Sentence examples for gray reality from inspiring English sources
My fantasy idea of his life crumbled, replaced by gray reality – fiberboard walls, fresh-cut grass, welcome centers and parking lots. .
The main character, whom Osborne refers to only as the Dude, invents a pair of binoculars that makes gray reality look like a brilliantly colored Neverland; the audience actually sees a 30-second sequence of drawn animation by independent animator Lorelei Pepi.
But China's is a kind of Dorian Gray economy, its young and footloose global identity hiding a grayer reality.
The quick-change artistry of the young missionaries in "The Book of Mormon" is a happy, gaudy metaphor for the way musicals give extravagant color and rhythm to gray, chaotic reality.
"It used to be that these sleepers and spies were sent back and they were submerged into the gray Soviet reality after the bright West," said Sergei Chertoprud, a Moscow historian who studies the Soviet intelligence services.
"Once Were Warriors" begins with the sharp contrast of an idyllic New Zealand landscape -- which turns out to be a billboard -- and the gray, crumbling reality of the film's actual setting.
Since opening in 2015, the Co-Lab Studio has been where many of the Duke community's ideas – both weighty and whimsical – have become gray plastic reality.
How does film empower you to navigate in this gray area between reality and fiction to reveal the truth?
"When so many real actors and models have digital work done to them, we are talking about a very gray area of reality," Mr. Niccols said.
If Hoffman hadn't happened to have succeeded as an actor, he might have been the guy in the film — a paralytically shy limo driver whose potential for better things keeps peeking through the gray mist of reality.
Pulled this way and that by the culture's erotic dreams and by the gray light of reality — "Men go to bed with Gilda, Rita Hayworthh grimly noted, and "they wake up with me" — many of those women had difficult lives, and some had careers cut short by alcohol or illness.
