In so doing, the poet becomes more than a mere descriptive versifier, transposing into poetic form an already existent reality; he becomes a veritable God, creating something from nothing, conjuring up for the reader, as Mallarmé himself put it, "l'absente de tous bouquets"—the ideal flower that is absent from all real bouquets.
The drive in to central London, dreary enough in reality, seemed incredibly splendid, a veritable yellow brick road, to the point that I stared at the nondescript bed-sitters and dreary industrial parks with as much excitement and interest as if they were Buckingham Palace, the Tower and Westminster Abbey combined.
There was a veritable summit of two memorably nicknamed New Jersey reality TV stars today in Hoboken, NJ.
Everyone knew that they, the Soviet people, lived in a veritable funhouse of a giant isolated world unto itself, in the parallel reality of that endless hall of crazily distorted mirrors.
Reality TV romance is, after all, a pantomime, a veritable smorgasbord of cliches, candles and contrived drama.
He climbed onto a platform illuminated by stage lights and surveyed a veritable armada of 275 reporters, bloggers, photographers and more cameras than a reality show.
But Born was not done turning a symposium sponsored by Public Citizen for the organization's upcoming book, Reality Check: The Forgotten Lessons of Deregulation and Unsung Successes of Sensible Safeguards, into a veritable Cirque Du Soleil of sense-making.
This has lead to a veritable orgy of press releases announcing countless major scientific breakthroughs, most of which in the harsh light of reality tend to be highly overrated.
Before you knew it, Gumbel had become a veritable spokesman for the program which, along with ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," spawned a wave of reality television that continues today.
And evidence suggests that it was a veritable gay era in the White House, as the president who followed Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, was likely our second homosexual president, a reality that was seen as just plain crazy when it was first extensively documented in 2005, but which more and more serious historians are now embracing.
