Word: unrealism
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...Democratic track there was a good deal of joggling, which gave the situation its most unreal quality. From the Orient, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver sent back word that he had not yet made up his mind-an announcement that most observers took as another indication that he is already racing. Adlai Stevenson, continuing to insist that he has not decided whether to run, stepped out and made his first major political speech of the season. Averell Harriman, who has said that he is not running, was the guest of honor at a big political rally in his own back...
With the dominant figure in U.S. politics forced to the sidelines for-perhaps-the rest of the year, the national political situation last week began to take on the unreal air of the Dodo's caucus race. No one announced that anyone was running, but there was a persistent clatter of hurrying feet in a sort of circle...
...actors take themselves so seriously that a spectator never knows whether to take them seriously or not. Hunched in his Brattle seat, he has the embarrassed feeling that their emotions were not meant for his eyes in the first place. The result is a movie that is almost unreal, and unfortunately, rather slow moving...
Under Costain's pen, the tontine loses all drama and suspense, becomes simply a century-long marathon dance of unreal, Victorian marionettes...
...John of the Cross in his book, The Dark Night of the Soul. Without any apparent cause, all the warm joy and pleasure that the religious normally finds in prayer and the monastic routine suddenly disappears. As one contemporary has described it: "The entire spiritual world seems meaningless and unreal; even one's own most vivid spiritual experiences fade out like half-forgotten dreams. One becomes keenly, sometimes agonizingly aware of everything prosaic: heat, cold, stuffy rooms . . . excessive weariness, the irritation of the heavy, uncomfortable garments . . . other people's maddening 'little ways'; the 'sinking feeling...