How to Use unreality in a Sentence

unreality

noun
  • Some might describe the faith that one has in unreality as the belief in God.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
  • There is a kind of bubble of unreality that goes along with it.
    Tolly Wright, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2021
  • So a lot of this just does feel confined to unreality or not the concrete world so much.
    The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Indeed, there was a sense of slight unreality about the moment.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2020
  • In an apparent confirmation of the scene’s unreality, the man then rings a palm-size bell, echoing the horses’ bells in the first scene.
    Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The effect is to emphasize the essential unreality of a play that has always been, in its own words, weird.
    New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Somehow, the Democrats had to attract attention and crack the shield of unreality, to be both riveting and solemn, to find a genre that would match the story and get it across to the audience.
    Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2019
  • There's also the unreality of life in that stratosphere.
    Brandon Tensley, CNN, 30 June 2022
  • Reitman, Cody and Theron all work to convey that middle-of-the-night feeling, the broken stillness and the drudgery, and hovering over it all, some vague sense of unreality.
    Mick Lasalle, Houston Chronicle, 4 May 2018
  • The approach conjures a kind of unreality, leaving the audience to assemble the truth out of a jigsaw puzzle of pieces.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 26 Feb. 2021
  • There is an air of unreality about the debate that has been raging this summer over a Brexit transition deal.
    Simon Nixon, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2017
  • In Kyiv, there has been an air of unreality about the situation and stoic resolve.
    The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Despite having spent her entire life cocooned in the unreality of royal life, this Princess Royal sees through the nonsense that surrounds her—and has no time for it.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The press releases conveyed more than a whiff of unreality.
    Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
  • 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.
    Christian Lorentzen, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2018
  • McTaggart used this clash between the A and B series to argue for the unreality of time as such, perhaps a rather drastic conclusion.
    Paul Davies, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2014
  • That sense of unreality pervades the performances at times too.
    Katie Walsh, Orange County Register, 24 Feb. 2017
  • Transitions between the trio of Joes often don’t land, only emphasizing the stagy unreality of the show’s three worlds.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Sep. 2021
  • As the last troops and equipment trickle out of Afghanistan, an atmosphere of unreality has settled over the government and Kabul, the capital.
    New York Times, 2 July 2021
  • But by that point, the reunion has already taken on a peculiar sadness, a tinge of unreality that only a cruel shock of daylight and the tears on your pillow will be able to explain.
    Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Two tragic guests, in the face of unreality, seek solace together.
    Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Logic may seem like a churlish thing to wish for in a movie that deliberately operates in such a heightened state of unreality.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Outside San Francisco’s 49 square miles of unreality, economies like those of Europe have a social safety net to dampen the hardships for the lower classes.
    Antonio García Martínez, WIRED, 9 July 2018
  • The judge didn’t decide whether Wright is Satoshi The entire case has an air of unreality because Reinhart's ruling doesn't address the most important question: do the bitcoins exist at all?
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2019
  • She was never checked by reality, and this gave more power to her unreality.
    Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
  • And yet the proliferation of these cities imbues them with a sense of unreality; the poems don’t so much feel set in the cities as gesture toward them from some other, unspecified place.
    Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • Cryptocurrencies have a certain unreality to them, but the damage would be widespread and very real.
    Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Trump’s warped unreality, where the election was rigged against him and January 6 was a flock of freedom-loving tourists besmirched by Antifa commandos.
    Robert Schlesinger, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The show has a kind of escalating unreality, an ever-increasing quotient of weirdness, bum notes, AI-like vibes.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2024
  • But a year locked up with husband, dog and Netflix creates a strange sense of unreality and vulnerability.
    Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 8 May 2021

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