Later, trying to reconcile reality with expectation, Sharpe wondered just what he had thought to find inside the yellow-walled house.

In "Krapp's Last Tape," Atom Egoyan directs John Hurt as an old man trying to reconcile perception and reality with the help of a tape recorder, which is Beckett's own means of technological intervention.

To reconcile reality with constitutional claims, Kaunas was designated as a temporary or provisional capital until Vilnius would be "liberated from Polish occupation".

It was a very old injury; so old that it had lost that shocking look common to recent mutilations, where the mind still sees what should be there, and tries vainly for an instant to reconcile reality with expectation.

He's been trying to reconcile the appearance and reality, as you call it, for six months!

All three are, in different ways, adrift; but by the end of the film, each has had an experience of altered consciousness - suggested in bursts of explosive color and in an auditory hallucination of a soundtrack by Stuart Jones - which lets them reconcile fantasy and reality in their lives.

They must reconcile reality and aesthetics, which means they inevitably encapsulate a designer's views on manufacture, materials, beauty, function, the human body and more.

But it is a genuine historical awareness that makes it possible for Mexico's citizens to reconcile contemporary reality with tradition.

Géricault's work expressed a paradox: how could a hideous subject be translated into a powerful painting, how could the painter reconcile art and reality?