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"unreality" Definitions
  1. the quality of being strange and more like a dream than reality
  2. the fact of not being related to reality

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After all, he was already finding unreality inside the real.
This everyday unreality is what the author is sympathetic to.
My consciousness was flooding with flashes of reality and unreality.
But the entourage of 'yes' people created an arena of unreality.
Understanding the sheer unreality of this is like discovering a superpower.
The tension of almost-unreality is at the core of Tacoma.
With time, an air of unreality has settled on it all.
Their lies and stories are all about the unreality of reality.
I have the feeling of unreality I had during 9/11.
We've lived in the world of unreality for far too long.
Two tragic guests, in the face of unreality, seek solace together.
The length of time may also lend some unreality to the diaries.
The unreality of her work was perhaps pointing to something preternatural, transcendent.
It radiates the realness of dreams while also maintaining their adamantine unreality.
"Gravity" just disappeared, which suggests we're actually in a state of unreality.
But as the plane approached London, a sense of unreality set in.
During an episode, waking hours are characterized by a sense of unreality.
And so it went on another episode of Mr. Trump's unreality show.
There's a central unreality to the film that may bug some viewers.
But for some Washingtonians, the unreality was a bit too much to swallow.
UNREALITY TELEVISION I'll sit and I'll watch TV while I'm eating my bagel.
To survive in an era of numb unreality, they needed a better strategy.
It was difficult to escape a sense of unreality in Manhattan last week.
The light had a broad, flat quality, and life an element of unreality.
"I see this as a realistic film about an unreality," Linklater told Wired.
Baudrillard popularized the world "simulacra" to describe the unreality this puts us in.
When the shadows of unreality obscure one's outlook, exposed people extract a penalty.
History, with its "concentrated unreality" of cruelty and absurdity, will wreck all such hopes.
Trump's entire year-and-a-half-long campaign unfolded in a bubble of unreality.
In response to that year's maelstrom of unreality, two directors released dystopian cinematic visions.
"There was a tremendous sense of unreality during those final prewar years," she wrote.
The costumes are Victorian, but there's a pervasive sense of out-of-time unreality.
The pictures have a new quality to them now, a kind of fragile unreality.
Reality and unreality swapped places so fluidly that they were both at the same time.
What's interesting to me is what Trump's cheating says about the unreality he lives in.
That said, leave the glazed unreality of the capital, and you're in very different territory.
America has collapsed the space between entertainment and news, reality and unreality, serious and unserious.
In a world increasingly lost to virtuality and unreality — the theater points to an antidote.
Their words evoked the strange mix of terror and unreality that reigned in the household.
Rather than being punished for living in an unreality, Short will be praised for it.
" Theirs was generally a disorienting, vaguely counterfeit existence; it bore an air of "fragile unreality.
You use the phrase "unreality machine" in the book to describe social media's essential function.
SRSQ's debut project, Unreality, premiering below, is tied to Askew's memory and to Ghost Ship.
Layers of unreality and reality crash into each other in the reunion of the Golden Lovers.
Audi contributed to the sense of unreality around CES autos with its VR car configuration experience.
Yet his words suggest the opposite, and establish an atmosphere of unreality — what's true, what's false?
I would argue that there is a sense—in a lot of liberal journalism—of unreality.
The cigarette stabbed into the pigeon's mouth looks all the more real for its effusive unreality.
I feel both anger and pity, but mostly I feel the cold unreality of familial connection.
Erickson's debut novel—and, for that matter, his many subsequent ones—tap into a similar American unreality.
Anti-theatrical prejudice isn't news; Plato banished theater from his republic because he felt it encouraged unreality.
Watching a trick to completion, we are not rescued from unreality but rather are marooned in it.
Colonists already dream of breaking away and declaring their own sovereignty over this new plane of unreality.
In offering a space that mingles reality and unreality with such fluidity, cartoons are almost limitless in scope.
"What they were doing was shrugging off unreality and becoming real by way of their bows," he continued.
My interviews with Trump were journeys into unreality that required extensive fact-checking of every claim he made.
In that unreality, we can hear the distance between a speaker and a city she can only imagine.
Searching shrugs off the idea that our screen activity exists in some lesser unreality, separate from our genuine selves.
It thus only compounded the sense of unreality to see how the institutional Jewish community responded to the appointment.
