The phrase "as realistic as the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the realism of one thing to another, often in a context where you are discussing perceptions or representations.
Example: "The virtual reality experience was as realistic as the actual event, making it hard to distinguish between the two."
Alternatives: "as believable as the" or "as true-to-life as the".
First, he says he is running to win, which is about as realistic as the defense by General Motors of the Corvair when Mr. Nader attacked it as unsafe in 1965.
The Sims is only as realistic as the social theories it's based on, and these theories have been combined not according to scientific principles but for the purposes of entertainment.
Any chance of, say, T.C.U.'s entering the top two was about as realistic as the strait-laced Alabama coach Nick Saban doing a headstand on the sideline at the Georgia Dome next weekend.
Rather wonderfully, the pair ask for £500,000 for a stake in their business, a number about as realistic as the hope that anyone will wear one of their daft singleton necklaces.
The style of their fetishes, carved from wood or horn and decorated with shells and polychrome, is not as realistic as the classic Luba style, and their integration of nonnaturalistic, more geometric forms is impressive.
In another time, Watson's history as an officer of Empire contributed to his image — in derivative works, not in the books — as a blustering, slightly befuddled duffer, and Candahar was a place name Arthur Conan Doyle might as well have made up — about as realistic as the murderous Mormons who also, unfortunately, populate "A Study in Scarlet".
Therefore, talking heads generated by using the database of LIPS2008 do not look as realistic as those heads by using the database of TNT.
That is about as realistic as telling the passengers aboard the Titanic that they have a right to sue for more lifeboats.
In order to make the scenario as realistic as possible, the sets of alternatives were represented, drawing inspiration from the way that restaurants are presented on the principal search engines (Fig. 1).
The test was not as realistic as possible; the target was made of fiberglass, not the material used in shuttles, reinforced carbon-carbon.
To make the controller simulation as realistic as possible, the economic data used are taken from an operating furnace, and measurements are only fed back as and when they typically become available.
