Sentence examples for not so real from inspiring English sources

They – the characters, the words they say – are not so real.

The characters are just real enough to engage your attention but not so real that you feel for them.

Lebeau and the rest of the men have no idea why they were picked up by the police: they're ordinary citizens, not especially political, and now they find themselves in a land that Kafka might have invented, were it not so real.

A former minor-league player, first as a Bracknell Bee in England's British Hockey League, then as a Lakeland Ice Warrior in Florida, he is the real thing on a team that for most of the Duke community is, like Sega Hockey, not so real.

Instead, Iran's leaders have chosen open defiance bolstered in no small way by the support they have received from Russia, China and IAEA Secretary General Mohammad ElBaradei, whose rosy pronouncements of Peace in Our Time would be comic if the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran were not so real.

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It would have been a joke if it wasn't so real.

It sounds like a cliché if the facts of the circumstances weren't so real, and perilous.

North of the decadent Vegas Strip, removed from the fur-lined limousines and Liberace impersonators, the new charter school would be a mirage in this pocket of the city if it weren't so real.

These would be hilarious if they weren't so real.

Some of these myths would be laughable if the damage they cause wasn't so real.