If that seems cynical, just live with it at closer range than 39,000 ft. Hillary is a natural president: worn-out before she begins, trying to believe that realism will soothe crushed hope, and ready to trade with the wilderness (she took $675,000 for speaking to Goldman Sachs because "that's what they offered").
Many philosophers believe metaphysical realism is just plain common sense.
A model-builder who is carrying Mr. Casebere's deadpan views of everyday structures to new heights of make-believe realism is Oliver Boberg, a German whose work is also on view at the Paul Morris Gallery in Chelsea.
I can say that reading 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'... in my adolescence may have contributed much to my literary calling, but I believe that magic realism is the least interesting part of this novel.
These worthy purveyors of Capitol-corridor realism believe -- or find it quite necessary to pretend -- that President Obama's critics on the left expect him to vanquish his political enemies and the country's economic crisis with a Great Oration.
For I believe that true "realism" shows that this is not enough -- not enough leadership, not enough change, and certainly not the kind of change that will make "change believable".
Christian Smith, who ran the study that explored young people's moral individualism, believes that "most youth would like to understand and believe in moral realism -- that real moral facts exist in the universe that are not merely human constructions -- but nobody has taught them how that is possible, how all the pieces can fit together in an intellectually coherent way".
There is a lot on the 'to do' list and I personally believe that healthy realism would be appropriate, because there are some on the team who are simply overloading the Council with too many topics - including psychologically difficult matters such as the poultry issue.
I don't entirely believe in the reality of realism.
For this kind of up-close realism, I believe those who are well beyond vanilla land are currently leading the way, writing and blogging about sex online.
