Word Finder - realistic

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Expressed or represented as being accurate, practicable, or not idealistic.

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A realistic appraisal of the situation.

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Relating to the representation of objects, actions or conditions as they actually are or were.

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A realistic novel about the Victorian poor.

For some reason, he experienced a very realistic vision.

You're supposed to be taking care of me, but that isn't realistic 100% of the time, is it?

If it is daringly realistic, it is no less audacious in its idealism.

The story of Sinflhi is the true or realistic history of a soldier who.

She may have been more realistic about Annie's life, but she is very protective of sister Claire.

A 3D model is more realistic than 2D drawings.

Munich is still the leading school of painting in Germany, but the romanticism of the earlier masters has been abandoned for drawing and colouring of a realistic character.

She hits the happy mean between the studied archaism of Courier's Daphnis et Cloe and the realistic patois of the later kailyard novel which for Southerners requires a glossary.

In 1879 the success of his realistic novel, The Red Room, fixed universal attention upon his talent.

The influence of the realistic school has of late been predominant.

Interesting, but let's be realistic.

He had the southern drawl down to an art and his deep warm voice added a realistic touch.

Probably the foremost among them is Sigismund Justh, who died prematurely in the midst of his painful attempt at reconciling French " realistic " modes of thought with what he conceived to be Magyar simplicity (A puszta konyve, " The Book of the Puszta," prairie of Hungary; A Peitz legenddja, " The Legend of Money "; Gdnyo Julcsa, " Juliet Ganyo "; Fuimus).

Zola's Lourdes (Paris, 1894), a criticism from the sceptical point of view, in the form of a realistic novel, has called forth many replies from the Catholic side.

So far he reminds one of Herbart, who founded his " realistic " metaphysics on similar misunderstandings; except that, while Herbart concluded that the world consists of a number of simple " reals," each with a simple quality but unknown, Bradley concludes that reality is one absolute experience which harmonizes the supposed contradictions in an unknown manner.

His exquisite strains, in which pure imagination is blended with most accurate and realistic descriptions of scenery and rural life, have an extraordinary charm not easily described.

The change of plan explains, although it may not exculpate, the formlessness and loose construction of the work, its extremes of realistic detail and poetic allegory.

Though Courbet's realistic work is not devoid of importance, it is as a landscape and sea painter that he will be most honoured by posterity.

Zola was the apostle of the "realistic" or "naturalistic" school; but he was in truth not a "naturalist" at all, in so far as "naturalism" is to be regarded as a record of fact.

He studied men rather than books; became acquainted with the vices in what was then a pioneer town; and in his Seven Lectures to Young Men (1844) treated these with genuine power of realistic description and with youthful and exuberant rhetoric. Eight years later (1847) he accepted a call to the pastorate of Plymouth Church (Congregational), then newly organized in Brooklyn, New York.

He also wrote a number of songs and orchestral works, of a realistic national type.

In1850-1851he published his great book, Die Weltalter, in which he developed a complete original system of philosophy, based on the realistic view that thought should proceed from nature to the highest forms of existence in the spiritual life.

They had all attended the lectures of Georg Brandes, the great reformer of Scandinavian literature, and, influenced by his literary theories, they chose their models in the realistic school.

Most of his stories portray the pioneer manners and dialect of the Central West, and the Hoosier Schoolmaster was one of the first examples of American local realistic fiction; it was very popular, and was translated into French, German and Danish.

Sister Edna, assuming the bones were old and broken props—albeit realistic ones—couldn't discard them fast enough.

There seems no realistic prospect of shifting the burden of fighting to Iraqi or other allies.

Now it's a very different kind of style, very visceral, very realistic.

The figure used for c is somewhat arbitrary - selected to indicate a ` realistic ' boat speed for a given output power.

The sounds and music are taken from the TV program and are suitably atmospheric and realistic.

Any of these venues offer the realistic prospect of a double figure barbel.

What is the realistic chance that this technology touches off another wave of crime against airlines?

The Wildlife Figurine Reserve find high-quality, realistic animal collectibles.

By offering a fully consultative service to our clients, we strive to provide a tailored, realistic approach to actuarial recruitment.

My suggestion is a view which is more realistic than much second order cybernetics.

In addition we have frequently richly detailed games with advanced 3D graphics, high quality sound and even realistic physics.

Targeted care and prescription of medicines in this post-genome era is now a realistic goal in many disciplines.

Any number of control loops can be imposed on the simulation allowing control system evaluation and realistic energy consumption estimates.

However, it is clear that we need to develop much more realistic expectations.

A few shots do flirt with realistic monitor images but it's not consistent enough to work.

These contributing factors are a critical dimension of realistic training to reduce fratricide.

T hey are looking volunteers to add realistic special effects to give folk a real fright on the way round.

My pictures can be realistic or imaginative using watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, gouache, pen and wash or mixed media.

Wigs used at the theater are all handmade from natural hair, in order to recreate a realistic head of hair for the artist.

We show that the choice function hyperheuristic makes an effective and realistic combination of the low-level heuristics at hand.

The only realistic value is the rent, what a willing lessee will pay a willing lessor for a perpetually renewable annual lease.

The detection loophole in the refutation of the family of Local Realistic Theories will thereby be closed.

No one who disagrees with this claim is a serious and realistic materialist.

If rates for self-employed non-principals become more realistic, this will only help the current recruitment and retention problem for all GPs.

Establishing realistic, fair prices will improve your odds of finding buyers quickly so that you can get the unwanted items out of your way and get paid so that you can use the money for other things.

This gives you a realistic value rather than the retail value the book would sell for at a bookstore or from an online antique and collectible book website.