Cut off by reality TV from reality, the group have no idea that, during their first week of foraging, fire-starting and orienteering challenges, a mystery disease is wiping out the rest of the population at a rate of knots.
They're cut off from reality.
In China the revolutionaries are mostly dead, and party chiefs are cut off from reality by layers of sycophantic bureaucrats.
My family was the perfect metaphor for the public response to global warming: cut off from reality.
On Lamu, a 5km-wide island, we will be so cut off from reality that short-wave radio will be the only way to communicate.
And if reports are correct that Ecclestone appeared to blame Jews for the banking crisis, he is even more cut off from reality than it first appeared.
Cut off from reality, as Mr. Galliano was and many others still are, in the world of first-class travel and the chauffeur at the door, they find themselves enmeshed in a web of their own making.
As we sat there with the water rising around us, it struck me that my family was the perfect metaphor for the public response to climate change: cut off from reality.
We don't know, but it is like they have been cut off from reality and all personal relationships, caught in a space in which they can't move or breathe.
Dominique Villemot, a lawyer friend from student days, said Hollande didn't fit the typical ENA image of Parisian technocrat "cut off from reality" but was more shaped by his venture into rural politics.
When you turn on CNN and you see a guy getting his head cut off, the reality is so much more shocking than anything any of us can do onstage.
