actuality

Is there anything more worrisome about today’s tech titans than the fact that they present as abundance-minded optimists but in actuality are gluttonous, scorched-earth pessimists?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The arrangement of dreams and actuality is frustratingly haphazard, more like a pretext to widen the novel’s scope.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

The five years, in actuality, starts from the point at which United get the green light to put spades in the ground.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

In actuality, “The Housemaid” is about as depraved and delicious as a mainstream film can get, packed with narrative twists and guffaw-worthy choices from everyone involved.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026

In actuality the Beje was the center of an underground ring that spread now to the farthest corners of Holland.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

His contribution, titled “The Nobel Returns Home,” celebrates how “the Arts — and literature in particular — are well and thriving” in Africa, “a sturdy flag waved above depressing actualities by a young, confident generation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2021

The appearance of unity is easier than the messy actualities.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2019

Bruner-Yang might not be famous for forecasts, but he’s an ace with actualities.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2015

She despises nearly all public art, for its obliviousness of the actualities of public life.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014

But their possibilities for good were overbalanced by their actualities of evil.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau