How to Use realism in a Sentence

realism

noun

• The realism of her dream was alarming.
• He has a sense of realism about what can be done to improve the economy.
• When the spell wears off, when the magic is gone, there’s a lot of realism left.
  — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• He’s done his bows and curtsies, and now realism sets in.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• In this book, Victory City, the magic is in the service of the realism.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Apr. 2023
• One of the keys to it for me is that my novel really steps away from realism.
  — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• The realism, yet high style of Los Javis is one fruitful tension.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
• The movie achieved a high degree of realism by having the actors perform most of their own stunts.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2023
• Another noted that the curve of the banana emoji wasn’t quite right, as if realism were the point.
  — Ligaya Mishan Melody Melamed, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• At the time, the painter was under the influence of Spanish Baroque style and Gustave Courbet’s realism.
  — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
• The World Cup had also already had at least one penalty shootout that tested the bounds of realism.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• In breaking those rules, the style shifts to what some might call magical realism.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
• The emphasis was on realism, from the body movements to the facial features.
  — Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• However, somewhere along the road to realism, things start to change.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• Most would agree a box call can achieve the highest volume without a loss in realism, followed by the pot style calls, and then mouth calls.
  — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 7 Feb. 2023
• The episode, set over too long a timeline, betrayed the dark realism and unjust world the series spent eight years building.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
• Above the bed is a striking Maria Teresa Vieira painting of a man and woman in shades of grays and green that has the feel of magical realism.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2023
• Webster, the director, makes sure to deliver the magic and the realism both.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• What appears on the screen is astounding in its realism and depth of detail.
  — Kevin Kelly, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2022
• This, in turn, set new standards for realism and comfort in the prosthetic breast world.
  — Rae Witte, Women's Health, 21 July 2023
• And, of course, there are the Barbies, made up and dressed for realism, serving as the perfect vessels for Haynes’ vision.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
• Hill House pulled in viewers with something that can be hard to find in the horror genre: emotional realism.
  — TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
• The first amounts to a kind of stringently immersive realism.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• Your films have tremendous visual realism, but still look hand-drawn.
  — Mark Schilling, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
• And overall your realism still has a valuable place in the Bears conversation.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
• As a longtime kindergarten teacher, she’s seen enough to give her newer colleagues a healthy dose of realism.
  — Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• That said, before adoption can become more widespread, one of the main challenges will be to overcome the constraints of realism.
  — Alex Dzyuba, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• The match, considered a classic, was a showcase of the brutal realism that drew fans to pro wrestling, which determines the winner in advance.
  — Eduardo Medina, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• The actions of the Potter character also add a layer of realism.
  — Jeanne Bonner, CNN, 10 Dec. 2022
• Readers largely loved the realism in Good Night, Irene, even if some of the battle scenes were a little too realistic for some palates.
  — Good Housekeeping, 4 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024