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unwirklich
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un·real [ʌnˈrɪəl, Am ʌnˈri:l] ADJ

1. unreal (not real):

unreal

2. unreal sl (astonishingly good):

unreal
man, that's unreal!
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unreal
to seem unreal [to sb]
wesenlos Träume
unreal
unreal
unreal

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Every sin, he writes, consists in the longing for a passing i.e., ultimately unreal or false good.
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He uses symbols and unreal images to create a romantic and upsetting mood.
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Furthermore, her face was never fully visible and all images of her were posterized, giving her a stylized, unreal look.
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Is the natural appearance reality, she wondered in 1917, or can we sense in its form only the most unreal that appears before us?
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This meeting, however, rejects this plea in its entirety as being unreal and frivolous.
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I personally am hardly older and to see you play was unreal, since you were the first player at which I noticed "Damn, this player is younger than me!".
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Ich persönlich bin kaum älter, und dich spielen zu sehen war früher für mich immer sehr unwirklich, da du der erste Spieler warst, bei dem ich gemerkt habe „Verdammt, da spielt jemand, der jünger ist als ich!“.
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At the same time the space delineated by the various stages in the material — from grainy Super-8 to the unreal sharpness of high-definition digital images — will extend to the pressure chamber where the psychological series of perception tests takes place:
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www.sixpackfilm.com
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Dabei wird der Raum, den die Materialstufen -– vom groben Korn des Super-8 bis zur unwirklichen Schärfe des hochdefinierten digitalen Bildes – markieren, zur Druckkammer, in dem psychische Wahrnehmungstestserien laufen:
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Unreal tones of blue and turquoise within the deep crevasses which slowly open before the ice towers fall into the lake.
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www.swisseduc.ch
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Unwirkliche Blau- und Türkistöne in den tiefen Spalten, welche sich langsam öffnen, bevor die Eistürme in den See stürzen.
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Her photographs show the fascination of the enormous unreal landscape created by surface mining of brown coal.
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cms.ifa.de
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Ihre Fotos zeigen die Faszinationskraft der gigantischen unwirklichen Landschaft, die der Abbau der Braunkohle im Tagebau mit sich bringt.
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The unusually-structured, laconically-told novel “Paisagem com dromedário” (Landcape with dromedary) by Brazilian author Carola Saavedra – which was published in German this year – transports the reader to an almost unreal island.
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www.goethe.de
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Auf eine fast unwirkliche Insel führt der ungewöhnlich konstruierte und lakonisch erzählte Roman „Landschaft mit Dromedar“ der brasilianischen Schriftstellerin Carola Saavedra, der in diesem Jahr auf Deutsch erschien.
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