Sentence examples for expense of reality from inspiring English sources

This row is an example of the way modern culture overvalues and overemphasises images at the expense of reality.

It's not quite cerebral at the expense of reality -- secrets are revealed, affairs are had and the like.

For journalists, getting beyond left and right means not allowing the agenda to be set by interest groups that are clearly stumping for votes and air time on cable television at the expense of reality.

He regretted the creation of his own reality at the expense of empirical reality.

It's also artful, often movingly so, but never at the expense of tough reality.

But under the Liberals, Australia is a country repeatedly exposed to ideological nonsense at the expense of material reality.

There's nothing inherently bad about thinking positive, yet to do so at the expense of denying reality is potentially damaging.

Mr. Gilder's critics say he was too focused on technology at the expense of business realities.

"Although the Government has played the game of trying to almost make public services – and the people who work for them – a drain on the rest of the community, as if they are living cosseted lives at the expense of taxpayers, the reality is that the health of the public and private sector economies depends on each other".

So does President Kagame's IT agenda come at the expense of more practical realities like healthcare, housing and rural development?

The cultivation of these utopian schemes took place at the expense of our feeling for reality.' " The quote, which needs some ellipses and a few other words to be entirely accurate, is rarely cited.