These sculptural elements enhance a feeling of familiarity and unreality in her interior paintings, like a vision made manifest.
What gave NBA Jam its edge, and made it immortal, was how absurdly hard it leaned into that unreality.
They are as much you know in a dreamland of unreality as African people who deny the existence of Ebola.
He resented that, almost as much as he loathed the invasion of television by Hollywood glitz, violence and wild unreality.
That imperfect exchange of information, coupled with the years the assumption was left to grow, can form a powerful unreality.
The unlikely images of US and North Korean counterparts engaging in friendly dialogue lent the day an air of unreality.
To keep the play grounded in unreality, Rafa is surrounded by surreal side characters, including a scorned one-eyed cat.
As Bart and Laurie switch from sharpshooting to armed robbery, her erotic excitement is complemented by his sense of unreality.
We might have spoken, but the unreality of that strange beauty, the inarticulacy of this or any miracle, silenced us.
The future is a hermetically sealed unreality that possesses none of the limits—or the potential for magic—of the present.
Being immersed in the unreality of pro wrestling—or the culture of a locker room, or any other—is no excuse.
Reporting on "unreality" Media reporters used to spend a lot time writing about TV anchor shakeups, newsroom shenanigans and ratings races.
"There's an air of unreality to the project," said Joseph P. Schwieterman, a public policy professor at DePaul University in Chicago.
Its grainy texture allows for a strange stippling effect, which seems to dust the whole with an air of comic unreality.
But maybe the comparative unreality of writing is precisely its advantage, how it can be abstracted from any particular material locus.
You have people who are uneducated, poor, hungry — they want to escape from all that, they want and need some unreality.
When you know these things, its hard to not see the uncanny reality disguised in the unreality of this stop-motion animation.
Her family seems to have bequeathed the artist an enduring sense of unreality, the deep suspicion that she somehow did not exist.
C.G.I. can achieve feats that real animals cannot, but like the piano wires before it, it can also disturb in its unreality.
"That kind of unreality that is propagated as reality is what people feel reminded of, and that's why they keep coming back."
Influencers are amazing symbols of unreality, because their authentic feelings are often indistinguishable from those dictated by whatever corporate partnerships they have.
Things that had happened to me before the concussion still had a patina of unreality to them, because I couldn't feel the memories.
"I feel like treasonous is too weak a word, because the whole thing has taken on an air of such unreality," he said.
They look like cracked mirrors that show slightly different worlds on each side, rendered with the same detailed unreality as his Time Diptychs.
You can even follow the adventures of depersonalizeddolphin on Tumblr, in which a cute dolphin documents everyday feelings of unreality and identity confusion.
Barbie, who had become virtually a symbol of early training in body unreality, is now sold in in tall, petite, and curvy versions.
As the founding document of our present hypermodern unreality, it'll always be, 20 years after its release or 200, fair game for chat.
Given that Manager Claudio Ranieri has maintained that Leicester's status as champion of England is "impossible," an air of unreality was entirely fitting.
Mr. Sattouf's "cartoony" style alone — his characters have potatoes for noses and peas for eyes — conveys a sense of both reality and unreality.
Even Denes's more fully realized, firmly terrestrial works, the ones for which she's justly renowned, can have an aura of unreality about them.
Unreality is floating and abstract, a record that affords Ashlyn a processing mechanism without having to speak about the loss she's dealt with.
We expect that most citizens will fight the disorientation of conspiracist unreality and stand by the common-sense world of reliable facts and arguments.
Tseggai doesn't provide enough of an emotional range to match Joy's precipitous descent into unreality; she's either terse and brittle or screaming and unglued.
This turn is at once mesmerizing and baffling—the many children's voices become merged and disembodied, their experiences crescendo into a somewhat mythical unreality.
Because our reality that we're living in isn't something people want to hang out with, and so they watch reality TV to watch unreality.
Since November 9th, we've heard a lot of talk about unreality, and how what's normal bends when you're in a state of incipient autocracy.
The failure to engage either of the two strategic challenges in a meaningful or even lucid way gave the debate an air of unreality.
"When your emotions get raised to a very high degree, it makes it even harder to process information and distinguish reality and unreality," Whitbourne said.
"We think that people might be taking it because, in addition to euphoria, they're getting this sense of disassociation and unreality and hallucinations," he says.
