Example sentences for: realism

How can you use “realism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The various forms of politically driven realism that flourished during the Depression continued to dominate American art through the end of World War II.

  • Getting back to strong language, the writer of two U.K. soap operas, Grange Hill and Brookside, defended its use on the grounds of realism, though it was pointed out that the audience for the latter had fallen from 4.5 million to 500,000 because of its language.

  • David Mamet--who, coincidentally, wrote Connery's marvelous dialogue in that movie--gave the American theater a brusque shove out of the romantic realm of disillusioned lefties such as Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller into a brutal capitalist realism, wherein every encounter was reduced to an attempt by one party to hoodwink, psych out, or otherwise overpower another.

  • Deineka, whose career endured into the 1950s despite intermittent castigation for "aestheticism," represents a missing link, connecting Socialist Realism with the collages of the Constructivists and them with the icons of Rublev.

  • In "," William Saletan examines President Clinton's struggle between idealism and realism.


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