“Interesting idea. As a parent, I’m behind it one hundred percent. As a scientist...well, the math doesn’t exactly seem realistic.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Her avatar’s facial expressions were extremely realistic, which usually meant they were synched to those of their operator instead of controlled by software. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The experience is so realistic, few people can tell the difference, and many consider Mind’s Eye better than real life. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

At the same time, we were realistic: we certainly did not want white voters to rebuff Mr. de Klerk’s efforts to pursue negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were so realistic, he could even hear water splattering onto the flames. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were all prepared, not because we were brave but because we were realistic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all my anxieties, my sense of taking a last desperate gamble, and so on, I had not been realistic enough to believe him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And really—is there any realistic way to escape how much I hate my mother right now? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Artists became increasingly accomplished in representing the human figure in realistic space until the Middle Ages, when art changed radically. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Art handed out amazingly realistic wooden figurines he’d made in shop class. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It had one of the rubber masks that are so realistic, with a big black hood over the head and a long black robe. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was so realistic, I could hear the waves and smell the salt water. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You have to help him be realistic. If you start lower, he has a better shot of getting in, going, and surviving.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s worked with a lady who can make a drawing so realistic it looks like a photo, and with a guy who can speak any language after hearing it only a few times. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nixon knew there was no realistic military path to victory in Vietnam—not at a cost that would be acceptable to the American people. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He drew a picture of my henhouse on the stumps, only it wasn’t really realistic, because he drew it walking through the woods, like the stumps were feet, and you know that’s impossible. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

If he was realistic, it was unlikely they’d find a friendly ship immediately. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I like your drawings. Some are very realistic, but some, they’re, well, twisted.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

For them, “going home” is more a figure of speech than a realistic option. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Of course, that wasn’t realistic, the victim’s advocate couldn’t do all the work. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’m sure she figured she was only being realistic. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The special effects were a bit realistic for my taste, though. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They are painted in another style: smooth, finely modulated, realistic as a snapshot. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The reply, inviting him to lunch, was unexpectedly cheerful, and so Francis looked forward to a realistic discussion of DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

There were dozens of theories, more or less realistic, depending on the mood of the moment. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's a very realistic baseball field dugout, which surprises me. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

In 1794, Washington had sent Chief Justice John Jay to London to negotiate a realistic bargain that avoided a war with England at a time when the United States was ill prepared to fight one. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And so realistic in gold and silver that no smith in the world could have done better? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had to make an effort to recover his usual state of mind, which was realistic and pragmatic. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is, then, no reason to place a premium on realistic representation for its own sake. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time, in order to create a realistic virtual reality environment, you had to render as detailed a world as possible. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, of course. I just want you to be realistic. It may not be fair, but our job is to choose the trainees who will make the best agents.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Wilkins, when he had been the coach at Permian, had had a very realistic view of his role. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was trying to set realistic, if not conservative, expectations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You’re so talented, and I know you work hard, but at some point, you have to be realistic.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, if shortsighted, they were at least realistic. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I cover most of it, but leave some strands of her dark hair out to make it look more realistic. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He could hear sounds everywhere now, cracks, rustles, mysterious whispers—but his dogged, realistic brain knew them for what they were—the creations of his own heated imagination. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I wondered how her more realistic husband had explained it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Defenders of the Constitution, then and now, have saluted it as a sensible accommodation of liberty to power and a realistic compromise with the requirements of a national domain. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Truman’s secretary of state, James Byrnes, replied that neither goal was realistic. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been dying to know what was under the hood of this shark, so that I could draw the outside in a more realistic way. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure she dyes it regularly but leaves some gray to make it look more realistic. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sheryl and I call this Lola’s Jesus table, and we used to dare each other to stare at the scarily realistic art. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Since Boys 'n the Hood is a realistic portrayal of their environment, I thought making a movie would give them the opportunity to emulate John Singleton. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s not running away, it’s being realistic. By the time we get into university, the good professors will be fed up with all this nonsense and they will go abroad.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

So they would not occur in realistic situations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Aristotelian view of physics, as wrong as it was, was so influential that for more than a millennium it eclipsed all opposing views, including more realistic ones. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was a very realistic chance that I was going to render Soraya a biwa, a widow, at the age of thirty-six. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They paint in a realistic style using somber colors—browns, greys, dark greens, colors typical of the Netherlands. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It shows especially well his love of details and the skillful way he uses them to make a fairy tale seem realistic. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In retrospect, this was the proper and indeed the only realistic policy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Throughout the black community, there is widespread awareness that black ghetto youth have few, if any, realistic options, and therefore dealing drugs can be an irresistible temptation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Leprechauns produce a realistic gold-like substance that vanishes after a few hours, to their great amusement. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made me love burrowing into psychology, into realistic and naturalistic fiction and art, into those whirlpools of politics that had the power to claim the whole of men’s souls. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know that, but...I’m trying to be somewhat realistic here.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m not being negative; I’m being realistic. Nothing we do is ever going to change their minds, so why even bother?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

So he would have to leave Blackavar: no realistic plan could include him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask as Ethan is pulling off his incredibly realistic mask to reveal his true face. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The main thing was to stay focused and provide myself with realistic goals. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They looked realistic, not like the cartoon people she was helping me draw. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The puppets—marionettes, he could see now that they were marionettes hanging off the wall—were spookily realistic, and yet like nothing he’d ever seen. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Even with everybody participating, that would mean each and every one of us would have to be responsible for ten thousand links of chain. It’s not realistic to think we could accomplish it.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t picture myself being driven away in the royal car, I’m more realistic than that. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was realistic enough to accept that everyone was going to be angry at me for a while, though, no matter how amazingly I apologized. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have any particular style; some of her paintings were what she called primitive, some were impressionistic and abstract, some were realistic. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

This last remark, while vintage Adams-Rush banter, also exposed the painfully egotistical motives lurking beneath the entire Adams campaign for a more realistic, nonmythologized version of the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It’s just not realistic for me to find and prepare meals like this more than once in a while. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s telescope made two ideas that had previously seemed abstract and theoretical suddenly seem plausible and perfectly realistic: there might indeed be other inhabited worlds, and space might indeed be infinite. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I know. You make me happy too. But maybe we need to be realistic.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Imagine wandering through the most realistic virtual Paris ever, or lounging in a full simulation of Hawaii’s beaches. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Craig’s biggest fear, however, was also probably the most realistic, and that was fire. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Sissy was so realistic about her pregnancy by proxy that she simulated morning sickness in the beginning weeks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On their picnic table, he’d already laid out all our materials and drawn up detailed, realistic diagrams for Twig’s top two designs. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A very realistic hallucination, it must be said. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

In Toledo, Ohio, a similar experience caused the Superintendent of Forestry, Joseph A. Sweeney, to take a realistic look at the results of spraying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In India, Gandhi had been dealing with a foreign power that ultimately was more realistic and farsighted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tony would have liked to send something to his mother, but he had a realistic idea of her ability to read it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion,” reported Cronkite. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I got one of the boys to fashion little miniature boxing gloves out of dried plantain leaves sewn together, which turned out very realistic, and had them dangling down from all the lights and fans. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only I make mine more realistic, so it really looks like a mountain, with crags and nooks and rock outcroppings. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the best artists could not draw a realistic scene. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I wished that I had known that my cousin painted realistic watercolors. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In 1301, Giotto, one of the founders of modern realistic painting, witnessed another apparition of Comet Hailey and inserted it into a nativity scene. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This scenario is not entirely realistic, however, because of the following problem. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is an intriguing question, and given Burr’s matchless skill at concealing his motives, covering his tracks, and destroying much of his private correspondence, unambiguous answers are not a realistic prospect. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“But I’m trying to be realistic about this. It isn’t that simple, is what I’m saying. There are all these other things.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It kept you warm. You got food. And you drew a nice, realistic portrait.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He was careful to be realistic but also to sound notes of hope, reminding his listeners of our resilience as a nation, our ability to rebound after tough times. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Hours pass, and lunch comes and goes, as they try to come up with a realistic plan for taking the Nut. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

If so, a reevaluation of the attraction and the potential for realistic fruition may be in order. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He’d looked at it as he’d left the house, but they had decided that having a hatchet might not be realistic. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Because I worked among rich and famous athletes, I convinced myself that my needs were realistic, my greed inconsequential compared to theirs. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Does someone who is five foot six have a realistic chance of playing professional basketball? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In order to create a flawlessly real world, you don’t need to draw the most detailed, most realistic 3-D scene ever. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The bottom set of images went the other way: first the pipe- cleaners, then the same image in collage, then the final one in full-colored realistic detail. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I gave them different heights to make it more realistic, just as I do whenever I draw the mountains. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was an Italian architect, Filippo Brunelleschi, who first demonstrated the power of an infinite zero: he created a realistic painting by using a vanishing point. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It is not realistic to call something a food system when it replaces food with an industrial product that does not nourish us—and in fact makes us sick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We ran out of realistic details in just a few meetings, but for some reason we still weren’t ready to go. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Special Agent Gonzales continued to question us, we all followed Abuelita’s advice and stuck to the more realistic part of our story. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

This dream Squelch was so realistic in every detail, even his smell, I realized I must be awake. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Before today, if I told people I wanted to be a filmmaker, they thought I was insane and would suggest a career that was more “realistic” for a poor Latino kid like me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

According to the researchers, the Mercury had produced a broadcast that was too realistic. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Would not the magic have been equally effective if the “killing” had been practiced upon less realistic images? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not realistic to rely on a food system that poisons the planet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

What made it spectacular were the virtual worlds the battles were set in, each one so realistic that putting on your glasses was like dropping you right into that place. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In my mind that was an entirely realistic scenario. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Parents are not always realistic when it comes to these children.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

We made a deliberate decision for it to be not too realistic. Porn accusations shock "Spartacus" producer 2010-03-31T22:15:00Z

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, officials are planning for a $100 million shortfall if they remain shuttered into July, a time frame looking realistic with each new government update. Arts groups have never been very flush with cash. Now, they’re facing an even bigger battle for survival. 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

Kwan attributed the difficult of finding a leading man to the fact that being an actor just historically hasn’t been seen as a realistic job choice due to the lack of roles for Asians. 'We're part of a greater movement': Hollywood finally gives Asian stories a spotlight 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

Except this itself is a myth about cave art: in the caves of southern France you see as many dots, geometric patterns and enigmatic beings as "realistic" paintings. Happisburgh tools: masterpieces with a cutting edge 2010-07-09T15:51:00Z

But I don't think it's a realistic goal. Curtis Sittenfeld: 'I know my characters are unlikable sometimes' 2013-06-15T16:30:00Z

“It’s not about this completely realistic portrayal,” Davis said, before comparing the work to magic realism. ‘It’s Anthony’s Time’: A Composer Gets His Due 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

The more realistic the world feels - even if it's set in the near future - the more they can briefly take themselves away from their cares and concerns. 'Call of Duty: Black Ops II' aims toward future 2012-11-09T14:52:09Z

Now, with more realistic visuals that allow for smaller gestures and nonverbal cues like a stare or a grimace, the style of acting is closer to what you see on film and television. Kevin Spacey Stars in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

That heroes are dead just seems realistic — a national form of growing up. | Talented Men 2013-09-14T01:00:02Z

The show would go on, he decided, but the production would avoid realistic portrayals of guns by using props like white color guard rifles, commonly used by marching bands. When the Actors Are Students, and They’re Armed 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

Kevin Knight's set did not try for a realistic recreation of the prison in the Doge's Palace and instead left Meli to sing at times in a metal cage that was raised and lowered. Domingo in Verdi rarity `I Due Foscari' in LA 2012-09-16T17:51:10Z

“Scott and I had this very adult conversation where we discussed where the relationship was going to go and what was realistic since I was traveling a lot,” Mr. Chioldi said. At the Opera, a Losing Battle Against Romance 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

"The trend toward more 'realistic' color schemes helps to code the associated play as more gender neutral, as opposed to feminized kitchens with pink accents," she noted. When did play kitchens become so chic? 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

"Up Here," illustrated by scenic designer David Korins as a series of realistic cartoons, feels like a large-scale musical withminuscule drama. 'Frozen' team premieres 'Up Here,' a quirky, pleasing, undercooked musical 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

The sets are realistic, and so, to the ear, is the dialogue. On Broadway, Old Friends Walking on Air 2011-05-12T14:27:20Z

If you look at Season 1 of the original "Gossip Girl," it's actually more realistic than you would think. "Gossip Girl" boss: "It's class warfare with one dictator … I could write this show every 15 years" 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

Juggling Primal Conflicts of Innocence and Sin Mesmerizing, mysterious, willfully perverse, the Mexican movie “Post Tenebras Lux” opens with two scenes, one realistic, the other fantastical. Movie Review: ‘Post Tenebras Lux,’ Directed by Carlos Reygadas 2013-04-30T21:31:18Z

“The Buried Giant” reverses that formula, using the structure of a medieval romance to explore the moral and psychological themes we’re used to seeing addressed by the realistic novel. Dragons aside, Ishiguro’s “Buried Giant” is not a fantasy novel 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

One, dated 1944 and actually titled “Self-Portrait,” is a realistic likeness, soulful almost to the point of being a sendup of romantic melancholy. After a Tempest, Philip Guston Shines in a Show True to His Spirit 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

The issue is somewhat akin to Americans complaining about the rise of Spanish in classrooms and elsewhere, but more acute here because of France’s special, proprietary, albeit no longer entirely realistic relationship to French. Abroad: In Age of Globalism, Pardon My French 2010-04-21T22:03:00Z

There’s nothing new about digital technologies that allow you to experience in pulpy realistic detail all the many, many ways bodies can be sliced and diced, chopped and skewered, roasted and charred. | 'Ironclad': Grant a Few Rights, See What Happens? 2011-07-07T23:22:45Z

I think the characters were realistic because the main characters are not Mr Perfect or Miss Perfect but are more real. Six Days by Philip Webb - review 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z

Tracing the path of a trauma-laden spy on a constantly failing series of missions, it lives in a surreal, yet realistic world of quirky, yet grounded characters. 8 brilliant shows you haven’t streamed yet, but will this long weekend 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

But “Italian Studies” is not, despite its often documentary-style location shooting, a realistic story. ‘Italian Studies’ Review: Alone in New York With Amnesia 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Some of the images on the screens were striking: imposing brick dissolving into walls of fire; a realistic, rugged harbor in the driving rain. Music Review: ‘The Flying Dutchman’ at the McCarter Uses Video Projections 2013-06-27T22:08:24Z

Even the most “realistic” of plays or novels is an excursion into a netherworld. David Rabe on the Netherworld of Fiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

We wanted to produce a realistic meal of life that had all the ingredients in it. Rob Delaney on Writing While Grieving and the Real Work of Comedy 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Since you are still upset, I don’t think it’s realistic to “accept them where they are.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When your spouse is unmoved by the reasons to buy instead of rent 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Their acting was realistic and detailed, constantly in motion — just as real kids are. At Seattle Opera, a fun and feisty trip through the woods with ‘Hansel and Gretel’ 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

China’s consumer goods sector is made up of increasingly realistic knockoffs of designer brands. Is piracy a radical force? 2012-09-03T14:30:00Z

It has been written elsewhere many times how the digital colour grading currently so prevalent has meant the desaturated scenery has seen realistic fleshtones replaced by orange hues, with a background colour of teal. Why I'd rather watch a scratchy old film print than an orange-faced Tom Cruise 2010-08-18T10:24:00Z

Or is that just not realistic these days, and I should be thankful that they even join us for events? Ask Amy: Couple worry that son’s new partner will monopolize his time 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

We're being as realistic as we can, and then at some point there's this change where she starts to look at him, and realizes something's wrong. Jessica Chastain: The dazzling redhead who's suddenly everywhere 2011-09-27T21:28:00Z

“She brings it every single time at an intense, always fascinating, realistic and grounded degree.” Laurie Metcalf has been acting for four decades. She’s finally on the verge of stardom. 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

Parents taught their children about slurs and quotas and urged them to be realistic. After the Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting, a Russian-Jewish Immigrant Remembers Squirrel Hill 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

She even provides a few more realistic renderings, including of a tree in nearby Dupont Circle. In the galleries: A celebration of language from antiquity

Yet when Mr. Boyega first learned about the project on an industry Web site, he was skeptical that it would portray his world in a favorable or realistic light. Keeping It Real With Aliens in the ?Hood 2011-07-22T14:00:00Z

The film, Mr. Givon’s first feature, shown at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2009, is a tricky combination of realistic portrait and low-key metaphysical thriller, and he mostly pulls it off. DVD: New DVDs: ‘The Saphead,’ ‘Seven Minutes in Heaven’ 2012-07-06T17:30:00Z

Prime Suspect" would "try to make it more realistic, because sexism isn’t gone. Relax, "Prime Suspect" fans, the remake has promise 2011-09-22T22:23:00Z

You had an interest in making the film feel more realistic. John Hillcoat Narrates a Scene From ‘Triple 9’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The use of covers made sense in the realistic format of the movie, where they add granular texture to William’s love affair with the world he was watching. Review: In ‘Almost Famous,’ the Heart of Rock ’n’ Roll Flatlines 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

It gains real heft as a symbol of bravery and perseverance, a subterranean force in the story, which usually remains strikingly realistic. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

“It was hard to talk about breaking up before we’d even married, but I was just being realistic,” she said. Sparks of Love, Doused by Old Habits 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

I wasn't in the least bit nervous, and my expectations were realistic. The drugs do work: my life on brain enhancers 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z

You’re not wrong, but it’s not realistic unless you narrow your life to an unhealthy degree. I want nothing to do with my fiancee’s friend's husband. Am I wrong to avoid him? 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

A scene in which the two of them sit on a park bench and quietly make fun of the New York weirdos they see may not be exactly nice, but it’s rather realistic. Annie Hall at 40: ranking the film's funniest moments 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

But the best way for me to explore that is through fiction, and, while this book is more socially realistic than my previous books, it certainly departs from reality on occasion. This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Safran Foer on the Virtues of Parental Relativism 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the crowds never showed and disillusionment crept in as Batey’s expectations became more “realistic.” Pop-rock dynamo Ruler’s breakout debut was worth the 7-year wait 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

The Falls Church artist depicts his face and torso in photographs and video, but with close-ups of his eyes and mouth rendered in small, realistic oils. In the Galleries: Putting the ‘gold’ in ‘Gold Rush’

“It was a magical few weeks, but I think we were all realistic about what we needed to do,” he said. Christopher Wheeldon Directs ‘An American in Paris’ for Broadway 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

“I think we should be realistic and truthful with our children,” she says. The Department Store That Does Holiday Cheer Like No Other 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

“I wanted to get some people on TV that you’re not seeing there any more, people who were a little more realistic,” Mr. Roberts said. Chicago News Cooperative: Crime, Sex, Politics and Regular Folks 2011-09-24T23:40:10Z

Be realistic and build in breaks, because sitting and working for three hours in a row isn’t a recipe for success for most children. Parenting during coronavirus: What to know about play dates, online learning and more 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z

All the films they see are movies of disasters and insecurity and realistic violence.” The Year the Studios Get It Right 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Who could possibly want a terrifyingly realistic animatronic chimpanzee head, which loudly grunts and bellows? Buy Nothing is everything 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

Her fiction was not didactic but rather nuanced, driven by character and situation, portraying realistic people engaged in the tumult of their lives. Nadine Gordimer offered a model of how to use books as social force 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

So, when you look at your healthy, happy family, spare a thought for all those who don’t enjoy such a scenario as a realistic expectation. I want to have a fourth child, but my husband has put his foot down 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z

In one segment, she decided to play a Call of Duty-style "realistic military game". Who will replace Jon Stewart? 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

It was praised for its realistic portrayal of working-class life. Roseanne Barr blames sleep aid Ambien for racist tweet 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

There was another drunk, this one engaged in comic repartee with some pigs, marvellously realistic, down to the coarse hair on their snouts. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

For Schriock, the election of a female president would mean that the encouragement given to her as a child was actually realistic. We spent decades dreaming up the perfect female president. She doesn’t exist. 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The tension between realistic inking and symbolic coloring is not unlike the tension between text and subtext in well-written dialogue. Aliens Among Us 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

He placed them in the studio and on location in Chicago, Paris and New York, using realistic scenes and the city as backdrops. Lens Blog: A Look at Gordon Parks's Fashion Photography 2012-11-30T10:00:13Z

Do you tend to like more realistic stories? The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Anthony Bourdain 2012-02-03T15:56:01Z

When directing the actors, Barron said he had tried to achieve a balance between the fantastical adventures of the story and striking a more realistic tone. In a New Series, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ Gets More Worldly 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be realistic if someone didn’t find out. Sutton Foster Talks About Why 'Younger' Made Her Feel Like She Was 'Cheating' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

In his play’s opening directions he calls for a “spare” set that “should suggest human spaces, but not be burdened by realistic details.” Stephen Karam?s ?Sons of the Prophet? and ?Dark Sisters? 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z

In the aftermath of the Citizens United decision, that no longer seems a realistic prospect. ‘Dark Money,’ by Jane Mayer 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

"Degrassi Junior High," was acclaimed for its realistic portrayal of topics such as drug use, child abuse, teen pregnancy, homophobia, racism and divorce. "Degrassi" actor Neil Hope died 5 years ago 2012-02-17T23:16:12Z

“At the end of the day I’m writing comedy,” Simon said “If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.” Nathaniel and Simon: The Brothers Rich 2013-01-04T21:32:05Z

I hope every last second is full of realistic violence and psychological torment. Why I Don’t Watch Breaking Bad 2013-09-25T22:02:57Z

"The one thing I found very realistic ... there is an isolation that happens to an actor when a film is finished," Dorff said. Coppola checks back into Venice for "Somewhere" 2010-09-03T16:48:00Z

“The mantra is to always keep it as realistic and honest as possible,” he said, speaking in his office above the Greenpoint soundstage where “Rise” shoots its interiors. With ‘Rise,’ a ‘Friday Night Lights’ for Theater Kids 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

So he set out to write what he calls “a more realistic version.” A writer mined his ’80s adolescence in the D.C. suburbs. Then came the Kavanaugh hearings. 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

The production did not take steps that “Moana” would, like hiring a Hawaiian writing and directing team, though Roberts, the Xavier University scholar, said its more realistic depiction of Hawaii was a start. ‘Lilo & Stitch’ at 20: How It Broke the Mold Long Before ‘Moana’ 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

“Too many people try to go for things that they’d like to do but they’re not realistic enough to know they don’t have the talent.” Heady Advice From a Hard-Living Heavy Metal Frontman 2011-06-09T15:15:25Z

“The fire was so realistic, they put eyes on her and she was terrifying,” Sohn said. How ‘Elemental’ Breathed Life Into Fire, Water, Earth and Air 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

It was made and broadcast in 1984, although the film’s realistic content easily trumped whatever speculative Orwellian resonance was there to be noticed that year. Threads: the film that frightened me most 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

The images and the clear sound produced a realistic experience. Cruising Royal Caribbean’s mega-ship: At times, a little too mega 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

The effect was so realistic that, according to another hyper-helpful guide named Virginia, the actor Richard Harris, who played Dumbledore, initially thought Fawkes was “a real bird wearing a phoenix costume.” Studio Tour Casts Spells Like Harry Potter 2012-03-30T10:32:28Z

Papa spent hours cross-stitching elaborate pictures of a realistic Jesus above Bible verses rendered in complicated script while watching Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant on television. Honey, we’re praying for you 2013-03-31T01:00:00Z

But we have to be realistic about the fact that, overall, people are listening to the radio less and less. NPR is graying, and public radio is worried about it 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

I picked up the Everyman's edition of The Story of Burnt Njal, a 13th-century Icelandic that was labeled a "saga" but looked very much like a realistic novel. The novel is centuries older than we've been told 2010-07-23T13:56:00Z

Landing in U.S. theaters today, Ridley Scott’s The Martian is being acclaimed as one of the most realistic portrayals of human space exploration ever filmed. Human missions to Mars will look nothing at all like “The Martian” 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Trying to avoid every door knob, copier, refrigerator door, etc., the person touches isn’t realistic, either. Work Advice: Trying to get colleagues to say those magic words 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Cracks are not papered over, and the trials of marriage are laid bare, in a way that may prove all too realistic for, well, anyone who has ever had a long-term relationship. Richard Linklater on the enduring appeal of Jesse and Celine 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z

That Lauren’s fears are realistic is a whole lot scarier than any cavalcade of ghosts. Review: In ‘Eve’s Song,’ the Ghosts Are Not the Scariest Part 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Talking with Margulies, it occurred to me that the show’s greatest challenge may lie in the portrayal of realistic and believable happiness for its heroine. The Question at the Heart of “The Good Wife” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

A fourth season of “My Brilliant Friend” hasn’t been confirmed, but if it is, it’s hard to imagine that makeup or fake hips could make these teenagers into realistic middle-age women. Growing Up Onscreen With ‘My Brilliant Friend’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Their setups were primitive, but the work was often more realistic and technically ambitious than tattoos done on the outside. A Tragedy in the Tattoo Parlor 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The manga, whose title is the insiders' name for the nuclear plant, is drawn in realistic detail and relates the life of workers. No laughing matter: Japan's manga comics boldly tackle Fukushima 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

It is also important to be realistic: in close quarters, some awareness of your flatmate’s sex life is inevitable, he says. How was it for everyone? The rules for sex in a flatshare 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Maybe the performance was just too realistic for the Olivier judges. Olivier awards nominations: the ones that got away 2013-03-26T14:10:37Z

Not to say that Russell Brand is going to overthrow the government or that his goals are realistic. Russell Brand's Documentarian: Following the Star Is a 'Roller-Coaster Ride' 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

The first liberation that the patients enact is itself artistic—the casting-off of the conventions of movie logic and realistic drama in favor of the improvised and freewheeling spirit of Mack Sennett comedies. A Lost Masterwork Is Found: Thomas White's “Who's Crazy?” 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

In a new England era of lowered expectations and a seemingly neverending list of injury woes, Road to Roy keeps things realistic and "signifies the subsequent disappointment at the team's predictable demise". New music: Dutch Uncles – Road to Roy 2012-06-11T10:45:00Z

It’s by being realistic with kids and also teaching them agency and action. Ways to help kids cope with — and help combat — climate change 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

“But I wasn’t expecting ‘Sex and the City’ to be realistic.” ‘And Just Like That’: The Shoe Must Go On 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

As with Obvious Child, “these are stories that happen to lots of women, and they can be realistic and funny, and they don’t have to be serious and gross and, like, gasp-worthy”. Yes, God, Yes: the film nailing teenage sexuality 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

It is a very realistic possibility that our key challenge in this century will not be the conflict for limited resources, but managing the economics of abundance and unlimited resources. The bright side of science fiction 2010-04-01T10:08:00Z

But Woods regains control with a realistic ending that incorporates the Great Migration and shows the limits of Gabriel’s power to protect his friend. When the Grown-Ups Stumble, These Kids Take Matters Into Their Own Hands 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

The older I get, the more realistic I am as to what I’m good at. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: An Escape From Impending War Into the Unknown 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z

I'll say this: We're working on another project that was a political show, and it was supposed to depict a realistic version of what was going on on Capitol Hill. "Democracy is never perfected": David Simon on his new HBO series and the 2020 "s**tshow" election 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

Final home game of the season, final realistic chance to salvage their playoff hopes. Tribune writers pick 'em: Bears vs. Seahawks 2011-12-18T12:28:00Z

This was true of the music, too, and it was unfortunate, or perhaps overly realistic, that in a show about transformation the transitions were clunky. ‘Transformation: Rhythm’s Roots’ Explores Black History 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

But he’s also realistic — and thinking of new ways to protect a potentially risky adventure. Perspective | New ways to protect your 2021 vacation 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

Natasha Devon is a model and campaigns for realistic beauty depiction. AUDIO: Is Barbie setting a bad example? 2011-03-22T13:48:27Z

Parks captures something here that is at once starkly realistic and absurd, a confluence intensified by a revelation from Smith that throws off both Hero and the audience. Suzan-Lori Parks examines notions of freedom in ‘Father Comes Home’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

You want it to be as realistic as possible, but it needs to be attractive and appealing, and it needs to be a bit romanticized in some way, so it's a heightened look. T Magazine: 'Gladiators in Suits': The Fashion of 'Scandal' 2013-01-14T22:01:18Z

