Sentence examples for stuff of reality from inspiring English sources

"It was pure pleasure without the stuff of reality".

Today, physical transformation is the stuff of reality TV shows; a century ago, it was the foundation of Bernarr Macfadden's media empire.

Protest is no doubt good for the psyche but an ideal world too often comes up against the physical stuff of reality.

Neither filmmaker assumes the facility or immediacy of expression, both find the mere stuff of reality a resistant block that they hack away at when filming.

"The Warriors of Qiugang" and "Poster Girl" are both about local hardships with larger implications — the struggles of environmental activists in a village in China and of a veteran of the Iraq war — but they manage to push beyond the delivery of messages into the raw, complicated stuff of reality.

In certain respects, Neo-Confucian philosophers such as Zhu Xi and Razan affirmed that ki was the stuff of reality in order to counter the Buddhist claim that all things are insubstantial or empty.

It is a metaphysical revelation deftly conjured out of the sensuous stuff of material reality.

Buying and selling greenhouses in the Salinas Valley was never going to be the stuff of a reality TV show.

It was an attempt to turn the stuff of fantasy into reality, to make the largest transfer of wealth in the annals of nations.

When he unexpectedly starts an apprenticeship at the museum, Archie soon learns that he is descended from the last librarian from the Great Library of Alexandria Secret libraries like Archie's may seem the stuff of fantasy, but reality can be just as exciting.

For a detailed discussion of the concept of shi (stuff, object, reality), see Geaney (2002).