Sentence examples for realistically talks from inspiring English sources

But realistically, talks on the final terms of a framework peace agreement cannot start much later than the end of next week, with Mr. Barak, Mr. Arafat and Mr. Clinton all taking part.

"He and Dr. Berson had very realistically talked about what was going to happen to him," said his father, James Parks.

For the first time in years, the Islanders can realistically talk about making the playoffs without eliciting giggles.

We don't truly and realistically talk about the consequences.

He talks realistically about his players.

You can talk realistically about death.

"Eventually," he said, "you have to talk realistically about how you manage economic transitions".

On that point, too, it is worth thinking back to William Jennings Bryan, to be reminded of the relative ease politicians once had with talking realistically about class.

Unless habitat is part of the equation, we're simply not talking realistically about the character, much less the future, of our planet.

Although most philosophers construe such functional talk realistically, as referring to actual states of the brain, some (e.g., Dennett) interpret it irreferentially indeed, as merely an instrument for predicting people's behaviour or as an "intentional stance" that one may (or equally may not) take toward humans, animals, or computers and about whose truth there is no genuine "fact of the matter".

Talking realistically about risks in advance as opposed to promising absolute protection may help prepare people for the inevitable disasters and minimize calls for a policy response that's out of proportion to the actual threat.