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• n  a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them
• n  a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly
• n  a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style

• HBO's sprawling saga of Baltimore started off as a cop show and became a vast social-realist novel of all the systems that make, and fail, American cities.
• Turns out, the critics, liberal and "realist," got the Arab street wrong.
• In the glossy generalities of contemporary art criticism, "realist" and "old fogy" are nearly synonymous.

News & Articles

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• How the Human Rights Watch Film Festival Puts Activist Cinema In Context
  The Human Rights Watch Film Festival celebrates its 24th edition this year by expanding to two venues (now with screenings not only at Film Society at Lincoln Center but also downtown at IFC Center). The festival opens with the documentary "Anita," about Anita Hill, and closes with realist fiction film "Tall as a Baobab Tree," which was filmed in Senegal by American Jeremy Teicher. With these ...
  June 14, 2013 - indieWIRE
• Touvell, Friends Give Back With Free Hoops Camp
  WHEELING - Whoever coined the phrase 'the best things in life don't come free' obviously never met Joe Touvell. You see, Touvell is a realist.
  June 13, 2013 - The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register
• Timberlake retrospective to benefit The Arts Council
  Acclaimed American realist artist/designer Bob Timberlake is presenting a 70-year retrospective in the Womble Carlyle Gallery of the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts as a benefit for The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County's 2013 Annual Fund Campaign.
  June 12, 2013 - The Lexington Dispatch

Quotes

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• President Bush in International Herald Tribune
  Bush said he wanted to begin withdrawing troops "as soon as possible. But I'm a realist because I understand how tough it is inside of Iraq."
• Juan Pierre in USA Today
  We were winning, so I kept my mouth shut. I'm a realist and all those guys were playing well. Manny, he's a Hall of Famer; Andruw was a future Hall of Famer. One thing they want that I can't do is hit for power,said Pierre, who had 13 career...
• Matt Kenseth in SportingNews.com
  I thought he was going to pass us again,Kenseth said. "Some people think I'm a pessimist, but I think I'm more of a realist. ...... I don't even know what we changed. It wasn't easy, but we were able to hold them off."