Sentence examples for Distance from reality from inspiring English sources

Their father's alcoholism worsens as the summer progresses, despite warnings from doctors, two arrests for drunk driving, and his growing distance from reality.

(Surely Jordan knows these names have a Dickensian distance from reality; his literary references here include Poe and Joyce, one the icon of the haunted, the other of emotionally tortured men traipsing around Dublin).

The final showdown, John Dickerson, Slate If the candidates are using foreign policy as a proxy to appeal to battleground-state voters, it means the substance is going to be a good distance from reality.

This crisis, which is the crisis of narrative's distance from reality, is artistic certainly and cultural probably: but Knausgaard's great accomplishment is to show it, pre-eminently, as personal.

I knew I had to make the next draft of the book resemble the West Bank more closely, but I also knew it had to retain some distance from reality for the novel to function as fiction.

No one would call Lincoln or Roosevelt inattentive to their situations; both men knew how to find a moment of distance from reality as a means of refreshing themselves and their aides.

The "Lemonade" film is set, at times, in New Orleans and is peopled with figures who are real, if distanced from reality by their fame, including the tennis star Serena Williams and the actresses Zendaya and Quvenzhané Wallis.

Clichés are prophylactics against the complexity and intensity of direct experience, tools used to distance ourselves from reality, but this photograph brings love near enough that we can feel its hot breath.

The social fact of race has long challenged efforts at readings that seek to distance image from reality, and it has also challenged attempts to analyze visual texts as if they were historical documents of record.

To do otherwise only works to distance us from reality -- to obscure our environmental responsibilities with yet another layer of human exceptionalism; the debate becomes, to quote the famous line, "just some stuff, said by some politician, full of bluster and angry stuff, signifying squat".

When you lie, you distance yourself from reality.