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realism

/ree-uh-liz-uhm/US // ˈri əˌlɪz əm //UK // (ˈrɪəˌlɪzəm) //

现实主义,真实性,真实感,现实生活

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
    • : the tendency to view or represent things as they really are.
    • : Fine Arts. treatment of forms, colors, space, etc., in such a manner as to emphasize their correspondence to actuality or to ordinary visual experience.Compare idealism, naturalism.a style of painting and sculpture developed about the mid-19th century in which figures and scenes are depicted as they are experienced or might be experienced in everyday life.
    • : Literature. a manner of treating subject matter that presents a careful description of everyday life, usually of the lower and middle classes.a theory of writing in which the ordinary, familiar, or mundane aspects of life are represented in a straightforward or matter-of-fact manner that is presumed to reflect life as it actually is.Compare naturalism.
    • : Philosophy. the doctrine that universals have a real objective existence.Compare conceptualism, nominalism. the doctrine that objects of sense perception have an existence independent of the act of perception.Compare idealism.

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Examples

  • Tension between realism and idealism is natural to a high level of engagement abroad, where crises are nonstop, complex, and contentious.

  • Simulated with exquisite realism, the deceptive items taunt the thin Mylar surface on which they’re painted.

  • To further the realism, there are bullies in this story, and a boy who almost seems dangerous.

  • Most of the hand wringing and knuckle cracking in their debates goes back to an assumption known as “realism.”

  • Instead, like Angela mentioned, he says that realism is the most desirable lens for achievement.

  • He said many of them had trouble making the transition from stage realism to the more naturalistic demands of the screen.

  • There was also an off-putting conflict between whimsy and realism.

  • Read too strictly, this would exclude highly inventive works of science fiction and fantasy because they lack realism.

  • Interpreted more broadly, the phrase loses meaning: what constitutes the necessary threshold of realism?

  • He somehow manages to balance faith, realism, optimism, the news of the day, and the fate of the human race.

  • Have your play display human nature as you know it, and realism without morbidness.

  • Most of them have a smack of realism which shows that Donald has a serious aim in life, that of being a successful man.

  • His sketches of everyday living are characterized by his human interest touch and his unique technique of realism at that time.

  • She is considered a writer of historical realism although originally she began writing as a romanticist.

  • In an era of sentimental and romantic writing, she dared to inject severe realism.