Sentence examples for realistic descriptions from inspiring English sources

The book was immediately popular, and its realistic descriptions made it an American classic.

His most interesting work, La Mâle Règle, contains some realistic descriptions of London life.

Carey had read of this and wanted to make sure that his own, highly inventive story was rooted in realistic descriptions.

We won't be able to understand how people experienced the war if we look for it only in realistic descriptions and through later lenses of literary taste.

Walt Whitman is known primarily for Leaves of Grass, though his prose volume Specimen Days contains some fine realistic descriptions of Civil War scenes.

This novel focuses on the very sort of details that Woolf had deleted from The Voyage Out: credible dialogue, realistic descriptions of early 20th-century settings, and investigations of issues such as class, politics, and suffrage.

Pluralists argue that the most realistic description of politics and policy making is a marketplace with more or less perfect competition.

But there was one problem, said Ms. Eidson: people are no good at giving a realistic description of all their worldly possessions, which makes it hard for moving companies to provide realistic price quotes.

The Almost Moon is unrealistic, but it's leavened with realistic description, much as the previous novel's hard-to-swallow heaven is made semi-palatable by the ordinary community and family scrutinised from it.

Thankfully, Brandon's gimmickry is more than balanced with sentences grounded in realistic description and honed to the bone of their intent, which is to patiently explore and then expand on small, troubled lives.

Baïf was a personal poet whose gifts were inferior to his genius for invention of form and language; but he had a talent for vivid, realistic description, particularly in scenes of country life and in satire.