Sentence examples for exceed reality from inspiring English sources

As is almost always the case when these sports circuses come to town, expectations exceed reality.

In "Body Politic," she calls Washington "a town where reputations, good and bad, always exceed reality".

Mr. Baker, the analyst at J. P. Morgan Chase, noted that "perception may exceed reality" -- in other words, that it remains to be seen whether passengers will actually pay the higher prices or whether they will shy away from flying.

You also get what's called the longevity myth, which is where people's imaginations exceed reality.

Expectation always exceeds reality.

(Both Revolutionary Road and The Great Gatsby, Yates's favourite novel after Madame Bovary, are set in postwar periods of optimism - the 50s, the 20s - when expectations exceeded reality).

When the trajectory of rising expectations of a populous exceeds reality by just enough, people will spill out onto the streets in rebellion.

Reasonably vigilant travelers should encounter no problems: the scare stories generally exceed the reality.

But just as the claims made for 3-D printing technology sometimes exceed the reality, the field of bioprinting has seen its share of hype.

In nine months, the promise has exceeded the reality.

But for a while those expectations exceeded the reality.