How to Use realist in a Sentence

realist

1 of 2 noun

• Lee made his name as a realist, one who thrived on restraint.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• Any realist would tell you Ukraine would fall.
  — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026
• The guy was nothing if not a realist.
  — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2026
• The thing to watch will be who winds up in the top jobs, hardliners or realists.
  — Donald Heflin, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2026
• The thing to watch will be who winds up in the top jobs, hardliners or realists.
  — Donald Heflin, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2026
• On the one hand, maybe there isn’t, since Shiv’s realist husband is the one who betrays them.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
• Fauci is a realist, and the facts were obvious to anyone who cared to look.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Well, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• Close did not like to think of himself as a realist, photo or otherwise.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• And that’s just who Hassan is — a realist, like a true Virgo.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 1 Oct. 2023
• But the realist in me still thinks of the pillars as an exercise in pounding square pegs into round holes.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• But in a magic-realist twist, this underground railroad is no metaphor.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 13 May 2021
• Hrabal got his start as a realist poet so the novel is filled with all these arresting images.
  — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2022
• At 33, Babel is enough of a realist to know his career is in its twilight's years.
  — Matt Majendie, CNN, 16 Oct. 2020
• Not just because the young idealist who wanted to save the world has evolved into a wizened realist.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2020
• The realist recognizes this series has had two games that were toss-ups and one where the Knicks were just better, longer.
  — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
• The realist could look for opportunities either way and make the best of today.
  — Mike Bass, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2022
• The second ethic is associated with the realist, who codes as a savvy pol and cares about results.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2020
• Lola said that Hospel was a realist about life, knowing a day would come when one of them would have to live without the other.
  — Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2021
• The second realist case for vaccine diplomacy is the danger that the virus will mutate to evade vaccines.
  — Ben Sasse, WSJ, 17 May 2021
• Syd, bless her, as well as Ayo Edebiri, is the cautious realist in that partnership.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 June 2026
• Many of the realists whose novels are being interpolated by this show, though, were obsessed with the present.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2023
• But Ma has been deftly drawn as a canny realist and problem solver—not the kind of person to indulge in daydreams.
  — Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2025
• Helen is the realist, Grace the artsy friend who loves glitter and is a fabulous baker.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
• The artist is best known for vibrant blue-and-green landscape paintings, but realist scrolls like this were also highly coveted.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• Rather than faithful realist depiction, the gun’s boxy black shape, aimed at the prone body, smartly opts for blunt expressive power.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• Kabat-Zinn is a realist, though, and acknowledges that most people face constraints to living this way.
  — Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2021
• Brother Alive is a book of ideas, a book of fathers and sons, a magical-realist mystery, and a revenge story.
  — Jonah Bromwich, The Atlantic, 22 July 2022
• New York artist Jac Lahav is primarily known as a realist painter.
  — Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• Then, as Saban spoke via video chat from his home office for his radio show, his demeanor turned from that of a motivator to one of a realist.
  — Mike Rodak | [email protected], al, 25 Sep. 2020
• Treating a human being as an art object, a socialist-realist poster boy, the doc sacrifices Smith to the cause.
  — Armond White, National Review, 16 Dec. 2020

realist

2 of 2 adjective

• It has been used in just about every realist novel since.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
• Is that a downer or just being a realist?
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2026
• No realist power would’ve ever done that.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2026
• This is not a magical realist novel, right?
  — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
• This is a show that routinely breaks with its largely realist format in favor of flair and emotion.
  — Vulture, 2 May 2022
• Chris came into the game as one of the most confident and realist players in the Circle.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 14 Jan. 2020
• His Usnavi, a young bodega owner who had to grow up too fast, is half realist, half dreamer and all in for what life brings.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Oct. 2021
• For a long time, public sentiment seemed to be inching toward the latter, more realist view.
  — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
• Many films — even those in the realist genre — fail to present an authentic depiction of everyday life.
  — Ali Farahmand, IndieWire, 8 July 2025
• The booth contained dozens of human-sized screens with eerily realist avatars creeping everyone out.
  — Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2020
• In a state-centric realist model, that stance is against America’s interests and makes no sense.
  — Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
• This is a sugarless movie, with a grim, realist acknowledgment of a woman’s fate — of a poor, working woman’s fate.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020
• His realist fiction could never arrive at a full understanding.
  — Max Chapnick, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
• More traditional are Freya Grand’s pair of realist nature scenes, which focus tightly on small areas of sea or earth.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• Suddenly, unabashed genre flicks could be celebrated on the same level as social realist dramas.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2026
• Th project shows a vision of Arab Spain that is very realist, yet far more nuanced and more upbeat than most depictions, the two filmmakers said.
  — Liza Foreman, Variety, 15 Sep. 2022
• Boulder’s Sarah McKenzie takes up the main space with her realist paintings of prisons and museums.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2025
• There is this other stream that doesn't get a lot of coverage in the media which is a more realist approach to foreign policy that does seek to have a different approach.
  — Fox News, 18 June 2018
• The novel, as well as having strong horror elements and is a social realist tale, an institutional critique as much as anything.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
• She was given a role—but turned it down upon actually reading Hansberry’s realist drama, cowed by the challenge.
  — Hazlitt, 9 Aug. 2023
• Steve fits into a broader push under Mensah to back socially realist, risk-taking British stories.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
• Putting this part of the story in the mouth of an inebriated Frenchman seems nothing less than a crisis of confidence in the realist mode to depict anything at all.
  — Ryu Spaeth, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• Few realist Democratic candidates for congressional seats wanted to run with Dean at the head of the ticket.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2019
• His poetic liberties in a realist mode point back to one of his favorite predecessors, Gustave Courbet.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• The lawyer in me is drawn to the social realist novel as a genre, but the seven year old protégé of Aunt Edwina cannot help but build from the speculative logics of myth.
  — Tochi Eze august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
• In recent elections, this fatigue may well have translated into a preference for candidates who have embraced a more realist approach to foreign affairs.
  — Dan Caldwell, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2024
• What begins as realist fiction pivots with a gigantic metaphysical twist, asking big questions about what obligations a writer has to their characters.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Doing so also gave him freedom to take on different roles - in samurai epics, realist dramas, crime thrillers, and even science fiction - and work with many different directors over the course of his career.
  — NPR, 12 Nov. 2025
• All these anachronisms are at least a matter of inside baseball, if a hindrance to Baylin and Susman’s attempts to evoke the same textured, realist milieu as the Safdie brothers.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
• Prioritization is a realist strategy, and what keeps realists up at night is the threat of a rival great power controlling an economically vital part of the world.
  — Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025