Sentence examples for stiff realism from inspiring English sources
Still, the set tries for something beyond the stiff realism that, despite the generally strong cast, hampers the staging.
The stiff, theatrical pseudo-realism of period drama is the last thing on this director's mind.
Berg, whose docs ("Deliver Us From Evil") effortlessly chill, seems trapped between procedural naturalism (Banks is woefully stiff as an investigating detective), social realism in its depiction of a frayed community and the cloak-and-reveal demands of a potboiler (where Lane's manipulative-mom portrayal belongs).
In reaction to last year's slightly stiffer, more Fifa-style, attempt at realism, PES 2012 goes back to basics.
Bouts's lack of realism in anatomy, however, and his stiff and angular compositions may well reflect the sober religious intensity of the northern Netherlands as much as any deficiency in skill or feeling.
Portraiture, schematically stiff on later Byzantine money, was revived with striking realism most notably in Renaissance Italy and thereafter flourished.
Around the start of the 5th century BC, the stiff archaic forms of Greek sculpture escaped their fetters and the dynamism and realism known as the "classical" style was unleashed.
Its gritty realism has an odd effect: it makes the book seem less real, a stiff yet vivid and extravagant spectacle.
Realism is Buzz Aldrin, who was voted off in Week 3. How could someone so stiff ever have walked on the Moon?
