realist
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At the end of the day, I am a realist; anything can flip a person’s switch from off to blackout rage.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
Social realist dramas aren’t new and they include award-winning landmarks by Ken Loach and Chloé Zhao.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Plagiarism claims against Arday were first made in July by Nathan Cofnas, a US academic and self-defined "race realist" whose research affiliation with a Cambridge college was terminated in 2024 amid racism accusations.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
"Since day one of our evacuation, I have been a realist about the situation," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Not with worry but with calculation, a new realist, assessing the cold truth.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
The setting for this two-hander is more abstract than usual for Hunter, who is one of the theater’s outstanding American realists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
“We are realists, but we are not worrywarts either,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026
It’s a movie for dreamers, realists and romantics alike, the kind of film that’s so fantastic and so painfully human that its brilliant existence is reason enough to believe in good things.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025
Foreign-policy realists focus on interests and tend to dismiss shared values and myths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Like the realists, we must insist that it is not so difficult to tell good science from bad, as long as you agree that knowledge should be carefully and systematically tested against experience.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941), List 2
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