Sentence examples for preferred to reality from inspiring English sources

Stories are preferred to reality because they make life seem safe, orderly, just and inspiring.

So like a fairground mirror, Middletown gave America an image of itself that was both familiar and woefully distorted – an image that the American commentariat preferred to reality.

Its defeat to Grand Theft Auto highlights how narrow the idea of a special experience is in video games, how made-up worlds are considered more vibrant than real ones, how fiction is considered more interesting than fact, how fantasy – childishly, tragically – is preferred to reality.

Its defeat to Grand Theft Auto highlights how narrow the idea of a special experience is in video games, how made-up worlds are considered more vibrant than real ones, how fiction is considered more interesting than fact, how fantasy childishly, tragically is preferred to reality.

That ugly truth looms over today's budget battles, but politicians have mostly preferred to run from reality.

The first report shows that TiVo viewers are much more likely to record popular dramas and sitcoms, while they prefer to watch reality shows like "American Idol" live.

He wrote what's widely considered the first ­gangsta-rap song, "6 in the Mornin'," which kicked off his career (and which Ice-T prefers to label "reality rap," a descendant of "hustlers toasting, putting their fly talk to rhyme").

In private, afterward, he was only slightly less adamant, telling me that it was "profoundly irresponsible, made up by people who prefer to ignore reality and who try and change it capriciously.

However, individuals in reality are preferred to learn from others with a long-term good performance.

Here was one of those science-fiction-style visions of the '60s that imagined us living hermetic lives in futuristic megastructures when, in reality, most peopled preferred to walk in city streets and squares open to sun and sky.

But Washington also needs to accede to another reality it has preferred to ignore: it is unable to manage the peace negotiating process.