Because let’s be realistic, most wearables today are really, really ugly. Intel and Opening Ceremony Collaborate on MICA, a Stylish Tech Bracelet 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Head to foot, bridle to hoof, the bronze is a tour de force of form and realistic detail and several sorts of power. Art Review: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes at the Frick Collection 2014-01-30T22:57:06Z

Eason’s finely detailed illustrations balance the natural world with a fantastical one: A witch’s candy cottage looks as realistic and believable as the elaborately etched bark of a tree. Fairy Tale Heroines, But With Depth 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

French panoramic papers used a more realistic perspective and showed highly detailed landscapes. Wallpaper murals used to be a major splurge, but new tech is bringing them to the masses 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

Parada Films, which produced the movie, defended “Child’s Pose” as a realistic and accurate portrayal of contemporary life. Lawmaker: Romania Movie Does Not Deserve Oscar 2013-09-25T13:11:58Z

That the figures on screen resemble real people, without appearing entirely realistic, adds to the fascination. Inspired by `Imposter,' 5 stylish documentaries 2012-07-13T03:16:04Z

Frankly, at that point he had no realistic alternative, reflecting, I guess, the riddle behind the episode’s title “Morton’s Fork.” 'Fargo' Recap: Morton's Fork: They've Come Undone 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

One iPhone user summed up the opinion of most reviewers when she wrote that “Everything. Costs. Too. Much.—it’s almost not even realistic.” Why Kim Kardashian's Game Has Perfect User Ratings 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Up against the wall, a small-scale screen printing rig and several of Cardy’s ghoulishly realistic illustrations. The Dream of the ’90s Is Alive in Rat Boy’s Punk Rock 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Dear Carolyn: How does one balance expectations between reasonably high and realistic? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and perhaps wiser 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

A skull carved from cedar by a Heiltsuk artist in the 19th century, then painted black and topped with a bear-fur hairpiece, is chillingly realistic. Art Review: ‘Life, Death and Transformation,’ at Brooklyn Museum 2013-01-17T23:01:56Z

The characters and world in which they live, is very realistic and all of the characters are easy to relate to. Unwind by Neal Shusterman - Review 2013-02-19T15:00:00Z

But how did all this collaboration result in a garden dramatic enough to win big, yet realistic enough to engage viewers so thoroughly? Lessons from a winning show garden 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Because it's a fairy tale, it's nothing realistic. "Emily In Paris" star Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu: "It's so much fun to play a villain" 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

As Long told the Guardian in early January, the project needed to be realistic to succeed. V&A at Dundee plans gets much-needed but modest private funding boost 2013-01-17T13:04:38Z

They only wish they could make it this realistic. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 4: Truth and Consequences 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Trying to guess what’s “realistic” for the Emmys — or for any awards show, honestly — is not a reasonable metric. Our TV Critics on the 2018 Emmy Nominations 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

This is an edgy piece — edgy meaning it’s realistic. Debbie Allen uses her creative talents to address violence in America 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

His topic is masculinity under duress, and our critic Dwight Garner says his realistic prose delivers a sense of deep power held slightly in reserve. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

A more realistic question might be, Would you take a punch from Mike Tyson if it meant not having to sit through 10 hours of a mediocre lawyer show? Television Review: From Law School to a Frat House? 2011-05-31T22:09:37Z

Even as you help children to live in a more realistic place with shades of gray, encourage them to hang on to moments of joy. Seven ways to build a child’s resilience during the pandemic (and long after it ends) 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

With patients, he tries to keep the introductory phase realistic to initiate the habit, rather than to rush to a lengthier long-term goal. Perspective | How (and why) to start a journaling practice with kids 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

"It took a long time for it to find the appearance of a realistic, linear form," he said. Top novelists look to ebooks to challenge the rules of fiction 2013-03-10T00:06:11Z

The sculpted forms are wraithlike, yet their outlines are realistic. Review | In the galleries: Malgorzata Jablonska’s bodies of work 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

There is talk of a novel, although Milch said it's early and "typically not very realistic." 'Luck' duo defend safety record to 'bitter' end 2012-04-03T10:46:03Z

But "Conviction" is very much a product of its time, which makes it surprisingly stark and realistic, at least in patches, but also means that its inspirational message comes loaded with asterisks. "Conviction": Oscar bait, dosed with gloom 2010-10-14T18:15:00Z

Of course some of his relationships are still a mess; we tried to do a very realistic version of Don and Megan’s relationship disintegrating. 'Mad Men's' Matthew Weiner discusses 'bittersweet' midseason finale 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere there’s a tendency to punch up lines past the point of realistic, but as many of those lines are awfully good, it’s forgivable. Review: Makeup Tips Galore, but Not How to Handle Cancer, in ‘Ultimate Beauty Bible’ 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

Or maybe it's just easier for screenwriters to write "A punches B" than realistic conversations and funny jokes. Why the outrage over The Killer Inside Me? Domestic violence really is brutal 2010-06-09T08:00:00Z

To this end, the show's graphics feel far more realistic than most cartoons. Life of spy: the return of Archer 2013-07-12T13:00:00Z

After painstakingly setting up this world in a realistic vein, McCraney relinquishes his concern for psychological accuracy once the devastation hits. Keeping the faith in Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Head of Passes' 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Even ordinary schoolgirls lead lives of quiet enchantment, like 14-year-old Shizuku in Whisper of the Heart, who discovers first love and a talent for storytelling in a Tokyo setting that is simultaneously realistic and magical. Anne Billson | Anime's female role models 2010-03-25T22:20:00Z

Resolving this is complicated and needs a realistic perspective. Kuwait's lost treasures: how stolen riches?remain central to rift with Iraq 2010-06-21T21:09:00Z

Choi was heavily involved in making the kitchens in “Chef” seem realistic. Food in movies: These days, it’s about more than just making you hungry

You know, that very realistic sports drama that required him to get fully in character as a drug-enhanced baseball player? Five pop culture items we missed 2011-06-29T22:01:00Z

Costing $12m and reputedly featuring 1,500 extras, the 30-minute scene has no equal as a realistic representation of the horrors of the second world war battlefield. From Game of Thrones to The Revenant: the best battle scenes of all time 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Where most of the models were local and formed an entire, realistic panoply of different shapes and sizes. Why Is an Italian Luxury Brand Having a Show in Michigan? 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

I just wish it were more realistic about how difficult the sort of shift it advocates would be to achieve. Authors dubious that economic growth leads to happiness 2011-12-08T21:37:04Z

The principal action of “Fences” occurs in a narrow rowhouse and back yard pressed in on all sides by neighbors’ windows — a realistic setting that atmospherically enhances the physical world conjured by the play. Letting the full force of August Wilson’s talent in, through ‘Fences’ 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

But please consider making that realistic for your husband with your blessing to do what he needs. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Couple needs to learn how to handle her health crisis together 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

In this delightful collection, realistic setups turn magical and surreal to illuminate deeper themes of marriage, gender and love. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Each joyful interlude in Litchfield is purchased by several slops of messy, harsh reality, and that balancing is part of what makes “Orange Is the New Black” feel genuine, if not completely realistic. Dark times ahead in Litchfield: “Orange Is the New Black” returns with its most challenging season yet 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

The story is both grittily realistic in its details about family resentments and somehow stylized. David Rabe on the Netherworld of Fiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

And the only way I think to get rid of that stigma is to be realistic about those issues. Q&A: The Real Forensic Psychiatrist Behind Side Effects 2013-02-08T15:00:26Z

The comfort of watching shows like “Black Mirror” or “The Twilight Zone” is knowing that no matter how realistic the stories can be, they are, in the end, fiction. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Enemy Within’ and ‘London Kills’ 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

In the shadow of the Holocaust, particularism seemed to many a more realistic response to a world that might at any time again become hostile. ‘At Home in Exile,’ on the Jewish Diaspora, by Alan Wolfe 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

What’s striking is how little it matters, because Mary Gordon isn’t, strictly speaking, a naturalistic or realistic novelist, but rather a moralist, by which I don’t mean moralistic. What if We Pursued Vigilante Justice on Reality TV? 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

The later works in the show are dire: portraits of rich crones, fluffy socialites and their obnoxious lapdogs, plus some magic-realist landscapes that are too fancifully magical to be realistic. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z

“They’re used to classic, realistic animation, and this style goes against everything that they’ve ever learned about what makes good animation,” he said. How ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Revisits Retro Video Games 2012-10-28T07:23:01Z

Cinema is even more an essentially realistic medium. A Serbian Film: when allegory gets nasty 2010-12-13T12:36:00Z

I have only a very weak sense, for instance, of what characters look like, even in very “realistic” fiction. This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner on Art, Language, and Uber 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

As the Gentleman Caller, Brian J. Smith at first seems too tentative, too “realistic,” for a character that is something of a caricature of a Dale Carnegie go-getter. Star-Crossed (and –Blessed) Revivals: Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams 2013-10-02T09:45:54Z

The touring iteration also reveals a realistic approach to the heavy costs of lugging epic productions on the road. Not your granny’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ at the Kennedy Center 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

On the other hand Les Misérables gave him the chance to emulate the greatest French authors of the realistic trend from Balzac to Eugène Sue. How Hugo and Manet unveiled Paris's poor and privileged faces 2013-01-26T19:30:01Z

And that difference matters, a lot, for a psychologically realistic drama like Mad Men. Mad Men Character Study: Cleopatra Joan 2012-05-30T13:07:06Z

Hardly a realistic primer on life in the news business, this novel does offer a bit of light relief – welcome in these dark times for the traditional press. Tom Rachman's top 10 journalist's tales 2011-07-27T11:26:31Z

The stars themselves are created by more than a thousand strands of fiber-optic cables in varying diameters to enhance the realistic star effects. Michael Bay’s 40-Seat Digital Theater 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

The brief experiment with 10 nominees drew complaints that it pulled films with no realistic chance of winning an Oscar into expensive awards campaigns and diluted the specialness of a nomination. New Rules to Set Field for Chasing Top Oscar 2011-06-15T22:03:02Z

It was then that I began to shake off whatever remained of my realistic tendencies.” Back Out of Singapore's Shadows 2010-06-30T16:00:00Z

Never Rarely…, on the other hand, is tautly told and coldly realistic, painstakingly chronicling the hoops that Autumn jumps through in order to get an abortion. ‘Women's stories are seen as niche’: Eliza Hittman on her new film 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z

It begins with a suspenseful urgency suffused by pervasive, realistic dread. In a Marathon of One-Act Plays, Boundaries Are Pushed and Pulled 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Menon’s female characters always feel at once relatable and realistic, making it super easy to root for them. New & Noteworthy, From Vivian Gornick’s Essays to No-Recipe Recipes 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Then set a realistic action plan for giving regularly and within your means. WATCH: Be a better philanthropist, whatever your budget 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

The Shakespearean plot devices don’t mesh with the documentarylike, realistic portrait of the Bronx. Movie Review: In ‘Grand Slammed,’ an Aspiring Pitcher Goes Nowhere Fast 2014-04-25T00:55:20Z

Bringing to mind the work of that great painter of American rural life, Andrew Wyeth, the wintry images of weathered wood, skin, old clothes, tousled hair and rundown trucks have a rich, realistic texture. Winter's Bone 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

His views on the need for realistic art never changed. Restoring the portrait of an artist: How a new exhibition is giving William Merritt Chase his due 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

“When the show is at its most ridiculous, dealing, say, with the machinations of an omnipotent cyber ninja, it still features characters struggling with mental issues in a realistic way,” he says. #PLLGameOver: Farewell Pretty Little Liars, the most fancentric TV show yet 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Cruel Intentions, Wild Things, Basic Instinct … hot stuff, maybe, but not the most realistic or responsible depiction of what women actually do in bed together. 'Oral sex – and no scissoring!' How the lesbian gaze changed cinema 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

So why don't we just give it a try and be realistic with yourself? "I'd play the s**t out of George Washington": Jimmy O. Yang talks representation & his Amazon debut 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Davina's broken family hasn't taught her self-worth or realistic expectations of the trial and error that relationships entail. 'I Believe in Unicorns' is a fanciful teenage romance 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

In the meantime, she thinks the most realistic method for talented actresses who want characters with robust stories is to follow Bullock’s lead. Women Flip the Script on Hollywood 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

“The fact that we show, in a somewhat realistic way, just how dire these consequences are and just how savage these beings can be is very important.” In ‘Invincible,’ a Young Hero Arrives for a Mature Audience 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Patrick is one of a trio of cult leaders in fictions this month—realistic boogeymen just in time for Halloween. John Hawkes? Strange and Dangerous Sex Appeal 2011-10-21T20:04:15Z

“I don’t think it’s a realistic expectation that an author can duplicate a singular moment in time,” says Jason Kaufman, Brown’s editor. Meet the writers who still sell millions of books. Actually, hundreds of millions. 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

A fresh, frank and rather realistic tale of a self-assertive young mom, told from a working-class perspective, starring a woman who also runs the show. Review | ‘SMILF’ is another cable dramedy that has the moves, but not the meaning 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

This is more or less what Jane The Virgin did last year, pinging forwards three years after a major character death to avoid the whole series getting bogged down in uncharacteristically realistic grief. Small-screen time jumps: forward-thinking TV or lazy storytelling? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

But those who stuck around saw Ms. Klum and her husband, Seal, embody disturbingly realistic monkeys, complete with mammary glands and prosthetic ears. Scene City: Halloween by Heidi (Klum) 2011-11-01T21:52:03Z

Neustadter and Weber said they deliberately left out any serious consequences for drinking and driving, as they felt it was a more realistic portrayal of how the issue is handled. 'The Spectacular Now' spotlights young love like it used to be 2013-08-01T23:41:08Z

Alex Salmond, the most consistently able operator in British politics, will not demand a referendum until there is a realistic chance of winning one. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z

Disney's CEO Bob Iger said that some of your asks weren't "realistic," and former media studio head Barry Diller suggested that top actors take cuts to share the wealth that way. "A king's ransom": SAG-AFTRA's Fran Drescher calls out "maniacal" Hollywood CEOs for their "greed" 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z

Mikeinnc Once all the team gets off active duty, I hope a producer will hire them to make the realistic movie about the killing of Osama. Zero Dark Thirty Filmmakers Defend Their Story of Osama at the D.C. Premiere 2013-01-10T16:13:13Z

The creative team has also supplied realistic ephemera — personal letters, magazine covers and interviews, World Corp. logos and advertisements — that enrich the experience and fill-in the back story. Books of The Times: ‘Nowhere Men’ and ‘The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story’ 2014-01-01T21:30:46Z

Such flights of poetry would seem pretentious and implausible in the hands of a less skilled writer, but Jiles grounds her characters’ metaphysical musings in a starkly realistic portrait of the lawless Texas landscape. Can a 10-year-old girl ever recover from years in captivity? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

In a feature for Screen Junkies this week, its stars promised "a darker season" featuring such comedic horror fodder as "a realistic version of 'Pretty Woman'" and a guest spot from Kings of Leon. "It's Always Sunny" star gets fat -- for laughs 2011-06-17T20:18:00Z

Building on that, since "Pose" is a realistic fiction and period piece, how do you prepare for your role as Pray Tell? "My art is my activism": "Pose" star Billy Porter unleashes his passion and doesn't hold back 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wahlberg said it was important for him to show “the most realistic boxing ever in a film,” which meant sparring with real fighters. Summer Movies: Mark Wahlberg Joins Will Ferrell in ?The Other Guys? 2010-05-01T03:47:00Z

But he worried that a realistic historical setting would blunt the impact of the idea, making it seem too narrow and political. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

"Magic Mike" might actually be the more realistic of the movies. 'Chocolate City' aims for a 'Magic Mike' touch, turns soapy 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

“It’s about balancing the original work’s intentions with a story that is maybe more realistic for a present-day audience.” Arts & Leisure: It Ain?t Necessarily ?Porgy? 2011-08-05T15:00:00Z

Still, the fans are realistic about Josh's chances. Reporter's log 2010-05-28T13:09:00Z

Dominic Cooke, the Royal Court’s artistic director at the time, said Mr. Wesker understood theater “is always metaphorical, even when the social context of the play is realistic and detailed.” Arnold Wesker, British playwright who plumbed working-class lives, dies at 83 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

“Hopefully with a show like ours, we are sharing a realistic version. And hopefully it is entering a wider conversation, which is really important.” ABC’s ‘For Life’ hopes to change the way we see network TV 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

These rougher edges ensure that while “Miss Sharon Jones!” is overall optimistic and positive, it’s also realistic. “Always be a fighter”: Sharon Jones reflects on her music, her health and her new documentary 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

“When I brought down the saturation, she became too realistic, like a live-action creature.” In Designing ‘The Sea Beast,’ Animators Sweat the Details 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

The chapels are often described as “theaters of the mountain” for their realistic and dramatic depiction of scenes of Christ’s life. Heads Up: High in Lombardy, Italy, a Less Crowded Pilgrimage 2012-04-06T19:37:00Z

But now that I'm a dad with two school-age sons, and no longer young, the life of the war correspondent isn't nearly so realistic or appealing. BookTalk: John Brown's "Midnight Rising" 2011-12-22T10:03:38Z

The characters are very realistic and are all very different to each other . The Lady Grace Mysteries: Exile by Jan Burchett and Sara Voglar - review 2013-01-30T09:00:00Z

He’s so smart, very modest and realistic about life.” Schubert’s Sonatas, and a Pianist, Come Into Their Own 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

“You have made a choice to make the story less realistic than it would have been otherwise.” Amid Climate Talks, an Actor’s Call to Action Unfolds Onstage 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

A realistic depressed character is a repressed one. Lights, camera, depression: Why does mental illness on TV rarely look like real life? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

It is not realistic, perhaps, to think that everyone with a yard has the imagination or the knowledge to undertake garden design — perhaps Brookes was being too optimistic in producing books for a general audience. Author John Brookes was a rarity: A gardener who focused on design 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

But instead of leaving the production and wasting the animal motion research he had done, Tippett served as a consultant, helping the CG animators create realistic movements in their digital creations. 20 things you might not know about "Jurassic Park" 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z

It’s Classified and my previous book Eighteen Acres are both works of fiction, but if they do seem realistic, it’s by design. Q&A with Palin Advisor-Turned-Novelist Nicolle Wallace 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z

The lion is strikingly realistic and unmissable, once it is found, buried in one of the lower-floor rooms of the museum. At the Prado, Love That Now Dares to Shout Its Name 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

The low-key approach of “Bob’s” is reminiscent of the series whose former time slot it occupies, the still-lamented “King of the Hill,” but without that show’s lived-in, realistic texture. | 'Bob?s Burgers': This Family Restaurant Is All About the People 2011-01-06T22:55:57Z

Being famous now seems like a realistic goal for everybody. Sofia Coppola: 'Is this psychoanalysis?' 2010-12-01T21:30:00Z

But despite the heroin-addict shootings, murderous neighbours and secret babies, at first, there were also more realistic friendships, kids and irritating ex-husbands to identify with. Desperate Housewives: getting desperate 2011-08-08T10:24:45Z

One of the book’s central characters is also a writer of realistic fiction, grappling with the anxieties of overnight fame. Beautiful Merch, Where Are You? 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

They're both realistic in form and abstract at once, simultaneously conjuring the corporeal human body and a cerebral prism of history and pop culture. Dustin Yellin adds his mark in L.A. with art that's a 'missile for social change' 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

“It didn’t seem realistic to me,” he said. Gin Maker’s Journey: From Tanqueray to Small Batch 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

But she saw the beginning of the movie and all of a sudden, she became realistic. Carpetbagger Blog: And on This Floor, a Cross-Cultural Who's Who 2011-12-16T15:15:05Z

Privately, TV executives use the excuse that the screen is a more literal and realistic medium than theatre. Sophie Okonedo interview: 'I have to go across the Atlantic to get work' 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

The early episodes are beautifully filmed and deceptively modern, with dark, rainy landscapes and bleakly realistic sets that make 1630 Paris look a little like the streets of “Deadwood.” A New Version of ‘The Musketeers,’ on BBC America 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Back to your question: I can’t think of a realistic or respectful way for you to directly inform female colleagues that their cleavage is giving you the vapors. @Work Advice: The case of the offensive cleavage 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Indeed we might end up thinking that a right to irresolvable conflict might be the most realistic right we could come up with. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

Even in so-called realistic fiction, we expect authors to “make up” their stories, to forge, as one of the president’s advisers once so elegantly put it, “alternative facts.” Perspective | Mr. President, you don’t know a poorly written novel 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

“It’s obviously something that is realistic,” Amash said, over dinner in a crowded bar in late August. Justin Amash was part of the conservative in-crowd. Now he’s trying to figure out who his real friends are. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

She creates highly detailed, realistic images, but in fragments. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

The earlier films also underscore the thin, sharp-edged digital look of “Café Society,” which is neither period-appropriate nor realistic, especially in the honeyed Los Angeles scenes. Even on Alert, It’s Still Cannes 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

In Tom Pye’s set, the three women’s domestic spaces are realistic islands floating around a bare stage, an efficient solution to a fast-flowing drama. Review: In ‘The Hours,’ Prima Donnas and Emotions Soar 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

“That isn’t always a realistic expectation for language learning,” she says. Perspective | A host of new apps can help travelers learn foreign languages — up to a point 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

But I was always very realistic: the sad thing about this business is it's so fleeting. TV A-listers wonder: Who would win on Survivor? 2010-08-27T05:41:00Z

His colors were too bright, his figures too realistic — the octogenarian Mr. Hockney even described his younger self as a “peripheral artist, really.” David Hockney Painting Sells for $90 Million, Smashing Record for Living Artist 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

“I really wanted to put realistic details into it that was like, if you blew it up, it would be a table,” Mr. LaRose said. Everyone Gather Round the Squirrel Table. (Chipmunks Too!) 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

In the surprising collage titled "Rock Garden," Horiuchi abandons his more well-known very flat abstractions to provide a realistic sense of space and place. Art review: Horiuchi's collages, some rarely seen, demonstrate his mastery 2010-04-08T20:16:00Z

You can get impatient with Elias and Jenny because of how unpleasant they are together, but Baker wants that realistic friction, and she has a gift for chitchat that suddenly ruptures. Review | ‘The Flick’ playwright Annie Baker goes long again in the three-hour ‘John’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Was our indifference to seeking justice realistic or an abrogation of responsibility? Why I never tried to find out who murdered my father 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

It's almost too realistic to be funny, and – considering the bill for the real thing – a bit like rubbing sandpaper on a nasty graze. TV highlights 10/07/2012 2012-07-09T19:00:04Z

Some pieces are short and surreal, others realistic, and the collegiate elements of some works are trumped by passion, variety and authenticity. Bad cops, anguished mothers and humor too: 'In Response' looks at racism through different eyes 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

These unexpected interludes are an inspired touch from Mr. Rabe — and a reminder that he’s only rarely been a strictly realistic playwright — that give us a welcome breather from the onslaught of psychic trauma. Review: David Rabe’s ‘Good for Otto’ Introduces a World of Pain 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

The visual design is black and white, but with costumes of strong greens and reds: Everything is vivid, nothing is quite realistic. Mark Morris’s Party With Robots, Barbie and a Nutcracker 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

It portrayed the possibility of love between two people of the same sex that was positive and affirming, yet realistic about the barriers. ArtsBeat: The Gay Film That Changed Your Life 2012-03-16T15:00:11Z

Set designer Misha Kachman devises an entirely realistic set for a play dabbling in surreality; it recalls the physical design for another suburban play intermingled with mystery, Edward Albee’s “A Delicate Balance.” Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Fairview' at Woolly: Both serious and a hoot - The Washington Post 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s not realistic anymore to lock into one vendor.” Is It Happening? Electronic Health Record Vendors Take Steps Toward Interoperability 2012-09-07T23:59:58Z

With the summer movie slate wiped clean, perhaps a more realistic rescue plan can finally be forged. Christopher Nolan Says ‘Tenet’ Will Come Out This Summer. Should It? 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

And because time isn’t cut up evenly, Mr. Botstein said, “it is in a funny way more realistic, because musical time becomes organic, less artificial sounding.” Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

And in 1977, he had created an impressively realistic thunderstorm for the Sherlock Holmes adaptation “The Crucifer of Blood” on Broadway. A ‘Frankenstein’ That Never Lived 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

"After tonight, Santorum must win Ohio to survive Super Tuesday with a realistic path to the nomination." Defeated Santorum retools for Super Tuesday 2012-02-29T12:41:00Z

“My idea of what’s possible and realistic now is so much bigger than when I started out.” Nilüfer Yanya’s Music Is a Family Affair 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

For a realistic effect, the easiest approach probably would be to paint the whole chimney the mortar color, then roll on the main brick color with a four-inch “weeny” roller. How to restore the look of brick on a chimney that’s been painted over 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Written by Lee and Oh Jung-mi, “Burning” unfolds in realistic scenes that don’t necessarily seem to be advancing a strong theme. Review: In ‘Burning,’ Love Ignites a Divided World 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

She said the adjustments "bring the cost down to something that is realistic." Correction: WTC-Arts Center story 2013-02-01T22:32:08Z

“I redid everything. I just wanted it more realistic looking.” Queen Anne resident who built mini ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Rosebud Motel creates ‘Psycho’ Bates Motel for Halloween 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

“As sad as it sounds, that’s a realistic number,” said Barbara Worth, director of strategic and private development at the Council of Educational Facility Planners International. Report: More than half a trillion dollars needed to fix U.S. schools 2013-03-12T12:15:00Z

Hers is more realistic, understanding the struggles they will face and the burdens that she alone as a mother would bear. "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" gives us a refreshing take on abortion, but how realistic is it 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Whitehead said he saw his closing pages as optimistic, but also realistic. Colson Whitehead on Slavery, Success and Writing the Novel That Really Scared Him 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Simpson’s previous plays had been more or less realistic in style. ‘Driven by the Potential for Joy’: Comedies Are the Thing This Spring 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

While the grinding boredom of grunt life feels realistic, sharing the slow passing of time with the soldiers places a burden on the audience, as we begin to feel the oppressive tedium ourselves. Review: ‘Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait,’ as Grim as It Is Cryptic 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

His crystalline panoramas of the natural world are both magically transporting and, in one interpretation, disturbingly realistic. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

In our post-downturn economy, there is a growing pressure to be realistic. Creative education: is now the time for realism or optimism? 2013-06-17T10:06:55Z

This was to ensure a realistic grounding for a story that takes flight into the nightmarish. Nightmare on asylum street: His House, the horror film about the migrant crisis 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z

Then one day, during a miserable run of a more or less realistic play, Mr. Rogers had a revelation: “Maybe I should actually write stuff that I would like to watch.” The Playwright Mac Rogers Explores Robots, Aliens and Allegory 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Viewing this as a sign of social progress is optimistic, but it's not entirely realistic. "Last Man Standing" bids farewell, while Tim Allen keeps on truckin' with his right-wing shade 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Some pictures are more realistic than others, but the bodies are often segmented into blocks of color, showing Picasso’s influence. - The Washington Post 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

But she’s unexpectedly touching in her realistic portrayal of a woman making the enjoyable best of a bad hand. Hot Priests and Wayward Libidos Run Wild on London’s Stages 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

The characters remain firmly on the right side of realistic and the touching moments are naturally occurring, rather than plonked in for tonal variety. Have you been watching … Getting On? 2012-11-14T13:27:21Z

The main strength of "Good Boys" is that its jokes, while derived from outrageous situations, work because the characters react in realistic ways. "Good Boys" is a winner 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

It was that realism and honesty — realistic characters, realistic friendships and, yes, a realistic look at the possible options a pregnant woman faces — that propelled the film from funding to filming to distribution. How Do You Make a Romantic Comedy With an Abortion? Inside "Obvious Child" 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

The timing of the reboot's realistic spin on student-teacher relationships is notable, too. From “Gossip Girl” to “A Teacher,” TV is ending the romanticized student-teacher relationship 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

To prove it, Stewart shared a super realistic image of the two together sharing a milkshake and grazing shoulders. Jon Stewart reveals the truth about his “secret” meetings with Obama 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

The Irishman’ and ‘1917’ are trying to be as realistic as possible. The Oscar category that best reflects the state of film isn’t best picture. It’s visual effects. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

The group’s business team is more realistic — and, by necessity, more strategic. Rap Trio Migos Cracks the Code to a No. 1 Hit, One Step at a Time 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

