realism

Shazia Ejaz, director of campaigns at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, says jobseekers should approach questions about pay with "realism but also confidence".

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Rivera’s play, which won an Obie Award, caught fire in its 1993 New York premiere at the Public Theater with its theatrical street sense, savage imagery and Puerto Rican-inflected magical realism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

“As it stands now, it all just seems like magic realism: ‘We’re tough and we will bring inflation down to 2%, but I’m not going to explain to you how,’” Tetlow said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

Caicedo’s raw, colloquial style was ahead of its time, a herald of the rebellion against magical realism that would transform Latin American literature and shoot writers like Roberto Bolaño to fame two decades later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

And if my friends are idealists, then my realism would feel negative to them.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

He’s adept at creating different realisms and textures for each story line, variations that add layers of meaning.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2016

Perhaps the grittiest realisms could use a little light rebranding, granted – but even when money's tight, surely there should be a place for poetry ...

From The Guardian ● May 28, 2010

The feminine "shall I, shall I not" is woven into the fabric of a soundly constructed play, one that feels itself easily superior to the crude realisms of ordinary theatre.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hopper's realism had nothing to do with the prevalent realisms of the 1930s and '40s in American painting.

From Time Magazine Archive

The common instinct of human nature, which looks to art as the representative of beauty, pathos, humor, and passion, could not be talked into an acceptance of ignoble and ugly realisms.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy