in spite of the aggression shown them by the British and American forces, and the fact that Loach helpfully signposts the bad guys by giving them non-Liverpool accents, adds a sort of clichéd unreality to the proceedings.

Note that in either of the above hypotheses, the media proprietors are leaning one way, (either toward unreality, or else civic enlightenment), and the journalists are leaning another, (either towards factual reporting, or else flattery plus dirty laundry).

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As for Enoch, I take Sunder's point about the essential unreality of his position - as well as its socially destructive nature.

They brighten up a drab world, and their very unreality means that we need not worry about them.

Conversely, an air of unreality hangs over anything we can not touch.

Dating Unrealities (top fictional characters Id go out with).

Garland has the genre bona fides, and the writer of Sunshine and writer - director of Ex-Machina handles Annihilation's hallucinatory setting with an appropriate and compelling sense of shifting unreality.

But on the other, he's so enamored of clever ironies and tidy storytelling that the fuzzy - lined unreality of his «realistic» films speaks in counterpoint to their supposed verisimilitude.

The series is defined by an unsettling unreality that evokes the morbid interest that surrounded these events in real time.

Whether Jerry is closing deals or flirting through his bachelor party (pretty much another deal), Crowe catches us up in the mad unreality of it all — an adrenaline - capitalist high that just keeps feeding on itself.

The conflation of cinema as real life is charmingly seductive (print the legend), and the myth - making power of star cameos only adds to the glowing unreality.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone boasts of keen production design and exceptional costuming, but it relies on computer - generated images (CGI) for its special effects, the result of which is that everything from the Quidditch match (a game played on broomsticks, the rules of which are difficult to grasp in the film), to a troll attack, to a confrontation with a three - headed dog is carried off with an inserted unreality that's distracting.

The intermission marks more than just a shift in narrative focus from Rana to Kochadaiiyan but in Ashwin, who then takes what works best to the next level by completely embracing both the story's inherently exaggerated nature as a «legend» and, more importantly, the fantastical unreality of and the unbridled creative freedom granted by her chosen filmmaking approach.

The directing, the cinematography, art direction, set and costume design etc. are all unassailable in their quality and in their success at creating and immersing you in the sweeping unreality of this heightened Gothic world.