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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" Antonym: unrealistic.

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

... realistic novel has not been afraid to endow his people richly with the ordinary faults and foibles of human nature.... Both his men and women are very real, human people." New ...

— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick

... and martial, brainless and monotonous Night has little mercy for the self-reproachful Not much esteem for non-professional actresses Not in a situation that could bear of her blaming herself O for yesterday! Pact between cowardice and comfort under the title of expediency Philosophy skimmed, and realistic romances deep-sounded Polished barbarism Professional widows Providence and her parents were not forgiven Scorned him for listening to the hesitations (hers) Self-consoled when they are not self-justified ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... that they do not share—that they are unalterably and ostentatiously free from—the emotions to which they appeal in their readers. A fortunate accident has enabled us to compare the treatment which the world's greatest tragic poet and its greatest master of realistic tragedy have respectively applied to virtually the same subject; and the two methods are never likely to be again so impressively contrasted as in King Lear and Le Pere Goriot. But, in truth, it must be impossible for any one who feels Balzac's power not to feel also how it is heightened ...

— Sterne • H.D. Traill

... sort of realistic verisimilitude in Shakespeare's characters. It is as if they had been veritable living men and women, and he had seen and comprehended and delivered the whole and pure truth respecting them. Of course, therefore, they are as far as possible from ...

— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson

... prairie stamp. One of the best of the late commentators on Shakespeare (Professor Dowden), makes the height and aggregate of his quality as a poet to be, that he thoroughly blended the ideal with the practical or realistic. If this be so, I should say that what Shakespeare did in poetic expression, Abraham Lincoln essentially did in his personal and official life. I should say the invisible foundations and vertebrae of his character, more than any man's in history, were mystical, abstract, moral and ...

— Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday • Various

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