naturalism
Example Sentences
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This is an astonishing work of naturalism in the spirit of Zola’s “L’Assommoir.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
He opts for a flashy shocker of a finale, which violates the play’s comic naturalism and seems faintly desperate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
The other is biological naturalism, which argues the opposite.
From Science Daily • Dec. 24, 2025
You’ve got that beauty and that spontaneity and that reality of the theater, and then you have the naturalism and the truth that we have with film and television.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2025
All my life had shaped me for the realism, the naturalism of the modern novel, and I could not read enough of them.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing naturalism
Power Suffix: -ism
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