And the dog's occasional haplessness is a nice realistic change from her fearlessness. Sarii of “Prey” and the importance of letting the dog live 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

The “stories all begin in the relatively humble territory of realistic fiction,” our reviewer, Rebecca Lee, said here. Paperback Row 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

To put it another way: Why try so hard to be realistic when, in many cases, fakery is part of the fun? Digital Fur, Digital Folks: Reality Is Starting to Feel Overrated 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Not everything in the show is outlandish; some events are all too realistic. Katherine Heigl Stars in NBC’s ‘State of Affairs’ 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

The spiritual unity of the West was shattered with one blow, and any realistic hope of healing the rift through conciliation or threats was at an end. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

But after Vietnam and Watergate, many novelists grew cynical — or realistic, some would say. Allan Topol’s ‘The Washington Lawyer’ abounds with Beltway skullduggery 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

Private Peaceful was one of the most realistic, well written books I have ever read. Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo - review 2013-03-02T15:00:00Z

The book, from Viking, is intended for kids 9 and older and doesn't hold back much as it blends fact and fiction for a meticulous, realistic feel that draws on the official record. Titanic a magnet for kids, fine line for educators 2012-03-21T16:27:11Z

Some pictures are more realistic than others, and a few feature a symbolic twist. In the galleries: Gordon Park’s photos from the Jim Crow-era South 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

You have to take a skeptical look at your objectives and be realistic about them. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z

A more realistic goal for any 10- or 12-year-old who loves sports is to play on a high school team. Aiming to be an Olympian? Long-shot goals may make you ignore small victories. 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

It is one of the least realistic artifacts in the entire place, second only to the waxwork of Robert Pattinson, the “Twilight” actor, which looks more like Jean-Ralphio Saperstein from “Parks and Recreation.” The Politics of Waxing 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Every time game technology makers talk about how realistic the materials in their virtual worlds will be, they pull out the old “shattering glass” demo. Reviews: Smash Hit, Castlevania, Calculords and Threes! 2014-03-18T22:00:41Z

Real life, and not least our inner lives, is rarely very realistic or rational. Eugene Onegin: unchain my heart 2013-01-02T19:30:04Z

Dancers whose costumes include traditional Vietnamese work clothes, and who sometimes appear with realistic props such as bamboo carrying-poles, execute steps that adhere to a modern-dance aesthetic. Brazilian Film Week features documentaries about the country’s music

I think a fictionalised film based on a true art form is not meant to be realistic. Alice in dance 2011-02-28T12:36:10Z

He had achieved some renown as a painter for the ways in which he employed color and light and for the realistic manner in which he portrayed individuals. Object Lesson: When James Ensor turned to skeletons and satire 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

So many of the films you see nowadays, they’re just not realistic. All This Panic: the most relatable film about teenage girlhood ever? 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

“Gordon isn’t, strictly speaking, a naturalistic or realistic novelist, but rather a moralist, by which I don’t mean moralistic,” Francine Prose writes in her review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

“Through the Trees” breaks the view into near-abstract patterns, while “Dump in the Woods” is more realistic in its depiction of sky, foliage and detritus. In the galleries: ‘Strictly Painting’ is anything but 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

How does the series walk the line between being respectful and being realistic? Making the bodies of “The Staircase”: The challenge of depicting Kathleen both in life and in death 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. O’Reilly’s production, however, is perhaps a bit too scrupulously realistic. Review: Matthew Broderick Finds His Inner Satan in ‘The Seafarer’ 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

While the incident seems to have been an independent crew member going rogue, it brings up serious issues of how realistic -- even in the fantasy realm of Tolkien -- colorblind casting can ever be. "Hobbit" controversy: When is casting racism? 2010-11-30T21:31:00Z

For a more realistic approach, Wilson offered some tips on bagging — figuratively speaking — these elusive subjects. In a limited engagement, the fireflies blink in sync in the Great Smoky Mountains 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

I was trying to make something that was new and realistic. Alex Katz at 88: Portrait of the artist unable to slow down 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Gardner does an amazing job of creating realistic situations and characters with emotional resonance. Review: Lisa Gardner's `Touch & Go' is a winner 2013-02-04T19:23:08Z

Younger filmmakers were creating realistic and daring movies, with more subtlety and less dependence on formula, contributing to a cinematic renaissance and a move toward realism and location shooting — and, sadly, more problems with animals. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z

As the show continues, the scenes between them become longer, they become more specific, they become slightly more realistic and even a bit more argumentative. "Magpie Murders" creator on the finale revelation: "The anagram is disgusting" 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

But realistic or fantastical, fiction must create a ground-floor reality. A Native American Coming-of-Age and the Uses of Enchantment 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

In any case, Lyons is more interested in the family’s moment-by-moment byplay — its laugh track and tear track — than in drawing realistic character portraits or scoring sociological points. Review: In ‘Chicken & Biscuits,’ a Sweet but Dated Comedic Recipe 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

Her works here — mostly realistic pencil drawings, but with some collage — include scenes from World War II-era Europe, as well as the war in Syria and West Africa’s Ebola outbreak. In the galleries: Anything but simplicity in these drawings 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

“When we pick up something over the top and even gaudy, wear it and bring it down to a more realistic level, it tends to catch on.” Eddie Murphy’s Latest Look Is Ripe for Appropriation 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

It could be well-treated or autonomous performers, or more artistic or realistic films. My sexual resolutions 2012-12-30T02:00:00Z

Still, a recorder of your own was the height of aspiration, and Colin – better informed and more realistic about family finances than me – had no real expectations. My father paid four times his weekly wage for the greatest gift of my life 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

The productions I’m talking about are more or less realistic, as opposed to the sort of broad farce or instructional Brechtian fare where you expect people to be caricatures. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Finding Truth in Phoniness 2011-07-12T18:22:25Z

“The first is that over the 35 years, we have recalibrated our expectations - what is realistic for us, what we can expect from each other at this stage of our lives versus that stage.” Esther Perel: the relationship guru who thinks infidelity isn't all bad 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z

When I ask whether she seriously thinks world peace a realistic goal, she answers with determination: "At this point, it is a luxury for us to have negative thoughts – we can't." When Sam Taylor-Wood met Yoko Ono 2012-06-16T23:06:00Z

But I want to color a realistic picture, so they aren’t blindsided like I was. I called him pathetic, he accused me of ruining his life: What children did to our marriage 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

But others questioned whether a gap of more than $30 million was realistic, partly because private sales for trophy artworks are already, in effect, insurance level valuations because of their rarity. Sotheby’s Tries to Block Suit Over a Leonardo Sold and Resold at a Big Markup 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

The start was simple and realistic, so I continued in that way, following the uncles’ directive, I guess, much like Glenn. David Rabe on the Netherworld of Fiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

I think that one of the big keys is understanding that I'm really talking about realistic optimism. "Being busy all the time is not healthy": Ban.do founder wants to change the narrative about success 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Judge and Mr. Berg believe that the facts of Silicon Valley are often funnier than fiction, and they’ve striven to make the plotline as realistic as possible. 'Silicon Valley' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Datageddon 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

Yes, but about these pop groups that want to get Mrs. Thatcher out of No 10 … I don't mind these … most young people rebel and then gradually they become more realistic. Margaret Thatcher v Smash Hits – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-04-09T11:25:08Z

I was so used to seeing Harrison dripping in women a third of his age that a more demographically realistic romantic interest jarred. ‘Do they really think I'm his mother?’: life with a younger, hotter boyfriend 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

How Wilfred learns to enjoy Marcel's company on a more reasonable and realistic basis is a tender and un-didactic lesson in ownership and sharing. Picture book roundup - reviews 2012-08-24T21:55:07Z

That may sound austere, but it is dreamily evocative, and it would seem to offer as much if not more room for a child’s actively imaginative engagement than more realistic types. Review: ‘Swedish Wooden Toys’ Mix Ingenuity and Education 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

They are thought to represent a well-known beauty of the time, Simonetta Vespucci, but the images are more fantastic than realistic, like photographs of models in Vogue. Art Review: ?Renaissance Portrait From Donatello to Bellini? - Review 2011-12-22T23:31:48Z

The success of streaming series such as "Orange Is the New Black" and "Transparent" suggest there is an appetite for more nuanced and realistic storylines regarding transgender characters. Transgender community, allies see Jenner interview in positive light 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

How do you construct your characters and make them both authentic/realistic, but also funny and pathetic? Todd Solondz’s comedy of despair: “I am always trying to navigate a line that is not too far, and not too soft” 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

I don't mean that answer to be flippant, I mean that answer to be realistic. Would you share your kid's private life on a billboard? Maybe don't put it online then 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

None of this seems either very realistic or very meaningful, which is why I haven’t even bothered with the names of the characters. International Thrillers Favor Trysts over Treason 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

With tiny figures of people scattered along the sandy banks, it conveys a feeling of peaceful coexistence between man and nature similar to Watteau’s fête galante but more realistic. Art Review | 'Masterpieces of European Painting From Dulwich Picture Gallery': At the Frick, Paintings From Dulwich Picture Gallery 2010-04-01T22:51:00Z

The animals are astonishingly realistic: horses, bison, lions, deer, carved from mammoth tusks with stone tools. These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation 2013-02-08T07:00:11Z

A prosthetics transfer system, invented by Christien Tinsley for “The Passion of the Christ” from 2004, allowed a quick and realistic way to cover a body with wounds, burns or tattoos. How Christian Bale Became Dick Cheney (and Other Tales of Transformation) 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

And in any case, copying all of Roosevelt’s policies is neither realistic nor desirable; after all, he implemented them as the world was descending into war. FDR for beginners 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

In the years after the war, Futurist painting largely abandoned cars and trains to fall wackily in love with realistic vertiginous views from airplanes that suggest a jazzed-up Socialist Realism. Art Review: ‘Italian Futurism, 1909-1944,’ at the Guggenheim 2014-02-20T23:31:22Z

Yes, the inclusion of the Dragon fantasy should negate any efforts to evince a realistic portrayal of the "good ole days" in which the roles of women and men were very clearly defined. ‘Game of Thrones’ Has Moved Past Its Blueprint, and That’s a Good Thing 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

"Films that were greenlit this year were probably priced at more realistic levels than in the past, which means that the industry has gone through a correction that was required." Bollywood's small films became big in 2010 2011-01-03T19:10:10Z

Granted, there are more altercations and chases than any real police force would ever see in a week, but in every other way, this is the most realistic cop series on American television. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z

When he began performing again after his release from prison he was realistic about his past. Rick Stevens, Funk-Soul Singer Convicted of Murder, Dies at 77 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

That gritty, realistic snapshot of urban crime was lifted by the duo’s masterful rhymes. Pop & Rock Listings for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

It had painters and printmakers shrugging off the revolutionary formal innovations of Modernists like Picasso and Mondrian and sticking to centuries-old traditions of realistic representation. Art Review: ?Real-Surreal? at the Whitney - Review 2011-10-27T22:50:36Z

One of the best features of the prison drama is the realistic way the friendships of the main characters are portrayed. Best Instagrams From the Cast of Orange Is the New Black 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

“A Bread Factory” also takes off in its second half, into the exotic territory of realistic satirical fantasy. “A Bread Factory,” Reviewed: An Audacious Four-Hour Portrait of Culture Clash in Small-Town New England 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

The sets, more detailed and realistic in evoking period Vienna, are often superior than the Royal’s; the costumes’ fabric look flimsier. After Flood, Houston Ballet Returns With a Romantic Masterpiece 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z

Appalled, they settled for a spot in Chinatown, but the spectre of the unattainable dream house hung over the movie’s proceedings, far more realistic than any of its C.G.I. ghosts. The Gentrified Ghostbusters of 2016 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

In "A Letter to Elia," an hour-long documentary screening at the Venice film festival, Scorsese credits Kazan and his emotionally-charged, raw and realistic style as the inspiration for his becoming a filmmaker. Scorsese film defends anti-communist informer Kazan 2010-09-04T12:28:00Z

Engaging, realistic bi characters are still an endangered species. Celebrating the casual bisexuality in "Hacks" 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

The wide-eyed fawn and his feathered and furry friends were literally lost in the forest, overwhelmed by leaves, twigs, branches and other realistic touches in the ornately drawn backgrounds. Tyrus Wong, long overlooked animator of ‘Bambi,’ dies at 106 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

But it’s a little dull for viewers in the mood for a juicier and more realistic drama à clef. ‘Madam Secretary,’ ‘State of Affairs’ and Other Series Channel Hillary Rodham Clinton 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Upstairs, in the gallery for resident artists, Jung Min Park is showing painted-and-snipped pieces that range from filmy abstractions to partly realistic city scenes. Review | In the galleries: Doubling down on artworks 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Some stages bear more similarities to the real world than that of any past Mario game, such as Metro Kingdom's New Donk City, which includes more realistic portrayals of people. Inside Super Mario Odyssey: Mario's Biggest Change in Years 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

And, in one sense, the show is entirely realistic: the metastasizing meanness. Spare Times for Children for March 28-April 3 2014-03-27T22:34:17Z

I’ve read a few reviews that said this relationship isn’t realistic, but I think it is. Author Blake Nelson: Why YA Novels Make Reading Fun Again 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

We were perched high off the ground in the Delta Flight Museum’s very realistic flight simulator. Have a layover in Atlanta? The Delta Flight Museum will renew your appreciation for air travel. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Every TV duo spats, because perfect harmony isn’t realistic. “GLOW” wrestles with the particular pain of friendship divorce 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

The movie gave a realistic, grounded look at teenage angst and friendship, and what it means to struggle with your relationships as you come into your own. Small screen queens: how teen angst took over the TV scene 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

They painted realistic scenes of nature and of people who worked on the land, often with soft, loose brushwork. Exploring Daubigny, Through His Influence on van Gogh 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Mr Hanshaw got the idea after going to an exhibition by Escher, the Dutch artist who created optical illusions by depicting objects that look realistic on first glance, but are actually impossible and surreal. Doctor Who fan creates new TV titles 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

But what they fail to understand is that those with power and money define their definition of realistic. I have had it with cynical faux-realists attacking Bernie Sanders idealists 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

They shatter the realistic, dramatic image with operatic fury, implode it with frozen stillness, accelerate it with hallucinatory frenzy, overwhelm it with obsessional multiplicity, submerge it with mythological anguish. The Best Movies of 2014 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson offered a pheasant as a target, but Mr. Parker found it too realistic, so he set up red and yellow balls, buoyed up by a wind machine. This Harry Potter Uses a Bow and Arrow. Not a Wand. 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Some festival gems are hidden in packages of shorts, including Joe Chang's delicately realistic "A Long Distance Call" and his touching immigrant tale, "The Chinese Violin." Children's Film Festival Seattle is so good other cities want it, too 2011-01-26T22:52:05Z

At a time when blaxploitation films were all the rage, Tyson’s character, Rebecca, was notable for being realistic, rural and notably resilient. Stream These 8 Great Performances by Cicely Tyson 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

Related: You don't have to be mad to invest in art – but you do have to be realistic Why? You don't have to be rich to lead an 'eco friendly' lifestyle - here's how I do it 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

New trends in toy sales serve as fiscal evidence that children also want natural, realistic beauty — rather than unattainable ideals. Bye, Bye, Barbie: Can 2015 Be The Year We Forego Unattainably Slim Ideals? 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

The 21 stories in this collection, many of them set in Louisiana, begin as realistic fiction but march inevitably into poetry. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

They concentrated on realistic moves a woman could actually use against a 6 ft. Charlize Theron Is Here to Save Us From Boring Action Movies 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

The filmmakers spent several months shooting on location in Havana, and their care produces a vision of the place that is both lyrical and realistic. Movie Review: ?Chico & Rita,? Animated Film About Cuba and Its Music 2012-02-09T22:30:37Z

The show was lauded for its realistic portrayal of the modern woman — one whose life focused on work, not family, and one in which men were colleagues, not husbands or love interests. Mary Tyler Moore, TV star who became symbol of women’s liberation, dies at 80 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

But can the grittiness of Thrones be too much of a good thing—and are we wrong to equate “grim” with “realistic”? Don't Root for the Game of Thrones White Walkers Just Yet 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

My limited sampling of the full shortlist found several that are better, more realistic and low-tech than most in the biennial proper. Art Review: The Home Video Rises to Museum Grade 2010-10-22T00:00:00Z

Once a dream of science fiction, human hibernation is looking more realistic than ever. Weekend Reading: Human Hibernation, Abuse in the Protestant Church, Who Is Alex Trebek? 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

For its “Vixen” three years ago, the New York Philharmonic transformed Avery Fisher Hall into a forest glen, complete with two-story sunflowers and singers prowling about in realistic animal costumes. ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ Uses Projections in Cleveland 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

These disturbingly realistic documents flesh out our vision of a world struggling to restore order amid spasms of chaos. ‘American War’ follows today’s vitriol to a dystopian future 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

But let’s be realistic: Most of us travel with at least a backpack, purse or some other kind of carry-on. Perspective | In time for the holidays, a seasonal primer on luggage etiquette 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Casually realistic, with semi-improvised dialogue and low-tech production values, it is truthful without seeming portentous. Movie Review: ‘Safety Not Guaranteed,’ a Comedy With a Time Machine 2012-06-07T22:55:46Z

A bone-shaking mail-coach ride transports passengers to a bygone era, ejecting them in a stable yard that gives way to a delightful 1940s-style street with realistic shop fronts and vintage vehicles. Historic Britain: days out and short breaks 2012-08-17T21:45:06Z

“I find that very realistic,” Gray told me. Amber Gray’s Ferocious Twist on the Goddess Persephone in “Hadestown” 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

"Sleep Dealer" is a wondrous thing to behold, with its saturated cinematography, its unnervingly realistic vision of the future, its singular focus on U.S.-Mexico border politics and its supremely taut storytelling. Border drones and labor-bots: Alex Rivera's prescient 'Sleep Dealer' 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

Yet when the camera turns on, she gazes straight ahead, exuding the confidence that made her on-screen character, Cleo, so effortlessly realistic. ‘Roma’ made Yalitza Aparicio a star. Now she’s giving a voice to her indigenous fans. 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

“The realistic thing is to look refreshed and happy, not sad, not fatigued.” Dr. Fredric Brandt: Cosmetic Dermatologist to the Rich and Famous 2014-03-28T20:25:48Z

Not a very romantic portrait of widowhood, though probably a realistic one. Theater Review: ‘13 Things About Ed Carpolotti’ at 59E59 Theaters 2012-12-26T22:12:56Z

Barring some juvenilia, Ms. Kennedy has never been a realistic writer, which may explain why her plays are so often read on college campuses, but only rarely performed, a sore point. Adrienne Kennedy, Playwright: Still Quiet, Still Bold, Still Furious 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

I've been brought up in a very realistic, quite leftwing way and there are a lot of things that my mum finds difficult about the pop industry. Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

Using speculative elements or things that are not necessarily realistic. Zola Jesus: I hope my music helps people who are struggling with anxiety 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Subsequent sections — in different places, at different times, with different characters — continue this pattern: intensely compelling confessions that seem wholly realistic, except for those incongruous moments of fantasy that poke through like carpet tacks. Review: ‘The Bone Clocks,’ by David Mitchell

Yet, for Ms. Lee, it’s also important that the dance scene is not quite realistic. When Straight White Men Dance 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

“Here is your realistic image of a mom waking up on a Sunday morning,” Hood said. Australian mommy blogger reveals why she refused morning sex with husband in brutally honest post 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z

As the only journalist who will deign to talk to him, put it: "Be realistic, Max, disliking daylight is a slight handicap in any career, even journalism." Six to watch: TV mavericks 2011-03-10T14:09:00Z

Marvel as realistic sweat drops splatter on to your face and scratch your accompanying cards now to release the BO smell. Commonwealth Games 2010-10-02T05:45:00Z

Of course, there will always be debate about whether these goals are realistic in certain countries. Update: Eat, Stay, Buy Locally: Treading Lightly on the Road 2014-04-09T17:24:11Z

Most fantasies evade opportunities to make the impossible plausible, to give magic accountability in a realistic setting and moral and emotional weight in a modern novel. Among Others by Jo Walton – review 2013-03-30T10:01:01Z

A more realistic interpretation is that TV chose to drop him off and keep on rolling. "Last Man Standing" bids farewell, while Tim Allen keeps on truckin' with his right-wing shade 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

The results, while hardly realistic, are full of the sights and sounds of bodily harm. Film: Brutal Truths About Screen Bloodshed in ?Kick-Ass? 2010-04-16T18:47:00Z

Both Tropa de Elite films belong to a new realistic trend of cinema that began in 2002, the year that saw the release of the internationally acclaimed City of God and the documentary Bus 174. Gritty police film a hit in Brazil 2010-12-14T09:19:34Z

She recounts realistic day-to-day bickering – occasional arguments over how to raise children, money, in-laws. Got a problem? Just ask Grandma 2012-09-28T23:05:30Z

He is often a poet of borders – between lyric and narrative, comedy and tragedy, fantastic and realistic. Poem of the week: A Fire Shared by Peter Didsbury 2010-06-28T11:43:00Z

David McVicar’s grimly realistic production suits her clear, straightforward style, and she was on fire on Saturday, singing tirelessly and growing in authority as the opera went on. Music Review: Verdi’s ‘Trovatore’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-10-02T22:20:47Z

But these developments in Alicia’s character strike me as realistic and, when you think about the nature of “The Good Wife,” inevitable. "The Good Wife" and the Good Life 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

On the one hand, it’s a terrifying look at capitalism’s slippery slopes and a realistic depiction of how a person’s will can shrivel into apathy and fear. Heart-Hammering Science Fiction and Fantasy Thrillers 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

This movie doesn’t recycle film noir conventions so much as contrive — with a genuine sense of discovery — to locate these conventions in a realistic contemporary context. ‘The Wild Goose Lake’ Review: A Noir Thriller in Wuhan 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

“But I’m interested in providing a richer and more realistic picture.” Rape by American Soldiers in World War II France 2013-05-20T22:19:19Z

Before Michael Anthony Williams began his job as a criminology researcher for George Mason University, his interviewer asked him to watch episodes of “The Wire,” the famously realistic Baltimore crime show. When art doesn’t pay the bills, an actor needs a good supporting role 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

They display a sense of playfulness and reverence, and are not intended to be realistic portraits of the landscape and its inhabitants. Looking for Clementine Hunter’s Louisiana 2013-06-14T20:04:57Z

She’s also self-possessed in the midst of a jam-packed schedule, and realistic about her future. Jamie Barton, Opera’s Nose-Studded Rock Star, Returns to the Met 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

The series is grounded and realistic, without the quirky detachment of a lot of shows set in the recent past, and it has a light touch with its period details. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

That marks the more realistic beginning of a relationship. 'Once the couple gets together, the tension is lost': how sitcom romance died 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

The reputation of scary movies started to change in the late 1960s and 1970s, when a new breed of ambitious filmmakers pushed to make them darker, more realistic and mature. Home Is Where the Horror Is 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

In fact, one begins to wonder if there ever was an actual baby, because Dorothy deals with her grief by caring for a realistic baby doll. Review | As a disturbing psychological thriller, ‘Servant’ succeeds. But it might hit too close to home. 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

It’s pretty realistic to assume that the quickest way to ward off a coercive and abusive man is to find another man who is kinder and stronger to stand in the way. I thought I knew about feminism – then I started work in a women’s prison 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

For the past decade, he said, movies have increasingly begun to combine “realist visual grammars with realistic special effects.” The Screening Room: “The Kármán Line” 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

It was important to Moselle that she paint a realistic portrait of female friendship, which was easy to do given that the girls were already friends in real life. These new skateboarding movies challenge gender stereotypes in surprising ways 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

"This also gives a realistic picture of how awful the slave trade really was." BET miniseries 'The Book of Negroes' offers woman's view of slavery era 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Buffalo Trace, a few miles north in Frankfort, reflects bourbon’s more realistic history as a big rough-and-tumble Dickensian enterprise. Exploring Kentucky Bourbon at Its Source 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

This is especially true with narrative comedy work, whose stories can give us realistic but improved scenarios from our own lives. Judd Apatow Stands Up 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

True enough, yet many features of this 400-year-old tragedy don’t easily fit the demands of a modern, realistic thriller. Jo Nesbo Sculpts ‘Macbeth’ Into Shadowy Crime Noir 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

And because this is decidedly Charlotte’s story, and a painfully realistic one at that, the jokes often elicit more rueful laughs. She’s running: "Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win" is the essential political novel for the 2018 mid... 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z

To your mind, is that realistic or, I don't know, nostalgic? Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z

What realistic chance does a Moore documentary stand with audiences today, inundated as they are with political content across all available platforms – social media, TV, streaming services, YouTube, podcasts, internet message boards? From box office to Oval Office: can a film ever lead to political change? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Since it stars Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis as rival candidates — you probably know this if you own a television — the movie is obviously not a realistic depiction of the American electoral process. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘The Campaign,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis 2012-08-10T03:56:14Z

Barrymore spent five years as co-creative director as a Cover Girl for beauty behemoth Proctor & Gamble, so she went into the new cosmetics line with big ideas but also realistic expectations, she says. Barrymore nurturing beauty brand Flower with care 2013-01-17T20:16:14Z

Some departments have failed to meet the Treasury deadline or are refusing to produce 40% cuts, saying it is not realistic to do so, and therefore a waste of time. Culture department braces itself for redundancies of up to 50% 2010-07-20T21:25:00Z

“He’s got the kind of chops that people take for granted. He’s on a trajectory, and it’s upward. That’s called brains, hard work and a realistic view of the business.” Dwayne Johnson, Star of ‘San Andreas,’ Is Solid. Solid as a ... 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Mr Vaizey was asked at the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport select committee whether it was realistic for all arts organisations to raise private funds. Row over minister's 'pathetic' jibe 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Issue this invitation hoping for the best but keeping your expectations very realistic. Ask Amy: It might be time to rekindle lost love 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

Casement was instrumental in giving Conrad a much more realistic idea of what was going on. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z

It sparked a debate about the depiction of naked women, which became more realistic on film compared to painting. Photography's history to go on show 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

But to make it realistic, you have to take a little bit of a beating to get it there. "The Informer" star on the "aggressive nature" of filming in prison 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

The digital artists took video of themselves acting like the Gallimimus herd for reference before they animated the stampede scene; it helped them create more realistic instinctive behavior. 20 things you might not know about "Jurassic Park" 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z

My scripted stuff is as realistic as possible and pretty issues-focused. Josh Thomas’s Week: ‘Twitter Has Been a Real Problem’ 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

It actually struck me as more realistic that way. Sitting down with "Bellflower's" creator 2011-08-02T20:03:00Z

Therefore, it might be more realistic to see this not as what she did, but who she is, and therefore part of any future you have together. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The birds and the bees and the uncowed teens 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

The Maryland artist’s show includes combined print/drawings of plants and animals in a realistic, highly detailed style. In the galleries: Katrina and a tempest of symbols 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The villains were slightly more realistic and the costumes considerably less ridiculous than those on “Batman,” and Mr. Lee’s action sequences were a highlight. Van Williams, TV’s Green Hornet, Dies at 82 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

“Shrill” is funny and emotional and perceptive, and unlike a lot of other contemporary, realistic comedies, it tells the exact right amount of story. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Writing in The Times, Janet Maslin called the movie a “clever, entertaining children’s film with a realistic edge and a minimum of seasonal mush.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Kill Team’ and ‘The Santa Clause’ 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

You create both a realistic world and a fantasy-dream world that convey so much about the characters. Natalie Portman talks to Salon about her directorial debut: “I felt lucky to make the film in Israel because being a female director there isn’t unusual” 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Still, Mr Brill seems to think that all the bartering and bitterness surrounding Obamacare was worth it, “because all of the realistic alternatives were worse”. Good, bad and ugly 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Chris went to DailySnark.com and found a page filled with other seemingly realistic stories. ‘These are all fake news,’ said the honor student. He was wrong. 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

“I think a realistic sized doll is important because, when I look at current dolls on the market, I can’t help but notice how disproportionate they are,” said Lamm in an email to Salon. Meet Lammily, the “average” Barbie featuring acne and stretch marks 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Far from a natural hero, Magdalys displays a realistic mix of terror and gumption in the face of the monsters around her, reptilian and human. Kids’ Fantasy Novels That Make Heroes Out of Underdogs 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

