realist
Example Sentences
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Where are the supposed realists and restrainers who run this Administration?
In particular, he sharpens our image of the Hobbesian Thucydides, who founded the realist theory of international relations.
The oil landscape by French realist Gustave Courbet was seized from Robert Bing in occupied Paris in 1941 because he was a Jew, a government panel found.
From BBC
But he was ultimately realist enough to aim his bully pulpit at a lower target.
From Salon
It is an element of international affairs dismissed by “realists” who simplistically claim that bad results from American engagement in Iraq somehow discredit the idea of moral inspiration in every other place.
From Washington Post
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