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realism

noun as in authenticity

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After again returning to the U.S. he reverted to the realism that he was most comfortable with.

The Argentine author, whose writing habitually draws on the uncanny, here delivers a blend of superstition, dread and a leitmotif of mental instability in a register of acute psychological realism.

The search for terra incognita can explain the explosion, in the 20th century, of science fiction and magical realism.

Cooper said she hopes to inject a little fun, grit and realism into advertising targeting the group.

Dawn is as skin-deep as it gets, a character with no discernible motives and a frustrating absence of realism in a film that’s desperately aiming for authenticity.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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