Really ,any David Lynch movie would be terrible to watch high, but we chose this one because of the terrifying cocktail of amnesia and unreality.
And then there was one new element, which was the unreality of the romance that can't happen again, and is therefore perfect in your mind.
Following a trauma, it is normal to have a range of reactions, from shock, anxiety and rage to a sense of numbness, detachment and unreality.
The place represented the unreality of American myth-making, embodied our love-hate relationship with Hollywood, schlock and all, and its dominance of pop culture.
It's true that the unreality of these methods can cause people to make more purchases in the first place (to the detriment of their finances).
LONDON — When the world first learned of Michael Jackson's death, from an accidental overdose in 2009, the news had a whiff of unreality about it.
But the thousands of extras and most of the racetrack set are now computer-generated too, giving the entire sequence a sense of weightless unreality.
We've spent our second season keeping a critical eye on the unreality of America and dissecting the systems of power that uphold the status quo.
And it can, in such a way that from a distance they pass for paper cutouts, giving all the scenery around them an eerie unreality.
"International diplomacy has been reduced to name-calling, giving it a surrealistic sense of unreality that makes the world security situation ever more threatening," they said.
Results showcases those quavers and cracks impeccably, with the PSB production—all MIDI-rococo and hyper-unreality—buttressing the whole thing in a knowingly cloying manner.
Movies play with death all the time, turning horror into joy as a way of asserting both their power over our emotions and their marvelous unreality.
It is projecting a level of unreality that can only come from nature, like watching a bird eat a frog on Planet Earth or some shit.
The controversial performance artist, host of the eponymous unreality TV show, has been revealed by The Guardian as a beneficiary of a federal mortgage guarantee program.
The fascinatingly pungent " Dietland ," on AMC, is set in a similar landscape of unreality, but it's a jagged original, treating femininity itself as the dystopian environment.
Given the general unreality of the Trump administration, perhaps the truest account is one written not by a normal journalist but by a fabulist like Wolff.
"'Parsifal' is set in a world of unreality and we tried to pull it back to reality," Mr. Girard said, sitting in the theater after rehearsal.
I miss people thinking about the world outside the gravity field of Trumpian unreality, and about the world after Trump — the world we should be building.
Here the poet asks to be spared the dreamy unreality that usually comes with sleep, so that for once our selves will appear as they are.
The Trump team, throughout the transition and into the first period of his presidency, simply changed glasses to those of the unreality of the hard right.
Glam rock — which Kansai's designs for Bowie helped to fundamentally shape aesthetically — was about dreaming, about offering a certain unreality as a salve to troubled times.
For the most part, the contrived nature of the sculptures is apparent: the guns are multicolored, translucent plastic, and the bodies' material creates a sense of unreality.
He might well be a pop star on and off the road; more than one song places him among the luxuries and seductive unreality of Los Angeles.
Adding to the sense of surreal unreality, Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN's Brianna Keilar Wednesday that Trump's words should not necessarily be taken at face value.
I was just trying to show the same feeling of unreality, and also that those in charge know that we know that they don't know what's going on.
There's a similar air of unreality about the White House tax plans, which on paper at least fall short of the grand billing offered by Cohn and Mnuchin.
It was a meaningless eccentricity from a showbiz candidate going nowhere, a sign of the unreality of his campaign and of his own strange place in American culture.
These minor shifts led directly into the physical symptoms of a panic attack: suffocating and choking sensations, tightness in the chest, racing heart, dizziness, and feelings of unreality.
The character of Billy Madison is the naïve oaf in the mold of Jill, a scenery-chewing cartoon whose unreality clashes with that of the world around him.
" One of the artists in the show, Jennifer Campbell, tells The Creators Project, "My paintings fracture their own unreality by breaking out of the traditional flat picture frame.
It did not occur to me that the unreality of the lighted screen could lead us back into the actual world, but that is the case with drones.
He's begun to suspect that other long-ignored physical factors, like sleep issues, may play a role: Consistently bad sleep may produce dreamlike experiences and feelings of unreality.
It's a world straight out of a cardboard dungeon-building set, and careful placement of props is essential to break up the blockiness and unreality of those designs.
Here color again plays an important role, as the limited palette of gray, black, and white adds a level of emotion and a degree of unreality into the painting.
It feels like a more mature work than Anodyne, which wore some of its messages (about violence, numbness, and getting lost in the unreality of games) on its sleeves.
