The actuality of thought is life. From LearnThat.org. [Aristotle, Source: Metaphysics, book XII]
A hope that progressed from possibility to actuality. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Note: I use the term actuality in place of realism, since realism is also a literary movement, and I don't want to confuse terms. From Wordnik.com. ["Nonrealist Fiction"] Reference
The cost to bring an idea to actuality is not zero. From Wordnik.com. [Ideas and Growth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
I call the actuality of the potential as such, movement. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
When in actuality, chocolate is used in such a small amount. From Wordnik.com. [On mole and matrimony | Homesick Texan] Reference
In actuality is doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. From Wordnik.com. [Obama adds two superdelegates, one's a former Clinton backer] Reference
It LOOKS expensive, but in actuality the price is the same, or less. From Wordnik.com. [Social Security Myths, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Which is meaningless, because Ray Bradbury is, in actuality, immortal. From Wordnik.com. [What's Your Favorite Ray Bradbury Story?] Reference
Me, 6 foot 2, 190lbs, in actuality an Ivy-League grad in real life, 2x over. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Downs: Between Earth and Heaven: Ode to Tyler Clementi] Reference
But, in actuality being his own personal cheerleader only made matters worse. From Wordnik.com. [Carole Bennett, MA: The Alcoholic/Addict's Art of Self Sabotage] Reference
In actuality, is there anyone in 2007 who thinks war is a glorious enterprise?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The War Prayer] Reference
And, in actuality, the dubed version irritated me. i prefer the subtitled version. From Wordnik.com. [Original Let The Right One In Director Talks Remake | /Film] Reference
Yesterday, our session seemed to last ten minutes when in actuality, it was an hour. From Wordnik.com. [In Training | The Stiletto Gang] Reference
Martin's purported actuality is wrong on its face if applied to the "white population" of the. From Wordnik.com. [Slavery and the Jews] Reference
In his single play, Exiles, as in actuality, he pushed this problem toward a negative conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [James Joyce] Reference
The estate tax, or death tax as republicans lamely call it, is in actuality a wealth transfer tax. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Bush Fabricates Threat To Marriage, Blames ‘Activist Judges’] Reference
So in actuality, your real name should be "Charles Schwab", and you should act like it with fervor. From Wordnik.com. [Tracey D. Smith: Charm School 101 for the College Student: Who Are You?] Reference
This holds true even if the experiences you share are in actuality imagined ones created by an author. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Shape of a Story, and Why We Tell/Read Stories] Reference
So at home there was peace in actuality; and, as we have seen, Mill himself wrote in the midst of peace. From Wordnik.com. [Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women] Reference
We've been asked to "pledge to support" the president's agenda -- when in actuality we signed up to impact it. From Wordnik.com. [Sara Haile-Mariam: Obama's MTV Town Hall Was a Missed Opportunity] Reference
She understood, as I do, that those "no big deal" moments that are so easy to miss are, in actuality, momentous. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth] Reference
Holding to newer precedents (your stare decisis argument) is in actuality a compounding of past judicial activism. From Wordnik.com. [Exposing the myth of so-called activist judges « A Progressive on the Prairie] Reference
People use the words to describe the wine, but in actuality, the words describe how the palate perceives the wine. From Wordnik.com. [The Circle of (New) Life: Red Newt Is Evolving] Reference
And then they asked us to leave, like they were punishing us, when in actuality we were leaving the village anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Famed Athlete Scrutinized For Cashing In On Symbolic Medal] Reference
Audiences thought the end of the movie was a greeting card, when in actuality it was an event of cosmic importance. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: Which SciFi Movie Ending Would You Change?] Reference
You would be amazed at how things will flow for you and how the journey of a thousand miles in actuality becomes effortless. From Wordnik.com. [Natasha Dern: Finding Success: Are You Doing What You Love?] Reference
He was panting heavily, pretending that he was breathing, when in actuality he was -- he needed oxygen to function as did she. From Wordnik.com. [Dharma and Bert] Reference
And now Wal-Mart (in actuality, Wal-Mex) is an enormous presence south of the border -- the largest private employer in Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [A Microcosmic Look at the Salutary Nature of Competition] Reference
The actuality is continually outdoing our talents, and the culture tosses up figures almost daily that are the envy of any novelist. From Wordnik.com. [The Nihilist] Reference
Now the word actuality has two senses corresponding respectively to the possession of knowledge and the actual exercise of knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [ON THE SOUL] Reference
But in actuality they all lack the feeling you get face to face when the other person does not say what you want or expect him to say. From Wordnik.com. [Page 2] Reference
You think that by just flippantly commenting on this blog that you are “doing something”, when in actuality you are doing nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Afghanistan is “close to anarchy,”] Reference
It also implies that he considers Hikari's becoming a composer, in actuality, surpasses the importance of his own literature about him. From Wordnik.com. [Kenzaburo Oe - Biography] Reference
I fully understand what walking on "the other side" of the Malecon and in actuality it is quite sad that one even has to do such a thing. From Wordnik.com. [working in puerto vallarta] Reference
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