Sentence examples for stern realism from inspiring English sources
His novel moves back and forth between stern realism and fantasia, despair and rhapsody, formal syntax and jazzy, impassioned riffs.
He had planned to become a writer himself and studied creative writing at the University of Montana at Missoula, which teaches a stern Western realism that comes down from Wallace Stegner and Ivan Doig.
Mr Howard had stubbornly refused to offer such an act of contrition.A sterner test of the new prime minister's realism is more likely to come from his government's handling of Australia's robust economy.
Within his stern parameters, however, he's able to convey pathos, sharp observation, and finely detailed psychological realism.
The vigour and realism of the rural songs, many lyrics of which were rather impersonal narratives of tragedies pointing to a stern, Calvinist moral, stood in marked contrast to the often mawkish sentimentality of much of the popular music of the day.