While privately conceding the unreality of the green deal, some Democratic lawmakers therefore view it as a powerful slogan, to be replaced by more achievable policy in due course.
Those are called "worked shoots": the times when someone acknowledges the unreality of what's going on around them, but in a way that advances the action within the story.
Utopia is a Latin word that means "nowhere," so when Thomas More used it as the name of his imagined ideal nation in 1516, he was emphasizing its unreality.
There are elements of goth and industrial music to Unreality, but every subgenre she explores is filtered through this notion of ambiguity and confusion that comes with staggering loss.
"The film is almost unrelievedly brutal and without the saving grace of unreality, which makes Frankenstein's horrors a little comic," Frank S. Nugent wrote in The New York Times.
" Where he ended up, specifically, was Coney Island, a particular swath of America where "Jellybeans glowed in the semi-gloom" and he learned to fall "in love with unreality.
It's completely nonsensical and might have you questioning whether or not you're about to play some kind of steampunk catastrophe, but it's also emphasizes the unreality of its setting.
There are elements of goth and industrial music to Unreality, but every subgenre she explores is filtered through this notion of ambiguity and confusion that comes with staggering loss.
"We do not want the chamber of the House of Representatives to be used as a backdrop for one of his reality shows with unreality in his presentation," Pelosi said.
Colbert spoke of his live election-night special, broadcast on Showtime, and how the evening transformed from an anticipated Clinton victory to sobering feeling of unreality as the polls closed.
And that's really what makes The Sinner unmissable TV: it is at once entrenched in the reality of the human condition, and suspended in the eerie unreality of Cora's ordeal.
I think people understand that this sensation of unreality has a lot to do with the platforms that deliver our news, because Facebook and Google package journalism and bullshit identically.
Given that the genre attracted many "delusional narcissists who created a bubble of unreality around themselves," it's not surprising that the line between sendup and self-importance could be thin.
Even ordering them provoked a mild sensation of unreality; before checkout, there were options to pay via cryptocurrency or make a donation to a psychedelic research center that treats PTSD.
On the page, other people can be perceived through the screen of a narrator's consciousness: Diana's unreality is a symptom of her husband's self-absorption, an index of his unreliability.
Are there historical examples of societies that fell into fascism or some other form of unreality and managed to escape without a painful transition or a violent shock of some kind?
While the magic in We Have Always Lived in the Castle never becomes explicit, the novel shimmers with a dreamy unreality that would be at home in a David Lynch production.
The project that brud seems to be pursuing — turning celebrity into a virtual commodity; commenting on the unreality of the "real" entertainment industry by literally creating an unreal celebrity — is fascinating.
It's just another example of the way TV -- and those who watch it -- participate in various forms of unreality, at a time when objective reality frequently appears to be under siege.
As a Canadian representative from the 1970s to the '90s on several national and NATO committees preparing for the unthinkable, I was struck by the unreality of much of our planning.
But, more than that, to live with a child with a disability is to be both isolated — as this family is — and susceptible to what seems to others like an unreality.
As a young aide to New York Mayor David Dinkins, Attie would sit in on high-level meetings and observe political events, and soon became struck by "the unreality" of it all.
This slight delay between experience and thought can create a sensation of unreality… it's only a side effect of excessive anxiety—it will pass as soon as your anxiety level comes down.
You look at a screen, but that screen is in a room, a room full of other things, perhaps other people, friends or family who can pull you out of the unreality.
Embroidery is not normally used to create a window onto this sort of pain, but Majd's representations of death are somehow more harrowing because of the sense of unreality the medium imparts.
But Tuesday night at Christie's, Edward Hopper joined the unreality of today's art market when his 304.73 painting "Chop Suey" sold for $91.9 million, with fees, an auction high for the artist.
The participants in its charismatic and credibly violent unreality operated close enough to rock star subversion that the Dictators were happy to cop wrestling's style for the benefit of their proto-punk performances.
Ms Rosenblum and Mr Muirhead: The new conspiracism obliterates nuance and judgment and replaces it with a distorted unreality in which some things are wholly good and others (say, Hillary Clinton) wholly evil.
There frankly has been a degree of unreality to some of the campaign discussion: Partly because Hillary Clinton's narrative is one of a slippery, dishonest candidate, the discussion disproportionately revolves around that theme.
