Sentence examples for overtaken reality from inspiring English sources

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

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 space exploration, hyperbole often overtakes reality.

"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.

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.

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.

"When expectation overtakes reality, reality eventually wins.

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

But, as is so often the case with places that conjure times gone by, nostalgia started to overtake reality, Crean said.

It is hard to read an article about Montgomery without seeing the name Guy Debord pop up -- the man who predicted capitalism would create a society where spectacle overtakes 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).