Word: unreality
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...would be unreal to take Cambridge students away from their homes for the whole summer," Swanger said. "We do not want to replace their homes with Upward Bound; we want to incorporate Upward Bound into their home lives...
...awareness of irretrievable loss. "A sense of security, of wellbeing, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present." It is of no importance that Russian imperialism underwrote that way of life. Nabokov is concerned only with preserving "the beauty of intangible property, unreal estate"-and he transports the reader with a series of unforgettable images that have nothing to do with ideology or geography...
...answer is that Walton goeth to London, Julie to Hollywood. The result is that they are separated by more than an ocean and a continent. At one point, they corresponded on tape. "Every day, out went the tapes," says Tony. "Julie saying how frightened she was of acting, how unreal the whole thing was. But we got too good at the tapes and a bit too tricky. Every once in a while I'd get one from Julie saying 'It's midnight and I'm just dragging in from rehearsal,' and I could hear...
Truffaut is also careful to contrast a real character with his unreal situation. Werner is unshakably believable as a little man who gets hold of a much too big idea, a Jacob who snatches at a straw and finds himself wrestling an angel. As for Christie, the picture strongly supports the widely held suspicion that this actress cannot actually act. Though she plays two women of diametrically divergent dispositions, they seem in her portrayal to differ only in their hairdos. But maybe Truffaut is partly to blame...
QUESTION: And the unreal quality of the horse-riding process in Marnie...