The only realistic defence capability was the security contractors up the road in the CIA Annex. Fighting dirty: could Michael Bay’s Benghazi movie take down Hillary Clinton? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

And the expectation that everything should be free or nearly free, and immediately accessible, just simply isn't always realistic. Lady Gaga's 99-cent Amazon fiasco continues 2011-05-26T15:27:00Z

But in recent years the computer animation technology has improved to make facial features and images more realistic — and less creepy. At CounterPunch Studios, actors' digital doubles come to life 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

When I took it out, it seemed right that maybe they will discuss it one day, -- maybe Kate does know, maybe not -- it seemed more realistic. The art of making "vagina movies" 2010-04-29T17:55:00Z

Though their fear of others is prompted by a situation of extremes, it's an anxiety that is realistic, even persistent today — and it's what undergirds the horror of their cannibalism. "Yellowjackets": Eat or be eaten? It's called being a team player 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Because race and racism are things that historically are serious, and we as a culture are too ignorant to present it in any kind of less than very realistic way.” Not just a football movie: How ‘Remember the Titans’ became a hit and inspired a nation 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

And when you put the characters in a Black space, you also told a realistic story of what that looks like, too. ‘Insecure’ Broke Ground by Embracing Imperfection 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

It’s not just the image of white knights on horses and towering gray castles that creates that “realistic” feeling, but also blood and gore, and what we often describe generally as “grittiness.” Reveling in the darkness: “True Detective,” “Game of Thrones” and the missing critique in TV’s cult of gritty realism 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

I’m not cheap, but realistic; I tip a full 20 percent at all restaurants, but delivery maybe 10 percent to 12 percent. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Mouse malpractice? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

“We have to be realistic,” said Sophie Simpson, its ballet company sales manager. Brown Point Shoes Arrive, 200 Years After White Ones 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

“The world is changing so unpredictably that classical realistic prose isn’t able to catch up to it,” he said. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

But that person was very gossipy and I didn’t think it was realistic – it sounded so out there. 'It was like tending to a disgusting baby': life as a Harvey Weinstein employee 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

“Capernaum” is fiction, but its portrayal of Lebanon’s rampant poverty and treatment of undocumented populations is very realistic. ‘Capernaum’ Is Not Just a Film, but a Rallying Cry 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Considering what would be realistic here brings to mind a phrase used by my kids’ old school, “supported risk.” Carolyn Hax: Sister with abusive past wants to have a baby 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Audiard said he could not have made the movie 10 years ago, because modern special effects allowed him to recreate Stephanie's impressively realistic severed limbs. Belgian actor wins plaudits and first Cannes "crush" 2012-05-17T13:01:30Z

Otherwise how could we be certain it wouldn't feel fake, and not thrillingly realistic like, say, The Thick Of It? Amstell delight 2010-08-06T23:10:00Z

I think we're going there, I also don't think the revolutionary folks necessarily, this is why I don't commit in the book, is really realistic, because no one's really talking about the long-term implications. Love local and sustainable food? In the future data will drive more decisions than desire 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

They have trouble walking and breathing in a realistic manner. Reading group: Truest grit 2012-12-06T11:09:52Z

I felt like it was a very long shot, to be realistic. Gael García Bernal on His Surprise Golden Globes Win for 'Mozart in the Jungle' 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Has her background in Pinter prepared her for Albee, who similarly refuses to justify dramatic actions along standard realistic lines? Lindsay Duncan finds her footing in 'A Delicate Balance' 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

They registered in my mind as polished but somewhat impersonal variations on standard themes, distinguished mainly by an incidental wealth of fine realistic detail. Tuning Out Digital Buzz, for an Intimate Communion With Art 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Burnham is gifted at mocking the performative liberal sanctimony of the moment as well as corporate attempts to exploit it, such as his very realistic YouTube ads that pop up below. Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

See how, in America, making a character a little bit of a moron actually makes him more realistic? "The Good Guys": Bradley Whitford with a bad cop mustache? 2010-05-19T14:01:00Z

Titled “Chapel of the Moon,” it includes Halloween-style totem poles, gigantic wind chimes, a tumbling waterfall, a couple of realistic but impossible to believe mannequins and a series of collages, some huge, others intimate. What to see in L.A. galleries: John Altoon, Maria Lassnig, a funky fairy tale and stenciled magic 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

I keep it realistic, maybe one or two shoot for the moon a little bit. ArtsBeat: The Sporting Life of ESPYs Host Rob Riggle 2012-07-11T12:00:57Z

I guess pop R&B songs about mild-mannered love interests don't have realistic hitmaking potential. The story in Usher's "Raymond V Raymond": divorce, nightclub, menage a trois 2010-04-14T18:37:00Z

Zachrison is thrilled by such synchronicity, but also realistic about what goodwill efforts can be accomplished when she brings Swedish artists to the United States. Around the world in several plays: Embassies get bitten by the theater bug 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

I thought it would be a hard thing to get away with in a realistic film — to dance for real. His Dancing Days Were Over. Then Came ‘Another Round.’ 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

“It’s nice to do something grounded, with real bodies moving in realistic ways,” Mr. Laming said. James Bond’s New Foe Looks Familiar, and His Hat Looks Sharp 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

“Is it realistic to use the product as the manufacturer intends? If the answer is no, it’s better to stay away from it.” Wonder Woman sword, Spider-Man drone land on 'Worst Toys' list 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Bittman’s treatise on agriculture is urgent but realistic about the challenges facing us. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

I still admire the show--especially the actors other than the unconvincing stepfather--but it gets less realistic each week. ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 7: A Test of Faith 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

You also don’t mind Kirkwood’s withholding because director David Muse’s production is one of those meticulously realistic Studio shows in which there are no false notes. Review | Lucy Kirkwood’s ‘The Children’ examines a nuclear disaster like Fukushima — but with a surprising twist 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

It is realistic about New York place names yet disconnected from reality. Review: In ‘People Places Things,’ Jemaine Clement Navigates Life as a Newly Single Dad 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

It’s realistic in both execution and earth-toned palette, and big enough, seemingly, to walk right into. In the galleries: Where the wild things are 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Browning has taken some stock Romantic images and thrillingly re-bottled them, not least of his triumphs being that determinedly realistic "slushy sand". Poem of the week: Night and Morning by Robert Browning 2013-04-22T09:10:03Z

Or pick one food that you miss and serve it once a day, every day, in a realistic portion. How post-workout food rewards can sabotage your goals 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

This wasn’t quite either; instead of balancing its politically realistic and TV-ridiculous sides, it seemed to alternate between them. Vacation Robo-Post: The 2012 Cincy Awards 2012-12-26T10:45:07Z

Viewers will judge for themselves how realistic this appears when new episodes of return on July 20. How to Shoot a Sex Scene in a Pandemic: Cue the Mannequins 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

Writers of realistic fiction are often are asked to wrestle with the question of autobiographical influence in interviews and essays. Sci-fi and fantasy authors reveal truths in the strangest fiction 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

I didn’t intend to write a realistic novel and I think I haven’t. “He had to literally collect pieces of his men from the ground after an ambush”: Joshua Ferris interviews Paolo Giordano 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Creating a game with a more realistic sense of death, and a taut sense of the time we have in a single life, will, he thinks, help give rise to a virtual civilization. Jason Rohrer and the Art of the Video Game 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

“As she’s telling me the process my heart was shattering bit by bit knowing that I would never see my ring again,” the woman wrote, before adding Fuller was “so sweet and empathetic,” albeit “realistic.” Texas woman’s engagement ring miraculously found in 10 tons of trash after she accidentally threw it away 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Well, according to The Revenant, that wasn’t a particularly realistic rendition of historic Native American fighting techniques. From Game of Thrones to The Revenant: the best battle scenes of all time 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Censors blocked the film's release for two years because of its realistic depiction of Soviet life in the wake of the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s. Acclaimed Russian film director Alexei German dies 2013-02-21T14:35:11Z

Her moves from menage to menage are like an essay on the tastes, behaviour, lifestyles and interior decoration of young, semi-bohemian New Yorkers, and the movie offers a fairly realistic view of their lives. Frances Ha – review 2013-07-27T23:07:03Z

And why is that not a realistic solution? The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

The largest works are realistic paintings of yellow sand and frothy surf under night skies. In the galleries: No day at the beach 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

The Bertha doll haunts the bowling alley, and the people there, like a dream — realistic but not real, not alive but not dead, either. A Dark Fairy Tale of American Oddballs and Candlepin Bowling 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

The actors also helped make it realistic because most of the actors — the main characters and his friends — are ex-cadets. "It is a civil war": "Heroic" director on how the Mexican military makes ordinary men into killers 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

But it was the proposal by Mr. Kirschenfeld and his collaborators that seemed most realistic. Critic's Notebook: Jonathan Kirschenfeld Reimagines the S.R.O. in the Bronx 2011-11-16T12:00:00Z

I wanted to make it realistic, but also fantastical. An 8,000-Pound Tribute to the Power of the Beehive 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

“Once a year is not realistic,” she says, “but at least every other year.” Perspective | A star violinist rebels against what she’s supposed to play — or wear. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

It's not quite a conventional British comedy and isn't exactly realistic and emulates a Wes Anderson or Noah Baumbach indie without quite becoming one. "Submarine": A geek-love indie from the Welsh seacoast 2011-06-03T20:20:00Z

The teen characters were as complex as adult leads such as Coach Eric Taylor and his wife Tami, whose realistic marital tensions only made them more enviable as a couple. When good TV goes bad: how the bulb blew on Friday Night Lights 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

She wasn’t able to deliver her scripted lines, but she still managed to be funny, cycling through a series of very realistic chokes, coughs and winces. Leslie Jones Is Leaving ‘S.N.L.’ Here Are Her 10 Funniest Moments. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

A few pictures, so painted that the burns that inspired them are barely discernible, include such realistic touches as a beached rowboat or a cloud-speckled blue sky. In the galleries: Using heat to create several kinds of artworks 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Her photographs adopt some formal aspects of painting, but their subjects are also much more present and unmediated in realistic detail and emotional mood. Art Review: Rineke Dijkstra at the Guggenheim Museum 2012-07-05T14:00:00Z

It produces remarkably realistic tummies in silicone and foam, in a range of five different skin tones and four different gestation sizes, with prices starting at £245 for a silicone model. 'Having a child doesn’t fit into these women's schedule': is this the future of surrogacy? 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

Depressingly realistic scenes result: desolate towns, isolated families and public services pushed to collapse. From Albert Camus to The Walking Dead: a look at pandemics in culture 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

I don't want a realistic portrayal of the American family, because I have one of my own. TV Review: NBC Family Sitcom "Parenthood" 2010-03-03T20:49:00Z

“Tales of Two Americas” is instead committed to a realistic portrayal of the differences between those with easy access to America’s opportunities and those without. A tale of two literary Americas: What a book on inequality accidentally reveals about inequality 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

Here are realistic tips to help you get and stay organized, in a way that makes sense for your family, without creating more work or costing a lot of money for organizing solutions. Perspective | Confession from an organizer: My home isn’t picture-perfect 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

He prefers realistic books with a strong sense of place or landscape, and mainly, but not exclusively, novels. Books for Left-Brained Readers 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

I think it's really great that it is in this movie and that there aren't any consequences, because it's an authentic realistic look that there needs to be consequences. 'The Spectacular Now' spotlights young love like it used to be 2013-08-01T23:41:08Z

But as realistic as they were, the bakery smells only wafted in at certain points. What’s That Smell? It’s ‘Festen,’ a Play and Film With Aroma 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

And later, a tryst in Marta’s unfurnished apartment exudes the eeriness of a vividly realistic dream. ‘Preparations to Be Together’ Review: Mysteries of Love 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

And I’m hoping it will come back to stuff that’s a little more realistic, because I think teenagers need that. SXSW: Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy on 'Breakfast Club' 30th anniversary 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

“Transmissions” confirms the move in that realistic direction. Review: ‘Transmissions’ at MoMA Explores an Era When Art Upended Tradition 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

But then the novel is not realistic, even by satirical standards. Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-08T21:55:05Z

Actors shouldn’t be asked to do them, at least, not in any realistic fashion. “Destination Wedding,” Reviewed: Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves Suffer Through One of the Worst Sex Scenes in Recent Memory 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Megalodon: The New Evidence Last year Discovery's dramatized Shark Week special "Megalodon: The Monster Shark That Lives," a fake documentary, was realistic enough to fool more than a few viewers. Friday's TV Highlights: 'At Middleton' on Starz 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

“Anna” evokes a tradition of the fantastical in Italian cinema, from Fellini to Paolo Sorrentino, while remaining tied to its realistic, and sometimes harrowing and quite violent, action. Review: In ‘Anna,’ the End of Adults, but Not the World 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

I was a samizdat writer with no realistic hopes of ever being published by any official Soviet journal or magazine. Hearing Aretha Franklin’s “I Say a Little Prayer” in the Soviet Union 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

Andersson garnered international attention with his first film, 1970's A Swedish Love Story, a gorgeous tale of teenage romance that manges to be both realistic and lyrical. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-03-19T00:06:06Z

There she discovered that her more polished, realistic sculptures made for “a visual language that other people weren’t speaking or understanding.” Rose B. Simpson Thinks in Clay 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

I'm not on the side of frustration exactly, so much as the idea that one has to be able to bear frustration in order for satisfaction to be realistic. Adam Phillips: a life in writing 2012-06-01T21:55:08Z

A more realistic target is for you to coax yourself toward his level of calm, at least to start. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Spouses stare down a job loss with mismatched levels of dread 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

I'd expect Nolan to avoid any supernatural overtones to the character, as they would stand out like a sore thumb in his more realistic Batman universe. Anne Hathaway's Catwoman walks into a crowded Dark Knight Rises 2011-01-20T14:56:04Z

The final third is very different from where the movie begins, which is a rare thing for this kind of realistic drama. 'American Sniper' a simple, mesmerizing tale of war and its aftermath 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

And although I couldn’t agree more that consumption contributes to clutter and disorganization, I’m also aware that telling someone to just stop shopping is not a realistic solution. Perspective | Decluttering only helps so much if you’re still buying too much in the first place 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

I’m afraid the net will have to be cast much wider if American Jewish continuity, in any meaningful but also realistic sense, is to be achieved. Letters to the Editor 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Herbert’s droll, scrupulously realistic dialogue captures the journey of a parent and a child learning to see each other as flawed people. ‘Don’t Make Me Go’ Review: Sharp Curves Ahead for Next 2,000 Miles 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

In his acceptance speech, Lee praised the show and those involved with it for making “a realistic problem we all face come to life so creatively.” The Best and Worst Moments of the 2022 Emmys 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

Shauna’s fantasy of her baby is just realistic enough to fool the audience. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: Little One 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

It forbade profanity, graphic sex and realistic violence in Hollywood movies. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z

I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way. Gillian Flynn isn’t writing “the next ‘Gone Girl'”: “I feel like I need a break from their voices in my head” 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

But what’s strange about the play, which is written in a realistic style, is how implausible it all seems, from drinks to snack to chat. Review: Putting a ‘Party Face’ on a Suicide Recovery 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

The door was open for film-makers to say: “A realistic portrayal has been done, so let’s do our own version.” The best battle scenes ever shot from Apocalypse Now to Hacksaw Ridge 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

“I’m not great at realistic gore, but I do enjoy the shockingness and startling aspect of when unrealistic gore happens,” he explained. ‘Transformers’ and a Zombie Comedy: What ‘Invincible’ Is Made Of 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

While I'm sure the financial goals are lofty, this year they also appear to be realistic this go around, taking into consideration the current financial climate. 'American Idol:' Idol Gives Back 2010-04-20T07:39:00Z

So realistic an objective was it, in fact, that all the leading candidates in London's mayoral elections of 2008 pledged to achieve it before they left office. The homelessness crisis in England: a perfect storm 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The 1999 show, based on memories of Feig's own teenage trauma, was a hugely enjoyable celebration of disaffected youth and one of the most realistic portrayals of teenage emotions on TV. Paul Feig: Hollywood's accidental feminist 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z

It also presented a different view from other films, breaking down social-barriers and showing empathy crossing the social hierarchy of school, which I felt was actually very realistic. 'Stand by Me prepared me for reality': readers' favourite coming of age films 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

The brief experiment with 10 nominees drew complaints that it pulled films with no realistic chance of winning an Oscar into expensive awards campaigns. ArtsBeat: Number of Oscar Nominees Will Vary 2011-06-15T13:45:02Z

However, it’s not realistic to paint all prison moms with the same brush, because they’re not all horrible mothers. Don’t believe the “Orange is the New Black” hype: How the Netflix series misrepresents life behind bars 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Perry’s latest film touches upon some recognizable and realistic challenges with efficient compassion, but there’s probably more dramatic tension in a car pool than in this film’s collection of predicaments. Movie Review: Motley Group Vents in ‘Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club’ 2014-03-14T22:19:49Z

I don't care if the science is realistic or not. "I don't want to be L. Ron Hubbard": Andy Weir on writing escapism & new book "Project Hail Mary" 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

All tied back to Afrofuturism, an artistic movement that mixes realistic racial pessimism with audacious fantasy, and that holds an increasingly prominent place in culture today. An Afrofuturism Festival Brings an Energy Shift to Carnegie Hall 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

Once again she uses a tangy mixture of satire and sentiment to recount her story, seasoning a basically realistic narrative with a light sprinkling of bizarre, tabloid-type events. Books of The Times: She?s Making Friends in a New Place 2011-04-21T22:41:45Z

The best of five examples of J. M. W. Turner’s late, possibly unfinished seascapes can cause a kind of brain freeze as they hover between obdurate and infinite, realistic and abstract. At the Met Breuer, Thinking Inside the Box 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

More individual and realistic and less formulaic is Shirley Hughes's delightful Lucy and Tom series in which two small children do many of the same things as Peppa and George and their friends. What books for toddlers can match the allure of Peppa Pig? 2013-05-27T20:55:26Z

She coats her creations, which she considers containers of emotions, with a pigmented resin to stabilize their shape and provide realistic color. Exhibition review: From Legos to laminates, plastic is raw material for jewelry 2010-05-07T23:23:00Z

So far, wide audiences haven’t embraced higher frame rates, which can produce uncomfortably realistic images. The Real Message in Ang Lee’s Latest? ‘It’s Just Good to Look At’ 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

It was easy to believe in these characters – they were likeable and Morpurgo depicted them in a realistic way. Waiting For Anya by Michael Morpurgo - review 2012-11-08T09:00:00Z

It’s hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic. Yorgos Lanthimos Narrates a Scene From ‘The Lobster’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Music never felt like a realistic dream when Brown was growing up, raised by a single mother in Northwest Georgia and around Chattanooga, Tenn.; at one point, they slept in their car. Kane Brown could be the future of country music. So why is the industry skeptical? 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

The result is a strikingly more realistic human face than gamers are used to seeing. Video Game to Play in Vintage Gumshoes 2011-05-06T20:13:40Z

Of course, we want realistic movies and better movies. Seeing Native Americans Nowhere, and Everywhere 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Your realistic side needs to step in to protect the vulnerable, romantic side. Letting go of the dream lover 2012-12-10T01:00:00Z

“It is much more realistic to actually see it here,” said Kim Sang-jin, 8, who watched the meeting live on television. Rush to replay leaders' handshake revives appeal of Korean movie set 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

These interpretations aren’t always realistic, so if you’re looking to work the aesthetic in your own home, just remember that it’s high on function, low on fuss. Scandinavian design is more than just Ikea 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Watching Devin Welch murder Keith Richards' combination rhythm-and-lead style, it hit me that Welch's usual gnarly avant-garde technique is abstract Picasso, but he's also early realistic Picasso, master of the fundamentals. Tips from "The Rolling Stones" -- Seattle's premier Rolling Stones cover band, playing Capitol Hill Block Party July 22 2011-06-13T17:53:15Z

Richard Burton, a '60s heartthrob because of his affair with Elizabeth Taylor, showed his chops as an actor with his gritty, depressing and thoroughly realistic portrayal of the tormented Leamas. 5 best movies based on John le Carr? books 2011-12-15T20:59:21Z

“El Norte” is grim and realistic about the difficult odds facing undocumented immigrants even after they arrive in America. Hollywood’s Diversity Problem and Undocumented Immigrants 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

For all of its modern touches — the realistic diversity, the hero’s cerebral nature and psychological torment — there is something old-fashioned about the appeal of “Hijack.” ‘Hijack,’ With Idris Elba, Is a Throwback Thriller 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

The movie “spins in agnostic limbo, neither fantastical enough to be thrilling nor realistic enough to be genuinely disturbing,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in February. DVDs: New DVDs, ?Word Is Out? and ?Meredith Monk? 2010-05-30T01:53:00Z

"Making it sound realistic and not being repetitive, because I tend to use the same one – apart from positions changing." Learn to write erotica – centaur sex anyone? 2012-12-09T20:00:06Z

VR offers enough of a realistic experience to create a heightened emotional state and new neural pathways in our brains so we use what we learned in a high-pressure situation. How to Stay Safe at the Airport 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Playwright Doug Wright has had some fun himself, the cast is committed and realistic, and the whole thing is a pleasing, tuneful, heart-filled ode to small towns and American dreams. Review: 'Hands on a Hardbody' tuneful, sweet ode 2013-03-22T00:10:15Z

Whole-muscle cuts of cultured meat would need considerably more effort, utilizing an organic scaffold or 3-D printing techniques to organize cells into fibers that have realistic inclusion of fat and connective tissue. Could we all be buying lab-grown meat soon? 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

We had meaningful analysis, lengthy discussions, accurate assessments, nuanced recall of past events and realistic projections into the future. Diamondbacks 1, Story 0 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z

But even if you’re making dialogue up, you try for a realistic way of speaking. Part Ramones Biography, Part Dreamscape 2013-08-08T12:00:13Z

From male director and writer duo Randal Kleisler and Douglas Day Stewart, "The Blue Lagoon" is not the film to watch to gain a realistic grasp of a menstrual cycle and its significance. The best and absolute worst onscreen first periods, from "Carrie" to "Turning Red" 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

Do you see any kind of division between the more speculative ones and the more ostensibly realistic? Mary South on Content Moderation and Trauma 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Doing this beforehand allowed me to set a realistic, but relatively quick turnaround time for my customers. 9 Tips for Launching a Successful Kickstarter Campaign 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

The mood of “The Little House” hovers between cozy and elegiac, wistful and realistic. “Life Story,” Virginia Lee Burton’s Picture Book for the Ages 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Parker and Church’s barbed comments and acidic conflicts come across as so realistic, actually, that they proved too much for Horgan’s spouse to bear. HBO’s “Divorce”: “It would have been easier to make as a drama” 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

Pulp-influenced, using melodrama as a device for social commentary, Fuller’s movies are gritty, naturalistic if not always realistic, relying on odd camera angles and cuts to reinforce the instability of the world. On his birthday: Samuel Fuller, novelist? 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

It must have a realistic amount of resources to handle the influx of veterans it has been receiving and treating since the end of the Iraq War and drawdown of troops in Afghanistan. A sampling of editorials from around New York 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

The builders of the Natural History Museum in London followed his instructions to the letter, peppering its interior with realistic replicas of animal creation. Call of nature: when art imitates life 2011-08-24T11:21:17Z

The action is all relatively realistic, but then someone will drop a cryptic or surreal observation. Review: Pursuing (Cyber) Connections in ‘The Human Surge’ 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

“My objective isn’t to be as realistic as possible; it’s to find the character and feeling of each flower and interpret that.” Fake flowers get some real respect 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

The highly realistic paintings in “Passing Through,” at the Mansion at Strathmore, depict a fox, a pig and a dozen species of birds, as well as insects and flowers. Review | In the galleries: Extraordinary images from ordinary settings in ‘Places We Find’ 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

"If you're talking about a realistic movie - that's not a fantasy or a comic book film - studios have become very resistant to anything that's not bubbly and positive all the time," he added. Soderbergh says tired of making "important movies" 2012-06-26T12:04:32Z

“The design is not realistic, but it’s not completely abstract,” Mr. Watkins said. ?EatSleepPlay,? at Children?s Museum of Manhattan 2011-11-10T22:04:12Z

Someone called the latest Hasbro action figure the most realistic likeness of you yet. Paul Rudd, Larger Than Life but Still Nice 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

“Social media isn’t exactly known for realistic portrayals of what people actually look like.” TikTokers are drinking liquid chlorophyll. Experts debunk this wellness craze. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

As less-than-noble motives emerge, their arguments are at times more pointedly on-the-nose and self-aware than plausibly realistic, but they ring hilariously true. A Mount Washington clash of cultures in L.A. playwright's 'Mutual Philanthropy' 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Furthermore, the relationship between the grandson and Grandpa is so touching and realistic. Farm Boy by Michael Morpurgo - review 2012-02-09T09:00:00Z

A hotel needs to be realistic when looking at the scope of the renovation and the overall impact to the guest. The customer’s recourse when a hotel is undergoing renovations 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

His able successor at the Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert—to whom Maazel left an orchestra in superb shape—is the product of a more realistic age. Lorin Maazel: The Man Who Knew Too Much 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

The ambitious comic series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, which first appeared in 1986, imagined a realistic group of “costumed vigilantes” enmeshed in the nuclear arms race and Vietnam War, among other geopolitical conflicts. Who Will Watch ‘Watchmen’? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

Although he is a far more realistic character, Farrell ultimately needs to be as tough and brave as Philip Marlowe — while, it’s important to note, lacking Marlowe’s childish fear of women. Book review: ‘Dry Bones in the Valley,’ exciting debut thriller by Tom Bouman

From the first frame of the original Toy Story, 15 years ago, the marriage of eerily realistic computer animation and old-fashioned, emotionally plausible storytelling was a bountiful one. Living dolls 2010-06-30T19:00:00Z

Like that artist, Chatmon places realistic renderings of faces within sumptuous abstract patterns. Review | In the galleries: An intimate panorama of video art’s variety and breadth 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Trying to transform Iraq, for instance, is not a realistic goal. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z

In the movie, he teaches his young daughters to chant, “Monogamy isn’t realistic.” Colin Quinn 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

And we should also be honest about how racially homogenous our social networks tend to be — if the quirky, spunky frenemies in “Girls” are all white, that’s just realistic, I agree. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z

For art is complex, as human beings are complex, and only in a completely crass view of culture is the realistic necessarily real, the contemporary necessarily urgent, the historical or fantastic escapist. What's wrong with a little escapism in art? | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-26T11:04:00Z

Some observers thought the images were too clear and the result so realistic that it took away from the magic of the film medium. 'Hobbit' director aims for magical film experience 2012-11-28T04:33:08Z

If you’re the one planning reservations and activities, be realistic about timing. How to Win Friends and Influence People (at Bachelorette Parties) 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

“I didn’t want anything that was too realistic or dystopian,” she said. Here’s What 11 TV Writers Are Bingeing 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

“It doesn’t really have to be realistic, because it’s portraying a certain idea of a kind of culture,” said Mr. Cera, who grew up into Brampton, Ontario, just outside of Toronto. Film: Cult Director Courts the Mass, Keeps the Crazy 2010-08-06T21:12:00Z

So he wanted to plan a realistic project that could be privately funded without relying on Congress. Kennedy Center plans 1st expansion since opening 2013-01-29T23:46:04Z

The tone and feel of the film is both modern and traditional, realistic and fantastical. "It Lives Inside" director on his psychological monster and "counterintuitive" approach to suspense 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

Given your experience on the show, it seems realistic for viewers to assume “UnREAL” is about “The Bachelor.” Former 'Bachelor' producer gets real on Lifetime's 'unREAL' 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Though painted by hand in a lucidly simplified realistic style, the juxtapositions of images remain mysterious. James Rosenquist, Pop Art Pioneer, Dies at 83 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

Taylor said only that this time the prices are "realistic" and buyers have already shown interest. Glamorous Diana dresses up for auction 2013-02-28T13:10:12Z

Her captivity experience is suspenseful, immediate and at times mercilessly realistic. Roxane Gay's 'An Untamed State' gives torture survivor a voice 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

I wouldn’t say that any of these movies or shows are against a woman’s right to choose, but the issue is that they rarely present it as a realistic option. Abortion and “Jane the Virgin”: Ultimately, giving birth is the one choice that matters on this show 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

“I’m not sure the industry sees a lot of box-office potential in getting these representations right and portraying Muslims or the Islamic religion in a more nuanced and realistic way,” Mr. Bernstein said. Film: Hollywood Ignores East-West Exchange 2011-03-18T20:48:41Z

