Sentence examples for realism from inspiring English sources

Pride strikes a populist balance, but there's clearly an appetite for that serious, difficult, unsexy social realism too.

But Fox's pledge to maintain Britain's ability to wage war unilaterally, cooperate with France while snubbing the EU's defence agency, cutting Whitehall staff and reforming wasteful procurement (again) does not sound like tough realism, especially when combined with Cameron's gimmicky "war cabinet" and national security adviser approach.

Here, the Bond glitz was displaced by Saltzman's other favoured ethos, kitchen sink realism, and some kind of 60s circle was made complete.

When there is a broad perception of realism that you don't like, you can't just argue against it: you have to build a new realism.

"The human eye can spot it because we're so used to looking at our own reflection, so we subconsciously know all those tiny details and it's that final 5% of realism that takes the most time to achieve.

"We can look to the future with realism and optimism," the prime minister says.

"Realism because you can't cure problems that were decades in the making overnight.

Set on Waterloo station, in his hands it became far more than an observation piece, with a poignant story of a little boy lost and with elements of drama and realism that foreshadowed his subsequent work.

There is also an element of Carlyle’s having been in the right place at the right time – just when the pernicious old dichotomy between gritty proletarian realism and English middle-class manners was being replaced, for a whole range of reasons, with a much more productive inclusiveness.

But I think it's driven less by idealism than by a necessary realism.

Mind you, they needed a dose of realism first.