The precision of such descriptions of the natural world ground the novel in a gritty verisimilitude that then allows Ivey to build a fanciful, daring imaginative edifice: the meticulous realism of the foundation allows the fabulous elements of her fiction to soar.
Having laid a durable foundation of realism, White then gets to his deeper mission in Charlotte's Web - evoking the wonders that spring from the everyday world.
Using Mr. Suliman's nuanced turn as ballast — this is what a lonely heart looks like as it shatters — Mr. Doueiri creates a foundation of realism that makes an increasingly meaningful contrast with Amin's idealized memories of Siham.
To be against violence, frightened of fanaticism, acutely conscious of the customary nature of our most devout attachments — without this foundation in realism, political action always pivots toward puritanical self-righteousness.
There, eschewing modernity and its unwelcome transformations, they sought their own style and in the process laid the foundation for realism and, later, impressionism (2 ).
American realism was built on that foundation.
Almost surely, you'll discover that what sounds like hardheaded realism actually rests on a foundation of fantasy, on the belief that invisible vigilantes will punish us if we're bad and the confidence fairy will reward us if we're good.
Critical realism provides an important theoretical foundation for organizational research.
The adequacy of this as a foundation for ethical realism was point of contention for Darwin's contemporaries and successors.
By comparison, MRL models provide the detailed framework required for a foundation for building biophysical realism.
Gogol's Dead Souls and "The Overcoat" are considered the foundation of 19th-century Russian realism.
