Barbara felt the whole scene to be unreal, her companions unreal, herself most unrealof all.
But even as she told it, it began to seem unreal to herself.
Half consciously he pulled the stirrup toward him, put up his foot with an unreal effort, and laboriously drew himself to the saddle.
Keep your money," he said, looking squarely at his father at the cost of a peculiar, unreal effort.
The mother of Jane, with far better judgment, endeavored to call back her daughter from that unreal world in which she loved to dwell, and to interest her in the practical duties of life.
How unrealeverything but money seemed, and his soul stifled and his senses numbed.
The one kind is as unreal as the other, only in the first we discern the craft of the sensation-monger, in the second there speaks to us the refined and tender-souled poet.
It is an intimate quality of the mind, which predisposes a man to look for remote and unreal analogies and to present them gravely as if they were valid.
The first attempts at literature of any country, as of our own, are apt to be unreal and imitative and transitory, because life has not yet accumulated and presented itself in forms which recommend themselves to literature.
He fancied them like the fair and sparkling, but unreal dreams of the creed in which he had been nurtured.
The attitude of the public towards them was, by the middle of the fifteenth century, one of complete incredulity and frivolous amusement; the paladins were as unreal as the heroes of any granny's fairy tale.
Thus did their smattering of platonic and neo-platonic philosophy supply the Tuscan poets with a logical reality for this otherwise unreal passion.
She is no ideal figure, merely a figure idealized; this is no imaginative passion, merely an unreal one.
The most unreal thing in the poems is of course their theology; and yet this became in after days perhaps more real than the rest by its universal adoption among the Greeks as the authoritative account of their gods.
She liked Sir Allan, and she had found him a delightful companion, but even to think of any other man now in such a connection seemed unreal and grotesque.
It sounded wildly unreal and fantastic, and the spectators stood as if gripped by an unearthly enchantment.
It sounded hollow and cracked and as unreal as if produced by a mechanical contrivance.
With the varicolored lights glowing on all sides, her recollection of it seemed unreal and fanciful.
He heard Slade's derisive laugh, but it had anunreal and far-away sound.
Cecco and Folgore alike have abandoned the mediæval mysticism which sounds unreal on almost all Italian lips but Dante's.
I asked her if she did not consider there was something unreal about converts.
I believe it is quite genuine, but it looks unreal and the rooms are like show rooms at a second-hand dealer's.
They seemed to him like unreal creatures moving in a world of unrealities.
Taken as a whole the poems bitterly inveigh against life with its blighting sorrows, its fleeting, unreal joys, its injustice, its black despairs.
Hence it comes about that to the man of science the barriers of manners and of speech which pen men into nations become more and more unreal and indistinct.
And at these visions of theirs we have mocked, and held them for idle and vain, unreal and unaccomplishable.
Rosselin had said aright: she was half a child and half a poet, and with the rude primitive faiths of a peasant she had the unworldly and unreal imaginations of a student of imaginative things.
We are uneasily conscious that we are childish and unreal in both.
We are all stove plants--children of a forced culture and anunreal atmosphere.
My effort here is to take it out of the region of the vague andunreal and bring it into the region of every-day, practical life.
But I am perfectly satisfied that their theories are without any foundation in fact--that their doctrines are as unreal as their "astral bodies," and as absurd as a contradiction in mathematics.
The real and the unreal mix and mingle until the impossible becomes common, and the natural absurd.
For from first to last the monarchy movement had something unreal about it, and might have been the scenario of some vast picture-play.
It was as if the old city walls, which had looked down on so much real drama, had determined to lend themselves to the staging of an unreal comedy.
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