realpolitik

Example Sentences

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The gathering’s opening has not gone without controversy, with high ideals often clashing with realpolitik concerns.

From Washington Times

But this is about realpolitik as well as rapprochement and King Charles will become the first British monarch to give an address to Germany's parliament, the Bundestag.

From BBC

The director Jérôme Salle shows interest in the realpolitik of Mathieu’s situation, and his film scopes out the grim safe rooms and fluorescent meeting halls where Russian political schemes and French political failures take place.

From New York Times

“Even parties that were not necessarily always behind the Bundeswehr per se, even there, realpolitik is now on the table, where people say, ‘We need the armed forces.’”

From New York Times

In realpolitik terms, this makes sense: Often by overwhelming majorities, the American people as a whole oppose most of the policies advocated by Republicans.

From Salon