Actuality

Technological progress is slower in actuality in many respects according to some perspectives.

I might seem strong, but in actuality I am anything but.

In actuality, it's not as scary as it seems.

Mary would feint innocence, pretending she had turned in her assignments when in actuality she hadn't completed them.

Tom told Mary he kissed Alice, but in actuality he hadn't done that at all; he wanted to make Mary feel jealous.

In actuality, he has hemophilia, a disease that prevents blood from clotting naturally so small cuts can become massive injuries with prolonged bleeding.

Tom may think he's a champ, but in actuality he's but a chump.

Mary staunchly claims she's perfectly fine and fully recovered from past trauma. In actuality, she's a complete mess.

"It seems as though I have lived this life always. The world of books and bookish folk is very vague, more like a dream memory than an actuality. I surely have hunted and forayed and fought all the days of my life. And you, too, seem a part of it. You are -- " I was on the verge of saying, "my woman, my mate," but glibly changed it to -- "standing the hardship well."

A cabled despatch is better than nothing, but a voicecast of tolerable quality is preferable, and in certain types of story a voicecast with live or recorded actuality is best of all. Correspondents all have portable tape recorders.