Chimerical

Usage examples of unreal.

A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal.

But between the real but obscure knowledge of the mystic and the clear but unreal knowledge of the verbalist, lies the clearish and realish knowledge of the naturalist and the man of science.

For people would have thought the Incarnation to be unreal, and, out of sheer spite, would have crucified Him before the proper time.

Delphic fire, her hair loose, her feet bare, until at last when, as she stood within the limit of the magic circle, her white hands upon her breast, her eyes flashing like planets themselves in the starshine she looked so ghostly and unreal I felt for a minute I was dreaming.

To suppose that we of the left-handed fraternity, of the goatish rather than the sheepish brotherhood, had no purpose, that is unreal.

He and McGarvey had hashed over this same argument days ago, and this time around it still sounded unreal.

Esmeralda felt light-headed and unreal, and somehow everything about Charles Thurston and Kalimba was no longer puzzling or threatening, but funny.

Sachaka forced to confess that the five khandas are impermanent, connected with sorrow, unreal, not the self.

Neither relatives nor acquaintances, they had come to watch the slow mental torture of the prisoner in the dock, though to them the whole case was unreal and novelettish, as if the characters involved were no more than cardboard cut-outs designed from the latest thriller.

The dark and the cold themselves seemed unreal, a fretful presence at war with the forge flame that raked through his shivering limbs.

The question of whether a certain story of imagination is a fantasy or a science fiction work would depend upon the device the author uses to explain his projected or unreal world.

Madame zome beautiful unreal things, things she may touch and feel and must pay for.

The car pulled away, and Bonner was left feeling suddenly isolated on that sunny stretch of road, with the city close by but somehow unreal, as if it was unpopulated, as if he was the only man on earth.

WHEN I got up a little before noon, the remembered scene with Harry Broll and his little gun seemed unreal.

My head still ached, the room was unreal in its luxurious appointments and my body felt logy and disjointed.