Above all, there is the unspoken fear that Europe could be reduced to what, as the French poet and essayist Paul Valéry speculated in 1919, "it is in reality - a little promontory on the continent of Asia".
While it is on its surface a biography, it is in reality a book about a marriage, a woman struggling to find her identity within it, and the particular pressure that results from attempting to do that under public scrutiny.
But it is in reality masculine culture, which has its roots in the stiff upper lip required of men governing an empire of racial inferiors.
Posing as a giggly exposé of Castle's obsession with interiors magazines, it is in reality a subtle disquisition on 9/11 and its bleak reverberations in the human psyche, locating intimations of mortality even in the Arcadia of Home Beautiful.
But it is, in reality, a cul de sac.
"I want to show modern Kazakhstan, as it is in reality," Mr. Rakishev said.
Knowles's complexion in the advertisement appears dramatically lighter than it is in reality.
In particular, the southern hemisphere appears much smaller than it is in reality.
All war fiction, granted, reduces combat to something less than what it is in reality.
Once a teacher has qualified, it is in reality most often the end of the journey.
I'm fascinated by politics because it embodies life as it is in reality.
