(n.) The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.
(n.) That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.
(n.) Loyalty; devotion.
(n.) See 2d Realty, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(2) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
(3) But Howard added that it may take a while and he is not confident the political reality will change.
(4) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
(5) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(6) Ukip and the Greens are beneficiaries of this new political reality – as, arguably, is the SNP as it prepares to invade Labour’s heartland in Scotland next May.
(7) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(8) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
(9) Historical reality suggests the concept of socially necessary risk determined through the dialectic process in democracy.
(10) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
(11) In reality, one of those things – Mr Renzi’s fall – has come to pass; but the other – a Hofer win in Austria – has not.
(12) Dawson argued that the health profession has a history of thinking that social care can be "subsumed by medical decisions" when in reality they are two different cultures.
(13) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(14) The combination of cost control with universal, comprehensive coverage has surprised some American observers, who have questioned its reality, its sustainability, or both.
(15) The reality is I like football so much, I miss football, and when I have the chance to be back I will come back.” Mourinho, who was joined by his agent Jorge Mendes to speak to children at the NorthLight school as part of the Valencia chairman Peter Lim’s Olympic scholarship, added: “It’s quite a funny career.
(16) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
(17) "It would be ridiculous to encourage shale gas when in reality its greenhouse gas footprint could be as bad as or worse than coal.
(18) Much criticism, though, is based on genuine misunderstanding or a wild misrepresentation of reality – even in the pages of prestigious newspapers.
(19) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
(20) "I am the first to admit the difficult reality that many families face," he told supporters in a campaign speech last weekend.
Savagery
Definition:
(n.) The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.
(n.) An act of cruelty; barbarity.
(n.) Wild growth, as of plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) The retreat of government forces had left tens of thousands exposed to the savagery of Isis, especially those from the country's minorities, including Christians and members of the Yazidi sect.
(2) The words themselves are intended to underline the savagery and otherness of these nations.
(3) The savagery of the murder on 22 May 2013, in which Rigby, 25, was repeatedly stabbed and hacked in the neck with a cleaver, tore at community relations.
(4) We’re seeing the most cruel form of savagery in Aleppo, and the regime and its supporters are responsible for this,” foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said, adding that his country was was negotiating with Russia to implement a ceasefire.
(5) The Qur’an, they argue, is particularly violent; Muslims are more given to literal readings of their holy book – and hence more willing to commit acts of savagery.
(6) Three films in, and already we know what an Andrea Arnold film might entail: visual poetry blooming in the harshest terrain; brutalised souls achieving emotional catharsis; and animals, lots of animals, the better to point up the underlying savagery of human experience.
(7) Nor did we get our promised trip to Black Beach, briefly home to Simon Mann and the most notorious prison in Africa, with its reputation for systematic savagery and torture.
(8) The reason for this savagery is that, contrary to their incessant claims that their long-term plan is working, five years of Osbornomics has been an outright failure, even in its own terms.
(9) Mistress Epps is humiliated by her husband's sexual obsession with Patsey, and, unable to punish her husband, she brutalises the young woman with a savagery that made me jump out of my seat.
(10) The story will get changed from government savagery to union militancy."
(11) A man who lured two police officers into a gun and grenade attack with "premeditated savagery" while on the run for murdering a father and son was told on Thursday that he would spend the rest of his life in jail.
(12) Or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him.” Adnani’s formula of boundless savagery has been adhered to by at least a dozen followers in France and Belgium.
(13) Everywhere was so tranquil that it was hard to believe only 20 years ago savagery on a staggering scale happened here.
(14) More important, am I in a minority in being shocked by the savagery of the sentences?"
(15) We both observed how this mindless savagery is striking into communities.
(16) Since then, Mexico has grown used to ever more creative displays of savagery, but at the time decapitations were still rare, and the incident was one of the triggers for Calderón's offensive.
(17) In The Girls of Slender Means, Spark combines wonderful charm and delightful romance - the setting is a London boarding house for young women shortly after the war "when all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions" - with an eye-watering savagery.
(18) Others argue that the generous funding of free schools is accelerating the corrosive segregation in state education in which middle-class pupils prosper while the bottom 25% see their chances further diminished by the savagery of the cuts.
(19) This darkening of comedy and drama was also to be found in, among others, The Thick of It and Peep Show, two comedies of stand-out savagery.
(20) Those "thoughts of an universal peace," did not last as long as the 30 year torrent of blood and fire it took to form them, although until the French revolutionary wars, the squabbles tended more to be conflicts between armies rather than the unbridled savagery of the 30 year war itself.