nonrealistic
- a word derived from realistic.
Example Sentences
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In keeping with Welles, Coen adopts a nonrealistic approach to the setting.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2022
The film’s Hagmaier may finally have gotten inside Bundy’s head, but — even in the forthrightly nonrealistic context of the sequence — the mental-linkage conceit is absurd.
From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2021
Mr. Shepard wrote prodigiously though the 1970s, living in London with Jones and pursuing a rock-and-roll career for the first part of the decade while churning out nonrealistic works.
From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2017
Since then, experiments have confirmed quantum theory’s predictions, forcing physicists to accept that the fabric of reality is nonlocal, nonrealistic or both!
From Scientific American • Dec. 5, 2011
Just as the Motion Picture Academy tends to honor showy performances, it also lauds movies whose editing is either dramatically nonrealistic or fast fast fast.
From Time Magazine Archive
