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  • noun Plural form of actuality.

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Examples

  • Existence of a few unusual actualities is not proof of an essential truth.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Existence of a few unusual actualities is not proof of an essential truth.

    Creative Control - Part 5 Hal Duncan 2009

  • The actualities are the most important part of your story, so after you've chosen them, (see Choosing Actualities, below) transcribe them word-for-word onto the page.

    Chicago Indymedia 2009

  • The actualities are the most important part of your story, so after you've chosen them, (see Choosing Actualities, below) transcribe them word-for-word onto the page.

    Chicago Indymedia 2009

  • I also wanted my students to reflect upon and capture their own learning, generating a new set of "actualities" revealing aspects of the processes of teaching and learning.

    Academic Commons 2009

  • Some of Johnny's friends saw in this promptitude a high mark of respect and affection; others felt a haste, almost undue, to turn the new erection into a bulletin of "actualities"; and a few surmised that had the work not been done with promptitude it might have come to be done in a leisurely fashion that spelled neglect: if it were to be done, 't were well it were done quickly -- a formal token of regard checked off and disposed of.

    On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller

  • 4 A cinematograph operator working in Warsaw for the Lumière Brothers, Matuszewski shot short "actualities," brief films which recorded events from the historical world.

    Academic Commons 2009

  • The rapture effected by an aesthetic of the sublime is often more persuasive than any rational argument in its direct exploitation and manipulation of the audience's sense of actualities, possibilities, ethical duties and emotional affinities/antipathies.

    On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010

  • A predominance of actualities as the norm is still not proof of an essential truth, especially if there are exceptions who negate it.

    Creative Control - Part 5 Hal Duncan 2009

  • In contrast to Mr Wrong and his Matrimonials, we of the Sacred Order of Libertines are actually sincere in our celebration of justice, whether as an attitude of impartiality or as the actualities of equity.

    Outer Alliance Pride Day Hal Duncan 2009

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