Sentence examples for veiled reality from inspiring English sources

Noting that the rules governing the behavior of subatomic particles contravene common-sense notions of reality, Dr. d'Espagnat, a professor emeritus at the University of Paris-Sud, coined the term "veiled reality" to describe a world beyond appearances, which science can only glimpse and which he said could be compatible with "higher forms of spirituality".

He was awarded the 2009 Templeton Prize for his notion of a "veiled reality" (réel voilé).

D'Espagnat's work on Bell's theorem (which indicates that the realist interpretation is not viable and which appears to have received experimental confirmation) led him to reject conventional realism, but the fact that scientific theories remain falsifiable by experiment steered him to the idea that a veiled reality underlies the phenomena of physics.

In the possibility of a veiled reality that is perceived in different and fragmentary ways through science, art, and spirituality, d'Espagnat also sees, perhaps, a way to reconcile the apparently conflicting visions of reality that science and religion provide.

He has proposed that behind measured phenomena exists what he calls a "veiled reality" that genuinely exists, independently of us, even though we lack the ability to fully describe it.

The spectacle of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin only superficially veiled the reality of Nazi Germany, which was soon revealed by Kristallnacht.

So, Grandma Venice is the touchstone from which we will try our best to tell the story of a country strangled and enslaved by foreign aid, real and imagined fears, hospitals with no tools to do properly heal the sick, and Potemkin Villages of newly constructed white Quonset tents that veil reality.

To arrive in New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005 was to witness what Haiti would look like if they built skyscrapers on top of the earthquake rubble – a mirage of wealth, power and order towering over a fairly well-veiled reality of poverty, helplessness and chaos.

Applying new labels to a timeless problem veils the jagged reality with woolly language – often used to justify actions that directly harm those most in need.

Asterisks imply that the readers need unpleasant realities to be veiled by net curtains.

But he's also an heir of Beckett, an opaque symbolist who spurns psychology in favor of total metaphors that rip the veil off reality to expose the core of existential pain.