less real
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... less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.
Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember.
If you work on something you can finish in a day or two, you can expect to have a nice feeling of accomplishment fairly soon. If the reward is indefinitely far in the future, it seems less real.
Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.
Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.