Sentence examples for forthright realism from inspiring English sources
He derived special enjoyment from painting the full-length, seated portrait of his friend, the philanthropist Captain Thomas Coram a compelling and deeply sympathetic image that injected the dead aristocratic tradition with forthright realism and carried far-reaching implications for European portraiture.
Comte moves back and forth between forthright realism in telling the story of Cho-Cho San, seduced and abandoned by the American, and overtly theatrical images.
Mr. Lee leavens his forthright naturalism with sprinklings of magic realism, as if insulating the unlikely lovers from the hostile prejudices of the outside world.
The sheer tactlessness of its racial confrontation has a forthright quality and a not entirely intentional documentary realism, especially in the scenes shot on location in Sparta, Illinois (standing in for a fictional Mississippi town).
And rather than employing a syncopated musicality or fantastical flights of magic realism, Mr. Hijuelos wrote fluid prose, sonorous but more earthy than poetic, with a forthright American cadence.
All are commendably forthright.
"Jane" is more forthright.
Weiner was somewhat more forthright.
Others are more forthright.
