Word: unreality
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Peaks of Destiny. So enormous are the powdered peaks of the Alps, so wild and casual the winds that sweep between them that the actions of people must seem in comparison fragile and inconsequent, even unreal. The people in this picture are mainly three; Diotina, a dancer, whose amorous flippancies stir her fiance to jealousy as they stir his young friend to devotion. The fiance traps his friend on a high and dangerous ledge; then, at the instant of carrying out his plan, he regrets it and clings to a rope through a night of storm until men arrive...
...reflections of the erratic musician Sanger, as they appeared in his children, she now unfolds the more tragic influences of Norman Crowne as they animate his son and daughter. As these two are more tragic, they are more spectacular. Their bright uneven beauty sometimes begins to be a little unreal. But the construction of her theme, the way in which their mercurial doings are played against the less irregular pattern of the Frobishers outweighs and hides their unreality. The glow of "red sky at morning, shepherds' warning," pervades the pages of the book, rising to a sultry heat...
...Light Dragoons to splendid distinction in the capture of Valentia d'Alcantara. after which he was elected to Parliament and later appointed by the King to be Governor of Fort William. The war with the Colonies started and Burgoyne came to America. To him this place must have appeared unreal and picaresque; as it appears in old engravings and panoramas, a country of little, round hills, of funny irregular cities upon whose wide quiet squares a few bewildered people postured, of dark mysterious forests in which Indians trotted and yodeled and performed their gloomy dances. A citizen of London...
...makes admirable reading. It is a direct and human story, normal and natural, told without a breath either of conscious advertisement, or of unreal humility. It is written with quick and nervous energy. There is much deft description, shrewd comment, and keen insight. All through it runs a virile loyalty, and a disciplined enthusiasm which marks the spiritual expert. It is skillfully condensed, giving a true perspective and a clear impression...
...love with each other, and, without describing anything else about them, make them distinct; it is nevertheless a difficulty Mr. Robinson, if his poem was to be really successful, had to overcome. But this the very introspection and sensitivity with which he has invested Tristram and Isolt make them unreal. They move behind veils, they are half hidden in a midst. Not always, of course; occasionally the mist lifts, the characters appear, and we feel the intensity of their passion...