naturalism
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This is an astonishing work of naturalism in the spirit of Zola’s “L’Assommoir.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
He opts for a flashy shocker of a finale, which violates the play’s comic naturalism and seems faintly desperate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
The other is biological naturalism, which argues the opposite.
From Science Daily • Dec. 24, 2025
Perhaps made in Crete, the idealized naturalism of a battle scene rendered in shallow three-dimensional space threw a stylistic monkey-wrench into our established understanding of Greek culture 3,500 years ago.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
All my life had shaped me for the realism, the naturalism of the modern novel, and I could not read enough of them.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing naturalism
Power Suffix: -ism
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