Sentence examples for once realistic from inspiring English sources

Finding my way is measured by the distance between once realistic expectations and cold reality.

Hard to watch but essential to see, "Descent" is at once realistic and rhetorical, and driven throughout by righteous anger that comes from an honest place.

Painted with an academic finesse that Norman Rockwell would have admired, she is at once realistic and surreal, delectable and deformed.

Gene Sperling, his chief economic adviser, says that it is impossible to raise anything like $1 trillion solely by closing loopholes for the rich once realistic exceptions, such as for charitable giving, are made.

"Once realistic economic assumptions are made, a debt write-off of as much as 50% is needed to bring the debt-to-GDP ratio down to a sustainable level," he said.

Once realistic estimates of other needs are taken into account, from aid to farmers to additional tax provisions to the administration's own proposals for increased military spending, the budget could slide back into deficit, Democrats said.

That was once a realistic aspiration.

DIDIER MASSARD The Paris-based photographer is an illusionist, conjuring (i.e., constructing in his studio) imaginary landscapes that are at once meticulously realistic and magical, even otherworldly.

It is at once a realistic picture of the ambiguous time between day and night and a confounding surrealist image of a world where time has stopped making sense.

At once both realistic and artificial, the picture seems to present a riddle: which is truer, the paint or the image?What is interesting, three decades on, is the extent to which Chinese painters are appropriating both the original, and Warhol's version, of Mao's image.

The robbery at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum deprived the world of more than a dozen paintings, including works by Vermeer, Degas and Manet, and most miserably of all Rembrandt's Christ in the Storm of the Sea of Galilee (1633) – a bright jewel of a history painting that is at once a realistic scene of Dutch seafaring and a visionary religious scene.