Sentence examples for like realism from inspiring English sources

The result was something like realism.

The effect needn't entail anything like realism.

That doesn't sound like realism to me.

Nobody should think that words like "realism" and "practicality" issue casually from your lips.

"When I read Marquez for the first time," he said, "it was like realism to me.

Their decision isn't believable, but the Farrellys have never let niceties like realism get in the way of their jokes.

Stylistically, the Frans Hals-like realism is gone, and the Gauguin influence has been fully assimilated into van Gogh's own vibrant symbolism.

Wings reflected Wellman's lifelong interest in aviation and his war experience while setting standards for documentary-like realism with its remarkable aerial camerawork and spectacular staging of airborne combat.

In fact, Ms. Currier, 78, lives in Louisville, Ky., and is known for still-life paintings and oil pastels that give traditional Chardin-like realism a distinctly contemporary resonance.

Ben Affleck has done a respectable job, but the documentary-like realism he is so proud of (note the final montage comparing historical events to his recreation of them) jars badly with its obviously fictional scenes of wisecracking comedy and knife-edge jeopardy.

A French prison movie is oddity enough, but Audiard's treatment of the genre is outstanding, blending American-style toughness with a European sense of documentary-like realism and a host of stylistic flourishes, including sudden bursts of rap music, freeze frames, magical hallucinations, jolts of violence and gripping set-pieces.