Word: unreality
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...even doubted his sanity: "After you've taken so much of that stuff, you just really don't know where you're at. You don't know if your reasoning is correct. It's hard to distinguish between real and unreal, and you're lost. I really don't know if I'm nuts or what...
...America to the state rooms of the White House. the confusion is over-whelming, despite the feverish order De Antonio imposes on his snark hunt. Boyish Richard Nixons jostle elbows with thuggish images of President Nixons. But nowhere is the mystery of the man penetrated. He remains a totally unreal figure, a substance as shadowy as his own infamous five o'clock stubble...
...American defeat (in the U.N. voting) is what we deserve after 20 years of unrealism." John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor of History, said yesterday. "It is unreal after 20 years to assume that Nationalist China represents the mainland Chinese...
...bleak moonscape, Scott compared it to a great desert. "This is absolutely mind-boggling," he said. The scenery was apparently even more mind-boggling after the spacecraft descended to a lower orbit of only ten by 67 miles. Crossing over the towering Apennines, Scott said: "Why, it's just unreal ... the mountains jut out of the 'ocean.' They appear smooth and rounded. There aren't any jagged peaks that...
...collectors and museum curators like to talk in terms of world culture; but in the auction house they behave like chauvinists. Many critics have noted how the cult of masterpiece value caricatures the historical values of art by creating an unreal scale of "importance." It is equally probable that the cost for acquisitions does violence to geographical as well as historical culture by making it hard for countries to hold the art they have against the battering pressure of foreign capital...