realist
Example Sentences
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“I like to describe myself as a realist with high goals,” is all she’d allow.
From Los Angeles Times
But I’m also a realist when it comes to award show politics and their intersection with societal attitudes, and I have seen this movie before.
From Salon
Downing was “adept at switching between the material and the spiritual,” a realist willing to wink at disagreements and who favored “subtlety, sophistication and restraint.”
Nineteenth-century realist novels—those “loose baggy monsters,” in Henry James’s words—get a bad rap for being boring.
“We are realists, but we are not worrywarts either,” he said.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.