Sentence examples for about as realistic from inspiring English sources

These young women who have their hearts set on dabbling in a job for a decade before raising families full time are about as realistic as Naugahyde -- it's the 1950's all over again, with a twist.

"It's about as realistic as 'Tom and Jerry,' " he said.

That is about as realistic as urging tabloid journalists to act ethically.

And predictions for the future, he said, "are about as realistic as a Van Gogh".

Their vision is not just proudly Thatcherite, it is also about as realistic as that symbol of Thatcherism: the Flying Delorean.

And those dreams of a future as a famous footballer seem a shade more realistic – about as realistic, anyway, as most boys' dreams.

We are just as realistic about it".

Nonetheless, there was something beautiful, as well as realistic, about a black beaded T-shirt with a stole draped over the bust that was paired with black silk shorts.

You could argue that to dramatize such events is premature to the point of tasteless, yet "United 93" and "World Trade Center" have turned their gaze upon a closer and greater calamity, and, to be fair, the era in which the arrival of the Blair administration was greeted as a fresh dawn, bedewing a hopeful electorate, now seems about as recent, and as realistic, as Atlantis.

Insistent as she was about keeping the narrative scenes as realistic as possible, Ms. Taymor also intended "to play with all the elements of film — all of the elements".

But this year, even as realistic qualms about employment, savings accounts and tuition increases stay their check-writing hand, parents across the economic spectrum feel guilty about somehow failing their children.