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Realistic

adjective

Aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are. "A realistic view of the possibilities" , "A realistic appraisal of our chances" , "The actors tried to create a realistic portrayal of the Africans"

Representing what is real; not abstract or ideal. Synonym: naturalistic. "A realistic novel" , "In naturalistic colors" , "The school of naturalistic writers"

Of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of realism.

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"Realistic" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Dom-i-stick,"—how the Lord said unto Moses, "Go take twenty fat bullocks and offer them as a sacrifice." As we would see these "twenty fat bullocks" time and again, I confess, with a feeling of reluctance, that some of the gilt and rose tint was rubbed from our childish pictures, and that a realistic artist drawing from the life before him would not deck out the patient subject in quite ...

— Tales of the Malayan Coast - From Penang to the Philippines • Rounsevelle Wildman

... disturbed: a series of dreadfully realistic dreams danced through his brain. First he seemed to be standing upon a high mountain peak with eternal snows stretched all about him. He looked down, past the snow line, past the fir woods, into the depths ...

— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer

... female, can conceivably enjoy being chaffed on that point in the fourth couplet about the perfumes; that Shakespear's revulsions, as the sonnet immediately preceding shews, were as violent as his ardors, and were expressed with the realistic power and horror that makes Hamlet say that the heavens got sick when they saw the queen's conduct; and then ask Mr Harris whether any woman could have stood it for long, or have thought the "sugred" compliment worth the cruel wounds, ...

— Dark Lady of the Sonnets • George Bernard Shaw

... are," declared Mr. Ringold. "I have my sea drama all ready for the films now. I don't know what to do about a wreck, though. I'm afraid I can't make it realistic enough. I must make other plans about that scene. But get your cameras in good shape, boys, for there is ...

— The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast • Victor Appleton

... this little can be done beyond indicating on the broadest lines the kind of reading which tends to preserve or to restore mental health. Away with your "problem" novels and "realistic" poems stated in the filthy material of moral gutters! Hans Andersen will take some birds, some flowers, some toys, and will state the same problems, and get the same eternal solutions, without making ...

— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various

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