Sentence examples for realism lies from inspiring English sources

When there is no alternative, realism lies in expanding the limits of the possible, not in nourishing the delusion that something else might help.

This melancholy realism lies in opposition to the irritating, admirable romanticism of the people who bicker, on social media, in the direction of perfect social enlightenment.

And, most importantly, he understands that in this realism lies the novel's enduring power as an art form and that a novel's style - both its song and its blunt talk - has to be the servant of this fundamental impulse.

So also, the importance of modern realism lies not in its account of knowledge, but its development of a theory of independence, the rejection of any conception of relative existence and the development of a logic of situations (JAA, Philosophy II Distinction Lectures, 1937).

That's where the realism lies".

And in "Madame Realism Lies Here," the story linked to Koons's sculpture, Tillman's narrator draws an even more equivocal conclusion: "There's no truth like an untruth".

With no music to excuse or expand upon the stylized characters and improbable situations, the film, directed by the television veteran John Leekley (HBO's "Spawn"), remains a sadly earthbound thing, mired in a dismal realism that lies far from its natural environment.

This novel is not quite magical realism, but lies somewhere along that boundary.

His perversity was part of the attraction, as was the terrifying realism that lay behind the tricks and tactics of his art.

Idealism in international relations, like realism, can lay claim to a long tradition.

Realism's virtue lies in the power of its critique.