Sentence examples for appearance versus reality from inspiring English sources
Secrest subscribes to this distinction between (as she puts it) "the private truth versus the public façade, appearance versus reality".
"Someone thought I had urinated in the space," he recalls, "and there was something about this that was interesting to me, something about appearance versus reality".
Part 3, which contemplates appearance versus reality in movies, explores the paradoxical scene from "The Wizard of Oz" in which the all-powerful Wizard is discovered to be an old man pontificating from behind a curtain.
Mikhail Bakunin, at whose home the early action takes place, is, at the outset, the most mild-mannered of rebels, one who spends his days at the university, mulling over philosophical conundrums of appearance versus reality, and the nature of being.
But, the more the puzzle has been filled in, the more he's begun to feel suspiciously like a symbol, a thesis title rather than a character: "Appearance Versus Reality"; "American Masculinity as Performance"; "The Links Between Prostitution, Marriage, and the Ad Game".
Normally, we believe that in some kind of appearance versus reality contrast: "I thought that was a snake, but upon closer inspection it turned out to be a rope".
In many ways, the appearance-versus-reality paradox is an apt metaphor for Mr. Lamont, the founder and president of Lamont Digital Systems, a cable TV company, who has formed an exploratory committee as he considers challenging Senator Joseph I. Lieberman.
It was the play on appearances versus the reality implicit in the name that finally made me settle on it.
Its narrative, increasingly nightmarish, is about dreams versus reality, wishes versus fulfillment.
"It is all about theory versus reality," he said.
