The resulting sculptures are both vividly realistic and decidedly abstract.
At the March postdoc mentoring dinner, Howard Hughes investigator and UCSF professor Cori Bargmann spoke candidly about her experiences as an academic scientist, painting a realistic, yet decidedly positive portrait of academia.
These decidedly gender-typical disappointments feel realistic, and they are rendered with great sympathy to both Levin's and Kitty's points of view.
It's also decidedly not intended as a realistic depiction of urban planning – if you're looking to scratch your Sim City itch you'd be better considering the weightier Suburbia.
There was popular realistic fiction by Carolyn Haywood, Eleanor Estes, Maud Hart Lovelace and others, but little was set in the decidedly contemporary America Cleary evoked so well.
"Sweat" places a fictionalized but decidedly realistic version of their wounded stories center stage, tracing the interracial friendships that form between women and their sons in a steelworkers' union, which fracture as economic pressures erupt in violence.
