Sentence examples for phony reality from inspiring English sources

Vincent Scully wrote in Life, in 1965, that "Disney caters to the kind of phony reality that we all too readily accept in place of the true.

In contrast, Duterte, who has embraced his Muslim and Christian roots, boasts decades of experience in an actual political realm -- not some phony reality show.

"We are now living in a fake reality of constructed data and phony polls," he wrote.

His saving grace is his gradually developing self-understanding, as when he laments to Day that he is "a stuffed shirt in a place of stuffed shirts and a big dumb phony" hiding from reality in his monastery.

How about this: many of us simply no longer want anything to do with "Average Predictable Sitcom With Phony Dialogue" or "Reality TV Show Seven Million".

But in a broad sense, the man's candidacy did show us what to expect from his presidency: A never-ending series of petty grievances and beefs, all centered around his cartoonish self-regard, all as phony as any reality TV plot arc, and all just as insubstantial.

Now I'm color-timing the whole scene so that nothing looks phony, to protect the reality of that.

In the same interview quoted above, Marcuse claims that he and others realized that "Heidegger's concreteness was to a great extent a phony, false concreteness," removed from reality (Marcuse 2005: 166) We can see now that the very thing that drew Marcuse to Heidegger's philosophy is missing.

Benenson: And then you kinda get this midnight hostage video with his phony apology to nobody, in reality.

There's been a lot written about gaslighting (lies that make you feel crazy) and the rise of fake news (hoaxes that displace facts), and much analysis of Trump as a reality star (an authentic phony).

The audience has been systematically shut off and dumbed down to such a degree that talk shows are analyzing not the phony wizard, but instead, white trash "reality" celebrities and their Nazi tattoos.