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Example sentences for: realism

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The opening essay rejects overdesigned sleekness for the "flowing, tangled" realism of everyday mess.
In "," William Saletan examines President Clinton's struggle between idealism and realism.
The New Yorker 's Louis Menand calls Paradise "the strangest and most original book that Morrison has written," then criticizes it for its lack of cohesion, its failed forays into magical realism, and its willful allegorizing.
But others lament the absence of the novelist's trademarks--the magical realism, the stylish prose, the irony.
"We are what we are, and there is nothing much to be done about that" doesn't make for a very interesting aesthetic, and Eastwood's dry, dodgy movies (Schickel touts "their directness of address, their plainspoken psychological realism") bear the stamp of this shrunken worldview.