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
• There’s an unreality to the beauty here that adds to the fantasy patina.
  — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024