Sentence examples for chunks of reality from inspiring English sources

It can range from relatively domestic tasks, like cooking a meal, to intricate trompe l'oeil environments that replicate or exaggerate huge chunks of reality.

This is particularly true in the case of Perec, who, like an agoraphobic miniaturist, focuses on manageable, bite-sized chunks of reality, which he then tries to shoehorn into his books.

It's no worse than a romantic comedy, a war film, a Western, a thriller, with this difference: because of its veneer of factual reporting, the films that exemplify it are neither conceived as nor presented as genre pieces, but as sui generis chunks of reality.

Each one of a large variety of slightly distinct chunks of reality has an equal claim to being the referent of the vaguely introduced name 'Tibbles', and each such thing has a perfectly precise mereological structure: some of them currently include the lose whisker among their parts, others do not.

Did Beckett, Borges or Kafka follow Wolfe's dictum and offer us "big chunks of reality"?

Shivani: Tom Wolfe has written periodic manifestos pushing American writers to deal with bigger chunks of reality.

If you judge a poem by how big a chunk of reality it smuggles into language before returning it, transformed, you will have a hard time beating this catalogue from "Wigphrastic": Nonslip polyurethane patches, superfine lace, Isis wigs, Cleopatra wigs, Big Booty Judy wigs under the soft radar-streaked music of Klymaxx singing, "The men all pause when I walked into the room".

And that chunk of reality is herself.

She sees this man, greets him in a certain way...and provides him with a big chunk of reality.

Eschewing a fragmented montage, Iñárritu follows the action over extended stretches of time as if his doing so produced no mere photographic record of action but chunks of raw reality with their authenticity guaranteed intact.

In the 2015 version, the stakes are much higher: all the various Marvel universes have been destroyed – a radical move on the company's part – with the shellshocked survivors marooned on an enormous Battleworld that's been bodged together from leftover chunks of different realities, a feat of upcycling on a cosmic scale.