Unreal

Examples

• It was the superficial unreal world of fact. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Before that time we sit listening to a tale, a marvellous fiction, delightful sometimes, and sad sometimes, almost always unreal. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She had her queer, radiant, breathless manner, as if confused by the actual world, unreal to it, having a complete bright world of her self alone. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Another happy evening, quite as unreal as all the rest of it, and I steal into the usual room before going away. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There was no sham and no cheat, and no hollow unreal in him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She lived to find ambition, as unreal a delusion as love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Among the many wild changes observable on familiar things which made this wild ride unreal, not the least was the seeming rarity of sleep. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• India remained romantically unreal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was a shadowy unreal Ursula, a whole shadow-play of an unreal life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• To admit this view is, as it seems to me, to reject a real for an unreal, or at least for an unknown cause. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It seemed to say--'My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Birkin, who looked muted, unreal, his presence left out, introduced her as Miss Darrington. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The air all round was intangible, neither here nor there, and there was an unreal noise of banjoes, or suchlike music. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• At a distance from facts one draws conclusions which appear infallible, which yet when put to the test of reality, vanish like unreal dreams. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He had accepted being killed so completely that all of this now seemed unreal. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Birkin was too unreal;--clever, whimsical, wonderful, but not practical enough. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And since I cannot do it, Jane, it must have been unreal. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• We have handed over the government of a nation of people to a set of lawyers, to a class of men who deal in the most verbal and unreal of all human attainments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Our thoughts wander constantly to the practical concerns of life, and refuse to dwell upon things that seem vague and unreal. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Everything in life seems unreal. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I considered my late intimacy with Ponsonby as unreal mockery, a bright vision of the fancy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I thought there was something unreal about it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Birkin stood aside, fixed and unreal. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Surely, the long unreal ride some progress of disease that had brought him to these gloomy shades! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It was as unreal, and circumscribed, as a magic-lantern show. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There was another world, like views on a magic lantern; The Marsh, Cossethay, Ilkeston, lit up with a common, unreal light. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But Ursula's mind ceased to be receptive, everything was unimportant and unreal. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If things had been unreal before, they were suddenly real enough now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The cry raised against these men by the average reformer is a piece of cold, unreal, preposterous idealism compared to the solid warm facts of kindliness, clothes, food and fun. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• CONTINENTAL Ursula went on in an unreal suspense, the last weeks before going away. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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