Sentence examples for surprising realism from inspiring English sources
Set in the 1980s, this downtown gem, full of minor-key revelations and offhand epiphanies, roots its quirky charm in an earnest and surprising realism.
The show, which is the latest opus by David Simon, the journalist turned producer who has become, with "Homicide" and "The Corner," the Balzac of postindustrial Maryland, takes what might have looked like an exhausted set of premises -- a motley squad of detectives investigating homicides, drug trafficking and union corruption -- and infuses them with surprising realism.
Schouw captures that complicated mantra championed by mom's worldwide, "It's always fun until someone gets hurt," with surprising realism and honesty.
Ben Walter, of Time Out London, felt Zombie added "surprising realism" to the development of Michael Myers' psychopathic actions, but agreed with Newman that the director replaced the original film's "suspense and playfulness" with a convincing display of "black-blooded brutality".
The cinematography by Lukas Ettlin is impressive, with grainy handheld footage imbuing the battle scenes with a surprising sense of realism.
Some plays create this balance with theatricality (adding grandiosity with poetry, magical realism, surprising structure or design), some plays find their epic in historical context, and some plays reveal their mass in a single moment of great humanity.
The writing is superb – a dense, luxurious realism pricked with surprising metaphors.
A post at Ethical Realism makes the somewhat surprising claim that good arguments need not be logically sound.
Given the origin of working realism, it is not surprising that the view receives strong support from mathematical platonism.
Back in 1971, Stone had been a student of Martin Scorsese's, at N.Y.U., and he was clearly influenced by Scorsese's operatic realism, which he took in a surprising direction of his own.
Vasubandhu's direct, candid response to these challenges may be viewed as a failure of imagination, or a surprising willingness to bite the bullet of anti-realism.