But the absence, while part of a longstanding pattern, suggests wishful thinking on Ryan's part—and lends an unreality to the article, as if it were being published during a very different election.
And for those who are shut in, aside from family or roommates, some people's only form of human connection may come from the internet, where the worst parts of reality and unreality collide.
As Americans grapple with the unreality of the new administration, George Orwell's "1984" has enjoyed a resurgence of interest, becoming a surprise best seller and an invaluable guide to our post-factual world.
She recalled feeling "a weird sense of unreality" walking around a town filled with new infrastructure funded by the European Union, while being told by residents that the EU had done nothing for them.
From the opening scene, in which Meyerists aid survivors in the wreckage of a tornado that looks precisely like a TV set of a tornado's wreckage, the show has a cool, stage-managed unreality.
He is shocked that his lover, Julia, is indifferent to the state's assault on truth — the unreality of the present is all she has known and all she believes ever was or will be.
The image of that improbable group, gathering in that improbable space, captures Kantor and Twohey's own sense of awe and near-unreality at what their reporting over the previous few years had brought about.
The air of unreality is further deepened by a soundtrack heavy on percussion, shown throughout the film to be played by drummers in a gym with a basketball hoop dressed as if for sumo wrestling.
In that sense, Trump's distraction is working, making it difficult even for engaged politicians like Corker, let alone the rest of the public, to understand Trump's policy positions amid the din of unreality and spectacle.
The brash energy of Warner Brothers pictures, the extravagant unreality of MGM's, the exotic shimmer of Paramount's, the screwball fizz of Columbia's — all were identifiable enough to reveal the moguls as the true creative arbiters.
The zeppelins, trench knives, and impossibly agile dogfights combine to give Battlefield 1 a sense of unreality despite its realistic setting, a result that makes it feel more palatable to play than to watch trailers for.
In fact, instead of spending money to further study the effects and reality, or unreality of global warming -- the administration has opted instead to cut much of the major funding that would go towards the studies.
So it doesn't take long for the novelty to wear off — and for the same weightless unreality that a dimly cognizant Syd complains to Dr. Busker about to begin taking hold of the viewer as well.
Indeed, Grasso's footage of this dazzling room of ornamental splendor reminded me of how French Rococo Régence style has become the gold standard for the look of oligarchy, assaulting the viewer with its elaborate, glittering unreality.
Do you think there's a danger in comically representing these kinds of communities—that they could be caricatured into a sort of unreality that allows us to laugh at them while also letting them off the hook?
That's not even to mention the various rumors swirling around the premature deaths of icons such as Tupac, Biggie, Pimp C, Eazy-E, and Aaliyah, which seem to reach higher and higher levels of unreality each year.
An air of unreality surrounds all the planning and precautions for nuclear war, dating back to the "duck and cover" school drills of the Cold War, suggesting that a threat to all of humanity was somehow winnable.
Drawing upon what was then the still-new field of psychotherapy, Expressionist film became a cinematic medium in which the overall scenic and production design produced a feeling of dreamlike unreality and psychological tension for the viewer.
One of the most unjustly maligned movies of the new century, this LA-set sci-fi epic is a feverish roman à clef against Bush-era America, which also foretold the the unreality of the Trump era.
Weaving excerpts from her great-grandmother Sarah's diaries and Frank's editorials into her fiction, Robinson embarks on a grand and worthy experiment: to test the sturdiness of truth against the lure of unreality, of embellishment, of fervor.
It's more like a surreal, waking dreamspace, a reality you inhabit even as you face its own unreality, a morass of little imperfections that make the whole thing feel more like an engrossing hallucination than The Matrix.
When given a choice between unreality as represented by TV and the real-world work of protecting the United States from Vladimir Putin, Trump stayed loyal to the money-making fiction and threw the CIA under the bus.
Ever since a billionaire TV celebrity who can't seem to say three true things in a row became president, the news has become a parody of itself, with even 100-percent true stories carrying a whiff of unreality.
Depending on how you interpret the plot, this kind of stilted unreality is the whole point of Technolust, and the environments' off-ness can be funny — why does everyone keep so many spare PC graphics cards lying around?
Starring Game of Thrones' Natalie Dormer as the impenetrable headmistress of Appleyard College, it subsumes viewers in not only the surreal mystery of its story, but also the unreality of women's lives during the Victorian era (and now).
