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Example sentences for: realist

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

"[T]he magical realist journalist is himself close to the people and the events that he is writing about, but does not feel the need to disclose this fully to his readers."
His Prime Minister, Count Camillo Cavour, a hard-nosed political realist, won over moderate left-wing support for a program of free-trade capitalism and large-scale public works construction.
In Newsday , James Wood optimistically proposes the latter: "One feels behind the postmodernism an old realist modernist grinding away, eager to notate reality (though in funky ways)."
Self, it's surprising to discover, is a painstaking realist.
Reading this book helped me see that I am a "minimal realist."