Sentence examples for realist elements from inspiring English sources

The modern Scandinavian crime novel was all but invented in the nineteen-sixties, by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, Swedish partners who borrowed realist elements of the nineteenth-century novel and made the crime genre into a form of social criticism.

The libertarian, Wall Street, and foreign-policy realist elements of the Republican coalition cleaved away from each other and even more from the religious right, in much the same way that the civil-rights movement, cold-war liberals, and white working-class Democrats had splintered in the late 1960s.

Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot in England, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in Russia, William Dean Howells in the United States, and Gottfried Keller and the early Thomas Mann in Germany all incorporated realist elements in their novels.

But apart from his brief flirtation with positivism (itself, as he says, the result of a disenchantment with Kant's "bondage to Euclidean geometry"), Weyl's philosophical orientation remained in its essence idealist (even granting the significant realist elements mentioned above).

The story combines a satire of superhero archetypes and comic book clichés, such as the use of many superlatives, with realist elements that portray the sometimes mundane lives and everyday challenges of its characters, like coping with cybernetic body parts that weigh far more than a natural body and that react before the brain registers what is happening.

She says the film is "like a curious study of a character in a period of time" and that it was designed to retain a "theatrical feel" and capture the "magic realist" element of Williams's writing – "moments in time that are suspended... not otherworldly but suspended somehow, in between reality and non-reality".

Mr. Tornatore also resorts to a series of dream sequences, which finally add nothing to the story, and to magic-realist elements that seem equally extraneous.

Various factors are involved in this rise in size, such as the incorporation of social-realist elements, but a rarely remarked cause is the way crime series now mimic soap operas.

Between them, English and Casanova list the features of the world-literature prototype: a trauma-and-recovery story, with magic-realist elements, involving abuse and family dysfunction, that arrives at resolution by the invocation of spiritual or holistic verities.

Natural light captured on 16mm film adds earthy texture to the drama, while images of bees crawling from Gelsomina's mouth add a magical-realist element to the rites-of-passage rituals.

In August Wilson's 1990 play, "The Piano Lesson" (now in revival at the Signature), the playwright seemingly borrowed from Toni Morrison's much heralded 1987 novel, "Beloved," with its ghosts of slavery, to add a magic-realist element to his play about a black American family's legacy of slavery, and life in a modern but segregated "free" world.