reality-based

[ree-al-i-tee-beyst]

adjective

1. (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.

Example Sentences

Executive producer and showrunner Dete Meserve says animation allows the series, which is aimed at children ages 5 to 8, to have flights of fancy like the flying mobile weather station known as the Vansformer that the family explores in combined with “reality-based scientific explanations for what’s happening.”

From Los Angeles Times

Spinning non-stop lies about secret cabals conspiring against red America keeps their audiences hooked, and it also isolates them from reality-based society.

From Salon

But if he really holds serious ambitions to remake education in his state, and if he proves that these policies can be powerful tools in the culture wars, then he’s someone of serious concern for anyone who cares about secular, reality-based education.

From Slate

The far right depends on a public audience that’s eager for simplistic, hyperbolic stories and is largely allergic to facts and nuance, especially when reality-based information harshes their vibe.

From Salon

What reads like political sloganeering is merely a reality-based statement.

From Salon