How to Use realism in a Sentence

realism

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  • The realism of her dream was alarming.
  • He has a sense of realism about what can be done to improve the economy.
  • When the spell wears off, when the magic is gone, there’s a lot of realism left.
    — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Huge sidescreens give us close-ups, flashes of realism—the eyes, the sweat on the cheekbones.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
  • He’s done his bows and curtsies, and now realism sets in.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • That realism is that is keeping a lot of us down right now.
    — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In this book, Victory City, the magic is in the service of the realism.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Our aim wasn’t to saturate the film with gore, but to anchor it in a stark realism.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2024
  • One of the keys to it for me is that my novel really steps away from realism.
    — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • The realism, yet high style of Los Javis is one fruitful tension.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The movie achieved a high degree of realism by having the actors perform most of their own stunts.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The fantasy of The Idea of You, however, cannot quite stand up to such realism.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 2 May 2024
  • So was the pain and trauma of the woman, not realism or the experience of the mother.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2022
  • To break this cycle, the West needs a large dose of energy realism.
    — Daniel Markind, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • Another noted that the curve of the banana emoji wasn’t quite right, as if realism were the point.
    — Ligaya Mishan Melody Melamed, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • At the time, the painter was under the influence of Spanish Baroque style and Gustave Courbet’s realism.
    — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The gain in prosaic realism comes at a loss in fairy tale magic.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The World Cup had also already had at least one penalty shootout that tested the bounds of realism.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • In breaking those rules, the style shifts to what some might call magical realism.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The emphasis was on realism, from the body movements to the facial features.
    — Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
  • However, somewhere along the road to realism, things start to change.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Most would agree a box call can achieve the highest volume without a loss in realism, followed by the pot style calls, and then mouth calls.
    — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 7 Feb. 2023
  • One defiles realism, and the other refuses to let it out of its grip.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 8 July 2024
  • But most of the show shares Goya’s grim realism, with unflinching evocations of war, death, and pain.
    — The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The episode, set over too long a timeline, betrayed the dark realism and unjust world the series spent eight years building.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
  • Above the bed is a striking Maria Teresa Vieira painting of a man and woman in shades of grays and green that has the feel of magical realism.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2023
  • From romantic escapist reads to somber tales of realism, there’s a mix of new books to explore.
    — Kenrya Rankin, Essence, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Over time, efforts to maintain a sense of realism have fallen by the wayside.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
  • With the boisterous energy of direct speech, the novelist Ferdia Lennon takes on both the playfulness and the harsh realism of Euripides.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2024
  • For each activity there are multiple coaches and multiple settings to choose from and the realism, immersion and incredible clarity of the virtual settings is mind boggling.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024

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