It has all been a fantastic myth exploded by grim reality.

Perhaps even more so, because with maps, my illusions remain intact, unblemished by reality.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality.

In essence, he said, it all depends on what you mean by "reality."

He has a vision, albeit one unclouded by economic and social reality.

Until he was, as some might put it, mugged by Palestinian reality.

His power, after all, is unlimited by reality.

And then Stipock once again was brought up short by reality.

But you and I both know what we mean by plain, common, ordinary, every-day reality.

"Writing this hyperrealist novel is made more difficult by reality itself," Beigbeder tells us up front.