Sentence examples for overtake reality from inspiring English sources

This was a time when perception was starting to overtake reality; when it became more important to be seen to do the right thing than actually to do the right thing.

It can hardly help being other, no two sets of experience being identical: an American finds in English fiction a different slant and social atmosphere, and a realistic Victorian novel like "Middlemarch" develops, as electricity and automobiles overtake reality, a refreshing strangeness.

As we go through this campaign process, I am often dismayed by how perceptions can overtake reality.

Mental imagery research in this field has focused on the positive symptom of hallucinations and the relationship with trait imagery, given the observation that hallucinatory imagery appears in the most severe form to "overtake reality" in psychosis (e.g. Holmes & Mathews, 2010; Oertel et al., 2009).

Scotland, buoyed by their victory in Ireland in March, won the June Test series 2-0 in Argentina and allowed false hope to overtake realities ahead of the November Tests.

In space exploration, hyperbole often overtakes reality.

"It's sort of sad because the spin has overtaken reality," he said in an interview.

"Hype overtook reality and became reality," Rosenblum writes, adding that Joyce's roster of lovers definitely included Lee Shubert, Irving Thalberg, Walter Chrysler and Charlie Chaplin.

Malkovich builds up a picture of a society in which spectacular ferocities have overtaken reality — a society delegitimatized by violence and hapless to defend itself.

In a story that takes many wonderful twists and turns toward a bittersweet ending that strikes a perfect balance between tragedy and a dizzy kind of bliss, fantasy eventually overtakes reality.

"When expectation overtakes reality, reality eventually wins.