Sentence examples for sober realism from inspiring English sources

The first is a growing willingness to drop happy talk in favour of sober realism.

They are driven by character, not scenario, and are each rooted in sober realism.

"The 36-Hour Day" remains a chilling book written in a formal style; its virtues are its comprehensiveness and its sober realism.

What he doubtless thought was sober realism now reads like understatement.The coalition government is suffering both as a coalition and as a government.

Ms. Murphy, dancing the duet with Mr. Stiefel, finely judged the nuances in which this work shifts from cartoon to sober realism.

He proposes the Delft School as a porous, fluctuating idea that intermittently revealed "a preference for understatement, for rationality and reserve and for sober realism".

On the banks of the Volga River, as England put six past Panama (population: 4 million; FIFA ranking: 55th), the sober – sometimes sombre – realism that characterised the build-up to this World Cup among English fans and the English press gave way to visions of Harry Kane terrorising Brazil and Kyle Walker sliding Cristiano Ronaldo into his pocket.

"Sometimes I wondered why on earth Winterson had thrown in her lot, mostly, with sober literary realism when she might have cast her characters into the wild storms of her exceptional hyper-realist imagination instead," she wrote.

A period of sober, humble realism is long overdue at the club.

During his lifetime his sober, systematic "philosophical realism" found little approval; only posthumously, during the latter half of the 19th century, did his work achieve great importance.

It is the writing of a man who understood that sober, bleak-eyed realism serves the cause of human emancipation more faithfully than starry-eyed utopia.