Sentence examples for realistic affair from inspiring English sources

The very next story – a far more "realistic" affair – uses the phrase "slut's hair" in describing the contents of a schoolboy's desk.

The movie, scripted by Lee Hall, author of Billy Elliot, and Richard Curtis, our most internationally successful writer of film comedies, is a superficially realistic affair, a cross between the equine picaresque Black Beauty and All Quiet on the Western Front.

He made his debut this season with "The Realistic Joneses," a starry affair that saw him tackling American family and suburbia in sketch-like form.

What's more, women are also more realistic about their financial affairs when they do decide to marry.

Yet, according to the latest annual performance plan from the department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs, their more realistic aim is to reduce fatalities by 10% a year.

Still, Pufendorf's state is not built on a thick, essentialist, or teleological (philosophical or theological) anthropology – even of a negative sort – but on an empirical, historical, or realistic assessment of actual human affairs.

So instead, General Manager Sandy Alderson offered his own characteristically realistic take on the Mets' state of affairs.

While Reich and Lebow's analysis is mainly on formulating a more realistic place for the US in world affairs, Acharya offers some suggestions on how the US should behave in the face of multiplex world.

But this wasn't a melodramatic affair: these were people being honest and realistic.

It has been hailed as the most realistic screen depiction of the mafia ever made, a gritty affair with an almost documentary-like quality that has been tipped for Oscar glory after winning second prize at Cannes.

IT WAS never realistic to hope that the report of the Commons foreign affairs select committee would settle the row over the government's use of intelligence material in the months leading up to war with Iraq.