Word: unrealness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes into the second period, Cornell's John Wilson had an uncontested 15-11, shot from the right circle Blair, who had already recorded 19 saves in the first period, reached down and made an unreal glove stop on the low buller off Wilson's blade...
...been irked by the apparent warmth in U.S.-Chinese relations following the Reagan visit to Peking last spring, and accuse the Chinese of trying to pick a fight with Viet Nam. In June the Chinese foreign-language weekly Beijing Review went so far as to say that it was "unreal and impossible for Sino-Soviet relations to return to where they once were in history...
...seem over-dramatic, but then it's difficult to visualize from the third story of the New York Times a massive explosion in the middle of a clear autumn night in a provincial hotel, which came so perilously near to killing the entire British cabinet. It seems as unreal as the Royal Wedding...
...everyone is caught up in the buoyant mood, of course. Social Historian Christopher Lasch dismisses the phenomenon as gassy and unreal. "There seems to be a concerted effort in the media," Lasch says, "to present this view of a vast improvement in the public morale. But I doubt that it's much more than an emerging consensus in the media." Farmer Ron Nelson of Columbus, Kans., harbors a similar skepticism. "I have a wait-and-see attitude," he says. "It's easy to see flag waving during the Olympics, with all those medals and all. Patriotism was promoted...
...from Gaston's perspective, the Renaud family remains decidedly unreal, a chorus of voices in a buried conscience. In one day Gaston is forced to adopt the guilt of the 18 years he lived as Jacques Renaud, to both condemn and deny the man he once was. The intrigues of the Renand family would certainly be far easier to dramatize, but Director Holly Swartz has opted to focus on the more compelling, psychological drama of Gaston until the tension between guilt, responsibility and freedom reaches a disturbing, unresolved height...