Amelia Earhart

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.

American Aviator

John Hillcoat

My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and actuality to things. But the digital world, I explore that through other mediums, with music videos and commercials. Even 'The Road' was a real learning curve for me with digital effects.

Australian Director

Emma Ishta

Spare me the carefully thought out accessorising that is supposed to look casually thrown on, while in actuality, hours have been spent on the picking and choosing of said jewellery, scarves, etc. Unless you are Keith Richards and can absolutely pull it off, less is more.

Australian Model

Leslie Jamison

I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.

American Novelist

Edmund Husserl

The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.

German Philosopher

Sigmund Freud

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

Austrian Psychologist

Kristin Gore

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

American Author

James Joyce

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Irish Novelist

Brendon Burchard

People think, 'If I could only get motivated, then I'll act.' Nope. In actuality, it's the opposite.

Author

Janet Malcolm

I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.

American Writer

Use 'actuality' to express a reality that contradicts prior beliefs or expectations.

Contrary Expectations

'Actuality' often introduces the truth when clarifying a situation or correcting a misconception.

Clarifying Truth

The word 'actuality' carries a neutral tone and is neither formal nor informal.

Neutral Tone

Use 'actuality' to highlight the gap between idealistic plans and the real outcomes.

Ideal vs. Real

'Actuality' emphasizes the factual and practical nature of a situation.

Emphasis on Reality

'Actuality' can be used with both positive and negative aspects of reality.

Positive or Negative

'Actuality' often refers to specific events or situations that have occurred.

Specific Instances

Refers to experiencing something oneself, rather than hearing or reading about it.

Direct Experience

 But they're not strong characters who happen to be female. They're completely flat, and they're basically cardboard characters. The problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple, when, in actuality, women are complicated,

Tavi Gevinson: A teen...

 who happened to be female they're completely flat and they're basically cardboard characters the problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple when in actuality women are

A teen just trying to...

 for over six years now, a lot of my family and friends think that what I do looks like this. But in all actuality, what I do looks like this. Now, we can all do something. I'm not saying we should all buy a plane ticket and go to Afghanistan,

Kimberley Motley: How I...

 In actuality, a photon's energy, which changes over the course of its journey, determines how likely it is to interact with a proton. On the density question, our models show that the Sun has a hot core, where the fusion reactions occur.

Sunlight is way older...

 into the interior of the auditorium. And here is the fruition of that in actuality. These are the two large pivoting doors that allow people to move directly from the outside, in or from the inside, out, performers or audience alike.

Joshua Prince-Ramus:...

 So in this scenario, you’re guaranteed to find the parent in one or two moves. In actuality, there are many furnace-bots, and you don’t know how many generations there are nor what the family tree looks like. But you don’t need to,

The Furnace Bots PIPE Think...

 But in actuality, I find talking about jailing much less depressing than the alternative, because I think if we don't talk about these issues and collectively change how we think about jailing, at the end of all of our lives,

How jails extort the...

 together there's also oh we could die together what happens when dogs fly it sure wasn't what I thought it was going to be what was the reality of it that's what life is there's the fantasy there's the actuality

Dean Potter BASE Jumps...

 What else does it not yet realize? Well, I mean, I don't think we're anywhere near there yet. I mean, we're still in a place in which we're far, far behind what looks like the real world in actuality.

Shonda Rhimes and Cyndi...

 about what we crave and the actuality of our situation. Before shooting this series, I was also in love with two different people who knew about each other, being the object over which they fought.

Actuality

The state of things as they are, or as they happen.

Often appears as...

Practical existence, especially in contrast to an idealized or theoretical scenario.

Often appears as...

A real event, situation, person or thing.

Often appears as...

Contrary Expectations

Clarifying Truth

Neutral Tone

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