Sentence examples for down-to-earth reality from inspiring English sources

But having to spend his architectural capital carefully -- and having to tailor grand design precedents to a more down-to-earth reality -- didn't faze Gluckman for a minute.

Yet behind the veneer of bustle in the crowded gallery the artists and curators were grappling with a far more sombre and down-to-earth reality in terms of the precarious state of London's once-thriving art scene.

Pan's Labyrinth 2006, 15 Optimum, £17.99 Mexican maestro Guillermo del Toro's masterpiece is an extraordinary collision of exotic fantasy and down-to-earth reality that seamlessly blends themes of personal and political import.

Production designer Lucy Spink and director of photography George Steel maintain a fine balance between the down-to-earth reality and head-in-the-clouds aspirations of Rose-Lynn's world, while composer/supervisor Jack Arnold ensures that the music rings true throughout.

"Timeless Red," a program of four dances, juxtaposes lofty spiritual sentiments with gritty down-to-earth realities.

Stella had a marvelous way of mixing erudition with down-to-earth realities, show business know-how with a few Yiddishisms, all combined with a vivid sense of what she called a theater of "heightened reality".

A down-to-earth world champion?

Just trying to stick to the scripted questions was difficult because this down to earth reality star crossed over the press line and got real with questions everyone wanted to know.

Yet, given these down to earth realities, AI is still a huge deal.

But, as the Zen-influenced writer Natalie Goldberg argues, there is an openness and honesty in failure, a down-to-earth confrontation with reality that can seem lacking at the higher altitudes of success.

Not since "Y Tu Mamá También" has a movie so palpably captured the down-to-earth, flesh-and-blood reality of high-spirited people living their lives without self-consciousness.