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Instead, she experiments with forms known for their irreality, especially fairy tales and folklore.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2019

The entire totalitarian irreality is built upon the reiteration to the point of pseudo-truth that two plus two equals five, a huge part of the book.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2017

Before, the real world drained off into them; now, they are reservoirs of irreality.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dali turned "retrograde" technique -- the kind of dazzlingly detailed illusionism that made irreality concrete, as in The First Days of Spring, 1929 -- toward subversive ends.

From Time Magazine Archive

A cunningly produced atmosphere of weird irreality pervades the whole book.

From Tales of the Wilderness by Pilniak, Boris