How to Use realism in a Sentence

realism

noun

• 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
• But this isn’t realism; these aren’t pure ’70s costumes.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2024
• Their target was the art establishment, which still turned up its nose at their old-school realism.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
• When The World Tips Over could be called many things: a family saga, a magical realism story and a fairytale, among them.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024