Sentence examples for substitute realities from inspiring English sources

In time, the barriers separating the real and the imaginary dissolve like paper in water, as Dr. Chiba, Konakawa and a spritelike woman called Paprika — who springs into view whenever Dr. Chiba happens to be around — slip deeper into their substitute realities.

Visual images were central to the culture that Boorstin was attacking, but by the term "image" he meant something all-encompassing, something like a substitute reality.

The quest for a substitute reality is also a variety of fragile artifice, and Saul Bellow says as much in a letter, from 1948, that's one of the most brilliant, revealing, and dynamic passages of Zachary Leader's majestic biography of the novelist.

The perceptions created to convey the illusions of strength and invulnerability became a substitute reality to which all others defaulted.

It means compromising on matters of principle when the alternatives are worse, and substituting reality checks for morality plays.

They are also encouraging American citizens to substitute psychic reality for external reality.

Even in the liberal press, homosexuality drew scorn: in The New York Review of Books, Philip Roth denounced the "ghastly pansy rhetoric" of Edward Albee, and a Time cover story dismissed the gay world as a "pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life".

It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life.

In fact, they saw it as a poor substitute for reality; Hobbes called it "decayed sense".

"But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians".

Convenience, he said in essence, had been force-fed to the Japanese as a substitute for reality, trumping every other moral and ethical consideration.