Word: unreality
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...It’s sort of unreal because it’s so distant,” she said...
...grows tiresome fast, however, and it is a strength of both the biographer and his subject that it is leavened with snapshots of Roosevelt’s extraordinary energy and curiosity. At various points in the narrative we are informed that Roosevelt was studying jujitsu, conducting ornithological surveys, reading unreal amounts of literature and nonfiction, steering submarines, publishing papers on natural history, setting the Guiness record for shaking hands and killing bears—all while in office. When he invited foreign emissaries for weekend jaunts, he advised them to wear clothes they didn’t care about, since...
...grows tiresome fast, however, and it is a strength of both the biographer and his subject that it is leavened with snapshots of Roosevelt’s extraordinary energy and curiosity. At various points in the narrative we are informed that Roosevelt was studying jujitsu, conducting ornithological surveys, reading unreal amounts of literature and nonfiction, steering submarines, publishing papers on natural history, setting the Guiness record for shaking hands and killing bears—all while in office. When he invited foreign emissaries for weekend jaunts, he advised them to wear clothes they didn’t care about, since...
...Cozzens’ Andrei, who enters with an artificial stomach to indicate his weight gain. Not only did the audience react, but Cozzens appeared close to laughter himself. Though the literal representation of Andrei’s weight gain is important, if the costume is to appear so unreal and the actor so uncomfortable, the padding must be sacrificed...
...custom-made (they won't confirm or deny plastic surgery). "To Japanese, we are like anim? characters," Kyoko sighs over a five-course dinner in a private room at their favorite Tokyo restaurant. Mika nods. (By Mika's estimate, her older sibling does 90% of the talking.) "We look unreal," Kyoko adds. "We do and say what we please?and we are criticized for it. A country that doesn't allow women that kind of freedom is suffocating for us. We would love to live in, say, Los Angeles...