Reality

Examples

• But in reality travelling interested her even less than he had expected. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• In reality, however, it is the goods which are cheap in the one case, and dear in the other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She felt strange and inevitable, as if she were centred upon the pivot of all existence, there was no further reality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was therefore from the beginning a divided thing of uncertain power, a claim and an argument rather than a necessary reality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Was not this intimacy with the prisoner, in reality a very slight one, forced upon the prisoner in coaches, inns, and packets? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• You've got to lapse out before you can know what sensual reality is, lapse into unknowingness, and give up your volition. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• At present we know nothing of them, and are not in a situation to judge how much reality there may be in them. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• These ascetics were all supposed to be seeking some deeper reality in life, and a passionate desire to do likewise took possession of Gautama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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.
• Whatever is extended consists of parts; and whatever consists of parts is divisible, if not in reality, at least in the imagination. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• In reality I wanted to see him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The reality of feudalism was its voluntary co-operation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The passenger would then start to himself, and lower the window, to get the reality of mist and rain on his cheek. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The reality that is worthy of attention is a change in the very texture and quality of millions of lives--a change that will be vividly perceptible only in the retrospect of history. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was a strange reality of his being, the very stuff of being, there in the straight downflow of the thighs. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• 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.

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