adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a realistic/achievable goal
▪ Students are encouraged to set themselves realistic goals for academic improvement.
▪ We pushed for what we thought were achievable goals
a realistic/real/serious option (=something that you can really choose to do)
▪ I wanted to start my own business but financially it was never a realistic option.
accurate/realistic etc portrayal
▪ The film is not an accurate portrayal correct portrayal of his life.
achievable/realistic
▪ The target is achievable, but only by hard work.
realistic expectations (=the expectation that bad things can happen as well as good things)
▪ The disease is not curable, and patients must have realistic expectations.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Be as realistic and objective as you can.
▪ He said it's to be as realistic as we dare to make it.
▪ To make it as realistic as possible, more than 200 extras had to be employed for the two-day shoot.
▪ To be of maximum benefit, these estimates need to be as realistic as possible.
▪ To make things as realistic as possible, the Sergeant Major made sure he was in good voice.
▪ The danger is that this form of prosecution and monitoring becomes accepted by the parties of opposition as realistic.
how
▪ This is closely related to how realistic the programme is.
▪ It is either an illusion, or a delusion, depending upon how realistic one thinks the belief to be.
▪ Advisers will help you explore how realistic your idea is and guide you through the steps to getting started successfully.
more
▪ They learn to then shift from negative, self-defeating internal dialogue towards positive, more realistic, and confidence-building self-speech.
▪ I also had a suspicious, ungenerous feeling about the reluctance of the white teachers to make use of more realistic books.
▪ A more realistic figure, it admitted, was 20 percent.
▪ Over the course of the preoperational stage, children increasingly attempt to represent things through drawings and their efforts become more realistic.
▪ The majority now believed that Bunker's more realistic approach made more sense.
▪ So now we decided that it would be more realistic to weight and sink all the rubbish we did not need.
▪ At sea, also, time produced more realistic and utilitarian attitudes.
▪ Nonformula romances were also becoming more realistic in their approaches.
most
▪ Of these, 6 per cent is the most realistic.
so
▪ Bereft of hope So far so realistic.
▪ The exercise looks so realistic that many parents were convinced they had the real thing.
▪ Here at the hospital, she had been so realistic about it, had known it could never develop into anything real.
▪ It was so realistic a ceremony that several of the women cried.
very
▪ I think that the book is still very realistic and the boys are acting like animals.
▪ These polar cases are obviously too extreme to be very realistic.
▪ We then went to an exhibition of the salvaged artifacts with some very realistic looking wax work people amongst them.
▪ This situation is not very realistic.
▪ Male speaker It's absolutely excellent, really good fun, very realistic.
▪ Roland had given up all thought, in any case not very realistic, of discussing the purloined letters with Blackadder.
▪ Brilliantly designed, very realistic and, despite being a tad tricky to master at first, incredibly playable.
▪ You don't get a hug and a kiss from Michaela when you finish, but the bikes are very realistic.
■ NOUN
alternative
▪ An interesting piece of software called JustText offers a more realistic alternative.
▪ The realistic alternative is to disarm imperialism by overthrowing it in its main bastions.
▪ A more realistic alternative is to deduce which characteristics of organizations have the most impact on accounting.
▪ Social organization, we learned, was conventional and man-made and there were often realistic alternatives.
▪ If you realise that you can not make the schedule, then you need to negotiate a realistic alternative.
appraisal
▪ Therefore, a starting point for any discussion of community care must be a realistic appraisal of informal systems.
approach
▪ In contrast, the indigenous peoples have a much more realistic approach to agriculture.
▪ The majority now believed that Bunker's more realistic approach made more sense.
▪ However, a more realistic approach is to see trips as forming a chain, linking activities through the day.
▪ A more realistic approach to leadership may focus on the situation.
assessment
▪ It is time to take a realistic assessment of your partner.
▪ That editorial reflected a realistic assessment of the dilemma created by any government-sanctioned attempt to regulate salaries.
▪ This was the beginning of realistic assessment of the situation.
▪ But neither course should be embarked upon without a realistic assessment of the risks and rewards involved.
▪ Sometimes a home visit is planned, for example by the physiotherapist, in order to make a realistic assessment.
chance
▪ In this way, we lost any realistic chance to reaffirm the essential truth of John Prescott's commitment.
▪ Why Forbes thought that he stood a realistic chance of success this year is a question that baffled observers.
▪ Robert Carnwath feared that the Act was so confused that we could not go to court with a realistic chance of winning.
▪ So do Portsmouth have any realistic chance of winning?
estimate
▪ If no such source is available, ask for a realistic estimate of potential costs on a stage by stage basis.
▪ More realistic estimates are based on the assumption that fertility will gradually decline to around replacement level.
expectations
▪ Such evaluation must carry realistic expectations about the timescales and pace of change which is possible in partnership activities.
goal
▪ The student is given the opportunity for self-appraisal and realistic goal setting.
