The term realism is also used to describe a movement in literature that attempts to portray life as it is. From Wordnik.com. [realism] Reference
But even with this definition, the term realism has no very definite meaning unless all persons agree as to what constitutes nature. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
Those big chaps who blow about what they call realism -- how do THEIR portraits look in a drawing-room?. From Wordnik.com. [The Custom of the Country] Reference
Schmittians, however much they seek to clothe themselves in "realism" are in fact the enemies of the rule of law, and thus of freedom. From Wordnik.com. [Discourse.net: Nation Mag Claims ICE has Network of Secret Detention Faciilities -- in the USA] Reference
What is excluded from the terms realism and realist?. From Wordnik.com. ["Nonrealist Fiction"] Reference
Political realism is a pretty thin reduction of that. From Wordnik.com. [Everybody Loves Reinhold] Reference
Pat doesn't know whether nominalism or realism is true. From Wordnik.com. [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference
Magical realism is typically more realistic than fantastical. From Wordnik.com. [Transitional reading] Reference
All the good Batman comics have a strong root in realism too. From Wordnik.com. [Rumor: David Goyer Begins Working on Script for BATMAN 3; Matt Argues for Re-Launch – Collider.com] Reference
Ouch, Sandy MacHoots, the realism is getting me downtoday. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Someone Like Me] Reference
Especially in this country, where realism is kind of our thing. From Wordnik.com. [Realism in Fiction] Reference
We call it realism, you call it authoritarian fantasy. namo Says. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Sowell’s Coup] Reference
Can two worlds differ only in whether nominalism or realism is true?. From Wordnik.com. [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference
Spinoza's realism is in this regard as abstract as Leibnitz's idealism. From Wordnik.com. [Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy] Reference
I think the realism is coming in spades! blog comments powered by Disqus. From Wordnik.com. [Mel Gibson Interview; Talks MAD MAX 4 and He’s Using Old Norse in His Viking Movie With Leonardo DiCaprio – Collider.com] Reference
Jim's stark realism is some of the best commentary about warfare that I know. From Wordnik.com. [View from the Northern Border] Reference
Reflective realism is only one subset of contemporary “literary” fiction. From Wordnik.com. [On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction] Reference
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his writing is often described as realism tinged with. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Top Stories] Reference
I don't believe that a preference for realism is the expression of a class bias. From Wordnik.com. [Realism in Fiction] Reference
However, Updike's assertion that "realism is kind of our thing" is simply wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Realism in Fiction] Reference
I think it's difficult not to be confused about what magical realism is exactly. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie] Reference
Romance, rather than being antithetical to realism, is a necessary component of it. From Wordnik.com. [A Historian For Our Time] Reference
My problem with hysterical realism is precisely that such novels are too realistic!. From Wordnik.com. [James Wood on his Criticism and Critics] Reference
American Review’s critic notes, the realism is accomplished without "misanthropy" or. From Wordnik.com. [Acting 'Natural': Vanity Fair and the UnMasking of Anglo-American Sentiment] Reference
Magical realism is such a great genre - so many different styles are possible within in. From Wordnik.com. [On Style] Reference
If realism is paramount, why do people so rarely play games of Fifa with 45 minute halves?. From Wordnik.com. [Fifa, Football Manager and the problem with 'fun'] Reference
I think this more or less comes down to how realism is valued in the face of entertainment. From Wordnik.com. [Guest Rant: Turning The Other Cheek] Reference
But the word realism is a vague term, and is constantly employed to express different ideas. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
Because truthfully, a book that was totally absorbed in realism and fact would be pretty dull. From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with Lee Child, 2003] Reference
Further, what if we think the very concept of "psychological realism" is specious to begin with?. From Wordnik.com. [Book Reviewing] Reference
Rao's realism is a contrast to the un - bridled aggression and enthusiasm shown by DNA's founders in 2005. From Wordnik.com. [Bucking the Times of India] Reference
Photo-realism is a term crappy Modern Painters use when they paint painstaking reproductions of photographs. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Leterrier Explains How He Took on Clash of the Titans « FirstShowing.net] Reference
But it has about it these two special principles which separate it from all that we call realism in our time. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens] Reference
In making his argument, Bazin valorizes the film style he dubs realism, characterized by extended shots and deep focus. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Film] Reference
The test of realism is precisely its encounter with the impossibility of getting it right, of registering the really real. From Wordnik.com. [Box Hill and the Limits of Realism] Reference
Now, as I already explained several times, such anti-realism is logically indefeasible (strictu sensu), just as solipsism is. From Wordnik.com. [Carry-Over Thread] Reference
But his role in political realism is often dated from his association with postwar figures like George F. Kennan and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. From Wordnik.com. [Everybody Loves Reinhold] Reference
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