To the Editor: It is a testament to how far M.B.A. students have strayed from reality that they feel the need to sign a public vow that boils down to, "I promise not to act like a total jerk".
For John Lanchester, with only a little bit of tongue-in-cheek, the QE policy is an example of the world of finance once again straying from reality and entering the realms of magic.
The result is a predicted future that strays far from reality.
In a remarkably short period of time Quinn scrutinizes everyone, and even strays briefly from reality to assail television cops.
According to Ms. Woolley, the publisher of Prim Perfect, there is often little obvious relation between a person's real and virtual homes, and the main real-world function of a Second Life house is as a tool for fantasy — albeit, in many cases, fantasy that doesn't stray too far from reality.
And this is the danger of getting lost in fictional worlds: when we let our fantasy stray too far from reality, because we are imperfect beings who want both good things and bad – and often don't know what we want – we should be careful not to wander too far or too long in what Harry Matthews called ghostly possibilities.
In a July 24 statement, the group gave Edwards and co-sponsor Johnson their "Porkers of the Month" honor "for straying so far from reality's orbit, wasting the taxpayers' money on the paper and ink on which H.R. 2617 is written, and engaging in sheer 'lunarcy.'".
Don't stray too far from reality: we don't want people to think it's just a made up creature.
Hard to see why Daniel considers this to be an escape to a "Technicolor, over-the-rainbow fantasy world into which Jake accidentally strayed" or an escape from "reality".
In her current body of work, she questions how mutated perceptions are created and how far from reality they can stray.
