Sentence examples for unreal quality from inspiring English sources

The houses they passed had an equally unreal quality.

Has any writer captured the unreal quality of contemporary reality more succinctly than that?

Her physical flawlessness has an unreal quality that makes even her luxurious surroundings seem unforgivably slapdash.

It appears with the face of Pernath, a doppelganger who adds to the increasingly unreal quality of the story.

The story — an elegy of sorts, shadowed by the Spanish-influenza pandemic — has the flickering, unreal quality of early cinema.

That's the fictional conceit of An Imagined Museum – but it opens at a historical moment that itself has an unreal quality of nightmare.

At least half of my plastic purchases are returned unworn, and so the entire transaction has an unreal, meaningless quality.

So there is an unreal, videogame quality to it, a sense of the PR man's gloss on the unpalatable limits of a fragile economic recovery.

By Jonathan Schell The New Yorker, October 4 , 1969P. 29 Comment on the war in Vietnam having taken on an unreal, dreamlike quality.

"The artists are in a situation where they are painting things they've never seen before," says Bonner, "which gives the images an even more unreal, dreamlike quality".

PAGE C1 SHADOWS OF THE SURREAL YADDO Over a century ago, a couple converted their 400-acre estate, Yaddo, into an artists' retreat that has always had an unreal, Gatsbylike quality.