Sentence examples for partly real from inspiring English sources

Hardy's Wessex – "a partly real, partly dream country", as he called it – is a good example.

A visitor inserted a quarter, twirled some knobs, and had the sensation, partly real, of producing, with his ignorant hands, a marvellously unholy barrage of noise.

There's a wonderful moment just before the play's end when Maggie and Will square off in a battle of wills that is part simulation but partly real.

A new trail map, Exploring Thomas Hardy's West Dorset (the novelist used the ancient name Wessex for his "partly real, partly dream county") will link places that inspired him, including his birthplace at Higher Bockhampton.

In Far From The Madding Crowd he revived an ancient Saxon name for this area, Wessex – "a partly real, partly dream country" – and I have come to find it.

Obviously dog's emotions are intently felt, but the dog scientists tell us that they're only partly "real" — that dogs essentially feel anxiety about your feelings, or partly so at least.

The substantial heterogeneity in reported prevalence of retinopathy may partly be real, for example due to differences in the age structure of different population, but may also be due to differences in study methodology and population sample.

Thus, the screen Ray Gange is partly the real Ray Gange, partly a composite of other Clash hangers-on, and partly the film-makers' zeitgeist indicator.

Bolaño's satire reaches its apex with the last section of the novel, which is based partly on real events.

It's a no-brainer: a fictional mad scientist hosting a show that's at least partly about real mad scientists.

This trend took several years to turn around, partly because real estate takes a long time to sell, as opposed to stocks and other assets.