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Example sentences for "reality"

Lexicographically close words:
realistic; realistically; realists; realite; realities; realizable; realization; realizations; realize; realized
  1. Make all industry co-operation, in reality as well as theory, and a real democracy must come out of it.

  2. Meantime this glimpse of reality and hard work at Knapp Farm will do him good.

  3. He spoke disjointedly one day and wove reality and imagination together.

  4. The position of the former is most curious, the castle seeming from the foot of the hill to stand upon a simple slope of turf, whereas in reality just behind it there is an impassable abyss.

  5. This was the reality which confronted man, his inevitable doom, it seemed, as it had been pronounced to the fallen sinners of Eden.

  6. The practicability or objective reality of this idea of federation which is to extend gradually over all states and so lead to perpetual peace can be shewn.

  7. And when you were there you had a friend, who called himself Gossen; but was in reality a Frenchman, named Gaudet.

  8. I did my utmost to lead Nessa to think I took the position lightly; but I was in reality almost desperately anxious, and every moment of Rosa's indecision added to the disquieting tension of suspense.

  9. The stern reality of my situation is much milder than I either expected or deserved; and the little good I did has outweighed, in the minds of honourable and merciful judges, much that was evil and criminal.

  10. Whatever doubts may exist with respect to the reality or personal identity of the other characters noticed in the "Night Thoughts," there can be none whatever as regards Narcissa.

  11. The other functions ascribed to the Spirit by Holy Writ are also of such a nature as to constrain us to assume that the essence of the true Church is a reality even at this day.

  12. It assumes a historical reality in so far only as it assumes simultaneously with its supernatural essence a corresponding supernatural image.

  13. Instead of that, he left a reality to run after a shadow, following up his pitiful quarrels in Italy, allying himself with the Pope, and burning the reformers in Paris.

  14. Life is a plexus of nutrition and sensation, the threads of which may ideally be separated, but which in reality are so interwoven as to be indissoluble.

  15. Such a principle dwelling in the Church as a reality must necessarily exercise its functions in a single individual image only.

  16. Such a connection of the region of the interior and subjective with that of historical and visible reality is caused by the objective efficacy of a sacrament, only in the case where the same is productive of its proper effect.

  17. On examining the arrangement a little closely, we find that in reality we have before us nine or ten perforators, completely independent of one another, all mounted on one frame, and each capable of movement in any direction.

  18. I had hoped that this style of controversy had been cured or suppressed by a greater sincerity and reality of religious thought in these days of anxiety and unbelief.

  19. It was evident at once that of the scene--which if long in the telling had in reality not outlasted a moment--he had stood as witness.

  20. But Bergson's philosophy is in reality as far from teaching mere laziness as Communism is from being mere destruction of the old social order.

  21. We should only know reality as it is if we could replace this fragment in its proper context in the whole field of virtual knowledge (or reality) where it belongs.

  22. I have not attempted to offer any proof whether or not Bergson's description of reality is in fact true: having understood the meaning of the description it remains for each of us to decide for himself whether or not it fits the facts.

  23. Bergson's principal aim is to direct our attention to the reality which he believes we all actually know already, but misinterpret and disregard because we are biassed by preconceived ideas.

  24. Bergson's claim is that if we allow ourselves to attend to the changing fact with which we are actually acquainted we are driven to a theory of reality different from the theory of things and relations accepted by common sense.

  25. What we should then know would not be appearance but reality itself.

  26. Having first shown what attitude Bergson requires us to adopt I have gone on to describe what he thinks this new way of looking at reality will reveal.

  27. May not the task of philosophy, "he says," be to bring us back to a fuller perception of reality by a certain displacement of our attention?

  28. I saw it, but still the reality was so very far beyond any description, that I felt, and feel still, averse from attempting it.

  29. I have lingered on paper as I did in reality about S.

  30. In reality he had little hope of finding her there; but the bare possibility fenced off for a time the fatal conviction that Caterina's body would be found in the water.

  31. In the flourish of introductions, across and across, Flora found herself thinking the reality less extraordinary than she had at first supposed.

  32. Each verse has in reality four measures, the last measure being taken up by a pause: Es stand in al ten Zei ten | | ein Schloss so hoch und hehr.

  33. But no, it was the reality, it was more than reality: it was reality and recollection combined.

  34. He might therefore be supposed to say hic meta laborum, as it in reality proved, at least with regard to insects, for Pausus was the last he ever described.

  35. The greater part of the company denied the reality of them, and treated them as old women's tales; but I told them that antipathy was a real disease.

  36. In fact, more than once she felt that she must be in some terribly troubled dream, out of which she kept awaking to the reality of her position and calling for help.

  37. This apparently gratuitous piece of dirtiness is in reality absolutely necessary.

  38. Do we not each day see the realm of reality extend itself more widely?

  39. I knew nothing of the past; the present alone possessed any reality for me; this was happiness, and the future was but to-morrow's play.

  40. But the future still held something in store, and as it often happens when we fancy ourselves beyond the reach of an adverse Fate, we may in reality be standing within the shadows of the Valley of Darkness.

  41. In reality he became chief of the Emperor's bodyguard, and, it might be said, was the eyes and ears of the Sovereign.

  42. To give reality to the intelligence, the newspapers are to be severely blamed and threatened for publishing it.

  43. Many persons had habitually used the common pastures and open fields for pasture purposes, when they had in reality no legal claim whatever to such use.

  44. While Cartwright was experimenting on the power loom, an invention was made far from England which was in reality an essential part of the improvement in the manufacture of cotton goods.

  45. Capital was in reality abundant relatively to existing opportunities for investment, and the early machine spinners and weavers drew into partnership moneyed men from the towns who had previously no connection with manufacturing.

  46. The old regulation had never been so complete in reality as it was on the statute book, and much of it had died out of itself.

  47. While Redclyffe was still enjoying the frank hospitality of his new friend, a rather marked event occurred in his life; yet not so important in reality as it seemed to his English friend.

  48. Science writes of the world as if with the cold finger of a starfish; it is all true; but what is it when compared to the reality of which it discourses?

  49. She saw it thinning away, going off from the garden into another space, existing there with an unearthly reality of its own.

  50. Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.

  51. She tried to think of Substance, of the Reality behind appearances.

  52. If you took it up and looked at it the clearness, the unique, impermanent reality would be gone, and you would never get it again.

  53. Free-will was the reality underneath the illusion of necessity.

  54. It must be understood, however, that any such phrase applied to Tullia's social position in her own sixteenth century, would give a very erroneous idea of what that in reality was.

  55. So that we in reality have this whitewashed–black–a–moor phenomenon before us, to make of it what we may.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reality" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.