Not exactly the most encouraging send-off, but a realistic statement nonetheless. The easy recipe for Valentine’s Day success: Heavenly, rich chocolate tartlets 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Let's not insult Trump's fans or their favorite artist by assuming that anyone takes this as a realistic depiction of anything. Trump propaganda painter Jon McNaughton: "Greatest" artist of our time? 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

Both deliver thoughtful, painfully realistic performances, to be sure. The gripping immigration story of "Stateless" risks being blanked out by star power 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

He was installing a show that included work by Thomas Demand, known for slightly creepy photographs of rooms that look realistic but are actually fabricated with colored paper. A Peephole Perspective on Tiny Worlds 2011-06-10T21:30:09Z

So you would say that it's a realistic scenario. The smart science of "Contagion" 2011-09-03T17:01:00Z

The Australian jungle locations, meanwhile, are colorful but look artificial and too heavily computer generated compared with the more realistic Hawaiian scenes in “Lost.” Television Review: ?Terra Nova? on Fox Has Spielberg Touch ? Review 2011-09-25T19:38:19Z

For all his conspicuously realistic theatrical artifice, Bergman overcomes it, in “The Silence,” with a realm of highly inflected images that owe little to dramatic realism. Ingmar Bergman and the Risk of Ridicule 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

I’m off to find a more realistic self-image and a better way to neutralize my maternal guilt. Celebrity moms make me feel better about myself 2013-09-05T22:59:00Z

There are crime and horror stories, a narrative poem and a grim western, along with realistic stories about marriage, aging and substance abuse. Stephen King, Not Just the Guy Who Makes Monsters 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

However, it's just not realistic for me to play with him for a long stretch of time in the morning when we're trying to get ready, and I'm a pretty terrible playmate then, anyway. Perspective | When a young son is an early riser, but a parent is not 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Or, at the very least, a more realistic shift of focus. The Great British cliche 2011-03-09T12:02:45Z

I really wanted to see the human world look more realistic because I just wanted to see Native families in a more modern sense. "We are the original stewards of this land": "Spirit Rangers" boss on imagining Native park rangers 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

But the Met’s survey evinces a larger history that isn’t all anointed winners, that conveys a more realistic sense of how art happens. A Trans-Atlantic View of Modernism 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

The characters whose assassination attempts were most successful used the most realistic props. When the Actors Are Students, and They’re Armed 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

It does not lead toward a realistic or reasonable solution to anything. The case against “saving” marriage 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

“It’s not realistic to think that if only people knew the truth, they would do the right thing,” Hall says. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

A Nietzschean Plunge Into Sensual Labyrinths SALZBURG, Austria — The German composer has little interest in music-theater works that tell realistic stories realistically. Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z

On one hand, to make a story credible and entertaining, the more realistic the backdrop that you depict, the more willing someone’s going to be to believe it. Q&A: The Real Forensic Psychiatrist Behind Side Effects 2013-02-08T15:00:26Z

Viewing the world through Harry's calculating, emotionally chilled perspective enables the show to circumvent potential discomfort with addressing any realistic issues related to race and culture in Patience, at least initially. Syfy's charming "Resident Alien" lets its star(man) shine, despite muddled metaphorical aspirations 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Yes, movies exploit that and box it into two hours, and maybe that doesn't seem very realistic. Drew Barrymore: Don't mention the c-word 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z

With Girls, 27-year-old Dunham is hoping to "give women a more realistic portrayal of their lives" than what has been available on TV before. Girls wants 'to normalise sex on TV' 2014-01-20T07:24:21Z

But the style of “The Sopranos” — dramatic and violent but still comedic, with dream sequences and surreal riffs laced throughout the more grounded, realistic proceedings — still resonates. Pandemic TV hero Lorraine Bracco on why ‘The Sopranos’ was a quarantine hit and that house in Sicily she bought for a buck 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Esmail’s diverse hackers take on the system in a more realistic and terrifying way: uncovering its leaders’ darkest secrets with just a keystroke. 'Mr. Robot' Is the Antidote to Your 'True Detective' Blues 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

But educators warn users to approach the programs with realistic expectations. During self-quarantine, learn a foreign language without leaving the house 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

To imply they all prioritize these vocations or avocations over their loved ones isn’t fair, or realistic. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: His risky sport endangers his life, and his wife wants a parachute 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

You have to be realistic about the kind of writer you are, don't you? A life in writing: Nicola Barker 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z

But they also suit cinematic forms that are focused on realistic spectacles as opposed to masterful narratives. The Silent Film Returns — on Social Media 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Many withdrew from politics and/or became supporters of local efforts to work for “realistic” change believing that transformative, systemic change is “unrealistic.” I have had it with cynical faux-realists attacking Bernie Sanders idealists 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Executed in jewel-toned oil pastels on black canvas grounds, Adler’s images are realistic in that they capture the dimensionality of the forms, their shadows, even the textures of brick, foliage and sand that surround them. Amy Adler at play with forms at once concrete and abstract 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Rapidly leaving behind those innocent concepts, the theme in the comedies that follow is more realistic. Review: 2 J.M. Barrie comedies smart, breezy 2013-05-07T21:01:15Z

Martindale captures the pragmatic fatigue that surely beset Abzug , a three-term congresswoman familiar with the workings of political machinery and bleakly realistic about the movement's chances to enact real shifts in government and society. In "Mrs. America," Cate Blanchett shines as a frigid firebrand who challenges the feminist movement 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

The music for “Twin Peaks” had to make realistic and surrealistic sense. The ‘Twin Peaks’ Theme Isn’t Just a Song. It’s a Portal. 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

However, the best place to start establishing a realistic budget is by looking at your current food costs. How to create a realistic grocery budget (and actually stick to it) 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z

Its realistic graphics, cinematic presentation, and thoughtful commentary on nuclear proliferation cemented my ambitions to work in video games. Your First Video Game Crush 2013-08-07T16:07:55Z

Ingemar brought a fishing rod, but he was also realistic and tossed in some fillets from home, too. In Sweden, a DIY dining adventure 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

I instantly conspired with my friend Gina Barreca, the feminist scholar, to come up with a more realistic and down-to-earth contract. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Do you take this ‘relationship contract’ for better or worse? 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

But how can we make family meals more realistic and less stressful? Five tips on how to keep family meals delicious, nutritious and stress-free 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

Hegel came straight out and said it: the novel is the civic class's epic poem, and it shows a realistic world using characteristics of the essay. Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z

These impossible visions at times evoke the work of M. C. Escher, who used perspective to destabilize otherwise realistic images. Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

“The real secret to a healthy body is balance. Design a realistic plan that works for you and avoid drastic, quick fixes,” Scritchfield says. How to change food habits for a healthier life

"I used to do caricatures, but now I try to be more realistic to get more attention for helping the country," Moise said during a break from his painting Thursday night. Haiti's earthquake spurs Miami art fair projects 2010-12-03T21:04:00Z

As Corryn, Clay circles through Scott Hengen’s realistic classroom set in the spacious Silver Spring Black Box Theatre, tartly commenting on the student essays and mythological posters tacked to the walls. ‘Gidion’s Knot’ is sharp as a knife, but undone by threadbare plot details

"I didn't want to do a superficially realistic film; I wanted it to be a meditation." Director, cinematographer talk about the old-style framing on 'Ida' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

You say, ‘The only way this could be realistic is this way.’ Q&A: The Real Forensic Psychiatrist Behind Side Effects 2013-02-08T15:00:26Z

Aaron’s resigned attitude toward the hapless Wizards might be the most realistic depiction of Washington life on the show. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 7: Whac-a-Mole 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

They were like, 'It'll make it less realistic', and we were like, 'It's more realistic. Seth Rogen: the slacker's guide to getting ahead 2013-06-21T23:01:00Z

Heartwarming war stories aren’t easy to come by, especially if they insist on being entirely realistic about the hellishness of military life. 'When Books Went to War’ by Molly Guptill Manning 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

"It's about a guy getting out of this rut, learning to be present and have more engaged and realistic relationships." Gordon-Levitt's 'Don Jon' gets streamlined title 2013-03-12T11:37:17Z

The voters chose a diverse array of nominees for this inaugural contest, each with a realistic shot at the award. Emmys 2015: Watch Videos From the New Sketch Comedy Category 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

“I was focused on making things as realistic as possible,” she said. Where the Sky Meets the Sea: Jennifer Guidi Leans Into Beauty 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

The description is so elaborate and expansive as to cease to be realistic; no actual shield could contain all that detail. This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner on Art, Language, and Uber 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Here Schulz drew what, by contrast, were redolently realistic suburban settings. The Debt That All Cartoonists Owe to “Peanuts” 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

As a performer, Mr. Wallach drew from “the Method,” an acting technique that uses the performer’s emotional memory to add realistic touches to a role. Eli Wallach dies: Character actor known for ‘The Magnificent Seven’ was 98

Recall that when MTV first thought about offering its post-Recession audience less aspirational and more realistic youth identities, it turned to the Italian American youth of Staten Island depicted in "Bridge and Tunnel." How MTV's "Jersey Shore" fetishized the Guido, a subversive ethnic stereotype that America disdained 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

But parents also will enjoy this humorously realistic look at the world of middle-schoolers. Add 'Big Nate' and other new hybrid books to kids' mix 2010-08-06T22:40:00Z

He’s instructed to fit in and to fight back, to follow his dreams and to be realistic. ‘Armageddon Time’ Review: Hard Lessons About Life in America 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

The California coast, rural France and street scenes from Paris and New York are among the subjects of the realistic oils by Joseph Keiffer at Gallery Neptune & Brown. Review | In the galleries: Humble materials yield extraordinary art 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

World » Dead Join the Living in a Family Celebration A Taste of Home in Foil Packets and Powder The Stone: Mystery and Evidence Is it realistic to expect religion to satisfy the demands of science? | 'My Trip to Al-Qaeda': Variations on a Theme of International Terrorism 2010-09-06T22:01:00Z

But Michael Kelly really deserves a shot for his work on House of Cards, playing one of the few realistic characters on the increasingly hammy show. Emmys 2015 nominations verdict – same shows, different year 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

When everything we read and experience seems impossible, how do you tell the realistic from the patently insane? Gillian Flynn Takes Her Paranoia to Television 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

To me, though, its carefully built rhythm made the brutality seem realistic, and watching it at the Royal Court, on the edge of moneyed Sloane Square, added a strange frisson. Laura Wade: return of the thugs 2012-05-16T17:30:01Z

Filmed with urgency and remarkably realistic special effects, “The Impossible” moves breathlessly through its story. ‘The Impossible’ is moving, urgent but oddly unbalanced 2013-01-03T22:38:50Z

Brand dramatizes his story with a deft realistic touch. 'Taste' and 'Backyard' revel in gore and lack style 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

I say "or something" because the idea that this type of image is "realistic" or "documentary-like" is nonsense. Time to declare war on the shaky camera 2011-03-15T20:16:00Z

Most in the audience won't be able to see such details, but they show the artistic team's determination to create a realistic atmosphere. Nelson Mandela opera comes to Johannesburg 2011-08-12T17:56:09Z

In total contrast, “In the Inn” is a wry, relatively realistic, male-female duet in ordinary light. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Opener Features Balanchine 2013-05-01T22:03:21Z

When the Nashville-born artist Shannon Cartier Lucy, who had earlier success with a conceptual practice, re-emerged last year after a decade-long absence from the art world, it was with a crisp, realistic style. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Hollywood is finally opening the door wider to more realistic portrayals of who people are. Peter Dinklage: ‘Tyrion has a sense of humour'’ 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

There is indeed a very good case for such an attraction in Scarborough and the area does present a realistic opportunity to support it. Scarborough could sustain a full-scale maritime heritage centre, says report from Hull University 2012-10-03T10:06:45Z

Among a handful of entries added to the show from the Met’s collection, they’re realistic, fantastic, Eastern, Western, archaic and utterly modern. Art Review: A Cascade of Petals From the Met’s Japanese Collection 2014-01-30T23:17:46Z

The combination of realistic and hallucinatory scenes was ideal for Mr. Eotvos, who folds hints of jazz and pop into a richly colored modernist voice. ‘Angels in America,’ the Opera, in New York 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think there are any realistic portrayals of witchcraft in modern pop culture,” argues Lewis. ‘We are the weirdos’: how witches went from evil outcasts to feminist heroes 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

They praised the show’s realistic, honest treatment of infertility, tweeting that Alicia’s story was their story, or at least similar to their story. ‘False Positive’ and the Horror-Filled Truth About Fertility Treatments 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

Authorities blocked the film's release for two years because of its realistic depiction of Soviet life in the wake of the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s. Stalinist regime chronicler Alexei German dies 2013-02-21T07:46:07Z

“He has a gift for the strategically deployed profanity, and writes dialogue so musical and realistic you’ll hear it in the air around you.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Is this show realistic in showing the challenges of urban schools? How real is "Abbott Elementary"? A former Philadelphia school teacher weighs in 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

It’s a passionately realistic story that details the daily lives of its characters but is based on wondrous flights of fantasy that Vitkova realizes by means of simple yet gleefully audacious special effects. “Viktoria”: A Great Film About Women, by a Woman 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

“The culture has an impression of aging that is not realistic,” he said. For Carl Reiner and His Fellow Nonagenarians, Death Can Wait 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Moving him back to second grade didn’t seem like a realistic option. Perspective | ‘Redshirting’ your kindergartner: Is it the right choice in the long run? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

So Boehm’s vision of an egalitarian society is a much more realistic one. Sharing is in our nature 2012-08-13T11:45:00Z

The Gardener’s Wife: The responsibility to be supportive and realistic isn’t yours alone. Carolyn Hax: Husband wants to create his career paradise, wife’s pouring cold water on it 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

“I totally don’t live in reality, I live in fantasy, so it’s quite natural for me to make a thing that was not realistic,” Matafeo, 30, said in a recent video call. How Rose Matafeo Shaped the Romance in ‘Starstruck’ 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

But what comes next is the most painfully realistic of all. Yes, "Yellowjackets," the wild show about cannibalism, gives us a realistic breastfeeding story 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z

The later, somewhat more controlled sections suggest otherwise, specifically the long, grinding middle segment and the shorter final siege, with their more realistic and emotionally nuanced acting. | 'United Red Army': Circular Firing Squad, Run by Young Radicals 2011-05-26T21:35:10Z

Then the audience sees the reality of each character's lives and while it may be realistic, it does not make for interesting theater. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

A: One thing that hasn’t changed is that a writer is always writing without the expectation of fame, maybe with the hope for it but without the realistic expectation. Q&A: Tom Nissley on his ‘A Reader’s Book of Days’ 2013-12-13T21:47:59Z

In the stories you mention I tried to write in a very realistic way while absolutely weird stuff happens in the narrative. Talking with Naja Marie Aidt about her short story collection 'Baboon' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

This is an obvious thing to say, but Nolan departs from the more fantastical universe of Tim Burton’s Batman movies in numerous ways, mostly by making Gotham more … let’s not say realistic, let’s say plausible. “The Dark Knight Rises”: Does Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” hold up? 2012-07-14T19:00:00Z

Look for the realistic work in which an outsized Tetris piece crushes a man. Frugal Traveler Blog: Saving Rubles in St. Petersburg 2012-09-04T21:23:01Z

There is infinitely better food in Denmark, including in Copenhagen and at realistic prices, made by creative food people who don't think they're reinventing the wheel. The New Noma: Frequently Asked Questions 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

But if baby Colin's presence right now serves any broader if coincidental purpose, perhaps it is to validate the realistic demands of childrearing, and the unsuitability of some people to undertake it. "What We Do in the Shadows" sinks its teeth into a trend of men playing surrogate dads 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

Beaumont, though, came from a tradition of realistic theatre, in which, if the script asked for a drawing room or living room, the designer created exactly that. 'Now cross the Andes.' In praise of the impossible stage direction 2012-06-12T11:56:16Z

In many respects, they give a more realistic portrayal of working class life in London than Charles Dickens’s novels.” An Early Triumph in Information Design 2010-05-23T16:00:00Z

It is also psychologically realistic, despite the ghoulish trappings. What's wrong with Hitchcock's women 2010-10-21T20:30:00Z

The teenage Grace’s unassuming assumption of a major role in her mother’s latest ad-hoc law firm, while not exactly realistic, provided a crucial element of warmth and humor. Review: ‘The Good Wife’ Ends With No Easy Answers 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

SUN Practical advice to achieve any realistic dream, 3:30 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-05-05T19:33:17Z

Soon after, Zanuck’s father embarked on “The Longest Day,” a costly film about World War II’s D-Day and its aftermath, with realistic battle scenes and dozens of well-known actors. Oscar-Winning Producer Richard Zanuck Dead at 77 2012-07-13T22:03:50Z

Indeed, for a while, the producers did seem to want to create a realistic portrait of a place and a pursuit. TV Picks: 'Good Wife,' 'The Middle,' 'Black-ish,' 'Marple' and more 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Shriver's novel 'is about sibling and familial responsibility and the extent to which it's possible, ethical, realistic or even desirable to intervene'. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver – review 2013-05-11T07:00:24Z

His wild imagination has room for a realistic assessment of how men and women interact, especially as spouses or siblings. Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, DiCaprio may end up winning his first Oscar, thanks to all that persuasively realistic facial hair and convincing consumption of buffalo liver. Will Leo's Eating of Buffalo Liver Sway Oscar Voters? 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Talking and learning about realistic sex would help ease the pressure to perform for everyone. 'I mentally rehearse what to do': the truth about sexual performance anxiety 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Even the most realistic staging depends on the power of the ear to augment the eye: great singing creates its own ulterior drama, detached from the movement of bodies onstage. On Tara Erraught: Bodies and Voices in Opera 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

And the pride of the collection are the “Maori Portraits,” deeply detailed and realistic depictions of Maori, most with traditional facial tattoos, done by Gottfried Lindauer in the 19th century. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Auckland, New Zealand, a Frugal Trifecta 2012-03-20T17:25:56Z

If we are to understand the web as it is, rather than as it once was, we need more realistic mental models of it. Everything you need to know about the internet 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z

The former assembles interlocking pieces into complex geometric forms; the latter allows more realistic depictions of animals that traditional origami simplifies to near-abstract outlines. In the galleries: Tales that unfold from the folding of paper 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

But the genre has evolved with the medium, becoming grittier, more realistic and more sophisticated — up to a point. A Brief History of the Police Procedural in 6 Shows 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

At one point during the competition, Lopes had said: “Working with a woman in the kitchen is a little more delicate, I’ll be realistic. She ends up being a little more fragile.” Brazilians hail triumph of MasterChef 'warrior' over her sexist co-stars 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

And she got the costume down to a tee, with Carrey’s signature zoot suit, polka-dot tie and a strikingly realistic mask. Adele Slays Halloween With Incredible 'The Mask' Costume 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ghesquière’s was a realistic acknowledgment as to where, in the end, fashion belongs in the hierarchy of amazement. As Paris Fashion Week Ends, Louis Vuitton, Alexander McQueen, Miu Miu and Others 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

The book gives us a realistic, sober, almost unemotional understanding of how a president and his advisers should act in a crisis. Great Leadership in a Time of Crisis 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

She’s got a fun approach that is at the same time realistic. An Eye for Detail, and Plenty of Pop 2010-12-09T00:09:00Z

Ms. Graham focused on what she said the publishing industry calls realistic fiction, and argued that adult readers who hew to Y.A. miss out on too much. A Not-So-Young Audience for Young Adult Books 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, "There is a level of expectation they have that is just not realistic," he said after bemoaning all the disruptive forces hitting the business, which hasn't entirely recovered from COVID. Look to the Logan Roys to understand who's causing the Hollywood "double strike" 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

As with all organizational challenges, break the task into manageable pieces, work on it consistently and set a realistic goal for completion. An expert answers five of the most common organizing questions 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

And this is all very lightweight but also, incredibly realistic and creepy. "She goes chic very fast": "Poker Face" costume designer on creating Natasha Lyonne's iconic outfits 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

“That was an issue of me asking the actress, can we do this to get a realistic effect,” he said. Tarantino responds to Uma Thurman crash claim: 'The biggest regret of my life' 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

“It’s more realistic in many ways,” Mackintosh says, drawing a comparison to the well-known set and costume design by Maria Bjornson, who died in 2002. Not your granny’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ at the Kennedy Center 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

But viewers shouldn't necessarily expect a realistic treatment of drilling and fracking. Hollywood faces fracking in 'Promised Land' 2013-01-02T13:35:09Z

This method does not seem realistic to Ken Warner, an emeritus dean of public health at the University of Michigan, who sees vapes as a powerful weapon in public health’s war on smoking. That Cloud of Smoke Is Not a Mirage 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

The story mode — creating a player and taking him from the minors to the big leagues — is more realistic and forgiving. Game On: 'The Show' maintains streak 2011-04-14T18:17:05Z

Neil, you said earlier you wanted to balance the mythic element and realistic element. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z

“The more I consider weird fiction,” notes Lovecraft, “the more I am convinced that a solidly realistic framework is needed in order to build up a preparation for the unreal element.” Boo! The best ghost stories you probably haven’t heard yet. 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

They feature him as a sad-sack artist, overly self-aware, given to self-important flourishes, which are just subtle enough to be realistic but not so much to diminish their absurdity. Funny, Kooky and Short on the Net 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

The artist’s controlled and mostly realistic style calls attention to the way he represents the recognizable world. In the galleries: Few hard edges in sight 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

“It goes without saying that we can never again assume an image is authentic because it looks realistic.” An AI-generated ‘Balenciaga pope’ fooled us all. How much does it matter? 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

This is a bracingly realistic vision of the economic hopelessness that so many young people are trapped in: serving extraordinary wealth but entirely separate from it. Review | Lily King’s ‘Writers & Lovers’ delivers pure joy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Thisdale’s realistic yet dreamlike illustrations, windswept with mist and surreal painted skies, add to the sense of wonder. Helping Children Understand Death 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Instead, he collects pieces that wash ashore throughout the Chesapeake watershed, and then combines them into sculptures that are often impressively realistic. In the galleries: Medicine chests as a medium for reflection 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

A realistic vision of rock and roll excess? "Her Smell": Elisabeth Moss can't save this humorless, grunge-era "Spinal Tap" knockoff 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Yet more often than not, these interactions are effectively meaningless or close to it, serving more as catharsis for the complainer than as a realistic way of achieving concrete results. Why America needs a little more rudeness 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

I make realistic films and start from what is reality, which is this continuation of the moment without the interruption of editing. "It is always the other who is guilty, never us": Movie "R.M.N." examines what drives xenophobia 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

Joseph is the effortlessly cool kid, the one who seems years older than the others, the one with the great hair—and, because the story isn’t strictly realistic, he’s that kid, but amplified. This Week in Fiction: Fiona McFarlane on the Power of Beauty Withheld 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

It's always a question of which fears are realistic, which problems I should actually be prepared for. My hot trans boy summer: On re-emerging from pandemic lockdown as a boy 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z

McVicar’s bustling production was as busy as the score, particularly in the Comédie-Française scenes, when the backstage chaos was so realistic it was sometimes hard to track what was going on. Review | Blood-and-guts singing dominates Met ‘Adriana’ — and Netrebko was good, too. 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

In my current relationship, we’ve literally spent hours discussing what sexual fidelity is, what it means, how realistic it is and whether it’s a valuable pursuit. My sexual resolutions 2012-12-30T02:00:00Z

Throughout the museum you will notice how realistic the human figures are. New Army Museum highlights innovation and individual stories 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Now my cardboard piano looked realistic, so much so that an officer walking past doing count did a double take. My Prison Cell: Learning to Hear on a Cardboard Piano 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Over the years I’d written about the lack of realistic Asian representation in American pop culture because I’d felt it, too. A Pop Culture Shock After the Trip of a Lifetime 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

“It has a transcendental quality to be of the past and the present. It’s realistic, but it has a certain magical sense to it as well.” This Movie Season, It’s a Black-and-White Boom 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

No, until several weeks ago, I didn’t think it was realistic. A Humorous Ukrainian Writer, With Nothing to Laugh About 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

And while only 56% of them are worried about the depiction of realistic violence, a full 70% are distressed by full frontal shots of people au naturel. Why Parents Worry More About Sex than Violence in the Movies 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

The second Eagly model looked far more realistic and functioned as a stand-in for the actual shoots. The making of Eagly, the "Peacemaker" scene-stealing, butt-kicking eagle whose hugs are miracles 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z

The darkness was thick, and Cora noted it, though she also noted some developments in her latest Ramona Quimby read and how to make a more realistic frog-croak with your throat. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

It's hardly a realistic depiction of Imperial Russia in 1874, but it isn't meant to be — it's a mood, and a vision. A wild, whirling 'Anna Karenina' 2012-11-20T00:29:04Z

My personal trainer Ikasaya is constantly supportive and realistic, which is great. ‘My life is basically over’ – 14 days on a sugar-free diet 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

Ms Baker keeps things lively with dialogue that is both realistic and unpredictable. Magical realism 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think it’s realistic to think we can live in a world without pesticides,” he said. 'It's only important if you eat food': inside a film on the honeybee crisis 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

This stunning, beautiful, and uncomfortably realistic coming-of-age novel in verse follows a teen's struggle to lead her life outside the narrow boxes where society, religion, and her mother have decided she belongs. The 15 best tween and teen books of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

The gross-out quotient is maximized when it looks like real people are suffering, and live-action film simply looks more realistic than any game. Critic?s Notebook: Zork to Amnesia: The Dark Descent: Horror in Video Games 2011-10-27T22:10:39Z

These charming, realistic prints of water and wharfmen reveal a talent for composition; dense drawings of sails and ropes give way to sweeps of open space. A river runs through it 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z

It is, instead, a music-business comedy marinated in specificity and local flavor, set in a real place with realistic people trying to get by. The Joys of ‘Atlanta,’ Where Real Life, for Some, Insists on Being Surreal 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Only a select few of the 200-odd riders who start the Tour harbour realistic ambitions of riding through Paris on the final stage, wearing the winner’s yellow jersey. It’s the taking part that counts 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

And if we could shade the parts that weren’t hard jokes and make it feel realistic, then great, but we always felt our primary responsibility was to make it funny. Rob Delaney on Writing While Grieving and the Real Work of Comedy 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Claire Brandt, who recently moved back to Seattle, and Yanhong Ma, who lives in Beijing, present the most realistic portraits of women. In ‘Get Naked,’ artists take back control of the female image 2013-09-13T14:01:09Z

I think that what you're promised on TV, or what you're promised you deserve in advertising, does not line up with how much things cost and what is realistic for everybody to have. It's "difficult to curb his impulses": "The Patient" star Domnhall Gleeson on a killer in therapy 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

I played mostly on a high-end PC from Nvidia, the graphics company, and Battlefield 3 is the most visually realistic shooter on the market. Critic?s Notebook: Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty 2011-11-15T23:16:57Z

The series was produced by Jack Webb, who applied the same realistic treatment of police behaviour that had made Dragnet, in which he had played Sergeant Joe Friday, a huge hit. Martin Milner, star of 60s series Route 66 and Adam-12, dies aged 83 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

So, we said, "Let's just make a totally realistic fake body that can get in that position and stay there." Making the bodies of “The Staircase”: The challenge of depicting Kathleen both in life and in death 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z

The realistic depictions are etchings, while the simpler, more colorful pictures are monoprints. Review | In the galleries: Artists examine the divide between people and their surroundings 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

The result is a mix of the realistic and the absurd, with a hint of pop culture. Artist captures war as seen by children - toys included 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

The result is a more erratic, less realistic narrative than “Impeachment” but one whose absurdist leaps bring its era more vividly to life. ‘Pam & Tommy’ Review: The Internet Is for Porn 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

When she first started the project, the puppets she made were much more realistic, and it wasn’t working. Life with Cancer in “Dani” 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

“He is very folksy and speaks to the audience in very colorful, realistic language.” Little Jimmy Dickens, jocular star of Grand Ole Opry, dies at 94 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

You could argue that cave paintings, by contrast, fuel a belief that painting realistic images of the world is an essential and superior human talent. Happisburgh tools: masterpieces with a cutting edge 2010-07-09T15:51:00Z

Miyazaki has never cared much for the “realistic” animating of human figures; they are abstracted into giant-eyed doll faces and stiff legs, as if trudging on stilts. The Wind Rises: An Animation Master’s Last Flight? 2014-02-20T15:00:59Z

