Example Sentences

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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 Nassau, Robert Hamill