REALISM in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for REALISM, such as:

1. The film lacks any semblance of realism.
2. Greene's stories had an edge of realism.
3. That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in literature.
4. Vorkuev attacked the artist for a realism carried to the point of coarseness.
5. This return to realism has produced a revival of interest in a number of artists.

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 Meanings and Examples of REALISM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
realism
 n.  an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description
 n.  the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
Classic Sentence:
1  Vorkuev attacked the artist for a realism carried to the point of coarseness.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 10
2  Levin said that the French had carried conventionality further than anyone, and that consequently they see a great merit in the return to realism.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 10
3  Whether it was the realism of the method, or the mere wonder of your own personality, thus directly presented to me without mist or veil, I cannot tell.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
4  That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in literature.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
5  The children left for school, and the old lady to call on Mrs. Harper and vanquish her realism with Tom's marvellous dream.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
Example Sentence:
1  The anti-drugs adverts used hand-held camera techniques to add to the gritty realism of the situations.
2  Greene's stories had an edge of realism.
3  The film lacks any semblance of realism.
4  This return to realism has produced a revival of interest in a number of artists.
5  I hate to interject a note of realism, but we don't have any money to do any of this.