sober reality

  • 1reality — n. 1) (the) grim, harsh, sober reality (the harsh reality of life) 2) in reality 3) (misc.) to accept reality; to deny reality * * * [rɪ ælɪtɪ] harsh to deny reality sober reality (the harsh reality of life) (misc.) to accept reality (the) grim… …

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  • 2sober — 01. He may look [sober], but he is actually so drunk he can hardly walk straight. 02. According to experts, coffee does not help to [sober] up a drunk person, and in fact, may increase the effects of the alcohol. 03. You d better wait until you… …

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  • 3existence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) State of being Nouns 1. existence, life, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence, presence; ontology, existentialism. 2. (fact of existence) reality, actuality, authenticity; positiveness, fact, matter of… …

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  • 4Causes of the United States housing bubble — Mania for home ownershipAmericans love of their homes is widely known and acknowledged;cite news title=Home $weet Home |work=Time date=2005 06 13 url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601050613,00.html] however, many believe that… …

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  • 5Existence — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Existence >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 existence existence being entity ens esse subsistence reality actuality Sgm: N 1 positiveness positiveness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 fact fact …

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  • 6The City Without Jews — Die Stadt ohne Juden Directed by Hans Karl Breslauer Produced by Walterskirchen und Bittner Written by H. K. Breslauer and Ida Jenbach, based on the novel by Hugo Bettauer …

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  • 7Top Girls — is a 1982 play by Caryl Churchill. It depicts the life of Marlene, a hard bitten career woman who is employed at the Top Girls employment agency, and her interactions with her family she left behind. Marlene left her working class background to… …

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  • 8Father and Son (book) — Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled a study of two temperaments. The book describes Edmund s early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home. His mother, who died early and painfully …

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  • 9Swift, Jonathan — born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin, Ire. died Oct. 19, 1745, Dublin Irish author, the foremost prose satirist in English. He was a student at Dublin s Trinity College during the anti Catholic Revolution of 1688 in England. Irish Catholic reaction in… …

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  • 10Luis Vaz de Camoes —     Luis Vaz de Camões     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Luis Vaz de Camões     (OR CAMOENS)     Born in 1524 or 1525; died 10 June, 1580. The most sublime figure in the history of Portuguese literature, Camões owes his lasting fame to his epic poem… …

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