irreality

This mode of irreality extends to his perceptions of her.

Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality 2008

In this regard, the "young man of rank" whose visits to Mathilda in London trigger her father's crisis and their ensuing misery represents not so much the threat of alternate sexual options as the sheer intervention of non-fictional reality ( "well-informed and agreeable in his person") into the irreality inhabited jointly by father and daughter (19).

Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality 2008

You may have had a similar experience—that sense of irreality and of focusing on the unimportant detail in the face of something hideous.

In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010

Some of its components are articulated through narrative commentary that stresses the irreality for Victor of characters other than the

Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality 2008

By the mid-1930s, his writings began to deal with existential questions, and with what Ana María Barrenechea has called “irreality.”

jorge luis borges | the destiny of borges « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

The layers of presumption and irreality are too many to fathom.

New McCain Ad: I Love America 2009

Hannah: If there is or there is not, I should like to know then that my ignorance of its irreality is equally and justifiably real.

Spencer Green: Hannah Montana: The Movie (3rd draft, by Tom Stoppard) 2009

After 9/11, of course, George W. and crew promised Americans the global equivalent -- and Republicans the domestic equivalent -- of a 36,000 stock market and we know just where the stock market is today: only about 27,000 points short of that irreality.

The End of a Subprime Administration 2008

There is a measure of irreality in nearly every word of that sentence.

The church of the curmudgeon « BuzzMachine 2008

Every story here grabs a red-hot trope or conceit and runs for the borders of irreality with it.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005