Sentence examples for bitter realism from inspiring English sources
Bufalino, a talented stylist who wrote rich, sensuous prose, created highly imaginative works that were tinged with bitter realism.
I take away the sense we have to make these efforts knowing they are hard, and not swinging from naïve idealism to bitter realism.
He recreated this world in unforgettable movies, first with bitter realism in his painful monochrome trilogy, then more poetically in the diptych Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes.
Having helped shape neorealism as a screenwriter in the 1940s, Federico Fellini took Italian movies into a new form of bitter, romantic realism in the 1950s before transforming world cinema with the extravagant, semi-autobiographical La dolce vita (1960) and 8½ (1963).
For Mr. De Laurentiis, whose career goes back to 1940's classics of neo-realism like "Bitter Rice," this is his third outing with the popular anthropophagite.
It was a bitter irony that later in his career, when socialist realism was the order of the day, his art and he himself would be criticised as "bourgeois" by the Soviet authorities.
The movie has about it the same tone that its director and co-scriptwriter, Alexander Payne, brought to his bitter high-school comedy, Election, also set in Omaha, something you might call an unsentimental realism or a bracing misanthropy.
The chapter on Realism begins with M*A*S*H writer Larry Gelbart's quote, "Most good jokes state a bitter truth".
"Bitter, bitter," Lance said.
