Sentence examples for shocking realism from inspiring English sources

But nothing in his résumé prepares you for the shocking realism of this explosion, which proves all the more terrible because here it is also so very commonplace.

Mantegna's paintings are full of intelligence, thorny physicality and shocking realism, as in his painting of Christ dead on the stone slab.

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In between fights he found time to astound his contemporaries with his shocking realism and use of light and shade – chiaroscuro – although he won no favours with religious authorities in Rome when he reportedly used a famous prostitute as a model for the madonna.

The release of writer-director Dee McLachlan's riveting 2007 thriller The Jammed, a fictitious examination of Melbourne sex slaves told with shocking street-level realism, embodied the excitement in discovering a great indie but warned of the heightened challenges such films face in finding an audience.

Bartlett's figures, which go well past Barbie realism, are strangely beautiful and shocking portrayals of preteen girls with come-hither looks, teeth of carved plaster and fiber hair on their heads and pubic areas.

With Tristan, Wagner achieved a level of psychological realism about love, sex and infatuation so shocking he told Mathilde that, if the opera were ever performed properly, it would very likely be banned.

"The realism and simplicity of the film was heart shocking," Bergman wrote.

As it follows Delphine from timid curiosity to shocking sexual degradation, the film inevitably teases the boundary between realism and prurience.

His career span as a whole is even more shocking, encompassing acclaimed stories, novellas, essays, novels, and memoir in realism, fantasy, science fiction, horror, western, and crime modes.

To suggest that this is an immutable function of human nature where people are always likely to invest more attention in the shocking or things that afflict in-groups is sloth disguised as realism.