"Tom was able to paint an unbelievably realistic and honest portrait of normal people - showing their heroic sides and failures," Berninger said. The National 'Win Win' with song for Giamatti film 2011-03-24T16:17:13Z

He said the show wouldn't be realistic if the characters stayed on at the school after that. Top Glee stars set for swan song 2011-07-14T10:51:08Z

I used to write solemn little notes to myself in my diary saying that if ever I wrote for children I would write stories that were a realistic portrayal of life. Jacqueline Wilson: 'I just try to reflect what life can be like' 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z

For men who have seen what happens to women taking career breaks, the fear is all too realistic. I don't know how he does it! Meet the new superdads 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z

Like those books, "Find Me" teeters between realistic depictions of a fragmenting social order, and a more visionary style. Laura van den Berg's 'Find Me' captures a memorable apocalypse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The scenery's very realistic, but you're always acutely aware you're in the presence of people putting on an act: close, but no metaphorical descent into the bowels of Hades fuelled by crushing existential despair. Black Sabbath: 13 – review 2013-06-06T14:29:01Z

All along, however, the character’s pathology remains rooted in realistic patterns of thinking. Double screening: how Hollywood embraced Instagram 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

That’s not realistic and it makes a mockery of the idea that the show humanizes its inmates. Don’t believe the “Orange is the New Black” hype: How the Netflix series misrepresents life behind bars 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

This is a brave, different film, one that dares to be all the things films should be, but rarely are: confrontational, bitter, loving, realistic, depressing, and intelligent. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

The hired model’s stance was so realistic, Rogers wrote, “He fairly makes a chill run over me when I look at him.” Antiques: Elvis Presley Auction; Books on Depictions of Slaves 2012-08-02T21:55:34Z

I did quite well in those courses, and thought the most realistic path for me was as a journalist. Michelle Zauner's "Crying in H-Mart" is a food memoir so painfully delicious, your eyes water 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Yeah, the writing for this character is very realistic to me. Why do we love "Abbott Elementary" star Janelle James for being bad? It's simple: "I'm hilarious" 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

The result is a realistic depiction of a broken world. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Now that we’ve addressed people’s worst fear, let’s turn to the most realistic worry: herpes. How risky is oral sex? 2012-08-19T01:00:00Z

He was a devoted C-class player who constructed the novel's realistic games with the help of U.S. chess master Bruce Pandolfini, who also consulted on this series and the film "Searching for Bobby Fischer." "The Queen's Gambit" is the sexiest and most thrilling TV show about chess you'll ever watch 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

Help setting realistic goals or asserting their needs? Seven ways to build a child’s resilience during the pandemic (and long after it ends) 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

Refined and as realistic as trompe l’oeil, it is a three-quarter-length portrayal. ‘Men in Armor’: El Greco and Pulzone at the Frick Collection 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Miller laughs when he tells the story, but he is also realistic about the efforts to which the publishing industry must go to compete in a crowded marketplace. The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z

Be realistic – a bit of squabbling or name-calling is part of growing up with siblings. The secret to… helping your children get along 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z

The adventure lasts between 45 and 90 minutes, and it remains to be seen how realistic the depiction of the dangers of messing with animals in the wild will be. From badass Peter Dinklage to the thriller "Behind Her Eyes," here's what new on Netflix in February 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z

That doesn’t mean that such prints are necessarily realistic, as “Relief,” at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, demonstrates. Review | In the galleries: Artists sport their chops with prints on the cutting edge 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

But Lacey’s special gift is for capturing the realistic flickering of individual consciousness. ‘The Answers’ Runs Down the Rabbit Hole of Love 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

A more subdued characterization, Grodman’s Mozart may seem a touch more realistic to today's audience, but the performance lacks the eccentric color that’s needed to animate the role.  But does it deserve an encore? 'Amadeus' returns to South Coast Rep 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

“Something Wild” is propulsive, tender, frustrating and entirely realistic. When Adult Daughters Realize Their Mother Is Being Abused 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

As a work of art though, it is unquestionably Roman in its extreme attention to realistic detail. Auctions: Roman History Leaves a Trail, and Fascination Follows 2011-06-17T11:30:06Z

Though it includes the supernatural, this book is realistic and portrays school life particularly well. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness - review 2013-01-28T09:00:00Z

“It’s probably the most realistic scene in the entire movie,” she said. A Filmmaker’s Journey to the Center of Celine Dion 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

It would be wrong to call Hopper’s completely realistic, but it is hardly as strange or visionary as Burchfield’s. Art Review: ‘American Legends: Calder to O’Keeffe’ at Whitney Museum 2012-12-27T22:56:49Z

Modern scientific renditions of the prehuman world might seem far more careful and realistic. Drawing with dinosaurs: in praise of the artist's impression 2011-02-17T15:29:34Z

It’s a sort of dark fairy tale in certain ways — it’s not necessarily meant to be completely realistic. Sam Rockwell on His Secret Past as a Really Bad Break Dancer 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

Jack Johnson To The Sea Island Jack Johnson, Hawaii's only surf-folk superstar, is refreshingly realistic about his standing in the pop scheme of things. Jack Johnson: To the Sea 2010-05-27T22:55:00Z

His only motivation is to have a realistic chance of providing a decent standard of living for himself and his family — including, unbeknownst to him, a daughter who winds up being Parker's initial love interest. Iron Man: The secret bad guy of the MCU? 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

Set a realistic timeframe in which you promise to send your writing to each other. Lily Herne's top tips for writing collaboratively 2013-06-13T12:25:27Z

Most realistic political moment: When Frank’s campaign adviser suggests screening the questions at the town hall meetings so there aren’t any more pesky old ladies demanding answers about sensitive matters like war and peace. 'House of Cards' Season 3, Episode 10 Recap: Petrov and the Jordan Valley 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

“I wanted to record a realistic picture of Kabul and re-create how I imagined the people in the film were experiencing that reality,” he told me. James Longley’s “Angels Are Made of Light” Captures the Daily Despair of Ordinary Afghans 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Some aspects of deafness in the show do not seem as realistic or nuanced to me. What "Hawkeye" gets right about deafness – and what it glosses over 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

“You need to be realistic,” she said of her business ambitions. The news about new digital-news sites? It’s tough going. 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

There was the indication that you wanted to get the story straight and put out the realistic story. “You don’t want to kill the myth”: The feud continues in “Substance: Inside New Order,” a second memoir by New Order bass player Peter Hook 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The difference is, like every other insightful creative team, they extrapolate on the depressing inspiration the news cycle provides to illustrate how the inmates at Litchfield Penitentiary would react and devise a realistic outcome. Seeing ourselves in “Orange Is the New Black” 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

A kinder world for women is made a more realistic prospect in magazines, papers, TV and film every day – we can see it happening. Forget the rebrand – Kim Kardashian West should ditch her shapewear range entirely 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

"Mobile libraries that bring the books from the big libraries to the public might be one way through, to improve the service at realistic cost." Libraries cater for the middle classes, not the deprived, says John Redwood 2011-04-11T11:40:56Z

He paints a realistic tableau of police privilege, pragmatism, racial bluntness, street smarts, love of partners and loyalty to what they call the Job. Review: A Corrupt Cop Is Up Against the Wall in Don Winslow’s ‘The Force’ 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Is a realistic portrayal of life in a ballet company? The Oscars: Natalie Portman Embraces Monster and Victim 2010-12-31T20:48:10Z

Brennan said that with so much ambiguity around what travel will look like, it’s a good idea to create realistic expectations to temper possible disappointment. For travelers, anticipation is the best part. But what if there’s no trip to look forward to? 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Four are realistic, usually told in the third person. 'Lucky Alan and Other Stories' is Lethem at his bizarre best 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

On a more realistic note, the musical dramedy “Band Aid” shines a light on a stubbornly taboo topic: the lonely agony and shame of having a miscarriage. An empowering Sundance sees lots of fierce women, on the march and in movies 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Some of the most compelling are the relatively realistic shots of people grouped in outdoor settings, reminders of Clouzot’s gift for clear, fluid, emotionally resonant composition. | 'Henri-Georges Clouzot?s Inferno': A Film About Clouzot?s Unrealized Film ?L?Enfer? 2010-07-15T21:29:00Z

He brings the boy to his garage to show him a wonder: a realistic tabletop model of the countryside, complete with what appears to be a real lake and miniature power pylons. Book review: ‘Revival,’ by Stephen King

I revisited the food-centric games I previously loved, like Stardew Valley, Overcooked, the eerily realistic Cooking Simulator, and every last Cooking Mama. I found inner peace playing a video game about growing rice 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

But when they work, they stoke an exhilaration that obviates the need for sensitive characters. 's "characters" are no more realistic than creatures in a video game; each figure has one defining trait, tops. Fast Five: The First Great Post-Human Movie 2011-04-28T11:20:00Z

“It’s terrifying because although it’s a prop, it looks so realistic.” When the Actors Are Students, and They’re Armed 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

Like the best realistic Y.A. books, and like “The Catcher in the Rye”—a novel that today would almost certainly be marketed as Y.A.—Green’s books were narrated in a clever, confiding voice. Margaret Talbot: How the Y.A. Novelist John Green Built an Ardent Army of Fans 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Her biggest tip for cooking with kids involves being realistic about their attention spans. Easy, not-too-spooky Halloween treats to cook up with your kids 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

Though not realistic in the modern sense of the word, they appear magically animated, as if the right spell would awaken them from their dormant state. Art Review: ?The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen From the Isle of Lewis,? at the Cloisters 2011-11-17T23:25:24Z

We now have innovative cosmetic procedures and technologies which distort our idea of realistic bodies further. Let's celebrate the art of the glow-down 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

Is there a point where a simulation — of a Mars mission, of the kind of person we aspire to be — is so realistic that it’s as good as the actual thing? Review | The first step to Mars takes place in the Utah desert 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

The film's centrepiece is a 50-tonne plane crash, which allowed director Robert Zemeckis to flex his technical expertise in creating the all-too realistic terror of an aircraft carrying 96 passengers falling from the sky. Denzel Washington takes a budget flight 2013-02-01T07:56:43Z

The composition is realistic because I was paralysed by the general feeling of terror and almost unable to paint at all... A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z

Being open with friends has given her a more realistic understanding of sex. 'I mentally rehearse what to do': the truth about sexual performance anxiety 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

I’m not trying to be cynical, just realistic: Once video became easy to manufacture, people started contributing widely to YouTube. Enter the Holodeck 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

As Brooks flashed his enhanced left hand for all to see, O'Brien practically melted in hysterics, howling, "Look at that! That is so realistic! That's fantastic!" Mel Brooks leaves a sight gag in cement outside the Chinese Theatre 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

And that brings me straight to my first guiding criterion: Am I being realistic? Seeds vs. plants: A buying guide for vegetable gardeners 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

They all have a gravity of feeling embedded in form itself that can be missing from more realistic work. Real, or Too Real? A Dazzling Show Goes the Way of All Flesh 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Because the androids are so realistic, it’s impossible to tell them apart from real people. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

LeCompte’s actors perform their famous roles in a stylized fashion that can uncannily hit the realistic mark. When feminist debate turns into an ideological free-for-all: It's the Wooster Group's 'Town Hall Affair' 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

During his sessions with Léautaud, Matisse explained that if he so desired he could produce a conventionally realistic likeness in a half-hour. ‘Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts’ at the Morgan Library 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

“But it’s not just about having more realistic images,” adds Moyle. The pleasure revolution: the sex women really want 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

“It doesn’t matter how many kung fu movies you watch … you need to be realistic when you’re facing these people,” he says, bringing up another film reference after the Bourne one last week. Serial recap – season two, episode two: The Golden Chicken 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

And parents, if you're looking for a sweet, realistic role model for a 4-year-old, you'll do just fine with the guy who just happens to be absorbent and yellow and porous. Go ahead, SpongeBob, rot my kids' brains 2011-09-13T16:04:00Z

The way we tell these stories about real kids who have these weight issues is realistic. Hollywood weighs in on fat people 2010-09-16T12:22:00Z

Mathias said all three men struggled to make with "Waiting for Godot" as honest and realistic as possible - an approach they'll likely replicate with Pinter's play. Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart heading to Broadway 2013-01-24T20:08:34Z

The counsellor didn’t see tennis as a realistic route to college, given that Grant couldn’t start for his high school. The Unseen Student Victims of the “Varsity Blues” College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

It makes us think in more realistic terms about how mass murder operates and how it relies on people like us. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Also be realistic: two centuries ago you’d probably be dead by the age of 50, now marriages can last longer. How to have sex with the same person for the rest of your life 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

It’s not as if that was my plan and I’m following it as I write, but the more I try to write about reality in a realistic way, the more the unreal world invariably emerges. Haruki Murakami on Parallel Realities 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

“Sweet Valley” wasn’t intended to be realistic — clearly, given that at some point Jessica and/or Elizabeth was kidnapped by a cult, lost at sea or involved in a doppelganger murder plot. ‘Sweet Valley High’ and ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ were more than mere fluff 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Also, it’s hard to find a true original idea of a romantic comedy for a 47-year-old person, that’s going to be funny and realistic and relatable. Julia Roberts, in ‘Secret in Their Eyes,’ Turns Her Famous Smile to Grief 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

Start with a realistic, accurate and encouraging assessment of your current situation. Ready to try an old approach to a New Year’s resolution? Saint Ignatius may provide some guidance 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z

The realistic awkwardness of the situation is equally apparent: Empathizing, you long for a tension defuser. Review | GALA’s ‘Exquisita Agonia’ pours its heart out 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Iger's response is depressingly realistic: "I just don't know how practical that is," Iger says, explaining that this isn't simply a matter of financial viability. The problem with "The Problem with Jon Stewart" is that it's not more widely available 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

It’s dramatic, fervid, and realistic in its violence. Critics assemble: our writers pick their favorite superhero films 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

That’s one reason for Gallery Neptune & Brown’s “Two Painters: A Visual Dialogue,” which juxtaposes the artists’ gently realistic modes. Review | In the galleries: Trevor Young illuminates buildings, both grand and modest 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

William is three dimensional but not exactly realistic; besides the daredevilry and naive silliness, he has a wild imagination, and a magnificent line in sulky rhetoric. From the archive, 13 January 1969: The Peter Pan world of William 2011-01-13T11:26:35Z

Audiences with an appetite for light comedy may well enjoy it, yet this “Washer/Dryer” could use more realistic starch and less synthetic fabric softener. 'Washer/Dryer' needs less softener, more starch 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Obviously, this is not a realistic image of Asia. National Gallery buys 18th century painting that praises Islam 2013-06-28T14:42:40Z

How realistic did that portrayal feel to you? For Madhuri Dixit, ‘The Fame Game’ Feels Familiar, if Not the Medium 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

“Servant” and “The Truth About Emanuel” both tell the story of a mother who, grieving the death of her baby, forms an attachment to a realistic doll who she believes to be alive. Director says in lawsuit Apple, Shyamalan stole her movie 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

It’s not humanizing, it’s not realistic, and it’s not a step forward. Don’t believe the “Orange is the New Black” hype: How the Netflix series misrepresents life behind bars 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

“We should still demand honesty, but be realistic about our expectations,” he said. A film critic was suspended for allegedly buying fake Twitter followers. Justified or overreaction? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

And it’s important to be realistic if you want to minimize frustration.” Motherlode Blog: When School Starts Tomorrow, and Your Child Is Still on a Summer Schedule 2013-08-26T13:08:53Z

She also, to her credit, shot back at critics who argued that her big body was an impediment to realistic acting. Jessye Norman Was a Diva, in the Best Way 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

The film and the book do, then, identify some realistic factors in one man's path to radicalisation – but of course every path is different. A radicalisation expert's view on The Reluctant Fundamentalist 2013-06-02T19:00:03Z

But beyond the looming technology and nonplayable characters with artificial intelligence in Watch Dogs, Ubisoft sought to create an expansive, realistic world for that action. Delay Tests Video Game Developer 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

All these millions of paperbacks, hardbacks, DVDs and TV series, they were all about made-up people in a made-up, though realistic, world. A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard – review 2013-04-12T07:13:00Z

“They’re making us think of these characters in a much more realistic way.” Can a little theater troupe go big with ‘Into the Woods’? 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Cho pens monologues, tableau images and realistic exchanges that don’t heat up as a single harmonious dish. Review | Three plays from the Women’s Voices buffet 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

Well, I think once there's a realistic explanation to events he wants to make the other story true. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z

“I’m Capricorn, Virgo rising — very responsible, practical, realistic,” he said. Machine Dazzle: How Many Ways Can You Say Fabulous? 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

This would be a realistic goal only in a universe in which the Billboard cast-album chart decisively influenced mainstream pop culture. Review: ‘A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet’ Is Missing a Few Notes 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

Physically, he becomes a different person that’s more realistic than what we could have done in the game. Can ‘The Last of Us’ Unlock a Gaming Gold Mine for TV? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

I don’t think one is better or worse; people just need to be realistic about who they are. Don’t sweat the small stuff, find more big stuff 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

But I can’t always see the borderline between the unreal world and the realistic world. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

Acceptance is just being realistic – not seeing it as a good thing. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z

Violence in video games seems more and more realistic all the time, notes Brad Bushman, a professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State University. Violence baked into popular culture 2012-12-21T10:16:05Z

Until then it has presented a pungently realistic vision of an extremely violent and chaotic sport and the roughnecks who devote their lives to it. Movie Review: ?Goon,? Directed by Michael Dowse 2012-03-29T21:23:35Z

It's a novel that's effective precisely because it's so realistic — while Watkins' image of the future is undeniably dire, there's nothing about it that sounds implausible. Claire Vaye Watkins' 'Gold Fame Citrus' taps into a dystopian, drought-stricken L.A. 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

But Sir Thomas had always been realistic about his relationship with the king. Favorite Place: Wintry Wanderings Among Chelsea’s Ghosts 2013-12-26T22:18:07Z

Funnier than "Meet the Press," more realistic than Glenn Beck, NMA, we thank you for taking the sting out of fiascoes like Scott Walker's governorship. Salon's Academy Awards of Viral Video 2011-02-25T20:30:00Z

“From the very beginning, we weren’t interested in doing a realistic version of the play. We weren’t interested in a rent-a-castle version.” Joel Coen distills ‘Macbeth’ down to the bone 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

This movie is a realistic journey into women gaining ownership of their lives. Steve McQueen and Viola Davis on Hollywood, Race and Power 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The more realistic you are on the price, the more likely it is to sell. How To Get Your Car Ready To Sell 2010-03-26T21:00:00Z

I think it was a very realistic portrayal of a Native American. Johnny Depp as Tonto: Is The Lone Ranger Racist? 2013-07-03T16:31:50Z

His struggle against his age was a beautiful contrast — it is a nice metaphor for trying to find something romantic in a world that is very realistic and tough. ArtsBeat: Tribeca: 'Wavumba' and a Legend's Last Shark Hunt 2012-04-24T18:17:12Z

At the other extreme Tokyo Magnitude 8 offers a realistic account of the consequences of a massive quake that devastates the archipelago. Japan's fantasy films act as a buffer against the reality of the natural world 2011-03-29T12:59:01Z

Controversial for its realistic depiction of violence and its unsimulated animal killings, it was not until 2001 that Cannibal Holocaust was formally submitted to the British Board of Film Classification for DVD release. Final cut? 2011-05-26T12:05:36Z

“It’s not meant to be like moonwalking or realistic or one-sixth gravity or anything,” she said. The Meaning of the Moon, From the Incas to the Space Race 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

He tries to be realistic about his gardening — there is only so much he can do to keep the plants alive and to keep the yard manageable for his mother. Out of the Desert, a Rare Fruit Garden and a Lasting Legacy 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

Mr. Tillmans’s photographs are both documentary and diaristic, romantic and realistic, widely aware yet focused, and always demonstrating the physical ways and means of the medium. Review: Wolfgang Tillmans, a Photographer Showing His Life as an Open Book 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Teresa Winston has a stall selling her own realistic oil paintings of the King. The next big King: Elvis impersonators compete at European championships 2013-01-04T19:52:54Z

Viewed together, their channels present an optimistic but realistic view of re-entry. Life After Prison, on YouTube 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Martin on which the series is based, and the show have often been praised for their “gritty” and “realistic” approach to fantasy, in contrast to, say, J.R.R. Don't Root for the Game of Thrones White Walkers Just Yet 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Gowar’s mermaid is this vividly realistic novel’s touch of magic realism, and its genuineness is teasingly ambiguous. The Malevolent Little Mermaid: Not Your Usual Fantasy Heroine 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

That gritty, realistic snapshot of urban crime was uplifted by the duo’s masterful, unrelenting rhymes. Pop & Rock Listings for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

So, for a frugal week, you’ve got to set realistic expectations. Frugal Traveler: Finding Low-Budget Amazon, and an Island Paradise 2011-02-22T21:46:38Z

It is also realistic and concrete, because that is what the sky looks like sometimes – pure solid colour or a gradation of colours. Framing the view: six artists reveal how they choose landscapes 2013-02-02T09:01:01Z

Connelly has made Bosch realistic, giving him faults and flaws but also redeeming factors. The Black Echo by Michael Connelly - review 2013-02-28T12:00:00Z

When you’re writing a show about nothing, or a movie about cubicle culture, it’s easy to collect realistic details. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

He went on to speak about his philosophy on realistic writing. George R.R. Martin Explains Why He Kills Off 'Game of Thrones' Characters 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

They’re realistic, rendered in exquisite detail, and entirely in black on white. Review | In the galleries: Kathryn Polk’s images withhold as much as they reveal 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Carroll, who has frequently dispensed romantic advice through her column, “Ask E. Jean,” helped Trump with tips for writing bedroom scenes and realistic romantic scenarios. Mary Trump and E. Jean Carroll Are Collaborating on a Romance Novel. No Politics Allowed. 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

As for the actors, several of them said they wanted to feel optimistic that progress is underway, but were torn about whether that is realistic given the state of the nation today. Boston Revisits ‘Common Ground’ and Busing, Onstage 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

He’s known for realistic, large-scale portraits that play on the term “pop art,” flaunt garish food-color hues and evoke childhood memories. Review | In the galleries: Kathryn Polk’s images withhold as much as they reveal 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

In a more softhearted, less realistic film Rune and Rashid would become allies against the system. | 'R': Life in the Big House: The Danish Experience 2011-06-16T23:36:42Z

They are expressions of the Spanish Counter-Reformation view of art: the more realistic, the more spiritual. Neapolitan Church Portraits Speak to the Earthly World 2013-01-15T16:43:33Z

Written in cool and crystalline prose, “The Shades” unspools in a rational and realistic world in which all is not as it seems. In This Novel, a Mother Risks Everything for a Second Chance 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

In some ways, “Madam Secretary” seeks to be realistic about Washington. ‘Madam Secretary’ and ‘The Good Wife,’ TV’s Mighty Women 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

As David Kotz and Karen Pfeifer of Northampton, MA noted, “Nine to Five” is both “in sync with the current critique of capitalism” and “realistic about the limits of reform of capitalism.” Punching the Clock (and the Boss) With Dolly, Lily and Jane 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

In obvious ways, “Parasite” is more realistic than those films. It’s Bong Joon Ho’s Dystopia. We Just Live in It. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

So the level of intensity and strength, without any realistic hope of success, is breathtaking. Antiabortion leader Marjorie Dannenfelser: ‘You can never build human rights on the broken rights of other people’ 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

Canterbury believes the one lighthouse painting she hasn’t been able to find — the first and most realistic of the abstract series — is probably in California. Another O’Keeffe emerges for exhibit: Georgia’s sister Ida 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

Tarkin's resurrection in "Rogue One" sparked debate among fans over whether the portrayal was realistic, with some complaining it did not look human enough to be convincing. Actors seek posthumous protections after big-screen resurrections 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

The Mario adventures also do nothing to further a medium’s supposed advance toward the emotionally compelling, the realistic or the cinematic. Video Game Review: New Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Nintendo 3DS 2012-08-17T11:55:55Z

The Nazis’ propaganda footage of Hitler’s triumphant speech to jubilant Austrians is infamous, and today is accepted as a realistic portrayal of the public mood at the time. An Invisible Artwork Reminds Austria of Its Nazi Past 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Author Laurel Snyder cleverly mixes realistic fiction with fantasy as Rebecca discovers that things she wishes for — clothes, lip gloss, etc. — magically appear in a red bread box she found in her grandmother's attic. 'Bigger Than a Bread Box' among tasty new novels for kids 2011-11-26T03:03:45Z

So let’s hope Darkseid’s giant lieutenant looks a whole lot more realistic than he does in the trailers. Five tasks Justice League must complete to save the DC universe 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Chalk that up to the actors' white-hot chemistry, carefully choreographed movements, and realistic lighting. Actually, "Bridgerton" sex is not good sex 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z

“Army Wives,” a Lifetime series that focused on the ordeals of military spouses raising families while their mates served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was much more realistic and, surprisingly, given the subject, more fun. Review: ‘The Astronaut Wives Club’ Examines the Paper Dolls Behind the Men of Steel 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Co-founder and CEO Sean Rad touted its more realistic appeal to physical attraction over the algorithms that other dating sites say yield compatible matches, algorithms viewed skeptically by social scientists. Men Swipe Right on Tinder 3 Times as Much as Women 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

But, on a simple realistic level, aspects of her story don't add up. The House of Bilquis Bibi 2010-07-27T01:01:00Z

“High Maintenance,” one of the most sensitive and realistic portraits of urban life I’ve ever seen, turned out to be as great on HBO as it was as a Web series on Vimeo. My Most Memorable Cultural Moments of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

It is at the same time granularly realistic and unpredictably surreal. Louie Watch: Yin and Yangtze 2012-09-28T19:03:18Z

There are plot twists, and then there is what Ms. Ferran does here, which is to transform — impetuously, improbably and altogether marvelously — this somber, realistic tale into something else entirely. In ‘Bird People,’ Two Unhappy Souls Cut Their Chains 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

And even more important, achieving realistic and compassionate relationships with the rest of the animate world requires that we honor these connections, which extend far and deep. Frans de Waal Embraces Animal Emotions in ‘Mama’s Last Hug’ 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

The best collections over the weekend were adamantly realistic. | Fashion Review: A Good Time to Be a Realist 2011-03-07T07:51:48Z

Winner of the 2019 German Book Prize, this realistic portrayal of refugees will engender compassion with its humor and subtlety. December paperback releases: 7 books to read now 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

I don’t think it’s very realistic to expect that outcome. Live in sin, break the law 2012-07-01T19:00:00Z

She goes on explain, “This is my memory play. It is brightly lit, it is sentimental, it is not at all realistic.” Review: In ‘Eddie and Dave,’ Van Halen Gets a Makeover 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

The authorities there say they are merely being realistic. Budget Blowouts and Delays Blight Germany’s Major Arts Projects 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

These decidedly gender-typical disappointments feel realistic, and they are rendered with great sympathy to both Levin’s and Kitty’s points of view. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Moran-Collins’s style is the most realistic, and her oils have a pastel-like quality that suits pictures such as “Franklin Manor Morning,” in which birds flock on a beach at sunrise. In the galleries: New perspectives on Old Masters 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Or you could argue that it gave the most realistic, uncompromising rendering in the show’s seven years of how people would actually think and behave in a zombie apocalypse. The Memorable TV Episodes of 2016 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

The magic of Ross’s show was that he essentially skipped over the really hard part of realistic painting: translating the actual world into a flat image on a canvas. In Search of Sleep, with Bob Ross 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

If by decent you mean realistic, then not really. Alex Honnold: ‘There are many places where you can fall to your death’ 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

To create a more realistic feel, the stunt crew built what Webb describes as "contraptions" to allow Garfield to swing, thereby moving the film away from computer-generated imagery. The Amazing Spider-Man returns 2012-06-30T08:05:02Z

Other young people are being realistic about what they need to accomplish a lasting change — and it isn’t a trendy New Year’s resolution. Got a Resolution? Why Wait for the New Year? 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

Louis says he doesn't believe there is "any realistic limit" to what you can say onstage, and that it's always worth breaking taboos if it's going to help you break interesting new ground. Offensive charm 2011-03-19T00:04:00Z

The controls are tight and responsive, and the graphics are faster and better — meaning more realistic — than anything I have seen on that machine. Video Game Review: Rage, New Video Game From id Software - Review 2011-10-11T16:28:13Z

