Pride strikes a populist balance, but there's clearly an appetite for that serious, difficult, unsexy social realism too.
His great novels remain difficult because their realism is underlain by obsessive personal metaphors, by elements of mythology, and above all by his attempt to express in words what is normally wordless because it exists below consciousness.
A difficult challenge to moral realism is the "evolutionary challenge".
Alderson's rhetoric has, for years, been colored by the need for prudence and realism during difficult times.
The relationship between fabulism and realism is difficult to manage, and occasionally Pearlman's forms seem too narrow for the material; stories are resolved too hastily; the choreography is a little arch.
As described, previous descriptions of global ocean conductivity are either recognizably simplistic, or their degree of realism is difficult to assess.
Jackie & Me - Chicago Children's Theatre Magical realism is difficult to execute with genuine pathos rather than manufactured treacle.
"Truth was so difficult to be told," Madame Realism, a recurring character, remarks in a story called "Lust for Loss".
Shuttling across the region to Syria, Jordan, the Gulf and Egypt, the 76-year-old former Democratic senator combined resolve to bring the sides together with hard-headed realism about how difficult it would be to get them to agree a deal.
"I think magical realism is really difficult to put onstage without it looking like an illusionist's show, which can be very tacky," she said in a telephone interview from her home in Northern California.
