Forgoing the fanciful

Usage examples of realistic.

Terrorist organizations often supplied the convicted amputees among their members with realistic computerized prosthesesbut such mechanical devices could not pass spaceport inspections or other security checks.

In this scene the artist is a parodist, adult, realistic, a painter who impresses his inner visions on the world, remaking it through the medium of his work and imagination.

More realistic Italian faces were introduced, architectural and landscape backgrounds encroached upon the Byzantine gold grounds, even portraiture was taken up.

In portraiture he was often beyond criticism, giving the realistic representation with dignity, an elevated spirit, and a suave brush.

However, like all football fans, every last one of them had secret lofty ambitions for their club dreams of Premiership status, an FA Cup win even but realistic ambitions for the club were rather muted, and league and commercial survival were the current preoccupations.

Cindy was also realistic about her former career as an actress---she would never have made the grade to stardom, or have come close to it.

Again, if I become totally aware of my resentment, my uncharitableness, these feelings will be replaced, during the time of my awareness, by a more realistic reaction to the events taking place around me.

I conceive him to indicate that the realistic method of a conscientious transcription of all the visible, and a repetition of all the audible, is mainly accountable for our present branfulness, and that prolongation of the vasty and the noisy, out of which, as from an undrained fen, steams the malady of sameness, our modern malady.

Can you write a purely realistic novel about 18th century Bhutan, without accepting that to the Bhutanese, the gods and demons are real?

It is that the animal is a composite figure due to the impact upon Viking artists of the realistic Carolingian renderings of lions and other creatures.

Orient may appear in all its realistic detail, in Chateaubriand the ego dissolves itself in the contemplation of wonders it creates, and then is reborn, stronger than ever, more able to savor its powers and enjoy its interpretations.

The oil producing nations were still antsy about the future as more depolymerization plants turning waste into oil came online in the United States, making the prospects for near self-sufficiency in petroleum more realistic.

Nevertheless, it is my contention that dialog is realistic when, and only when, it reflects the situation as you describe it and when it produces the effect you wish to produce.

Putney brings an unusual degree of realistic empathy to his account of the training of Marine war dogs and their employment in the recapture of Guam, 1944.

Or were those western Christians Ebionitic who, in the fourth century still clung to very realistic Chiliastic hopes, who, in fact, regarded their Christianity as consisting in these?