282 adjectives to describe reality

"Now we are face to face with the stern reality of war.

It was an argument from the utility of beliefs to their truth; from the fact that certain subjective convictions produced good results, to the correspondence of such convictions with objective reality.

We must therefore regard our mental creations as spiritual realities and then implicitly trust the Law of Growth to do the rest.

The sea is a sad, solemn reality, the theatre upon which the seaman acts his life's tragedy.

Though it introduces the reader to a supernatural realm, with a phantom ship, a crew of dead men, the overhanging curse of the albatross, the polar spirit, and the magic breeze, it nevertheless manages to create a sense of absolute reality concerning these manifest absurdities.

reality, actuality; positiveness &c adj.; fact, matter of fact, sober reality; truth &c 494; actual existence.

It is not her mission to teach languages, but to use the languages she finds to hand for the expression of the truths, the facts, the concrete realities to which her dogmas point.

His childlike faith became to her a tower of refuge, and often, when bewildered by life's inconsistencies, she felt as if the eternal realities were vanishing into mist, she was calmed and comforted by his happy trust.

The theory of the Holy Roman Empire had thus become a practical reality.

That it should bring a certain largeness into the smallest life, that it should impart a strange stability to a naturally unstable and frivolous character; that it should check the worldly-minded with a sense of the superior claims of the other worldall this impresses us, if not with the sublimity or mystic beauty, at least with the solid reality and penetrating power of the Catholic faith.

And all the time I knew that it was not a nightmare, but grim reality; that Philip Vantine was deadkilled by a woman.

This long journalistic career, lasting half a century, accounts for his direct, simple, narrative style, which holds us even now by its intense reality.

He conceived ultimate reality, which he called God, as an absolutely perfect, impersonal Being, a substance whose nature is constituted by two attributes thought and spatial extension.

I was thus left with him and with Eveena alone in the building; and with a partly serious, partly mischievous desire to prove to him the substantial reality of objects so closely related to my own disputed existence, and to demonstrate the truth of my story, I loosened one of the conductors, connected it with the machinery, and, directing it against him, sent through it a very slight apergic current.

But, somehow or other, our dream figures and the actual realities did not balance.

" Meditation centered upon divine realities is the very essence and soul of prayer.

It is only when we have had time to awake from the intense interest in which he has held us by the vivid reality of his narrative, and have begun to search for faults in cold blood, that we are able to find them, In the Last of the Mohicans, we have a bolder portraiture of.

In our dream days, the possibility of my dying sometime had never entered our heads; but now it was an awful reality.

Surely it is not in the region of shadows that the savage will look for the great "all-father;" but in the world of solid, tangible realities.

That very intense tenderness and excitability which made her toil herself among the poor, and had called out both her admiration of Tregarva and her extravagant passion at his danger, made her also shrink with disgust from anything which thrust on her a painful reality, which she could not remedy.

When, in the long watches of the night, she reflected on the hardships, temptations, the dreadful companions her darling must be thrown with, country, lineage, everything faded into the dreadful reality that her darling was in peril, body and soul.

The sea is a sad, solemn reality, the theatre upon which the seaman acts his life's tragedy.

This glossy gunwale, polished by bare feet, was after all the sole reality, a shining line between life and death.

Pray send us word of Mrs. Coleridge and little David Hartley, your little reality.

Only one wants the holiness to be deep, inner reality: and so, I pray to be kept from unconscious, as well as from conscious sin.

282 adjectives to describe  reality