Example sentences for: unrealistic

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

  • True, when pressed, top economic advisers have called the spending caps "totally unrealistic," but they are loath to press this point too loudly, lest it call into question both their own plans for additional "investments" (read spending and tax breaks) and the president's embrace of the limits in the first place.

  • The notion of an 80-year-old man cloning himself to cheat death is quaint, but it is unrealistic.

  • Worse still, it deceives the people: Instead of emphasizing the truth of the business--the long, long odds--it emphasizes the unrealistic chance of winning big.

  • The completely cynical spin: It really is just a contingency plan, showing once again how gutless and unrealistic they are.

  • "Taking his cue from writers like Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick, who successfully blurred the lines between serious and popular novels, Lethem is like a kid in a candy store, grabbing all the tasty plots and gimmicks he can" (Albert Mobilio, the New York Times Book Review ). The heart of the book is the protagonist's affliction and his constant verbal outbursts, which form "a barrage of sheer rhetorical invention that has tour de force written all over it; it's an amazing stunt, and, just when you think the well is running dry, Lethem keeps on topping himself" ( Kirkus Reviews ). A few call the punning Joycean literary outbursts unrealistic, but most just take them in stride, admiring the "highly artificial, flamboyantly bizarre world that constantly upstages its genre format ...


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