Sentence examples for surface of reality from inspiring English sources

If "the camera can't lie," neither is it inclined to tell the truth, since it can reflect only the usually ambiguous, and sometimes outright deceitful, surface of reality.

Vian was a fantasist, but, as is often the case, his best inventions turn out to be those that skim the surface of reality.

Ballard, prophet of the post-postmodern, voluptuary of the car crash, surgeon of the pathological virtualities pulsing beneath the surface of reality.

Roger Connah's texts on architecture are the writings of a critical eye which travels across the rugged surface of reality on which architecture, too, casts its shadows.

When one of the resident style queens, epistemologists to their nail lacquer, gazed at Tina Fey and said, in tones of unfeigned awe, "I've never seen this hair on her," we were vouchsafed a genuine insight into the unreliable surface of reality, as it shimmers on Pacific shores.

"I wish that those who look at my drawings could feel there is a little ripple on the surface of reality," Mara Cerri said in an interview with The Huffington Post.

The second picture, a head-and-shoulders close-up concentrating on the shiny nose, rosy skin and bristly beard, also reflects the Dutchman's sensual interest in paint and the surfaces of reality.

In films such as Robert Wiene's Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) and Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927), distorted sets and unusual camera angles probed for disturbing truths behind the surface appearances of reality.

Like many of the stories of H. P. Lovecraft it was based upon, Alone in the Dark generated suspense from the gradual immersion of its hero into a disturbing world of eldritch mystery just below the surface of everyday reality.

The old Pythagorean idea is that the universe has been designed by a marvelous designer with a capital D. This flux of everyday experience covers over the universe and hides it -- so what an artist or a scientist or a mathematician is supposed to do is find that harmony behind the clouded surface of everyday reality, and when you do that, you somehow approach divinity.

Every day those nightmares attempt to come to the surface of our reality and stir up some trouble.