What you get by seeing a fictional place given real-world roots is emotional authenticity.
A current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals that, just as there was no "The Real World" episode 100percentt rooted in the real, there were no photographs (since the medium's inception) that didn't exist somewhere on the spectrum between fiction and truth.
The second is an ethical outlook premised on human realities in the real world, and has its roots in the philosophical debates that began in classical antiquity, long before Christianity came on the scene, and which revived when Christianity's hegemony over thought (for a long time backed by death-threats to "heretics") was broken following the Reformation.
By contrast, when the problem you're seeking to solve is rooted in real world stuff -- stuff with matter, weight, and marginal cost -- there is a lot more friction and expense involved in scaling (think Grubhub).
They solved it by complementing last year's lofty, but vague, instrumental theme with some lyrics rooted in the real world.
This is not an esoteric concept without roots in the real world.
Over the last several years, much of his work, while fantastical and at times scary, has had firm roots in the real world but also social and political undertones, from "Under the Dome" (praised in The New York Times for offering "the scope and flavor of literary Americana") to "11/22/63," in which the main character travels back in time to the days before the Kennedy assassination.
Rather than a place to escape and forget the real world, Summit was returning to its roots of hoping to change it.
There are people to root for and people to root against in the real world because people have different agendas.
Our research is rooted in the real world.
But at least the Democrats are still rooted in the real world.
