realist

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Primarily a sculptor and printmaker, Catlett worked in the social realist tradition and her work often celebrates the dignity of Black and brown working people, especially women.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

“I like to describe myself as a realist with high goals,” is all she’d allow.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

The 54-year-old Dyche, who was previously in charge at Everton and Burnley, said he was a "realist" about his precarious situation and spoke like a manager resigned to his fate.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

He was telling me not to do something that I then went and did, which is to become a kind of quotidian, realist, boring writer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

This book will look, I trust, realist to relativists and relativist to realists: that is how it is meant to look.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton