"past reality" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to a previous state of affairs, usually something that is no longer happening or is no longer true. For example: "The past reality of this historic town has been lost in recent years as new residents have moved in and changed the landscape."
Pale words, delivered in swift, precise syllables, move us painlessly past reality after reality.
So we can't penetrate the veil of the document to any past reality behind it.
Some walls had to be removed and rebuilt, but it was all worth it because seeing the boat, touching it, brings you closer to a past reality".
In the past, reality producers have been paid in the same manner as other producers — or performers — taking a fee for services.
Past reality gets confused with wishful fantasy as the years march on and you can never really guarantee that you're replaying the unvarnished truth back to yourself.
It can also disarm any attempt to criticise as untruthful the misrepresentation of past reality in the service of racist and anti-semitic ideology.
"... tears were running down his cheeks, and he turned to us and said, 'This is all I have left of my son.' " Christopher Howell, the MusicWeb critic, had written of Barry's and Hatto's propensity for "grafting past realities onto present falsities with scarcely a false step" — and how, simultaneously, "the work proceeded of buttering up anybody perceived to be of possible use".
She rejects substance metaphysics and describes the relation between God and the world as a complex relationality involving an active indeterminacy and past realities (2003, 219).
They are the very pivot points that divorce us from our past realities and force us to forever begin new ones.
Much like Nish and Clay, "Black Museum" also puts us face to face with past realities like the gynecological experimentation of enslaved Black women, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in the 1930s, and the forced sterilization of Native American women in the 1970s and beyond.
Much like Nish and Clay, "Black Museum" also puts us face to face with past realities like the gynecological experimentation of enslaved Black women, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in the 1930s, the forced sterilization of Native American women in the 1970s, and beyond.
