Which preposition to use with realisms

of Occurrences 47%

The photographic realism of the later newspaper correspondent had not come into play in these earlier years of the war, and, as a consequence, the thousands who poured down to the Army of the Potomac beheld the city with something of the incredulous scorn with which the effeminate Byzantines regarded the capital of the Goths, when the corrupt descendant of Constantine made the savage Dacians his allies, rather than fight them.

in Occurrences 26%

Else he is dealing with some man of straw of his own fancy, and will be found, as so often happens, assuming the truth of realism in every argument he brings forward.

to Occurrences 4%

The classic mannernow more that of Thomson than of Popepersisted till it overlapped romanticism; Cowper and Crabbe each owe a doubtful allegiance, leaning by their formal metre and level monotony of thought to the one and by their realism to the other.

as Occurrences 2%

And a like intellectual self-denial is needed on the part of the idealist, who is apt to dismiss all realism as crude, uncritical, or barbaric.

with Occurrences 2%

He has knit mean characters, mean passions, mean stage setting into a powerful drama of life that thrills as much because of the realism with which it is drawn as because of the exciting scenes that come treading helter-skelter upon each others heels.

through Occurrences 1%

Mr. Vaughan, however, seems here for awhile to be talking realism through an admirable page, well worth perusal (pp. 264, 265).

under Occurrences 1%

Realism under these circumstances was impossible.

into Occurrences 1%

The evidence against it is (1) Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal; (2) the poet's and his wife's remarks to Mr. Justice Coleridge; (3) the fact that Wordsworth was not in the habit of "passing from realism into artistic composition," except where he distinctly indicated it, as in the case of the Hawkshead Schoolmaster, in the "Matthew" poems.

at Occurrences 1%

Realism needed some justification, for realism at the time almost invariably meant a picture of vice and folly, and an author could not expose objectionable things except in the hope that they would lessen in fact as they increased in fiction.

by Occurrences 1%

Our little group remained, not standing in the trench but back of it, in full relief for some time; for the German gunners refused to play for realism by sending us a marmite.

for Occurrences 1%

He secured the triumph of Realism for a time and the apparent extinction of heresy.

around Occurrences 1%

Let us for a while forget the tedious realisms around us, and eat of the dreamy Lotos.

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