The cars and houses, while occasionally showing signs of human habitation, look unreal, like toy models set against a colored background. |
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On the basis of written documents, we can catch a glimpse of ephemeral spaces that were at the same time orderly and oneiric, unreal. |
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This creates a world of hyperreality where the distinctions between real and unreal are blurred. |
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Then as now the city was an unreal mixture of crushing poverty and fabulous wealth. |
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Once Banks arrives in Shanghai, however, the story enters a more phantasmagoric world, and nightmarish and unreal events seem to occur. |
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All other differences between them, like political traditions, begin to appear unreal and unprogressive. |
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From the point of view of taxation, there is nothing unreal or imaginary about that. |
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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. |
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The intention was to evoke an unreal elsewhere, an imaginary place both freaky and familiar. |
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Being seven floors up, the ground looked unreal and the people were tiny little creatures of little importance. |
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It would be absurd to say that holes in socks are unreal and illusory just because the hole isn't made of anything and is purely an absence. |
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But I spent my adolescence in a country town, and from there, it's the city that's the unreal and very-far-away fantasyland. |
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However, I also thought that at times he wandered off into a mist of hypothetical, unreal situations. |
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The event took just ten minutes, and when it was the turn for the questions, Anne felt a weird sensation, everything was so unreal. |
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It has a wonderful atmosphere about it, with larger-than-life characters and a slightly unreal, fantasy feel. |
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Before, thoughts of Angela seemed distant, unreal, like a hallucination or an imaginary tale. |
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The speed and flexibility which strategy software offers can also take the user into an unreal world where reality merges into fantasy. |
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Everything in Ilija's work is unreal and ahistorical, fantastic and imaginative. |
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What was always an improbable scenario, the Granita restaurant myth, has become a quite unreal fantasy. |
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In placing him as a real man in unreal circumstances, Mann enhances Ali's legend. |
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Eventually the brief day begins to feel unreal, an illusory comfort for those who cannot take the unrelenting darkness. |
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The speed and strength of their attacks was phenomenal and bordered on unreal. |
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The tension in the room was unreal, but each individual sat wondering why a meeting should be called. |
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Approaching them, from the distance was a peculiar small man who ran with unreal speed. |
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Now we demand that our celebrities shoulder that burden, saddling them with our hopes and the heavy weight of our often unreal expectations. |
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More recent comments have drifted in the direction of the threat to social partnership being created by unreal pay expectations. |
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By proclaiming that mothers are the best option for the children in every case, they are set up for unreal expectations. |
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This was partly because of the unreal expectations that had been built up beforehand, and to which we in the media undoubtedly contributed. |
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Rushed consultation and planning inevitably lead to unreal expectations, delays in implementation, and failure to deliver planned benefits. |
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As with Modern Maenad I found this incredibly written poorly with unreal, card board cut-out characters. |
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I mean, it is a little bit unreal if we have to pretend that family support is not a factor in these matters. |
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With Padmanabhan's keen sense of the telling detail in human situations, that theoretical world seems too unreal and far-fetched. |
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Part of the problem with the parliament is, as commentator Iain McWhirter says, naive idealism and, after a 300-year break, unreal expectations. |
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And Krissi is the perfect solution for people like me, who have unreal expectations about their capabilities. |
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They are being totally unreal as to the existing environmental impacts of the resource extraction called broadacre farming. |
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While that works in a movie as unreal as Anchorman or Elf, it feels out of place in an alleged family comedy. |
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It would be quite unreal to infer that the bank consented to the withdrawal by a card holder whose account had been closed. |
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In the harsh light cast by the sun against the snow, she appeared ghostly, unreal, eerily beautiful. |
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We were rewarded next day with brilliant sunshine over a vista of glaciers, bergs, mountains and a sea so dazzling it seemed unreal. |
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There's something at once provokingly unreal yet disturbingly natural in Tobin's modular streamlined music bricolage. |
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Accuracy of grammaticality judgements was much lower for sentences with unreal words than real words. |
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Covered with eye images and other biomorphic motifs, these unreal botanical specimens exhibit a delightful variety. |
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Those, though, are too unreal to jolt and sillier than a pack of Girl Scouts jacked up on cotton candy and soda pop. |
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The account is balanced, and handles many issues involving Navy women well beyond the rather unreal and circumscribed little world of Annapolis. |
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Given the record of our real-life heroes I would any day prefer the unreal ones from cinema. |
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National realpolitik is becoming unreal, not only in Europe, but throughout the world. |
