Sentence examples for semblance of realism from inspiring English sources

How could Carrie Bradshaw's meagre journalist's salary cover all those designer shoes with any semblance of realism, except that, in the easy-money dot-com boom years, such things didn't actually seem that far-fetched.

In this "HD Era" of gaming, little things like this detract so, so much from the overall experience that's it like, why bother sinking millions of dollars into game engines if you're gonna throw any semblance of realism right out the window?

Katamari Damacy's story, characters, and settings are bizarre and heavily stylized, rarely attempting any semblance of realism, though the brands and items used are based on those current in Japan during the game's production.

He talked about how Mitt hadn't defined what loopholes would have to be closed for the Ryan Budget to even approach a semblance of realism, pointing to independent studies that cautioned that the middle class would have to pay more under Romney's plan.

Had "Babymother" evoked even a semblance of social realism, it might have amounted to something more than a candy-colored, beat-driven show-business fantasy.

Verisimilitude, the semblance of reality in dramatic or nondramatic fiction.

For there is no semblance of reality here.

Somehow, you have to achieve a semblance of reality.

Or just an arbitrary semblance of reality?

They kept it grounded in some semblance of reality.

So I wrote 'See Under: Love.' " The novel, which moves between Israel and wartime Poland, is divided into four sections, with elements of magical realism and little semblance of linearity.