realist
Example Sentences
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He made his home in the Scottish Borders and wrote readable, accessible novels in the realist tradition.
From BBC
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.
A pragmatic realist, he stopped short of calling for immediate emancipation, which he knew was unacceptable to most American voters.
It’s a movie for dreamers, realists and romantics alike, the kind of film that’s so fantastic and so painfully human that its brilliant existence is reason enough to believe in good things.
From Salon
Foreign-policy realists focus on interests and tend to dismiss shared values and myths.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
