We know it, gentlemen; we are sufficient realists in politics to count on this factor.

He went to the very core,a realist of the most exalted type, permeated with the spirit of Plato, yet bowing down to Paul.

There is nothing that affords so easy a point of attack for the dramatic realist as the conduct of a play in verse.

Nearly all of them, probably, are realists at one moment and in one mood, and idealists at other moments and in other moods.

She was a realist by nature, and could not free herself from the tendency to look at the world on its surface only.

Even realists like Greene did not present typical Elizabethan life.

In this, George Eliot is no more a realist than either of her great predecessors.

It was the conflict of the priest against the prophet in ancient Judaea, of the Pharisee against the Nazarene, of the Realist against the Nominalist, of the Church against the Franciscan and the Lollard, of the Respectable Person against the Artist, of the hedge-clippers of mankind against the shooting buds.

She is thoroughly a realist, but a realist with a wide and attractive sympathy, a profound insight into motives and impulses, and a strong imagination.

The Bismarckian realists among them believed that it would be brought about, in South Africa and elsewhere, by 'blood and iron.'