Sentence examples for lack reality from inspiring English sources

Sylvester concedes that in transcription the tapes lack reality, miss the expression behind the tone of voice.

But Paul Burstow, Liberal Democrat MP for Sutton and Cheam has said the plans "lack reality" and should not go ahead.

Or perhaps because it lacks reality.

Leibniz concludes from this that space lacks "reality" or that it lacks "absolute reality" (see L5: 29 and L5: 36).

For that reason Twardowski takes the content — in contrast to the (real) act — as something that always lacks reality.

Although we think the soul, the world, and God (necessarily) as objects, these ideas actually lack objective reality (there is no object that corresponds to each of these ideas that is or could be given to us in any intuition).

He couldn't bear the over-acting, the painted people, the lack of reality.

While many designers this season are into parkas (or at least a more casual attitude), Ms. Karan is pushing seduction — and, frankly, a lack of reality.

David Brooks gets it right in his column about the Alito hearings and the Democrats' complete lack of reality concerning what the constituents of that once great political party really want.

The basic philosophical doctrine is summarized as the triple truth, or jiguan ("perfected comprehension"): (1) all things (dharmas) lack ontological reality; (2) they, nevertheless, have a temporary existence; (3) they are simultaneously unreal and temporarily existing being the middle, or absolute, truth, which includes and yet surpasses the others.

Mulligan, who's said in the past that Ribblestrop is "not Hogwarts – any elf would be stamped on and barbecued very quickly", thinks the slap-bang-wallop violence of his boarding school is, perhaps, "some kind of response to the lack of reality in Enid Blyton".