The attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth

Usage examples of realism.

Art should ennoble, Langbehn said, so that naturalism, realism, anything which exposed the kind of iniquities that a Zola or a Mann drew attention to, was anathema.

In a full-size screen were the images of the Thalassocrat and the Translator, a three-dimensional realism that seemed to breathe out the cold of the ice chamber where they crouched.

Nowadays, most philosophers of physics, the most mature of the sciences, have distanced themselves from scientific realism, adopting views closer to those of Cardinal Bellarmine than of Galileo.

Solovievs and the description of a big symphony concert in Moscow about 1900 are masterpieces of verbal expressiveness, delicate realism, and delightful humor.

It seems to me, I said, that the great additions which have been made by realism to the territory of literature consist largely in swampy, malarious, ill-smelling patches of soil which had previously been left to reptiles and vermin.

In the process he refined the technique of marble carving, producing smooth planes that depicted skin, female skin especially, with great realism and the hint, more than the hint, of eroticism.

Realism is Rubens, Rembrandt and Repin put to serve the working class.

We have not room in the British Museum to give a loose rein to realism in the matter of accessories, but each bird or animal in the collection is so stuffed as to make it look as much alive as the stuffer can make it--even to the insertion of glass eyes.

When the supernatural caught her interest, the result was a group of short stories which combined domestic realism with supernaturalism and these have proved very influential.

Reality, or rather realism, calm, cold, selective, had no part at all in this story.

New Testament, and second that it points forward, if it points to anything, to the Aristotelian realism of the Summa of St.

Zingerman the painter had a certain integrity, a kind of Ashcan school realism.

Here the trappings of Realism have fallen away, but the Chekhovian principle remains triumphant.

Jukes was a civil engineer, and Condy held that it was a capital bit of realism on the part of the author to have him speak of the pitch of the hills in just such technical terms.

For instance, in the view of some critics, literary realism carries with it an implicit validation of conservative social structures: for others, the formal and metrical intricacies of the sonnet and the iambic pentameter are a counterpart of social stability, decorum, and order.