Sentence examples for vigorous realism from inspiring English sources

Painted with a vigorous realism verging on caricature, the folks assembled here gaze out at us with enigmatic dark eyes.

Though morality plays on the whole failed to achieve the vigorous realism of the Middle Ages' scriptural drama, this short play (about 900 lines) is more than an allegorical sermon because vivid characterization gives it dramatic energy.

"He was aiming at a vigorous realism, and had great trouble with a natural warp in the work towards pastiche and parody"; that summary of playwright Alexander Wedderburn's creative anxieties at the start of The Virgin in the Garden was a charge that one could clearly level at his creator, and at Babel Tower in particular.

The simple thought being: positive thinking isn't working and the solution to this cult of cheerfulness is -- drumroll -- vigorous realism.

Similarly, the vigorous social realism of Adriaen van Ostade yields to a much lighter and more frivolous treatment in the paintings of his younger brother Isack and Jan Steen and the elegant hunting scenes of Philips Wouwerman.

V There's nothing radical about the movie's aesthetic; exactly the opposite: its conventionally vigorous, action-centered realism wouldn't be out of place in a movie by Sidney Lumet — or Ben Affleck.

Blasco Ibáñez' early work, composed mainly of regional novels such as Flor de mayo (1895; Mayflower, 1921), La barraca (1898; The Cabin, 1917), and Cañas y barro (1902; Reeds and Mud, 1966), is marked by a vigorous and intense realism and considerable dramatic force in the depiction of the life of Valencia.

Several works near the Pratt, and in surrounding galleries, amount to a vigorous debate between sophisticated realism and naïve rendering.

Little here is new: warmed-over realism peppered with vigorous criticism of the Clinton legacy, with chapters on international justice and globalisation.

So Mr. Holter's impassioned evocation of the sparks that ignited the gay rights movement, and Eric Hoff's vigorous production, are strongest when stylized interpretation eclipses conventional realism.

(Zinoman) 'Hit the Wall' Ike Holter's impassioned evocation of the Stonewall Riots, and Eric Hoff's vigorous production, are strongest when stylized interpretation eclipses conventional realism.