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Elsewhere, players might enjoy body-replicating madness, brutal climbing simulators, and freewheeling adventure through a magical realist take on the Deep South.
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Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
By the 1930s and throughout the 1940s, Benton became associated with Regionalism—among its devotees, Grant Wood—which rejected abstract expressionism and exalted realist representations of rural America.
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Tight end Cole Kmet, ever the realist, isn’t interested in moral victories.
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Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
By the 1930s and throughout the 1940s, Benton became associated with Regionalism—among its devotees, Grant Wood—which rejected abstract expressionism and exalted realist representations of rural America.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Her films disrupt conventional storytelling methods by employing magical realist explorations of spirituality, labor, and the environment to critique both social and ecological imbalances.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 Dec. 2024
Tight end Cole Kmet, ever the realist, isn’t interested in moral victories.
—Kevin Fishbain, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Realist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/realist. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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