Your characters, especially your female characters, are all the more realistic for sometimes acting in unexpected or unlikable ways. Curtis Sittenfeld: 'I know my characters are unlikable sometimes' 2013-06-15T16:30:00Z

Balancing the kinetic plot — which involves, among other things, a beheaded pigeon, a fire and an international ring of thieves — with a realistic portrait of an ordinary marriage is no mean feat. Review | ‘You Again’ is a captivating mystery about a woman who keeps colliding with her younger self 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

And I think it's more realistic to represent women having all these facets, than to say, OK, you're intelligent, so I've got to write you as all competent, which I think is an unfair ideal. Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent ? and also ditzy and klutzy' 2012-02-12T20:00:11Z

But in a way, he creates the fairy tale out of what turns out to be a realistic story. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z

It’s much more realistic than the original, which is valued at $10 million and features a pear-shaped ruby that dangles from the center. | The New Faces of Chanel and Givenchy, Beyonce’s Latest Overnight Success and Nicki Minaj’s Naughty Birthday Surprise 2013-12-13T22:52:13Z

When I received my order, the food was still hot, and my cat Martin began to lose his mind, which may be a good measure for how realistic the chicken smelled. KFC's vegan nuggets are unremarkable, but here are 2 reasons why you should still try them 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z

Well, what he’s saying, quite literally, is that the intellectual construct of copyright and intellectual property ownership is not realistic. Steve Albini is wrong: “If we don’t have copyright, we don’t get paid” 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

But the fight sequences — and there are plenty of them — are realistic enough to prompt gasps. January Stages: In Your Seat but on Your Toes 2014-01-02T23:10:17Z

Ms. Weininger quotes a note Abercrombie once wrote to herself: “Surrealism is meant for me because I am a pretty realistic person but don’t like all I see.” This Surrealist Is Having a Moment, 66 Years After Her Last New York Show 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Whether in the United States or even the Soviet Union, their proper ethic was realistic, conservative and prudent, more wary of going to war than their reckless or crusading civilian masters. Should We Worry About Trump’s Fawning Admiration of the Military? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

In that way, it reminds me of Content – the vertical online series, all set on a phone, that proved so realistic it went viral and fooled the world. Loving Captivity: a sweet, tech-savvy web series about love and dating in quarantine 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

He would play along with Castro’s various pronouncements on all kinds of things, but then when it came to the critical points, he would insist on things being realistic and settled.” What James Donovan Did After the Bridge of Spies 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Explosives experts eventually determined that it was actually a highly realistic replica of a grenade. TSA reminds passengers: don't bring grenades or rocket launchers on planes 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

It’s about time we reclaimed our own image by posting realistic photos of ourselves. It's time to embrace daggy selfies 2013-07-17T00:37:00Z

"It dawned soon enough on his doctors that his anxieties could never be assuaged by realistic assurance," Pick notes. The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts by Daniel Pick - review 2012-08-01T07:00:03Z

Made in a proto-Impressionist manner, with paint applied in flurries of marks and in sweeping gestures, it projects a blurry scene, more dreamlike than conventionally realistic. In Turner Paintings at the Met, the Bloody Business of Whaling 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

It’s a world both nostalgic and soberly realistic, full of crystalline descriptions of the Kentish countryside and the now long-gone hop gardens that once flourished there. Review | The inspiration for Maisie Dobbs? Jacqueline Winspear’s memoir offers charming clues 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

They're smart, funny and utterly realistic in terms of the ways that men relate to each other. "Rescue Me": The tragedy of the modern guy's guy 2010-06-29T15:01:00Z

Rather than setting “unrealistic organizing goals that are all about the horrible ‘before’ and the pretty ‘after,’ ” Jacobs says, she focuses on “the during,” so her clients learn to become realistic long-term organizers. Perspective | An easy way to put on a duvet cover, and other housekeeping tips worthy of going viral 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

Both are solid primers, but “How to College” reads more like a textbook, with suggestions that are spot on yet not always realistic. Cutting the Cord: What Parents and Teenagers Need to Know 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

The symbolic elision of Wally's volatility with the arbitrary ferocity of nature sits awkwardly with the work's realistic psychology. La Wally ? review 2011-08-01T17:35:37Z

The play's shorthand theatricality doesn't paint a realistic portrait, but the way the production humanizes these victims of genocide ultimately make atrocities, past and present, all the more real. 'Bent' exhibits enduring power of love, courage and identity 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

I thought the relationship in the film was very sweet and also very realistic. Creed's Tessa Thompson on Why She's More Than Just a Movie Girlfriend 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

“Make use of the fact that you don’t doubt yourself too much right now because, as we get older, we get more realistic,” she told the graduating seniors. Natalie Portman tells Harvard graduates: 'Make your inexperience an asset' 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

I felt that the characters were realistic and I could imagine the world that they were in. The Book Bunch - group review selection 2013-02-06T09:00:00Z

And, along with the likes of Girls, it proves that there’s an appetite for realistic, relatable and – let’s face it – messed-up women leading their own series. Broad City: meet the 21st century comedy queens that even Hillary loves 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Following the robberies, Babes Espresso had also announced on Facebook that it would be reducing its operating hours “to a schedule that is more realistic and in-line with the schedule of our entertainers.” Lingerie-clad barista foils robbery attempt at Colorado coffee stand 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

It’s possible to create a realistic portrait of contemporary San Francisco by simply listing all the harebrained new-money antics and “mindful” hippie-redux principles that flourish there. A Tech Insider Stylishly Chronicles Her Industry’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

These phenomena seem just as realistic as the yams she digs up in the plantation to take as fuel for her escape. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Then there’s Mr. Shepard’s realistic staging, nailing entire worlds together with teeming, precise detail. Newly Released Books 2011-03-16T21:19:35Z

“Ravenous” approaches the subject matter in a slightly more realistic style than other zombie movies, focusing on a group of non-zombies thrown together by fate and forced into a nomadic existence by the plague. Chipping Away at the Huge Block of Netflix Originals 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

I might be an optimist, but I’m realistic – at some point they’re going to need some younger volunteers. Meet the super humans 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

It could be jet lag, but the idea of walking through fields and over mountains and ending up in Tokyo doesn’t strike me as realistic. From Kyoto to Tokyo, along Japan’s ancient Nakasendo Way

Her portrait tops a realistic depiction of Frazier’s face with hair represented by rhinestones and mirrored tiles. Review | In the galleries: A focus on the intersection of art and movement 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

Jones was saying, 'That wasn't the war I saw, I want to write something more honest and realistic. Censored gay sex in From Here to Eternity restored for new edition 2011-04-05T15:20:59Z

However, Europe's The Impossible, which offered a grimly realistic take, has managed only one nomination. Oscars 2013: what the nominations say about America 2013-02-21T16:00:00Z

I’m a big fan of The Last Babylon, which is kind of in the same vibe of being a realistic post-nuclear situation. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Craig Zobel Talk 'Z for Zachariah' 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Bridges credits the stunt coordinators' expertise for making the combat look so realistic. Jeff Bridges on the Dude, making "The Old Man" and the experience of "dancing with my mortality" 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

“And her show today I think is very positive, its very realistic in terms of showing what single motherhood really is,” Palin said. Sarah Palin: “Haters are going to hate” 2012-07-25T16:30:00Z

However, there is no realistic scenario under which produce is more than 10 percent of cropland. Perspective | Why small, local, organic farms aren’t the key to fixing our food system 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

In 1989 we moved from realistic to a more stylistic deco form. EXCHANGE: Artist creates 30 years of rail memories 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

You can’t get a realistic cost estimate without knowing how much you need to buy. The cost-conscious consumer’s guide to buying carpet 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

In March 2014, the author appeared in a "Scandal" sketch on "SNL" in which she played Pope & Associates' newest recruit -- a gladiator who asked way too many realistic questions. Lena Dunham set to get 'kinky' as 'Scandal' guest star 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Between their shifts, each was eager to meet the man who built an engrossingly realistic four-foot-high model of a bombed-out apartment building, one seemingly airlifted from the civil war engulfing Damascus, Syria. A Little Piece of Downtown Damascus in New Haven 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

They populated the city with thousands of characters, folded in San Francisco’s iconography, and labored to make the film seem more like live-action movie, with realistic lighting and camera work. How to Build a (Softhearted) Robot 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

At times, Atkinson’s you-are-there style is so visually compelling, so realistic, that skeptical souls in the historical profession might wonder if he has crossed the line that separates nonfiction from fiction. Rick Atkinson’s Savage American Revolution 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z

Movie audiences moved on to grittier, more realistic or contemporary action fare, though Shaw movies still have a solid cult following globally. Hong Kong movie mogul Run Run Shaw dies 2014-01-07T14:02:11Z

Why is “Eighth Grade,” a realistic movie about a 13-year-old girl’s very awkward last week of middle school rated R? Bo Burnham refused to edit R-rated “Eighth Grade” into PG-13 and advises teenagers to “snea... 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

Rock noted that Lent is not meant as a kind of religious "show," but instead is a "realistic" and "down-to-earth" time for believers. Ash Wednesday, start of Lent: When 'world is a mess,' we must 'turn to God' 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Once the sisters have abandoned the first round of their dress-up games, both actresses approach their roles on a psychologically realistic level that pays only limited dividends. Theater Review: ?The Maids? by Jean Genet, From Red Bull Theater 2012-03-16T02:00:00Z

She ran art schools, befriended Harlem Renaissance intellectuals and produced realistic portraits in stone, wood, clay, plaster and bronze. Augusta Savage’s Rural Escape and Clementine Hunter’s Murals 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Some realistic actions for you and your husband: How to change food habits for a healthier life

“A Little Chaos” never pretends to be a realistic historical drama. Review: In ‘A Little Chaos,’ a Guileless Kate Winslet Offsets a Lavish Versailles 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

In this case that means cast your vote for Hillary because she is more “realistic,” and thus more likely to win. I have had it with cynical faux-realists attacking Bernie Sanders idealists 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Then there was that “realistic appearance”, the phrase critics use to call people “fat”. Poor, capable and funny: the return of Roseanne, the sitcom that broke all the rules 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

A more realistic estimate would be several times this amount. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Two 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z

The job is one element, and trying to depict the issues they face just seemed like something that, if we could bring it to television in a realistic way, would be new. Spy vs. Spy: A Q&A with The Americans Creator Joe Weisberg 2013-03-12T15:02:25Z

Finding a coach also can help in finding the balance between what an athlete wants to do and what is realistic. You can be a high-level athlete whether you’re 20 or 70. These competitors are proof. 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

“I think we’re pretty realistic with the idea that life is unpredictable.” Grizzly Bear Takes a New Approach on Its Album ‘Shield’ 2012-09-16T07:23:03Z

But since there’s no reason to be anything less than realistic, for at least 10 characters — and I’m being conservative with that count — Sunday is where it all ends. On "Game of Thrones," all men must die. Who will fall at Winterfell? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

"Hunting trophies," a realistic 1862 still life of dead fowl, looks like it was left over from some completely unrelated exhibition. Monet show to reconcile French with snubbed master 2010-09-17T22:05:00Z

Sure there are a few exceptions — moments of realistic parenting. Where are the realistic TV moms? 2014-02-09T21:00:00Z

“It’s a fantasy -- really dark but also realistic, a little bit of horror, macabre, funny -- maybe ‘Game of Thrones’ is a reference point?” Cannes 2015: In 'Tale of Tales,' reimagining Disney via Del Toro 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

In between, it's shot in harsh black-and-white, which the Tavianis actually believe is less realistic than colour. Caesar Must Die – review 2013-03-03T00:07:05Z

Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success. In praise of cynicism 2013-07-10T17:27:31Z

Although I am optimistic, I am also realistic, and I knew that many things could go wrong, from canceled flights to a food-borne illness. What went right (a lot) and wrong (not much) during 20 days of hard-core tourism 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Surely the young deserve full-time parents, more realistic goals and inspiring teachers. 


Waiting for 'Superman' Review: Are Teachers the Problem? 2010-09-28T03:25:00Z

Last year Hollywood’s top 20 domestic box office performers included just two movies — “The Help” and “Bridesmaids” — with realistic stories about American life, contemporary or otherwise, according to boxofficemojo.com. ‘People Like Us’ and Other Summer Movies in Real-World Settings 2012-06-12T22:23:28Z

To me, it gives a realistic sense of the balance of being a teacher. Cal Ripken’s favorite baseball movie, and 24 others on the best film about their profession 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

"If the supreme court says 'we will not allow you to go' – and that is very realistic – we will ask them to reconsider the law and tell us why." Writer petitions the Israeli supreme court over travel ban 2010-03-26T15:04:00Z

"An enjoyable family movie, with some great flight sequences – and there's an interestingly realistic sense of the dangers involved in risking your neck for others." You review: How to Train Your Dragon 2010-04-06T15:38:00Z

He smiled, revealing fangs so realistic that a couple of guests dropped their flutes of Champagne. Scene City: Paris Fashion Week Ends on a Scarily Festive Note 2011-10-05T20:41:30Z

Still, many darkly realistic and musically rich scenes will stay with me. Review: In ‘Dog Days,’ a Family Clawing for Survival 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

He’s almost like this over-the-top caricature, and yet there's a lot about him that feels realistic. "Sometimes you burn the lasagna": "Lessons in Chemistry" creator Lee Eisenberg talks cooking good TV 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z

But despite the book’s frequent attention to realistic details, it is securely situated in fable territory, and Mozley’s sheer storytelling confidence sends the reader sailing past almost every speed bump. ‘Elmet’ Backs a Brawny Man Into a Dangerous Corner 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

"Of course I wasn't thinking about that, I just tried to make a realistic film." 'The Tribe' director aims for realism in depicting troubled deaf world 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

To make it look realistic, he said in a 1976 interview with Science Fiction Review, he had to start typing. Anne R. Dick, Memoirist and Writer’s Muse, Is Dead at 90 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

To give Arness and "Gunsmoke" a publicity boost when it debuted, Wayne provided an on-camera introduction in which he praised the new TV western series for being honest, adult and realistic. 'Gunsmoke' actor James Arness dies at 88 2011-06-03T17:00:00Z

Besides, he said, “ ‘The Martian’ is reasonably realistic.” ‘The Martian’ Author Andy Weir Brings His Nerd Thriller Into the Mainstream 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Servers are proactively helpful, whether slicing meat, patrolling the dining room or selling beer and giving realistic wait times to people in line. A MacGyver of Slow-Cooked Meats at Franklin Barbecue 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Those games are more “realistic” than Fight Night Champion, which involves using your thumbs and other fingers on a traditional controller. Video Game Review: Putting Up Your Dukes, or at Least Your Thumbs 2011-03-21T22:07:55Z

It feels like a sensible and realistic way to approach all of this. How to feed kids, without resorting to ‘kid’ food 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Now, Goldfrapp said, she is “very realistic about my position in the music industry,” which means having a fan base that is both “very strong” and “quite small.” Alison Goldfrapp Dials Up Her Own Disco Fantasy 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

Her name is Mia, and when her artificial intelligence is fully operational, she will be a supremely realistic sex doll, ready for mass production. ‘Eat the Devil’ Review: Sex Dolls, Wormholes and a Stand for Nihilism 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

I was realistic about how kids would change my life — no more late nights, going broke paying for day care — but I was shellshocked to learn how spiritually, emotionally and physically hard motherhood would be. The ugly, exhausting reality of parenting, and why we hide it from our children 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

He is also realistic about the aesthetic qualities of his music, but is determined to improve. China's Ai Weiwei launches musical career with heavy metal "Dumbass" single 2013-05-22T05:07:26Z

Would it be too realistic for fantasy readers and too fantastical for fans of realism? Lev Grossman: My depression helped inspire the Magicians trilogy 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Then I got realistic and thought to myself, "Can you blame them?" Jack White: vinyl ambassador 2013-02-20T10:45:13Z

Ms. Le Guin’s more casual fans, she acknowledged, might be surprised by it — a realistic work set in the early 19th century, a tale of a hopeful revolutionary at a moment when revolutions are impossible. Ursula Le Guin Has Earned a Rare Honor. Just Don’t Call Her a Sci-Fi Writer. 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

There’s a common assumption among critics that realistic films have an intrinsic claim on political importance. “Sorry to Bother You,” Reviewed: A Wild Workplace Comedy Energized by Righteous Anger 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

The representation of Iran in Argo is certainly questionable but, as when the Kazakhstan foreign ministry threatened to sue over Borat, the prospect of a lawsuit doesn't seem entirely realistic. Never mind Iran and Argo, the Brits should sue Hollywood 2013-03-13T16:11:22Z

But the White House portraits form a collection all their own, and they tend toward more traditional, realistic oil paintings, as do the new ones of the Obamas. Official Obama Portraits Are Finally Being Unveiled at the White House 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

But declining to participate in an empty ritual that changes nothing is an entirely rational response, arguably more clear-eyed and realistic than investing it with meaning it does not possess. Yeah, the GOP is evil and will win — but the midterms are meaningless 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

“Finally at this moment, we’re like, O.K., maybe we’re both mature enough and our expectations are more realistic of what we want from each other,” he explained. | Phillip Lim’s Stylish Everyday Wardrobe for Target 2013-08-09T13:00:28Z

He is angered by what he sees as Hollywood's glamorisation and mythologising of the mafia – the books feature sarcastic asides about The Godfather – and aims to counter this with more realistic and critical depictions. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z

Gone were tedious trade delegations, midi-chloreans and galactic senates, back were knockabout space romps and realistic looking sets. Would George Lucas's Star Wars sequels have been better than Disney's? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

A more realistic and healthy goal than trying to accelerate your metabolism is trying to keep it as high as possible. Can you really change your metabolism? 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Isn’t it time we arrived at some more benign and realistic view of creativity? Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The imagery is rendered in realistic detail using fractals: fractured geometric shapes that keep iterating reduced-size copies of themselves according to mathematical formulas. 3-D Comes to Met Opera, but Without Those Undignified Glasses 2011-02-16T00:00:12Z

The PTC study defined graphic as “especially vivid, brutal and realistic acts of violence” that are explicitly depicted. Study: Erratic TV Violence Ratings Fail Parents 2013-12-09T15:46:03Z

What this exhibition shows is that the body in movement, both realistic and transcendent, was at the center of Greek art and thought. The Body Beautiful: The Classical Ideal in Ancient Greek Art 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

She still has a realistic, positive, great attitude. Carolyn Hax: When grief stands in the way of cherishing time with loved one 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Ms. DuVernay takes her time with Ruby, a circumspect, retiring character whose story surfaces in realistic conversations, and in phone calls and visits to the prison. Movie Review: ‘Middle of Nowhere,’ Directed by Ava DuVernay 2012-10-11T23:09:07Z

The profusion of realistic detail and the way feathers, blossoms, tree leaves and myriad other elements are deftly individualized is hypnotically gripping. Art Review: ?Colorful Realm,? Works by Ito Jakuchu at National Gallery 2012-03-29T21:27:01Z

Of course, the more realistic scenario is that your former boss will end up seeking another daily-bread-winning job. Work Advice: Angry boss wasn’t senile after all. He was writing a novel. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Newman attributed the success of the sale this time to "the fact that the estimate seemed to be more realistic," although it was still a huge sum of money. Monet 'Water Lilies' fetches 32 million pounds in London auction 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

While the other movies “want spaceships and creatures to look realistic, they are movies in a fantastic universe. ‘ The Oscar category that best reflects the state of film isn’t best picture. It’s visual effects. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

“The characters are very cartoony, but because they inhabit a real-world environment, atmospheric elements need to be quite realistic in order to bridge the gap,” Anna said. At Snapchat, Redrawing the Bounds of Reality 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

It’s sentiment of how people live in this country is completely intelligent and completely realistic. Two Musicals 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

But portrayals of kids that are both realistic and engaging are in short supply. The best child on TV is on "What We Do in the Shadows" 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

One guy was saying how it didn't seem realistic that none of your characters had jobs. Sitting down with "Bellflower's" creator 2011-08-02T20:03:00Z

The drawings, oil sketches and paintings in this show highlight a period of national reflection in Denmark, one that resulted in realistic depictions of the country’s landscapes, architecture and communities. At These American Museums, You Can Travel the World 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Captivating realistic depictions of the Darwinian corporate shops that claim to operate like "one big family," as Billy Crudup's executive Cory Ellison describes the supposed atmosphere at "The Morning Show," remain rare. "The Morning Show" finally finds its raison d'etre as a satire about workplace toxicity 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

Ms. Ursuta’s penchant for overintellectualizing is especially prominent in a pair of realistic, life-size marble statues representing a woman with a scarf over her hair and a gaunt, hollow-eyed face. Review: Sex, Death and Little Subtlety 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Some may find it dangerously triggering — especially the unnecessarily realistic final scene — and the play’s publicity material is peppered with warnings and help-line numbers. Trigger Warnings as a Provocateur Puts Suicide Onstage 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

The staff may have outsourced the trickier tasks, like carving realistic paw feet and painting tableaus of gilded swans. Antiques: A Portraitist Considered the ?Titian of Louisiana? 2011-12-15T21:47:17Z

The authentic painting, composed of scrawled black and white lines, isn’t especially realistic. Painting for the Screen, as Well as the Canvas 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z

Audiard paid tribute to the numerous former prisoners who appeared as extras in the film and helped to create its grimly realistic atmosphere. "A Prophet" triumphs at French film awards 2010-02-28T00:21:00Z

His frazzled energy isn’t realistic but is instead fantastical and a running commentary on the stiltedness of the rest of the proceedings. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Hollywood Heights’ on Nickelodeon, With James Franco 2012-07-09T22:33:23Z

Given the problems of access, it is always going to be difficult to judge just how realistic the portrait is. TV review: Inside Death Row with Trevor McDonald; Married in Britain 2013-01-17T22:00:15Z

A more realistic novel might have given Hongmei a different way to share her anxieties. Review | Geling Yan’s twisty thriller ‘The Secret Talker’ begins with a creepy but alluring text 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

This isn't just a heist film but an all-time classic noir: bleak, realistic and cynical. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'Tower Heist 2011-11-03T13:01:07Z

I was working in public health, entertaining dreams of being a foreign correspondent as I prepared for a more realistic option: medical school. Modern Love: Broken, Not Bound, by an Intimate Tie 2014-03-27T21:54:34Z

I'm as close to being realistic as the two of us will ever get. Cocteau Twins: 'It's music to bonk to' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-07-31T17:01:42Z

Writers of fiction are told to "listen" to how people speak in order to create realistic dialogue but, like all our perceptions, our hearing is unreliable. The unreal art of realistic dialogue 2010-03-18T10:54:00Z

The surreal and sometimes unsettling story is grounded by the three-time Caldecott medalist Wiesner’s soft, realistic artwork, and Napoli’s spare text transports us inside Fish Girl’s head as she pieces things together. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

A coming-of-age story, however realistic it might be, is also a kind of fable, a picture of how we hope things turn out. Movie Review: ?Girl in Progress? With Eva Mendes and Cierra Ramirez 2012-05-10T21:10:33Z

His work is the most realistic and excels at simulating the play of light. Review | In the galleries: Digital and traditional media join forces 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

I’m saying that in a beautiful realistic sense, considering our age.” Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Direct ‘Caesar Must Die’ 2013-02-01T22:41:18Z

One is a full and realistic female nude, expertly rendered in a neoclassical style. In the galleries: The roots of these gardens run deep 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

And he kind of creates the most beautiful, realistic tomes that show something so deep and poignant, and also laugh-out-loud funny. Toni Collette: Hollywood’s gender imbalance is a grave problem 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s a glamorous picture of a glamorous person, done in a realistic way,” Mr. Olausson added. The Art Fair Curators Love 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Also in the building are several galleries, including CWC Gallery, also owned by Camera Work, which features a freakily realistic sculpture of a frumpy security guard, arms crossed, standing at the gallery’s door. In this fascinating German museum on the Kennedys, we can all be Berliners 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

When one or both parents work part-time, home-schooling becomes a realistic option for kids past primary school. Home-schooling: You’re doing it too! 2013-09-14T18:00:00Z

It's understanding it and trying to be realistic about what that means, and then tempering your optimism accordingly. "Being busy all the time is not healthy": Ban.do founder wants to change the narrative about success 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Memoir, nonfiction and realistic fiction are my favorites. Raina Telgemeier Can’t Wait to Break Bread With Her Friends Again 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Laminate flooring is topped with a highly realistic image layer that mimics wood planks. If indoor allergies are bringing you down, you might want to look at your flooring 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

That might sound familiar, or even realistic now, but check the date: 1983. Writing (and not writing) during a political maelstrom 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

He said it was a "black realistic film" that portrays the country as an old man, as a symbol of tradition and the past, afflicted with Alzheimer's. Iran state TV says Oscar win victory over Israel 2012-02-27T13:29:08Z

Next, I saw a headline that the United States is developing more realistic crash-test dummies in order to build safer cars. Gene Weingarten: You news, you lose

Short chapters presented in free verse make this an easy book to read, though it’s the most sober of the three under review, thanks to the more realistic career of its protagonist. Of Mice and Men 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

“How can I use this method to show the emptiness and numbness of all this? I wondered how I could make a mysterious painting in which I painted huge realistic fragments of things.” James Rosenquist, painter of unnerving large-scale masterworks, dies at 83 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

The onstage film varyingly suggests memory, hallucination and menace as images multiply and blur, and it also allows a frighteningly realistic view of the one-on-one fight scenes and their aftermath. Love and Death in Paris, With an Assist From Star-Crossed Verona 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

"Of course it's not strictly accurate, but it's researched and realistic," he told the Guardian. Sonia Gandhi supporters threaten to sue over 'fictionalised biography' 2010-06-03T23:19:00Z

One reason GoT is so bracingly different from other pop-culture fantasy stories is how it combines the fantastical with the realistic—in this case, realistic attention to the way power is gained, maintained, and exercised. Dead Tree Alert: The Westeros Wing; or, Why Game of Thrones is the Best Show About Politics 2013-05-24T13:14:22Z

But for the “twenty minutes of dancing,” he wrote, “it is made up of the dullest kind of realistic pantomime on juvenile subjects, and some bright and ingenious moments of scenic spectacle.” Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Lauren Oyler, called Chin’s debut a “realistic portrayal of a woman in crisis” and a “subtly provocative depiction of the tech industry, and this country, as tilting ever more off-kilter.” New in Paperback: ‘Oh William!’ and ‘The Great Mistake’ 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

It featured a blue-collar family, the Conners, with overweight parents struggling to get by in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois, and was praised as for its realistic portrayal of working-class life. 'Roseanne' returns with monster TV ratings in Trump era 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Jhabvala’s highly literate screenplays, Merchant’s showmanship, finagling, and charm, and Ivory’s sensitive, exquisite direction resulted in gorgeous, emotionally realistic films, made in India, the United States, Italy, the U.K., and beyond. James Ivory and the Making of a Historic Gay Love Story 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

More than 200,000 people signed a Change.org petition calling on the studio to return the character to her more realistic origins and the redesign was also criticised by Merida's Oscar-winning creator Brenda Chapman. Disney retreats from Princess Merida makeover after widespread criticism 2013-05-16T10:51:30Z

Replace “important” with “minor” and you get closer to a realistic assessment. Auctions: No Starry-Eyed Buyers at Christie's and Sotheby's Art Sales 2011-01-27T12:30:03Z

So much recent action cinema feels the need to be gritty, realistic and dark. John Wick review – a thrill ride driven by a relentless vengeance machine 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

“Verismo is to naturalism what the ‘shocker’ is to the realistic novel,” he wrote. Dudamel conducts 'Cav' and 'Pag' at the Hollywood Bowl 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

The kind of abuses, she said, if someone were to put it in a movie, it wouldn’t seem realistic. We’re Going to Need More Gabrielle Union 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

His later work, written in prose, mixing realistic and fantastic elements, is made up of little stories full of poetry that tend to be as concise and tightly structured as verse. Review | Charles Simic reflects on what set James Tate’s late poetry apart 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Earlier in the show, he opened a nightclub, altering his ill-advised dream of becoming a comic to a different, more realistic dream. Before jumping into the final "Maisel" season, here's a tight five refresher 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z

Even in realistic, contemporary teen fiction, however, it's not always necessary to use the words themselves. The curse of swearing in children's books 2010-09-08T13:07:00Z

