Sentence examples for wise and realistic from inspiring English sources

As with her previous novel, Ms Hustvedt's cerebral characters are tenderly drawn, wise and realistic.

Among the many questions it lists for anxious consulters is: "Will I get caught in adultery?" And among the many possible responses you could receive (depending on how the dice fell) was the wise and realistic: "Yes, but not yet".

College is truly an attainable goal if students are wise and realistic about the financial realities of enrollment.

Vatican officials portrayed his treatise as a classic case of the "organic development of doctrine," while U.S. Church officials welcomed it as wise and realistic.

This sounds worldly-wise and realistic — but it's totally untrue as an empirical matter.

This is, of course, the tragedy of "Hamlet," remade by Butler in a distinctly post-Freudian style that reaches its apogee in "A Small Hotel," a slim and wise, and painfully realistic, study of a contemporary marriage.

When a young man enters the picture, the tension between the two girls is heightened, with Flora's naivety playing off against Helen's jealous, but wiser and more realistic personality.

"Authors are wiser to be a bit more circumspect and realistic".

When they talk about setting growth targets, Charan, Zook, and Slywotzky and Wise mention reachable growth, the dangers of overreaching, and realistic growth, respectively.

Wise governments also stand for these principles for very practical and realistic reasons.

The margin was a convincing and realistic reflection of United's supremacy - but a wise man would not risk too much on them overcoming either of these two sides.