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Example sentences for "realistic"

Lexicographically close words:
realised; realises; realising; realism; realist; realistically; realists; realite; realities; reality
  1. The odd part about his realistic observations, however, is that his notes, whether written about California or India, are often repudiated by the people whom he has visited.

  2. His tales are extravagantly impossible but extremely realistic in effect, filled with humorous situations and singular plots, and peopled with eccentric characters that afford amusement on every page.

  3. In this way actuality takes on the added charm of natural grouping, and I shall be greatly surprised if some of the telephoto pictures of this war do not take rank as the most artistic as well as realistic records of its incidents.

  4. Spagnoletto surpassed his master in the brutally realistic expression of physical anguish.

  5. When Ferrero published his history we were startled by his realistic treatment.

  6. In the later poems the two elements become deepened and are more closely combined: they are, too, seeking expression through a technique which is directed to the same realistic purpose.

  7. It is realistic in a literal sense: a bit of wilful ugliness.

  8. But he is realistic art, not artistic realism.

  9. The following elevating passage is one of the realistic paragraphs by which Mr. Crane makes the routine of Coleman's life known to us: Suddenly there was a flash of light and a cage of bronze, gilt and steel dropped magically from above.

  10. On the other hand, there are those who have gone beyond the obvious and prefer less realistic subjects particularly in relation to architecture.

  11. The children, too, are modeled with affectionate sincerity and are a realistic interpretation of childish charm.

  12. Here, again, a model vessel in a built-up miniature slip supplied the means of obtaining a startlingly realistic effect.

  13. This is merely an additional realistic touch added in the studio; the writer supplies his insert in the regular way.

  14. One of the most thrilling and realistic fire pictures ever produced was "The Incendiary Foreman," released by Pathé Frères early in 1908.

  15. The class will greatly enjoy and profit by seeing Tom's original bald, fragmentary story become a vivid narrative, full of interesting detail and realistic color.

  16. The more realistic this can be made, the more fun there will be for the pupils, and the more profit for them from the English teacher's point of view.

  17. He knows the inmost core of the Butte-Montmartre, and depicts it with realistic and brutal relish.

  18. A realistic picture suggests Nature, and if the figures are well done they suggest human figures; a well-arranged scene does the same.

  19. His theatrical reforms consisted in making the artistes sing intelligently and with care, and in demanding realistic scenery.

  20. I believe that Professor Herbert's argument, of which this passage is a summary, is, as against realistic materialism, sound and unanswerable.

  21. Secondly, realistic materialism ignores the fact that kinetic manifestations for us human-folk are phenomena of consciousness.

  22. It may be asked--What advantage has such a view over realistic materialism?

  23. The "cutting up" of the shark, owing to this obstreperousness, must have been a bit more realistic than usual, for he still bore marks of it when I encountered him in Papeete a week later.

  24. It was followed by Die Makkabaer (1852), in which the realistic method of Der Erbforster was transferred to an historical milieu, which allowed more brilliant colouring and a freer play of the imagination.

  25. Around her extended a very realistic sea, ruffled in miniature waves, and far above, towering over the heads of the young people present, were her lofty masts with their complicated rigging.

  26. It was far otherwise in the next step of the Realistic progress.

  27. The big marine on guard in the shadow added the last realistic touch, and the gentlemen visitors removed their hats and the ladies talked in whispers--they all expected Keppel to speak, and they wished to hear what he would say.

  28. The Reverend Samuel Reynolds also had a numerous family--there being eleven children--so the present occupation is a realistic restoration of a previous condition.

  29. The reading of the Burial Service over a man yet living is another realistic touch that serves its purpose.

  30. The Old Testament conceives the sanctions of the moral law enunciated by God in a thoroughly realistic manner.

  31. The interest never lags; the style is realistic and intense; and there is a constantly underlying current of subtle humor.

  32. Nor is this popular poetry merely the rhythmic expression of joy and sorrow; it is in the highest degree imaginative; and taking its inspiration directly from nature it abounds in realistic metaphor and in picturesque and fantastic imagery.

  33. A clever realistic story of the American Cow-puncher.

  34. In his expression you sometimes saw the poet gone astray, sometimes the romancer, and he always succeeded in making his tales realistic by the effective and powerful words in which he told them.

  35. A nation like Norway has a great realistic drama without having ever had either a great classical drama or a great romantic drama.

  36. Dattaka's work does not appear to be extant now, but this abridgement of it is very clever, and quite equal to any of the productions of Emile Zola, and other writers of the realistic school of to-day.

  37. After a perusal of the Hindoo work, and of the English books above mentioned, the reader will understand the subject, at all events from a materialistic, realistic and practical point of view.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "realistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    actual; authentic; businesslike; candid; characteristic; commercial; concrete; descriptive; distinctive; distinguishing; earthy; eclectic; empirical; exemplary; existential; expressive; factual; faithful; feasible; general; genuine; good; graphic; hard; hedonistic; honest; idealistic; inartificial; instrumentalist; lawful; legitimate; lifelike; literal; living; materialistic; mechanistic; metaphysical; natural; naturalistic; normal; orderly; original; pantheistic; philosophical; photographic; picturesque; positive; positivistic; practical; pragmatical; prosaic; pure; quintessential; rational; rationalistic; real; realist; realistic; reasonable; regular; representative; rightful; sample; sane; scholastic; scientific; secular; sensible; simple; sincere; sober; sophisticated; sound; speaking; sterling; theistic; transcendentalist; true; trustworthy; truthful; typical; unadulterated; unaffected; unassuming; uncolored; undisguised; undistorted; unexaggerated; unflattering; unimagined; unqualified; unromantic; unsentimental; unvarnished; usual; utilitarian; verbal; verbatim; vivid; wise; workaday; working; worldly