I daresay the play may be very bad," she said, "but it can hardly be so bad as real life.
Nobody ever heard of anything so mean, either in novels or in real life.
And yet in real life we are content with oats that are really middling, are very glad to have a useful horse, and know that if we drink port at all we must drink some that is neither good nor sound.
But inreal life we should also seek in vain for the beauty of which we are here speaking.
In saying this we must not indeed think of the plays that are in vogue in real life, and which commonly refer only to his material state.
In real life he only satisfies his longing partially and imperfectly by limited enjoyments.
It would almost appear as if the powers of mind express themselves with us in real life or empirically as separately as the psychologist distinguishes them in the representation.
To the third it may likewise be objected that it is drawn from mythology, though such as may be more easily assimilated to real life.
It is a pleasure to come across such a hero as this in real life, and not have to invent him, as the saying is, out of the whole cloth.
But he knew that if his novel ever got published the critics would call it a romance, and not a transcript of real life.
It is a good general rule to avoid, so far as possible, expressions which show that the author has a stage scene, and not an episode of real life, before his eyes.
It may be alleged in his defence that the family physician is the professional confidant of real life.
In every crisis of real life (unless it be so short as to be a mere incident) there is a rhythm of rise, progress, culmination and solution.
To the victor go the spoils" is probably the most succinct description of what this means in real life.
Real Life, an MTV series, is the personal drama of five young people trying to make it in New York City.
While in real life, many literacies are at work, Literacy (with a capital L) still dominates the structure of politics.
His scenes are fictitious, it is true, and his conversation is classical and refined, but both breathe the very spirit of real life.
They were simply guides to an elegant accomplishment, and had no bearing on real life.
Comedy, being based on the fluctuating circumstances of real life, lends itself more easily than tragedy to a change of form.
It was perfectly like a scene of Goldoni and like many a passage of real life in his native city, and I was rapt in it across fifty years to the Venice I used to know.
Stella Lamar both on the screen and in real life was a beauty.
For people to whom emotion ought to be an old story in their everyday stage life, I must say they feel and show plenty of it in real life," I remarked, as Enid set us down and drove off.
That fellow's a bad actor--in real life--and a disgrace to us.
The villain of real lifeis actuated by mere sordid and selfish motives.
In real life it is often difficult to tell a villain from an honest man, and this gives rise to mistakes; but on the stage, as we have said villains wear clean collars and smoke cigarettes, and thus all fear of blunder is avoided.
The stage villain is superior to the villain of real life.
Life is bad enough as it is; if there were many women in real life as good as the stage heroine, it would be unbearable.
He was an instance in real life of Goldsmith's "good-natured man," and the same qualities which assisted him to the position of President prevented his administration from being a success.
There are Dombeys and Shylocks in plenty, but who has ever met a Hamlet or a Rosalind in real life?
It is a pity that the use of toys comes to so sudden an end, and that learning by this method does not follow the babies after they have officially ceased to be babies, as is the custom in real life.
There is no such thing as arithmetic pure and simple for children unless they seek it; they must play at real life, and the real life that they are now capable of appreciating.
They ought to learn through actual number games, through keeping score for other games, and through any kind of calculation that is needed for construction or in real life.
My heroine, for example, had a prototype in real life, who served for the first sketch, but as I wrote I made her character develop until she was a wholly different woman from her model.
I could not make my men and women talk as men and women do in real life.
Was she in real life, or sitting there, watching, thinking, striving to endure, in a dream?
The "Buttery and the Boudoir--a Tale of Real Life," afforded her a precedent on this point.
Feeling and passion are not precipitated by incident in her drama as in real life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "real life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
