Sentence examples for note of reality from inspiring English sources
— and then adds a dissonant note of reality.
It's as if a note of reality has finally intruded into the administration's fantasy war games in Iraq.
The one really interesting note of reality that sneaks in is the husband who continually refers to "my baby," emphasis on "my".
Into the illusory world of a magazine devoted to female beauty and several kinds of desire, Mr. Graham insinuates a harsh, belittling note of reality.
Her body — fleshy, languid, true to the layers of untruths that she must tell to survive — is the added note of reality that "Boardwalk Empire" had to have if it was going to make blackness real for its viewers.
(In a television world where every other character seems to be a cop, a lawyer, a doctor or a television personality, this strikes an unusual note of reality.) The accident itself -- a flood caused by the miners' accidentally breaking through to an old mine filled with ground water -- becomes, on screen, murky scenes of rushing water and of men holding on to whatever they can for dear life.
Meanwhile, the godlike narrator (who is, of course, Colin Harrison) contemplates the women in the car and introduces the note of American reality that will drive the novel.
"Tepper Isn't Going Out," by Calvin Trillin, about a New Yorker so obsessed with keeping his parking space that he pretty much lives in his car -- for a note of stark reality.
The play ends with a brilliant coup de théâtre in the arrival of Marcade: his news of the death of the French king introduces into the never-never land of Navarre a note of sombre reality that reminds both the young ladies and the gentlemen that wooing and marriage entail serious responsibilities.
The cast brings the proper note of underplayed reality to match the enormous mis-steps the characters make in just about every horror movie like this from the '80s, which is the point and part of the fun, and which leads to their demise.
Conservatives cannot fail to take note of economic realities, either.