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India's fear that substantive negotiations will reopen the state's accession to India is unreal. |
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All those reproaches aimed at us should have been directed against them, because their cinema was completely unreal. |
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The violence is more ritualized than in, say, American gangster films, so that it seems both shocking and unreal at the same time. |
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There is a comic roundelay that makes sense on its face, but if you think about it for a second, you realize how forced and unreal it is. |
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The only defect of it is an unreal scheme of the parterre done by ashlaring. |
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It seemed completely unreal, the kisses we shared and how he said he was falling in love with me. |
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We rode into the clearing and the sound of the river rushing seemed almost unreal. |
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The asuras say that this world is unreal, with no foundation, no God in control. |
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She is, at 53, shorter than you'd expect, broad in the beam and still so extravagantly beautiful she appears unreal. |
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This real England, your unreal home, turns us all into maundering John of Gaunts, sighing over sceptred isles, demi-paradises, other Edens. |
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In the meantime, his unsettling snapshots of troubled teens capture something of the unreal nature of this millennial time. |
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The stereo blasted loudly as the people on the streets flashed by the window at unreal speeds. |
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In fact Richard is something of a rarity these days, an unapologetic, uneducated, unemployed and unreal guy. |
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The rest of his innings, before and after, will be remembered as a blur, a flurry of unreal machismo. |
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For what happens is that one by one the moral and metaphysical temptations are dismissed as unreal or unmeaning. |
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The world before the flood is fantastic and strange, alluringly unreal. |
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His audacities of phrase struck him as grotesque, his felicities of expression were monstrosities, and everything was absurd, unreal, and impossible. |
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Significantly, none of the reviews which complain of the film's complexity argue that the construction of the story is somehow unbelievable or unreal. |
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Thus his doubts are unreal, not simply because they are logically irresoluble doubts, but because they amount to the rejection of the whole conceptual scheme. |
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The combat in Dues Ex is a bit lackluster due to the cumbersome controls of using a gamepad and because it utilizes the long-outdated unreal engine. |
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The animal realm comes alive to us as puppetry, and the human invention of war comes to seem more and more unreal. |
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But all the clips make the stories look fantastical, unreal. |
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In the dream, his waking life seemed unreal and incongruous. |
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When I talk about reductionist explanations, I don't mean uniformly working our way down to the level of sub-atomic wavicles, and dismissing everything else as unreal. |
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Just to be there was unreal, but the stress was unbelievable. |
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Stiff cliched characters, unreal situations, and a bit too much autobiography. |
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He put together an unreal show...every performer dedicated his or her music to Whitney. |
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The effects look hazy, foggy and unreal, not sharp and distinct. |
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Some of my favorite albums in recent memory used exotic instruments, indecipherable lyrics, and amorphous structures to create a sublime aura of the unreal. |
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Technology has only recently been freed from the unreal fantasies that surrounded its discourse and the model put forth here attempts develop this emerging imagery. |
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Kids started to mosh and for a moment I thought this was unreal. |
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Like so many young families juggling workplace demands, family commitments, unreal housing prices and rising home loan interest rates, the income she earned was welcome. |
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The snow drifted around them, making the entire scene look unreal. |
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The aristocracy are slightly unreal and living in an effete world. |
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Next to these markers, family and lived events can seem evanescent, fugitive, and unreal, because memories of them are neither ubiquitous nor collectively shared. |
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She was asked to come along and see her daughter receiving a First Aid Certificate and her surprise was unreal when she saw it was her party in full swing. |
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He did not know that what he was experiencing then, that unreal, undesirous medley of ecstasy and peace, would be unrecapturable forever. |
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Certainly, this dimension should be evoked in a register that has nothing unreal, or dereistic, about it, but is rather unrealized. |
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In this respect, memory affirms the compossibility of the real and the unreal. |
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In the right hands this could all feel queasily unreal, but it ended up feeling utterly unbelievable. |
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The busy hostile world outside is mystifying and a little unreal. |
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The dinkum Aussie everyone talks about, almost always with a certain unreal sentimentality, is clearly a worker. |
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It is a bit unreal to be here with a horse like her and trying for a three-peat. |
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Many pain patients have had doctors who pathologized them, told them their pain was unreal. |
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The woman's passion by his side seemed suddenly tawdry and unreal, the seeking of her lips for his something horrible. |
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In its radical transcendence of all finite states the subject enters into the space of a nunc stans, in the face of which all temporality becomes an unreal appearance. |
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