Realities

Examples

• But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer, are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Such people were not realities to the little figure of the English girl; such people were all unknown to her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The latter is not motivated and impregnated with a sense of reality by being intermingled with the realities of everyday life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But if I had mine, glancing at the cousins, there should be no brambles of sordid realities in such a path as that. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Those senators and representatives are largely irrelevant; they are not concerned with realities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It has plenty of spectral company in ghosts of trees and hedges, slowly vanishing and giving place to the realities of day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This graver world of 1920 does seem to be awakening to the truth that there are realities worth seeking and evils not to be tolerated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Daily conversation was shocked into some contact with realities--the newspapers actually printed facts about the situation of a working class population. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I don't know what you mean by realities. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• What escape have I had from problems that could be demonstrated, and realities that could be grasped? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• They will help us to understand better the astonishing irrelevance of the political life of this period to the realities that rose about it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feeling, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• To quit crude schoolgirl fancies, and come to realities. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His _Tableau des vices de la constitution d'Angleterre_ showed the realities of the English position. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Our prevailing habit is to think about phrases, ideals, theories, not about the realities they express. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Turning their attention away from the romanticism of history, the materialistic philosophy has helped them to look at realities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But the senators and politicians of Rome saw to it that such things never did exist as clean and wholesome realities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Had she known her sister sought to tear her from such prospects and such realities as these, what would have been her sensations? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But why should we dispute about names when we have realities of such importance to consider? Plato. The Republic.
• This was far beyond any phallic knowledge, sensual subtle realities far beyond the scope of phallic investigation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• My life was spent among tangible realities, hers was a dream. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• With this difference, that being realities and not phantoms, there is the greater danger of their breaking in. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His art enables him to give a spiritual appearance to one or more of his figures, and to exhibit them as 'thin air,' amid the solid realities of the stereoscopic picture. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• He is able to contemplate the ideal of war, while I am sensible only to its realities. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I have awakened again to the realities of my friendless and lonely life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But the realities of the case are not adequately represented in this way. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The mind is simply endowed with the power of producing various qualities in reaction to the various realities which act upon it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But, as we have already intimated, Yuan Chwang's account of Indian realities is swamped by his accumulation of legends and pious inventions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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