Also newish is the rhetoric of unreality, the insistence, chiefly by Democrats, that some politicians are incapable of perceiving the truth because they have an epistemological deficit: they no longer believe in evidence, or even in objective reality.
Favreau's movie fails to grapple with how the unreality of the studio's lush 2D artwork unlocked kids' imagination and made it so much fun to suspend disbelief; the digital wizardry denies our minds the permission they need to dream.
One 2016 study posited that this sense of unreality leads to contradictory attitudes about online privacy: While people know rationally that they should be concerned about virtual incursions, they simply don't have a strong "gut feeling" about it intuitively.
But the Enquirer connection is important because it's a prime example of one of the hallmarks of Trumpism, the tendency to blur the lines between truth and fiction to create an enveloping unreality that hampers criticism of the president.
It was all so sudden, so unlikely that it felt giddy, swaddled as it was in an air of unreality: If England, at a World Cup, could score six goals, why shouldn't it also train with a rubber chicken?
It's a story about a family torn apart by tragedy and grief, and it's an animated series that uses its unique visual style to create a dreamy, feathery unreality where you can never trust the path ahead of you.
"The record is called Unreality because I think the record really speaks to trying to process what a surreal world feels like in the wake of such a reality," Ashlyn explains over the phone from her home in Dallas.
For me, it's the episode where The Simpsons grasped the potential of its animated universe: the synthesis of awareness, absurdism, culture, and unreality that would turn the show into the greatest post-modern critique of the 20th century in any medium.
Usually, it leans on the audience's own knowledge that they're willingly giving itself over to pro wrestling's artifice—worked shoots have always tended to lean on backstage issues escaping their bounds and bleeding into the scripted unreality of pro wrestling proper.
Start with a blueberry and cherry crisp Garry Kasparov: Echoes of Soviet unreality Garry Kasparov, who became the youngest world chess champion in 1985 and is now a pro-democracy activist, recalled the country of his birth, the Soviet Union.
It's symbiotic at this point and blurs the line between the facts of the convoluted world of real life soccer and the relatively simple equations of Football Manager, until they fold into one another, a gestalt of market, game, reality, and unreality.
Proclaiming the unreality of the present lifts the heavy burdens of gravity, belief, and action, effecting a great leveling whereby all statements float by, cloaked in doubt … Against this rhetoric, a different proclamation: I want to live in the reality-based community.
Of course, there's beneath-the-surface code at play that I couldn't hope to ever understand, but the colorful unreality it creates is convincing, enough to have me always surprised by what was coming next, above and beyond the game's central plotline.
Here's an approximate timeline of this week's trip into unreality: On July 2, the president tweeted the above gif, which takes footage of an appearance Trump made on WWE in 2007 and superimposes the CNN logo on the head of his opponent, Vince McMahon.
The mixed messages were in keeping with a diplomatic gambit that had an air of unreality from the start, when, in early March, Mr. Trump spontaneously accepted Mr. Kim's invitation to meet — an acceptance that North Korea did not even publicly acknowledge for several days.
Traditional theater depends on the viewer's going along with a very delicate balance of reality and unreality that comes when viewers breathe the same air and share the same space as live actors; movies create a different reality effect or, if you insist, magic.
The waves that carried a ridiculous TV celebrity to the presidency are being propelled by a deeper current of globalization: the triumph of the unreality industries, the move of manufacturing jobs out of the developed world, and the proliferation of technologies that saturate us with media.
One study highlighted in the review found that in a small sample of 47 women, 50 to 75 percent reported an expanded sexual response, specifically in that they had the experience of unreality, the perception of seeing different colored flashing lights or felt like they'd left their body.
But when we feel ourselves becoming too consumed with mastering the language of whatever unreality is currently holding our gaze, it might not hurt to consider the overarching forces subtly directing our attention and prepare ourselves to step back if we're not comfortable with benefiting less than they do.
There's a great line from the philosopher Hannah Arendt, I think in her book about totalitarianism, where she says that fascists are never content to merely lie; they must transform their lie into a new reality, and they must persuade people to believe in the unreality they've created.
If Bunker was a Frankenstein creature, who arose from his liberal creator's writing desk to engulf his context, so Trump is a nightmare uprising of an unstable and potent vein of American unreality, called forth by more than a century's indulgence of dreams of exceptionalism, privilege and demonizing nativism.
