Sentence examples for abandon reality from inspiring English sources

But to use the term to mean in effect a unitary state is to abandon reality.As early as 1943-44, J.W. Beyen, a former Dutch foreign minister, drafted a plan for a common market.

To feel pleasure in this day and age is, in some sense, to abandon reality and abandoning reality tends to make one feel delusional.

Most young people don't want to hear trova ballads with lyrics that speak of complaint or daily chronicles, they prefer to relax and enjoy themselves, to abandon reality, if only for one night.

"It's not at all about abandoning reality," said Tony DiSanto, the network's president of programming.

Long before the haunted vessel called to him, Reginald had abandoned reality for more comfortable realms.

James, a Scottish farmer, abandons reality in search of an ideal, which proves to be an illusion.

Sometimes her drawings tackle the everyday struggles of womanhood, such as uncomfortable shoes and objectification, but Muslimova really shines when abandoning reality altogether and illustrating kooky contortions of female anatomy.

Even more intriguing than the tail-chasing nature of reality show stardom is the speed with which networks abandon the reality formula when ratings start to flag.

Cecilia knew it; and emulating his skill in living with distress, abandoned stern reality for what imagination more kindly offered.

Written by Danny Strong (HBO's excellent "Recount" and "Game Change"), "The Butler" cheerfully abandons specific reality, with its main characters — Cecil Gaines (Whitaker), his wife Gloria Winfreyy) and their son Louis (Oyelowo) — crafted as composites to allow a wide swath of history to fit tidily into one family's tumultuous story.

(Last month, as the chosen speaker for the Republican weekly address, Mr. Grimm said Mr. Obama needed to "wake up to reality, abandon his failed policies and join Republicans in the hard work needed to turn our country around and create jobs").