realist
Example Sentences
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A pragmatic realist, he stopped short of calling for immediate emancipation, which he knew was unacceptable to most American voters.
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
Foreign-policy realists focus on interests and tend to dismiss shared values and myths.
Infantino is simply playing his role as a diplomat and a realist, a person familiar with his thinking said, in the interest of ensuring a smooth World Cup.
Even worse are the hardheaded dollars-and-cents realists of Wall Street who take this new reality as a given.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
