realistic

idealless, philistine, utilitarian

commonsensical, grounded, levelheaded, logical, no-nonsense, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible, sober, sobersided, sound

bottom-line, hard, hard-boiled, hard-edged, tough-minded, unromantic, unsentimental

cynical, disillusioned, misanthropic, pessimistic

distrustful, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious

alike, like, matching, similar, verisimilar

akin, analogous, approximate, comparable, resembling

accurate, close, faithful, true

compelling, convincing

expressive, graphic (also graphical), gritty, vivid