Sentence examples for real if that from inspiring English sources

The soft instrumentalist holds that such things are not robustly real (if that makes sense)—not as real as mountains or masses or individual, actual Canadians.

But we were talking about "Silver Linings Playbook," and let's be real: If that film wins Best Picture on Sunday night it would count as one of the biggest upsets in Oscar history... or would it?

Peggy, being Peggy, sees the best in him; she sees through his false realness to his real realness, if that makes any sense (and I will admit that it may not).

"There are real problems if that doesn't happen," he said.

"BBC local radio is distinctive and it does it very well, it would be a real shame if that were to be eroded," he added.

For me an album feels more real, even if that's just fairy tale real.

Regarding real estate, Lloyd says prices are at depressed levels and very affordable, so he recommends buying real estate if that’s possible and also notes that real estate investment trusts are a hedge against inflation, which he sees building.

The real lesson, if that's the word for it, was that violence drives people crazy.

"Billy Ivory is a real Lawrencian – if that's a word, I may have made that up," says Stephenson in his office at Television Centre in London.

— Eddy Elfenbein (@EddyElfenbein) May 18 , 2012Be real funny if that all-night $FB hack-a-thon was just to hack Nasdaq & keep the company private through the weekend.

The word suggests observational neutrality, a documentation, an unretouched record of what's real; and if that was the promise it was betrayed almost from the start.