On Time Stops, an EP she put out earlier this year that's meant as a soundtrack for a yet-to-be released short film, she applies similar tactics, more subtly, imbuing techno mutations and digitalist voices with an unreality that makes even their relative pleasures feel distant and unattainable.
The only concession I really make is that I use a dishwasher and avoid most of the cleaning products I actually advertise, which I guess is another strange unreality of this world—we use these images of "flawless hands" to sell products that no one with flawless hands could ever use.
In other words, I'm primed to see all the ways the show gets it ~right~, and all the ways it veers off into glitzy fantasy: the strange avoidance of Brooklyn, the fact that Jane seems to report directly to the editor-in-chief...there is an edge of unreality to things.
In a city where affordable housing can mean paying as high as 80 percent of the market rate, perhaps it's not surprising that there was a disconnect between Lumley's vision for the bridge and the material facts of life for most Londoners, manifesting in a strange unreality, symptomatic of wider inequality.
This is in stark contrast to the careful precision with which the production — especially Oona Curley's excellent lighting, shifting from shadowy to glamorous to blindingly clinical — delineates the defiant unreality of Marty's mind from the reality of the hospital room, whose curtain walls are the same filmy yellow as Marty's gowns.
Taking the story out of England and bringing it to America has allowed Sittenfeld to draw back the curtains, throw open the windows, and let the air in, along the way lightly touching on such current topics as the cost of health care, artificial insemination, transgender and interracial relationships, and the unreality of reality television.
" Writing about the plight of a lover waiting for a beloved, Roland Barthes points out: "The anxiety of waiting is not continuously violent; it has its matte moments; I am waiting, and everything around my waiting is stricken with unreality: in this cafe, I look at the others who come in, chat, joke, read calmly: they are not waiting.
Undone creators Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy use the technique in Undone to convey a sense of unreality, contrasting Alma's fairly mundane life of working at a daycare and fighting with her sister Becca (Angelique Cabral) and mother Camila (Constance Marie) with the vivid cosmic planes and fantastic forests she visits when using her powers.
In his documentary, Curtis goes onto explain in the film how this tension was articulated by Russian culture in 1972's sci-fi novel Roadside Picnic (eventually adapted into Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker, and inspired the series of STALKER video games) in the form of "The Zone," a dangerous place of unreality where the rules of reality were constantly in flux.
"President Trump's speech had an air of unreality because what he said tonight was so different than how he has governed in the first 40 days," Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE (D-N.
With its polyglottal cast of voices—evangelical salesman promising that you'll "COME BACK FAT AS A RAT...ALL DOWN THE WAY DOWN THE EAST COAST" battle with the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, who in turn battle with road accident news reports—gliding over and under the shimmering heat haze of synthetic ambience, Chill Out is just discomforting enough to ease you into the necessary state of unreality needed for dealing with the moment the (club) music stops.
Yet even as his art became more figurative, he never relinquished Surrealism's Sadean idea that any living body partakes in its own haunting unreality, a realm encapsulated by the unimaginable specter of its death, a parsing manifested in the pair of sketchbook drawings from 1951, labeled "Sketches of a Woman and a Man Wielding a Sword," in which a naked woman lounges with legs spread while, on the facing page, a man ominously brandishes a long blade.
The child who became the most powerful man in the world, or at least occupied the real estate occupied by a series of those men, had run a family business and then starred in an unreality show based on the fiction that he was a stately emperor of enterprise, rather than a buffoon barging along anyhow, and each was a hall of mirrors made to flatter his sense of self, the self that was his one edifice he kept raising higher and higher and never abandoned.
He cleared his throat and began asking a layered question about literature and theatre and life, something about realism and unreality and making a living, a cost-benefit analysis of graduate school, a cost-benefit analysis of the Peace Corps or participation in a drug trial, and he wanted to know whether there was such a thing as a Common Truth and, if there was, what was it, and, if there wasn't, well, how do you make decisions without it, and he wanted to know if there was a way to live without inflicting harm on others, because everywhere he went, he said, he seemed to be inflicting direct or indirect harm on others and did she know how much water was wasted in the production of almond milk, and every object he had ever bought or used—no matter how essential or frivolous—had been created and shipped and traded with enormous environmental and humanitarian costs, and, in the midst of all this, was it at all rational or even sane to direct so much attention and thought into literature or theatre or one's own small, insignificant mind and body?

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