One thing that adds to the unreality of it is the issues at play.

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Our sense of the unreality of their enterprise is far greater than their wonder at our innocence.

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These quiet continuities were supposed to be reassuring, but instead they revealed the unreality that lay beneath his call to arms.

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Stirling soon saw the unreality of these schemes, perhaps because he grew up in Liverpool where a lot of reality was on view and he was never a member of the architectural elite for whom prefabrication was one of modernism's most cherished illusions.

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They cooked their food and ate it in uncomfortable confinement, the shreds and crumbs of unreality giving the evening shape.

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The sense of unreality in all this is dumbfounding.

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Despite the crisis, a sense of unreality prevails.

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Contributing to one's sense of unreality about all this is the fact that any such preference for locally based illegal aliens over out-of-state Americans violates federal law.

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From the start there has been a sense of unreality about Indonesia's new policy for East Timor.

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With so much trouble encompassing Stevens, the desire for a seventh term had a brazen air of unreality about it.

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"In these bid documents, there is always an element of unreality, " says Matthew Burbank, a political-science professor at the University of Utah who studies the Olympics.

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