He hovers in a realm of fantasy like a character from children's literature, a cross between the Cat in the Hat and a teddy bear.
Jessica eagerly follows her grandmother's lead: she goes to Paris, lands a waitressing job at an Avenue Montaigne cafe and promptly presses her nose against the glamorous, creative bustle around her. Like us, she is only a visitor to this exclusive realm filled with wondrous talent and expensive habits, a realm that — much like Paris itself — is alive with its own mythologies.
The creator in Marcionite doctrine is not an offspring of a higher realm like Ialdabaoth or the Valentinian demiurge, and Marcion had no mythology of a special race of humans descended from a transcendent realm.
If Financial Fair Play falls flat and deficit-spending continues, in a decade or so the steady growth of MLS will probably put it in a realm between the "selling leagues" like Argentina and Brazil and the "destination leagues" like Spain or England.
Housing is like crime, a realm of policy that is gripped not by reason but by political psychology.
"But instead of being in a stomach," he said, "I was floating in a realm of pure chaos, basically like a terrifying swirl of colors.
In some postbiblical Jewish writings, Gehenna, the incineration ground where children had once been sacrificed to the god Moloch, emerges as a realm of postmortem punishment more like hell than Sheol.
Mr. Furst's gift for exquisite calibration transports the reader back to a realm where characters like Zannis could determine the limits of their authority only by testing it to the extreme.
An eclecticist, Cowell treats the studio like a realm apart.
It's a realm where a band like the Promise Ring -- which is barely a blip in the commercial precincts tabulated by Billboard magazine -- means more than 'N Sync ever will.
But Plato's dialogues do not try to create a fictional world for the purposes of telling a story, as many literary dramas do; nor do they invoke an earlier mythical realm, like the creations of the great Greek tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
