Examples of realpolitik in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Many liberals said the moral imperative of barring Prince Mohammed from future visits to the United States, at a minimum, should outweigh the familiar realpolitik of preserving relations with the Saudi kingdom. — Michael Crowley, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021 As the afterglow of the inaugural shift fades, the realpolitik of domestic and diplomatic pressures has already begun to reemerge. — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021 This preference for realpolitik over idealism chimes with her previous work. — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020 The rocket program is a neat metaphor, if a little obvious, for the corruption of all that is most admirable about human initiative: of scientific wonder by realpolitik; of the impulse to learn by the urge to destroy. — Toby Lichtig, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2020 López Obrador, a longtime standard-bearer of Mexico’s left, has adopted a sort of tropical realpolitik with his country’s largest trading partner, acquiescing to Trump’s demands to limit migration. — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 6 July 2020 Without any histrionics or posturing, Varma nails the character’s blend of idealism and realpolitik, compassion and trepidation. — Mike Hale, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020 No doubt, Trump and his supporters would like to frame this mindset as some sort of realpolitik, a grim but realistic acceptance of how the world works. — Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020 This alternate timeline does not ignore realpolitik. — Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2020

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