Its hold over us, its seeming reality, has been 'abolished' so that it now stands before us as nothing but a bad dream from which we are, thankfully, awaking.

Not a turn of phrase that trips off the tongue of Batman's sidekick, Robin, but a reality, or seeming reality, in medieval Europe.

He needed to preserve the illusion of existence long enough to rescue Tandy and get them out of the Void, so that their seeming reality became actual.

Now, keeping her eyes firmly closed against this seeming reality into which she had fallen, Tamisan concentrated with fierce intentness upon her chosen points.

He knew now that this seeming reality was illusion, the stuff of the dream.

The tale, now included in his collected works, is, for some reason, little read to-day; yet the curious allegory, so vivid in its seeming reality, is well worth consideration.

Denis McQuail likewise argues that film is capable of manipulating the "seeming reality of the photographic message without loss of credibility".

Any seeming reality that is obliging," Emmanuel said, "is something to suspect.

Now she realized that, for all the seeming reality of the city, there had been no sound.

The seeming reality of the filmed image can confer plausibility on everything from flying saucers and dinosaurs to wildly subjective impressions of what it's like to be brainwashed.