Naturally, we thus replace the forgotten past with fiction and build splendid lies over reality.
His previous book, I'm Rich at Potosí: The Mountain That Eats Men, depicted through his splendid photography the brutal reality of tin mining in Bolivia.
But underneath the splendid success are disturbing realities that are systematically contained.
The drive in to central London, dreary enough in reality, seemed incredibly splendid, a veritable yellow brick road, to the point that I stared at the nondescript bed-sitters and dreary industrial parks with as much excitement and interest as if they were Buckingham Palace, the Tower and Westminster Abbey combined.
The reality beneath the splendid façade however was different.
Carrie gives us a reality complicated by mental illness (a splendid portrayal).
Splendid!"—but here that fantasy had been put into reality.
Always expert at bringing conviction and reality to her characters, Williams makes Harris into a splendid antagonist for Plummer's Getty, as her concern for human caring and emotion is the perfect counterweight to the older man's rigid inflexibility.
What we needed then, he wrote, "is a presentation of homosexual reality that doesn't apologize for its rich sensuality or splendid variety".
But to settle on that interpretation is to deny or discount the splendid strangeness of Mr. Sorrentino's vision — and also, therefore, of the curious corners of reality he discovers along the way.
