Sentence examples for straightforward realistic from inspiring English sources

Vargas Llosa is very hard to classify and pin down as a writer: he has written short novels and very long novels, comic novels and deeply serious novels, straightforward realistic novels and recognisably South American "magic-realist" novels.

What does straightforward realistic acting do?

Instead, it is straightforward, realistic and incredibly brave.

I wanted to write a much more straightforward, realistic book".

The chapter from Njáls Saga has been selected to provide a straightforward realistic presentation (within the context of the Íslendingasögur).

I had finally given it up, probably because I was unable in that form which would have been a straightforward, realistic form.

The paper describes an example of application of the Boolean model that leads to a straightforward and realistic quantification of the three-dimensional microstructure of fine coal filter cakes.

Now, Mr. Franco and a slew of other Colombian authors, most of them in their late 30's or early 40's, are casting away the expectations that they should write in the same style and are publishing straightforward, darkly realistic urban novels.

This rather straightforward and realistic study-design mimics how non-target organisms would meet these plant materials in the field.

- I wish graduate programs would be more straightforward and realistic - quit pushing the "grad-to-postdoc-to-academic professorship" line, and implement an educational program which reflects the fact that the number of PhDs has doubled without the corresponding increase in tenured academic positions.

Mr. Russo's tone was not nostalgic; it was realistic, straightforward, analytical, slightly amused.