realism

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OpenAI first previewed Sora in 2024, and the realism of the tool’s AI-generated videos grabbed audiences at a time when competing video generation apps struggled.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

One central scene that employs magical realism to trace the history of Black music from West Africa through the blues to present-day hip-hop is a standout -- before the blood flows.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

In Verdi’s hands the waltz is no mere set piece articulating place and time, but a throughline central to the realism at the heart of the work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

The former Solicitor General of the United States puts the tariffs case in its legal realism context.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2026

A moment of cheap symbolism only, and then I have to bow to the strict rules of realism, which is to say: they can’t see a thing.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides