9 sentences with 'realistic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word realistic and other words derived from it.
• « Less imaginative but more realistic, historians and archaeologists - who, it should be noted, have never found any evidence of the existence of this legendary continent - have serious doubts. »
• « Holding back my emotions, I tried to give her an answer that was both comforting and realistic. »
• « In others, a new style of realistic portraiture in sculpture that originated in the Hellenistic kingdoms proved irresistible to the Romans; whereas the Greeks of classical times tended to idealise the subjects of art, the Romans came to prefer more realistic and 'honest' depictions. »
• « We know precisely what many Romans looked like from the realistic busts made of their faces: wrinkles, warts and all. »
• « However, even the most powerful and assertive popes had to be realistic about the limits of their power, and many popes were deposed or even assassinated in the midst of political turmoil. »
• « Medieval art (called "Gothic" after one of the Germanic tribes that had conquered the Roman Empire) had been unconcerned with realistic depictions of objects or people. »
• « Filippo Brunelleschi was the first person in the Western world to determine how to draw objects in two dimensions, on a piece of paper or its equivalent, in such a way that they would appear three-dimensional in a realistic way (i.e. having depth, as in looking into the distance and seeing objects that are further away "appear smaller" than those that are closer). »
• « Beautiful, realistic styles of sculpture and painting also spread, completely superseding Gothic art forms, just as Renaissance architecture replaced the Gothic style of building. »
• « De Maistre's ideas may have looked back to the social and political thought of past centuries, but Burke was a very grounded and realistic thinker. »