Example Sentences

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He’s adept at creating different realisms and textures for each story line, variations that add layers of meaning.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2016

Perhaps the grittiest realisms could use a little light rebranding, granted – but even when money's tight, surely there should be a place for poetry ...

From The Guardian • May 28, 2010

Hopper's realism had nothing to do with the prevalent realisms of the 1930s and '40s in American painting.

From Time Magazine Archive

The feminine "shall I, shall I not" is woven into the fabric of a soundly constructed play, one that feels itself easily superior to the crude realisms of ordinary theatre.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the history of the world has been that the so-called abnormalisms of one generation are the accepted, commonplace realisms of the succeeding types.

From Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul by Scofield, Anna Bishop