Word: realist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...average of the rest. Mr. Dill's efforts to create atmosphere are at the same time overdone and stereotyped. His method is cumulative rather than selective, and for that reason he fails to convince. Mr. Sparks, though he is more successful, shows the disposition, frequent in the immature realist, to shock his reader by calling every spade a blasted shovel. In saying this I am aware that I am committing a sin which might be termed reviewer's overemphasis. For Mr. Sparks writes vividly and one does not forget what he says...
That Moliere disliked doctors is only too evident. He criticised the false elements of the contemporary science of medicine and, being a realist, he urged that the doctors were merely theorists, basing their cures on material found in books rather than on actual experience. He also had a number of personal reasons for his dislike of the medical profession and unprejudiced investigation only tends to show how Moliere's overwhelming charges undershot the mark. In the 17th century doctors were profoundly ignorant of many basic principles of their science and not only this, but they also were indignant...
Originally the productions took the form of light operas, with good music, and popular songs. Later melodramatic situations were taken from French, German and English sources, and combined, with legends of Jewish history. But the production in 1892, of "Siberia," by Gordon the greatest of Yiddish realist playwrights, marked the beginning of the realist movement which is still dominant. The Jews have a strong artistic sentiment, and value their plays, not as sources of amusement, but as true reflections of their surroundings. Their realistic plays have many faults; they are too harrowing in detail, and they are often grossly incongruous...
...Jane Austen a realist in the modern sense of the term...
Leonardo da Vinci was the first of the great Venetian painters. He has been called an idealist, a realist, a dreamer and a scientist. A scientist he certainly was, and it is to be greatly lamented, for it caused him to attempt much, and to finish little. His many and various tastes urged him different ways. He looked too deeply into the "well spring of truth," and in striving after the unobtainable, he left behind him a life of singular incompleteness, but of vast promise. He was neither religionist nor classicist, and looked at things coldly and scientifically...