Word: realist
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...think I liked you better, Nicholas," said the Muse of History, "when you were only a weakling Tsar. You are becoming a realist...
...then-which is a small price to pay for its staying off the beaten track entirely. It is a fresh, vivid drama, revealing that the author of The Glass Menagerie is not only much more of a poet than most of his fellow playwrights, but much more of a realist as well...
Surrealist Salvador Dali, a realist about his worldly goods, called the cops to report that his seaside bungalow at Pebble Beach, Calif. had been ransacked. Missing: several suitcase loads of silver, jewelry, furs. Ignored by the burglars: all of Dali's crutch-&-limp-watch paintings...
...realist to the core, Gulbenkian did not expect to keep Standard from going into Saudi Arabia by holding it to the "Red Line" agreement. But if the agreement is to be abrogated, so that Standard and Socony would not have to share their Arabian oil with Iraq Petroleum partners, Gulbenkian wanted to be paid off. So far, his price has looked too high to Standard...
...hunters, trappers and guides-are seen, smelt and heard with a consistency and solidity of understanding that makes most other writing about them seem perfunctory or fake. All the romantic qualities that a boy could find in these figures -their lonely hardihood, keenness and courage-are combined with a realist's grasp of them as rough and wayward fugitives from society. The idiom of their thought and speech has never been so richly used in fiction...