▪ Total elimination of seizures is often not a realistic goal in adults with partial or secondarily generalized seizures.
▪ In most cases, therefore, short-term intervention with realistic goals should be the aim.
▪ Of course, for most people, retiring at 50 is not a realistic goal.
▪ It is essential to spell out some realistic goals.
▪ It is important to help clients set realistic goals.
level
▪ The good news for Thames Valley cops is that the murder rate may now drop to a realistic level.
model
▪ We now have a much more realistic model of evolution than the monkeys typing Shakespeare gave us.
▪ In a more realistic model with many goods, the problem would be less serious, although it will not disappear.
▪ On the basis of this information proportions of population are allocated to each centre giving a realistic model of how people shop.
▪ Again, a bundle of drinking straws glued together provides a realistic model.
option
▪ As in commercial aircraft, going it alone was never a realistic option.
▪ For some, that may not be a realistic option.
▪ Typically, this will be a realistic option if your pay has been cut for some reason.
▪ This leaves only one realistic option a full scale takeover.
▪ A whole history has been assimilated long before conscious self-criticism is a realistic option.
▪ That is what I love in you ... Now the way I figured it I had six realistic options.
portrayal
▪ A realistic portrayal of the life and times of the legendary outlaw well worth the visit.
possibility
▪ But it must be asked how far such autonomy is a realistic possibility.
▪ With certain safeguards for patients who, for example, may require liver transplants in Philadelphia full range fundholding seems a realistic possibility.
▪ A General Council of all the Churches does not seem to be a realistic possibility in the foreseeable future.
price
▪ Offered for sale at a realistic price, it represents an ideal investment or family purchase.
▪ What's a realistic price for a tank like this?
▪ At a time when house sales are few and far between, successful transactions are those where realistic prices are asked.
prospect
▪ Nigel Short has realistic prospects of an individual world title match.
sense
▪ In these matters, I think the students may have a more realistic sense of the situation than the teacher.
▪ It would be a four-year test, but acquiring any realistic sense of its impact would take much longer than that.
▪ Some say that the effect may be positive in that children will develop a more realistic sense of what life is like.
▪ There is no question but that agency rulemaking is lawmaking in any functional or realistic sense of the term....
target
▪ It may be that August 1 would now have to be a more realistic target date.
▪ Those keeping to a strict 1,000 calories a day allowance will usually find this to be a realistic target.
▪ Change doesn't happen overnight so we must continue to address real concerns, use real science and aim for realistic targets.
▪ Target Greens are designed to produce more realistic targets for the golfers.
▪ If he remembers to set realistic targets and play within himself, he can perform with credit.
▪ Students will set themselves realistic targets for a job search programme and review skills and abilities in relation to future job-seeking activities.
view
▪ This is a realistic view of policing.
▪ Ralph, unlike Jack, is becoming maturer and is starting to respect Piggy and his realistic views.
▪ They must take a realistic view and look objectively when deciding which movements will best describe individuality.
▪ Governing bodies should take a reasonable, optimistic and realistic view, not a highly unlikely state of success and well-being.
▪ A realistic view of man Evil is all too apparent in our world.
way
▪ It's a more realistic way of looking at things.
▪ Before we can deal with the family in any realistic way, though, we have to do some family bookkeeping.
▪ The student will learn realistic ways of ensuring good nursing care even when the workload is heavy.
▪ This caution will lead the writer to limit the number of questions set down in some realistic way.
▪ Accepting an offer at market price may therefore be the only realistic way of realising their investment at its full value.
▪ The pricing system thus reveals people's preferences in a realistic way.
▪ In its very individual and grimly realistic way it is very romantic, but this is not pretty cinema!
▪ A dramatised story of the operations of an imaginary business, which covers in a realistic way most aspects of business.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ realistic goals
▪ a realistic television drama
▪ A lot of people like paintings to look realistic.
▪ Planning your dream home? You can build a more realistic model with our new 3-D kit.
▪ The book includes some very realistic descriptions of life during the war.
▪ The game's 3-D graphics are amazingly realistic.
▪ We want to play in the championships, but right now that's not very realistic.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he believed that the subsequent provisions for bad debts on commercial loans were realistic.
▪ But the next hurdle will be putting realistic plates on the surface.
▪ In such situations, hopes for a less active, more cautious and realistic, less expansive foreign policy were slim.
▪ Over the course of the preoperational stage, children increasingly attempt to represent things through drawings and their efforts become more realistic.
▪ The only realistic question that poses itself is whether Britain can help to determine the how and the when of reunification.
▪ The second departure is concerned with more realistic assumptions about production.
▪ To make it as realistic as possible, more than 200 extras had to be employed for the two-day shoot.
▪ We think we have been more realistic than cynical.