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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

... remember, in the end of the Victorian era had attempted to become realistic—had attempted, that is, the absurdly impossible; and photography exposed the absurdity, For no man can be truly a realist, since it is literally impossible to paint or to describe all that the eye sees. When photography became ...

— Dawn of All • Robert Hugh Benson

... across the platform on a chair and won applause by her realistic interpretation of western riding. Bobby convulsed the room with her imaginary efforts to cut and fit a dress, her mistakes being glaring ones, for Bobby never touched a needle if she could help it. Clever Constance Howard had gone for her ukulele and played ...

— Betty Gordon at Boarding School - The Treasure of Indian Chasm • Alice Emerson

... day he managed to slip out of his chains and away from his tiresome cannon balls. He made a daring dash for liberty, disarming and killing a sentry. Boldly, he sought out the Captain of the Royal Guard and fought a very realistic duel with him before the Empress and all the members of her retinue who came out from the wings specially ...

— The Spoilers of the Valley • Robert Watson

... between {36} laborious and comprehensive detailed investigations and a generalizing philosophic penetration, but it was also a very efficient preparation of the mind for the evolution problem, so far as the summing up of the organisms under a type and plan is only the ideal reverse of its realistic reduction to a ...

— The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality • Rudolf Schmid

... of the audience about him. The emotion of a large assembly was always contagious—sweeping the individual along with it. Whereas, in private, her dancing, lacking the glamour and artificiality of the stage, would be a very different thing. It would appear in a more realistic, commonplace light. Any faults which the atmosphere of the stage might have concealed would immediately become apparent in the light of natural surroundings and her performance sink to the ...

— When Dreams Come True • Ritter Brown

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