Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This Time-world . . . only flutters as an unreal shadow...
...long and long and longer than long or longer, three biscuits small not tall but small, I held and yelled and held the notion not nationally, but notionally that Gertrude Stein, the Stein of Steins, not a beer stein, perhaps a holstein, was not real, unreal, really...
...left for the honor: Ronald Colman, adventurer, loves Lily Damita, wife of another, but tries to preserve her ____; besides, he has sworn on his ______ to restore a certain Rajah to his throne. Even superb photography cannot make more than a routine film out of this brooding but somehow unreal and tormented story. Best shot: Capt. Jorgensen blowing up the ammunition ship...
...moment all is as well as it should be or as it has been between England and America. But as one who has been in charge of the British Admiralty's policy and a member of the Cabinet, it seems to me that there is much that is unreal, even absurd, in this naval controversy...
...becoming one of those compact, dreary dramas of the European underworld that have been done so effectively by UFA and Sovkino. Instead, the drama of its one genuine situation-a harlot (Norma Talmadge) suspected of the murder of a suicide-is ignored in favor of a series of patently unreal and cinematic developments in which the lady, reformed, is called upon to perform for the sake of her country an act which patriotism unconvincingly transforms from a two-rouble incident to a Holy Sacrifice...