What is "actuality"

Usage examples of "actuality".

She seemed to have passed into a kind of dream world, absolved from the conditions of actuality.

Actuality the abstract: we must not confuse it with the other actualization, strictly so called, that which is contrasted with the power producing actualization.

Then, everything, in the intellectual is in actualization and so all There is Actuality?

How could that potentiality come to actuality unless there be, first, an effective principle to induce the actualization which, left to chance, might never occur?

Intellectual-Principle has to give, an actuality whose advantage over Intellection is no adventitious superiority.

Reason-Principles into complete actuality since, amid the clash of these antecedent Principles, Matter had already from its own stock produced the less good.

Jacob Dimeter, included on the tally as a well-known dianetician, whose observations on the Woodslee scene would make the trip respectable on Actualities Newscasts.

If they treat God as they do the Intellectual-Principle--as later, engendered and deriving intellection from without--soul and intellect and God may prove to have no existence: this would follow if a potentiality could not come to existence, or does not become actual, unless the corresponding actuality exists.

The actuality of these historical problems is literally embodied in the figure of the exiled writer, so that authorship is an echo of the problem it addresses.

There is, however, the case, also in which a thing, itself existing in actuality, stands as potentiality to some other form of Being.

His eyes were a slow boiling vortex of churning ice and melted stone, a simmering kinesis of thoughts and possibilities, of violent potential and erupting actuality, of all the power that had ever been.

Drake had seen the scene often enough without wanting to play a part in it: dusky coconut culture serves as exotic backdrop for Anglo fantasies of global gaming and sexual derring-do under the rule that out in the non-Christian hinterlands there are no rules, no one is what he seems, and the congenial Welsh twosome you meet over rijsttafel in a restaurant whose wall murals depict a subtle range of lovemaking are, in actuality, ruthless agents of a foreign power who have selected you and your beautiful wife to play unwilling but critical roles in their horrid terrorist scheme.

The scene would be rehearsed several times before Sultan, tired of mummery and eager for actualities, slunk yawling into the bush, while Baal Burra, whimpering in the dusk, waddled home to be caged.

In actuality, Manesh knew that the Mig-23 was not a slow plane, but compared to the modern Mig-29, the old Flogger fell short in maneuverability-a basic need for modern-day dogfight survival.

At its best Pantheism issues in a kind of mystic poetry and creates a devotee sensitive as Tagore to the fugitive gleams of beauty through the murk of things, voicing his prayers and insights in rare phrases which are, on the whole, in arresting contrast to the actuality of life about him.