Sentence examples for harsh realism from inspiring English sources

"There's a lot of harsh realism out there," Hooper says.

If 2012 is anything, it's a year for harsh realism accompanied by austerity measures.

In place of adoring respect, there is harsh realism - only not the socialist variety.

With impressive agility, "Wadjda" finds room to maneuver between harsh realism and a more hopeful kind of storytelling.

But the balance between harsh realism and mythical lyricism is beautifully struck, and the two leads really are miraculous.

"Bengal Tiger," a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in drama, portrays the occupation with a mix of harsh realism and surrealist philosophizing.

The autumn toned painting met Van Gogh's goal of achieving a "harsh and coarse" realism to his work.

I can never get into them, they bore me and I always go back to my harsh-realism novels within a few chapters.

Brave in its soundtrack, its lighting, the way its swooning dreamy mood could take in harsh social realism, too.

Such glimpses provide a necessary counterweight to the stories' harsh social realism, the two elements working together to create a superbly balanced whole.

He also objected to the harsh social realism of John Osborne, the foremost of the "angry young men" playwrights of the era, condemning "explosive vulgarity and horrible slaps in the face of public taste".