Sentence examples for hard realism from inspiring English sources

But whatever happens, Mr Darling's performance last night was a master-class in cold, hard realism.

She wrote with a hard realism as well as great compassion".

It's got an uplifting feel, almost like a gospel song, but it's also got a very hard realism about it.

McCain argues that his brand of idealism is actually more pragmatic in a post-9/11 world than the hard realism of the cold war.

While romance may have its place in his concept of the game, the currency of hard realism underpins his daily work.

"Scholder's art lies between two counter-aesthetics -- the dynamic bravado of Abstract Expressionism and the hard realism of Pop Art," Mr. Goodyear wrote.

Lowenstein captures this setting with a rock-hard realism you can't fake (he has described the film as partly autobiographical), but the low-fi look is deceptive.

The song's "every man for himself" ethos is not a rejection of compassion but the hardest realism possible, a blunt assessment of everyone's chances in the aftermath of an era striking an iceberg.

Then there's this definite hard-core, hard-edged realism".

In an era of such change, this is not wishy-washy utopianism: it is the hardest of hard-headed realism.

Unlike the Hollywood version, "Godzilla 2000" doesn't try too terribly hard for realism.