A romantic drama of the upper class, it is a favorite program of women here, and some people say it provides an unrealistic example of the lives that could be available outside Sinjar.
Mr. Perry, who as governor of Texas has been an important player in Republican politics for a decade and has been laying the groundwork for a campaign for months, may have set an unrealistic example (and Mr. Perry's campaign has been far from error-free).
This unrealistic example shows how determinism could be strictly false, and yet the world be deterministic enough for our concerns about free action to be unchanged.
To take a simple but not unrealistic example, suppose that a gene produces an enzyme which only works below a certain temperature.
Some criticized Mayer for setting an unrealistic example for women at the company and pressuring them to return to work soon after giving birth.
To give an illustrative but somewhat unrealistic example, assume that cooperators, and only cooperators, always know of some new secret place to rendezvous if they face too much free-riding in their current groups.
They said it would be unrealistic, for example, to say that lawyers are behaving better simply because the number of ethics charges decreased without knowing how efficiently the system was working.
The questions that today's philosophers study may at first seem unrealistic — for example, when a runaway trolley is heading toward five people tied to a track, should you flip a switch to divert the trolley to another track where only one person is tied?
Meanwhile, to a biologist, materials scientists tend to have unrealistic expectations for example, that cells will efficiently endocytose whatever they are fed, without taking into account the fact that they are living things and thus do not always behave as we would like.
Fibonacci gave an (unrealistic) biological example, on the growth in numbers of a theoretical rabbit population.
