Sentence examples for as less real from inspiring English sources

Dally's "realness" is made apparent by characters in a book; by contrast, the other members of the gang, who've limited themselves to playing roles they've picked up elsewhere, are suddenly seen as less real, enabling Pony to understand why, at the beginning of the novel, Cherry Valance shyly declared, "I kind of admire him".

Of course, results with the caveat are very seldom treated as less real than any others in the literature.

When I asked Klout's biz dev director Don Hoang why its system was unable to identify Alexia as having less real world influence than TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington, he gave me the cop out answer "We believe the philosophy that everyone has clout".

The 19th century strikes me as more nostalgic and less real, as if they were trying to allegorize themselves into a world that no longer existed".

But, as Jimmy Doherty reported in the excellent Food Prices: The Shocking Truth (Channel 4), the trend is reversing; we're spending more on basic foodstuffs even as we have less real income.

(Otherwise, there is no basis for saying that the self as representer is "less real").

But this might explain why Patchett's characters ultimately feel less real than symbolic, as wooden as the Virgin's statue.

And that I was telling him that his pain, somehow, as a consequence, was less real.

Similarly, the Holocene is no less real as a geologic epoch because the popularity of the word (in books) peaked about a decade ago.

Thirty-five years on, the threat of nuclear war is no less real as Donald Trump alternately courts and insults a nuke-armed North Korea.

Our study of meaning attribution, conducted in Canada, China and Russia showed that men had a consistent tendency to estimate natural phenomena (even time-related) as more fixed and limited, less real (even "Reality") and less complex (even "Complexity") than women.