Morbid: Wondering how realistic that is after a heart attack — but, yes, if doable, thanks. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He won’t take care of himself, so his wife should protect herself 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

“If you don’t mind me saying so, Lorenzo has a tendency to get a little grandiose and I’m always the one saying, ‘Honey, you need to have more realistic expectations from the world.’ ” | Up Close: New York Fashion Week: Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, Fashion Bloggers 2012-09-05T21:37:53Z

“Asking a start-up to begin making its own movement components from scratch is not realistic,” Mr. Thompson said. Shinola Takes Its ‘Detroit Cool’ Message on the Road 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

And if it is meant to be realistic, in real life, things aren’t tied up in a bow. Sam Rockwell on His Secret Past as a Really Bad Break Dancer 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

"I wanted to create a realistic, honest and rounded portrait of the city," Kapadia says. Asif Kapadia's 2012 Odyssey: the film that captures London's dark side 2012-06-24T17:30:01Z

“Be realistic, no one focuses all their energies on the person they’ve just started messaging, so take your time before you get emotionally invested.” 'Step away from the porn': how to have hot sex at every age 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

Perhaps this was meant to pep up the show, but instead it detracts from the more realistic material, making the whole seem false, inviting eye-rolling when it should rouse empathy. ‘To the Bone,’ by Lisa Ramirez, About Immigrant Workers 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

But let’s be realistic: Even if you get the boss’s all-clear to bolt at 5, you might as well be walking around with a “Not a Team Player” sign taped to your back. @Work Advice: Swimming against a workaholic tide 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

As you say, the character is named after you but it’s kind of a prank on comic memoirs because the events aren’t realistic. Dash Shaw on his animated teen movie: 'It was kind of a collage' 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

That explains, in part, why we enjoy watching realistic horror movies. Let’s watch a murder 2012-06-10T01:00:00Z

They're about how talent doesn't necessarily equal a paycheck, how money ruins friendships, and generally about the realistic social and ethical ramifications of getting or trying to get paid. Music Monday: Butts, Vitamin D, Usher 2010-04-05T19:01:00Z

Almost 30 years after “Back to the Future” first hit theaters, time travel is about as realistic as Doc Brown’s flux capacitor. In London, You Can Join the Show 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

The largest pictures are acrylic paintings of market displays, rendered in a realistic, graphic-novel style. In the galleries: Personal and political perspectives on the past 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

Can you talk about that sequence, which was fantastical, and a step removed from your more “realistic” fight scenes? Will "Avengement" be a breakthrough movie for fan favorite Scott Adkins? 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

Choosing to be optimistic is not only more realistic, but it can invigorate our lives as we become more aware of the wonderful possibilities that lay before us. 4 Ways of Choosing Happiness from Within 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

The whole thing is often funny and ultimately affecting, but is it realistic? Mirren reigns as Britain's queen in 'The Audience' 2013-03-06T12:26:09Z

Though affecting, the scene seemed too realistic in the context of such an experimental work. Review: ‘De Materie,’ of Matter, Spirit and Sheep 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

It is also a mesmerizing story about difference and adolescence, one that is far more realistic than most. ‘The End of Eddy’ Captures a Savage Childhood and a Global Movement 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Clelia, an uncommitted career woman who is too realistic to pursue romance, and the pathetic Rosetta take opposite paths in a world where men have feet of clay. The Week Ahead: June 13 ? 19 2010-06-11T13:31:00Z

The production, a realistic, handsome but unexceptional staging by Giancarlo del Monaco, broadcast on public television, offered Mr. Domingo in his prime. 2010-01-12T23:25:00Z

“She’s trying to channel that pain into something else, which I think is just a little more realistic.” Romances That Let Black Women Be Ambitious for a Change 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

“And we wanted to have a credible, believable, realistic member of La Cosa Nostra. And right there for the taking was Dickie Moltisanti.” Michael Gandolfini and the Riddle of Tony Soprano 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

If anything, her words conveyed the realistic determination of a seasoned athlete eager to get back to work following a period of rest. Laura Linney not staying neutral about 'Switzerland' at Geffen Playhouse 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

“My play has the same relationship to a normal realistic play as a zoot suit has to a normal suit,” Mr. Valdez said. ‘Zoot Suit,’ a Pioneering Chicano Play, Comes Full Circle 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

His song Trapped paints an abstract picture of police harassment of young black males, but it was in Brenda's Got a Baby that Tupac first took advantage of rap's unique potential for detailed, realistic storytelling. Your most inspiring political songs 2012-08-03T17:22:06Z

It was being a mom, planning for the worst and being realistic about what my circumstances were and hoping that my plans would be sufficient to care for my boys as they grew. After I survived cancer, I celebrated with a birthday cake 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z

TV & radio: 'Game of Thrones is more brutally realistic than most historical novels' More most viewed 1.  Azed slip No. 2,126 2013-03-25T10:24:00Z

It’s a measure of Yeasayer’s deep gamesmanship that, by then, the realistic, natural instruments sound like the intruders. New Music: Music From Yeasayer, Tamia, Lionel Loueke and Divine Fits 2012-08-27T21:53:22Z

Your truth is raw material for her to create more realistic expectations. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She whitewashes her past, and he paints himself into a corner 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

“As a storyteller,” Johnson told me in an email exchange about the book, “I’m drawn to realistic, contemporary situations and to figures caught up in danger and chaos.” Denis Johnson had ruthless honesty and transcendent power 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

It probably isn’t realistic that the two always answer their cellphones, no matter how aroused and entangled they are, but it’s funny — and a useful plot device. Kim Davies’s ‘Smoke’ Explores Power and Desire 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Police work is represented at its most realistic – often inspiring, mostly soul-destroying – while lofty ideals in any field are soon grounded in the petty grudges and vitriol that shroud them. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z

I fail to see a downside of you posting a realistic review of this company. Perspective | Ask Amy: Hoarding disorder creates messy situation 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

They were realistic, too, about the limited reach of one state law. Motherlode: Gay and Married with Children 2011-07-22T21:21:21Z

Others are more realistic, such as those circulating today in the words of two very different leaders: Mark Zuckerberg and Pope Francis. Speech Is Never Completely Free: Reflections From Zuckerberg And The Pope 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

It's Classified and my previous book Eighteen Acres are both works of fiction, but if they do seem realistic, it's by design. Q&A with Palin Advisor-Turned-Novelist Nicolle Wallace 2011-10-05T14:05:00Z

Hardy offers “a more realistic recommendation for the practical minimal requirement of 150g/day of glycemic carbohydrate intake beyond the ages of three to four years”. What leaders of the Paleo diet movement think – and why they're wrong 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

But the Equal Payback Project may be her broadest, most realistic campaign yet. Sarah Silverman's $29 Trillion Campaign for Equal Pay 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

But executives there said that the request in 1999 — $75,000 for each of the four bathrooms – was more of a marketing gimmick than realistic goal. How Do You Raise $3.47 Billion? Ask These Guys. 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

I thought this book was funny, enjoyable and realistic. Beswitched by Kate Saunders - review 2012-11-16T15:00:00Z

The piece rotates languorously, to a low-key track that the sisters composed, offering abstract and realistic angles as it moves. 29Rooms Is a Creative Playhouse for the Instagram Set 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Chaon is one of America’s best and most dependable writers, and in the end, “Ill Will” is a ruthlessly “realistic” piece of fiction about the unrealistic beliefs people entertain about their world. In Dan Chaon's powerful new novel 'Ill Will,' a murder resonates through decades 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

It’s realistic and the universe equivalent of world-weary. 'Doctor Who' and the Eyebrows of Peter Capaldi 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

“I would like to resolve this matter in the next month if that seems reasonable and realistic from your perspective,” he wrote in an email. Woman sues the Corcoran board to get her mother’s sculptures returned 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

"Some say it's an abstract portrait, but I say it's the most realistic portrait in the National Portrait Gallery," says Quinn. When two tribes meet: collaborations between artists and scientists 2011-08-21T20:30:01Z

Some say the images come out too clear and look so realistic that they take away from the magic of the film medium. In elf ears and wizard hats, 'Hobbit' fans rejoice 2012-11-28T12:02:11Z

In future episodes, their arcs will develop in family- and child-oriented ways that may be perfectly realistic but won’t win any points for breaking down gender stereotypes. ‘Halt and Catch Fire,’ on AMC, Switches Gears in Its New Season 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

A more realistic worry for whaling would be an oil spill from an offshore Arctic drilling rig, he said. Whale hunting in Alaska: Point Hope, the village caught between tradition and climate change 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

The dramedy about a group of gay friends living in San Francisco earned critical admiration for its realistic portrayal of modern gay life, especially as it came into its own in the second season. These Shows Helped Shape America's Attitudes About Gay Relationships 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

We are a luxury brand, made in France, but we have more realistic prices from €200 to €600 and a very strong relationship with our clients.” 2010-02-03T04:30:00Z

So it's like a grittier, more realistic Sex and the City? Lena Dunham – pass notes No 3,262 2012-10-09T16:05:07Z

Filled with gangsters, groupies and musicians on paths of self-destruction, it's nothing like the realistic — if exaggerated — musicianship and competitiveness shown in "Whiplash." Jazz drama 'Miles Away' hits all the wrong notes 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

It all looks fairly cumbersome, which is to say it looks realistic. How Jacqueline Durran, the “Little Women” Costume Designer, Remixes Styles and Eras 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

This was the heyday of the verismo movement, which championed realistic depictions, however sordid, of everyday life. Music Review: At Rose Theater, a Gritty Neapolitan Love Triangle 2010-05-25T22:35:00Z

I've made quite a few films and I think I'm pretty realistic. In a Better World director Suzanne Bier on winning an Oscar 2011-08-04T20:00:00Z

He's still the best, most realistic example on television we have and by being so, Colin makes parents feel seen. The best child on TV is on "What We Do in the Shadows" 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

Reacting against the naturalist novels of Émile Zola, the symbolists preached that it was more important to reveal the essence and true meaning of a scene than to set it down in realistic detail. Neoimpressionism exhibit makes points about poetry, music's influence 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

Perhaps this is realistic; land mines from the past often arrive in our lives unannounced and uninvited. A Family Splinters in ‘All the Lives We Never Lived’ 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

The facial hair works along with the soundtrack, the cars and the clothes to conjure a 1980 that viewers who were around back then may find uncannily, even painfully realistic. Review: In ‘Everybody Wants Some!!,’ Casual Sex and Casual Philosophizing 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

Once we stipulate that Bay's action sequences have no respect for plot coherence or the physical laws of the universe or the fragility of the human body, we can say that they feel realistic. "Transformers: Dark of the Moon": An American summer-movie masterwork 2011-06-28T21:01:00Z

The had a crucial role in shaping the origins and evolution not just of fantasy literature, but also of the realistic novel. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z

Q: The look is less cartoony and more realistic than your earlier work. Q&A: ‘The Red Turtle’ director talks about making his first feature film 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

But as with Angela, her experiences are otherwise down to earth, and painfully realistic for anyone connected to the world by electronics but little else. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2, Episode 3: This Is Your Brain on Drugs 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

And be sure to check out Mel Leipzig’s disarmingly realistic paintings. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Her excursions into the twisted psyche of Milly’s mother — or, rather, into Milly’s keen memories but conflicted feelings about her mother — are less realistic, but more distressing. The Latest in Crime Novels: Bad Mothers, Bad Memories and Bad Sex Toys 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Today, no U.S. toy company would dare advertise its guns as “just like real,” but from the 1940s to the 1980s, toymakers competed to market the most realistic looking, sounding and feeling weapons. Bang: The troubled legacy of toy guns 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Bennett’s relationship with Emma, a somewhat inexplicable war of attrition, is also the most realistic. If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now — Sort Of 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

What most people mean by a novel is the "conventional" novel, or "modern," or "realistic" novel. The novel is centuries older than we've been told 2010-07-23T13:56:00Z

But the realistic setting shows Mr. Zeffirelli at his most theatrical and inventive. Opera Review: Zeffirelli’s ‘La Bohème’ Staging Still Elicits Sighs and Awe 2014-01-15T22:43:27Z

His behavior toward her — his moodiness, his evasive answers to her questions, his passive-aggressive efforts to shut her down — is increasingly alarming, even as it is also the most consistently realistic aspect of the film. ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Where to Begin? 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

While that might be realistic—even at progressive companies like Google only about 30% of the employees are female—it seems like a great setup for a joke that never actually gets made. Silicon Valley Needs to Address the Industry's 'Woman Problem' in Season 2 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

So does Burgess in the more realistic “Kings.” Review | Politics and religion are juicy topics in two 90-minute comedies on D.C. stages 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

They have no idea how realistic it is. Don Juan in a wheelchair 2013-02-02T01:00:00Z

German pop singer Tim Bendzko appeared on stage to create as realistic a reaction from the crowd as possible for three scenarios. How does coronavirus spread at a concert? Germans do a test 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z

This leads to assumptions – which are quite wrong – about the realistic approach of people who opt for a degree in business or law, say, versus the dreamers and slackers who choose something creative. Creative education: is now the time for realism or optimism? 2013-06-17T10:06:55Z

“Gossip Girl” also has a team that makes sure the characters’ phone screens appear realistic in each episode. Did You See What Big Bird Tweeted? 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

“I always knew the scene should be as realistic as the rest of the movie,” he said, “so I couldn’t feasibly keep the towel on.” Full frontal: why the fuss over Chris Pine's 'dazzling' penis? 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

The 10 participants offer mostly realistic depictions of often recognizable locations, such as Rodgers Naylor’s archetypal Paris building and Steven S. Walker’s view of L Street NW at night, bike lane in the foreground. Review | In the galleries: A colorful survey of Washington artists 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

When staging a violent act, Young says, you want it to look realistic, but not too realistic. For the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s props director, one blood is not like another 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Although on the surface Sam seems to be a bit of a slow-witted, boyish man with a weird sense of humor, Maher creates a comical, multi-dimensional and realistic persona for him. Review: Annie Baker's 'The Flick' slow but funny 2013-03-13T00:10:10Z

Use the Web to study actual transaction prices and zero in on realistic bids and offers. Advantage Little Guy 2011-01-26T23:00:00Z

While it may make for realistic chowing down, that doesn’t mean the gore is necessarily up to snuff. The Walking Dead Watch: When the Dead Come Knocking 2012-11-26T05:18:27Z

What “Nerve” catches, in its more realistic stretches, is how the possibility of being seen at all times, by an ever-expanding audience, can narrow our sense of ourselves, even when it’s making us feel expansive. The Eerie, Mundane Thrill of Being Watched on the Internet 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z

If those blossom miniatures are the show’s vernal parade, the wildness emanates from realistic prints and paintings that are mostly of African megafauna, notably lions. In the galleries: Medicine chests as a medium for reflection 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The trick is, in the face of such rich potential, to remain realistic. ArtsBeat: When Expectations Mix With Reality 2011-04-16T11:50:33Z

Is there a sense in which you want both things to be true -- the realistic and the magic -- or for Colin's character to simultaneously believe that both things could be true? Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z

Look, as a veteran, I have nothing against realistic shows on the military. Killing me softly with militarism 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

But aside from that network series, taking a realistic tough look at these class-based frictions or intracultural discrimination doesn’t often occur on TV, “because it's painful, right?” Love and loss in L.A.'s Eastside: Just by existing, Tanya Saracho's "Vida" is a political act 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

In a time where we are inundated with stories of sexism, Peg’s refusal to do anything that cramps her style, while not exactly practical or realistic, feels like a satisfying middle finger to patriarchal convention. Perspective | Why Peg Bundy was the true ’90s-sitcom domestic goddess 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

There is a realistic novel for teens about an Arab Indian American girl and a middle-grade fantasy with Bangladeshi American characters. A step toward greater diversity in children’s books: Hena Khan’s ‘Amina’s Voice’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Sometimes recruiters and managers aren’t always in sync with regard to realistic salary expectations. Ask Amy: Facebook photo-sharing lands Granny in a fix 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

Make realistic assumptions about the locations of the missing cards. Bridge: Roth Open Swiss Teams 2013-09-04T21:43:20Z

“They reframe their negative thoughts into something more realistic in an effort to keep their stress in proper perspective,” Morin says. 9 Ways Mentally Strong People Handle Stress 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

You can play numerous deals at vubridge.com in a more realistic way than when reading about bridge in a newspaper, magazine or book. Bridge: V-Green, an Online Bridge Magazine 2012-06-15T23:15:31Z

These are not realistic images by any stretch. "Body Parts" examines the labor of movie nudity – the good, the bad and the merkins 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z

If this is meant to be a metafictional move, it’s not meta enough, since most of the novel operates in a formally realistic fashion. In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

“Shows for Days” wants to be both harshly realistic and charmingly sentimental. Review: ‘Shows for Days,’ With Patti LuPone as a Diva With Depth 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

A couple of wise, recurring sentiments reflect Vogel's realistic optimism: "Share the gladness of your heart" and "The hope of peace may be sweeter than peace itself." Review: 'A Civil War Christmas' is sweeping tale 2012-12-05T03:46:05Z

"Set realistic goals" is a good one – don't try to see everything because you'll have a rubbish time. Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

A hymn to an America rarely seen on television it featured outstanding performances, a smart script and one of the most realistic marriages ever committed to screen. Take five: classic US drama box sets 2012-08-10T12:29:34Z

With its use of rotoscoping, an animation style where live-action footage is traced to create a more realistic cartoon image, this show pushes the boundary between real-life representation and the imaginary world depicted by animation. 14 of the best animated shows for adults from the last decade 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z

For all the struggles women in Hollywood have when they pass 40, she is clearly realistic and healthy, appropriately optimistic. ‘I’d ask my mum: why do you drink?’ Andie MacDowell on childhood and Hollywood 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

They began using bronze, rather than marble, to create statues and honorific portraits more realistic than ever before, and an increasing number of affluent collectors were eager to bring these prized creations into their homes. Ancient Greek Bronzes Go on View at the Getty in L.A. 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

While setting a play on death row gives a playwright instant drama, good direction and wonderful acting often props up this script, which offers little more than achingly realistic character studies. A play about death row wrestles with meaning 2011-02-11T00:30:32Z

“Spreading out the $12.75 million throughout the summer enables us to bring staff and musicians back on payroll when we can more confidently forecast a realistic reopening date,” Kennedy Center spokeswoman Eileen Andrews explained. Congress gave $25 million to help the Kennedy Center weather the coronavirus. Now some politicians want it back. 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

Stravinsky spoke of his admiration of Nijinska’s version in the book “Memories and Commentaries”: “Her acrobatic ‘Renard’ coincided with my ideas, as well as with the real — not realistic — décors.” Dance Review: A Romp Through the Barn 2011-08-20T00:23:30Z

“I can’t do that and still advocate for reproductive freedom. It’s just not a realistic thing to expect.” The fight over the “v” word 2014-01-31T22:05:00Z

The fingernails looked so realistic that even “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” tracked him down to feature his work. Ink Rx? Welcome to the World of Paramedical Tattoos 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

Her battle is inspiring but not without realistic consequences: The film’s directors understand that when a teenage girl confronts corporate cover-ups, even the triumphs come with sacrifices. ‘Radium Girls’ Review: When Work Takes a Toxic Turn 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Her approach was altogether healthier than my assumption, and more realistic to the ways that we grow to embody our sexual selves over time, through trial and error, and hopefully good humor along the way. The trouble with virginity: What America’s sexual language leaves out 2014-02-23T21:00:00Z

Looking again, it’s easier to see how much the play is wish fulfillment: Rather than being strictly realistic, Cat gives robust, unadulterated voice to Scalia’s critics. Review | Gero still rules as Scalia in ‘The Originalist’ 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

“If you’re smart about budget and realistic about what people are into, you have more opportunity to create your own projects than ever before,” he said. How Haley Joel Osment Survived Being a Child Star 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

It’s not a perfect answer, but it is a realistic way to have a relationship with Mom that won’t drive you out of your mind. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: What to call Grandma becomes new front in her bid for attention 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Other viewers, however, commented that on-screen violence "contributed to their TV viewing experience" because it made action and drama programmes "seem realistic and provided tension" and "keeps you watching". Hollyoaks is now 'most violent soap' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Anything seems possible at a time when Donald Trump in the White House is a realistic prospect. Fighting dirty: could Michael Bay’s Benghazi movie take down Hillary Clinton? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

It’s part of my job to get past the initial swoon, and not be swayed by a discount, even as I wonder how realistic our budget is. No Seat in the Fitting Room for Me 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

"I think people have to have some realistic hope that things are changing for the better." Iowa up first in economy-themed campaign 2012-01-03T03:23:00Z

If Mason’s performance conveys the most believable self-sacrifice, Cooper’s is the most realistic depiction of depression. Why we keep gazing at ‘A Star Is Born’: From Gaynor to Gaga 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

If this is so, isn't being positive more realistic than being negative? Susan Jeffers obituary 2012-11-27T14:56:14Z

It succeeds — just — because it takes on qualities of ritual and pattern; it’s the least realistic party scene I’ve ever watched. Critic’s Notebook: New Men of ‘Nutcracker’: Papajohn, Tilton and Melendez 2012-12-11T23:17:27Z

Sorolla’s works tended to be more realistic than those from his French counterparts. Frida Kahlo in Sydney and Sia in Lebanon: Global Arts Guide 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

A more realistic image would be something similar to the Starship Enterprise. 10 things you need to know about vaginas 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

The defence of extreme, realistic violence on screen is that it is more honest than movies that downplay and disguise it. Killer instincts 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z

Elsewhere, swirls of patterns surround a realistic portrait of beloved singer and actor Simon Diaz, an immense image on a wall towering over a Caracas street. AP PHOTOS: Venezuelan street artist seeks to inspire 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z

These busts were perfect to me and much more realistic.” The Bust Economy Is Booming 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z

By now, of course, realistic war violence had been embraced by film-makers, and horror was the order of the day. Hanks and Spielberg pick their battles with The Pacific 2010-04-03T13:20:00Z

"People took a very realistic look at what they were paying models," said Razek. Supermodels making more money than ever 2011-05-06T17:52:05Z

"Talk of Mars is finally realistic," Berg said. How quarantine has inspired new amateur astronomers (some who wouldn't mind an alien abduction) 2020-08-16T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to find a realistic color for my brows that’s thick enough but also has the right texture to look like the hair on my brows. How Lizzo Does That 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

St. Martin said it is not realistic to expect that Broadway will wait for everyone to be vaccinated before reopening, given public skepticism about vaccines. Broadway Will Remain Closed at Least Through May 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Steinhauer’s most terrifying touch is to include an utterly realistic tableau of violence that only in retrospect turns out to be one diner’s fantasy. Review: In Olen Steinhauer’s ‘All the Old Knives,’ Exes Recall Love and Blood 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Everybody would love to be on “Homeland,” but I suppose that’s not very realistic. | Sandra Bernhard on How She Plans to Ring in the New Year 2013-12-23T20:13:06Z

This is fiction aimed at readers who find “Downton Abbey” too bleakly realistic. ‘The Improbability of Love’ paints a romantic comedy about the art world 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

But as the play dug deeper, its realistic trappings dropped away, leaving the Off Broadway treasure Deirdre O’Connell to deliver a stupendous 25-minute monologue that ripped open the story with heartbreaking self-reproach. Best Theater of 2019 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Most important, say filmmakers, new equipment allows movies to be built in 3-D from the ground up, providing a more immersive and realistic viewing experience, not one based just on occasional visual gimmicks. Conversion of Movies to 3-D Draws Mixed Reactions 2010-04-02T22:40:00Z

To me," he said, "my books are completely realistic. Ancient Light by John Banville – review 2012-06-22T21:55:04Z

Because these characters often don’t question their basic realities, I think that more distinctly reveals the ways in which their worlds, both speculative and realistic, are distorted for the reader. Mary South on Content Moderation and Trauma 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Actually, that part of the show was realistic. ‘The Night Of’ Series Premiere: Fate at the Wheel 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

This kind of theatrical spectacle was a sensational crowd-pleasing draw, along with re-enactments of famous sea battles and infamous wrecks – the more realistic the better. Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema – from Oscar-winning strategies to 007’s debt to Hitchcock 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z

“The storytelling in ‘Atlanta’ is dreamlike, which is another way of saying that it’s unusually realistic,” Poniewozik wrote in his review of the second season for The Times. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘grown-ish’ and ‘Atlanta’ 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

And those comparisons are now much less realistic, Andrew continues: “We all know that images can be filtered, that people are presenting the very best take on their lives.” The age of envy: how to be happy when everyone else's life looks perfect 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Instead, you’re shown a blank canvas, which gets filled up with realistic detail, piece by piece, before your eyes. In Search of Sleep, with Bob Ross 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

According to Farmer, some of this role-playing became "all too realistic." 11 courageous facts about the Freedom Riders 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z

Julia Wright said she believed that the previously unpublished portions add context to the story of a man’s adventure in the sewers, a realistic dimension to an otherwise fantastical tale. Decades After His Death, Richard Wright Has a New Book Out 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

But differentiated pricing is much more realistic, he says. Would you pay $50 to see a flick? Some fans did 2013-06-26T18:56:09Z

That brandy should be offered under the circumstances before God was only realistic. The Book of Mormon’s foggy origins 2012-08-12T16:01:00Z

Watch the trailer for Shadow Dancer - video Link to this video This crisp, economic opening, a remarkable combination of the stylised and the realistic, takes us into the deeply divided world of Belfast. Shadow Dancer – review 2012-08-25T23:08:02Z

Iowa officials scheduled them for Feb. 6, but an early January date now seems more realistic. Campaigns in high gear in Iowa 2011-09-30T05:17:00Z

“We have a similarity in the way we talk and write dialogue. But in terms of the realistic nature of my show and delving deeper into the characters and situations, it’s very different.” Pamela Adlon: how Louis CK's sidekick became the star 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

It’s an incredible performance that will hopefully open up the industry to more realistic and varying portrayals of women. These 8 Actresses Proved Women Can Carry A Summer Blockbuster 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Kelly’s new book, “Lalani of the Distant Sea,” is a fantasy, a departure from her realistic fiction. The best children’s books of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Traditionally, it’s very difficult to have realistic, meaningful, compassionate immigration reform in times of economic turmoil. A better border is possible 2012-05-26T22:00:00Z

She's comfortable with navigating groups of characters on a theatrical stage rooted more in metaphor than realistic detail. Story and score grab hands as they venture 'Into the Woods' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

In the end, working at Victoria’s Secret didn’t necessarily make me better with women, it simply brought my image of them into a more realistic and startling focus. How to fold a thong: A straight man working at Victoria’s Secret 2013-05-07T00:00:00Z

I think the villain in it is an especially good character because he is Oksa's teacher, which makes it realistic and makes you wonder if your teachers could be anything like that... Reader reviews roundup 2013-06-21T08:01:00Z

Although it’s nice to keep small scraps of paper and ribbon for wrapping tiny items, be realistic about how many remnants are necessary. Perspective | Use this stuck-at-home holiday to finally get those decorations under control 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

Then came the six-year run in Casualty, which required a relatively more realistic acting style than in American soap operas. Simon MacCorkindale obituary 2010-10-17T17:26:00Z

“Cortes the Killer,” arguably the most realistic story in the book, is also arguably the strongest. Review: ‘The Dark Dark,’ Beguiling Tales of Women in Metamorphosis 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

“The musical comedy side and the more realistic side of things.” At ‘The Prom’ on Broadway, It’s Time to Dance (and Flip) 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

Revived once every five years, the plays have traditionally been given as outdoor performances, which has led to some pretty realistic depictions of the deluge over the years. Chester Mystery Plays – review 2013-07-02T14:36:00Z

“I think their work is very realistic in representing the absurdity of black life,” says Francis. From Beyoncé to Sorry to Bother You: the new age of Afro-surrealism 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Some figures are real, others are rendered in continually rearranged bits of torn black paper — a kind of unhinged collage process — that is remarkably realistic. Art Review | 'William Kentridge: Five Themes': Anger and Angst, Explored With Animation 2010-02-25T22:41:00Z

Link to this video She knew in advance that $1m was a realistic goal, but she acknowledges that crowdfunding will not work for every musician. Amanda Palmer: 'Thank God my best friend's a therapist' 2012-08-19T18:59:01Z

And though this family unit also isn’t inviolable, it ends on a realistic note of hope. ‘Joe Egg,’ ‘Next to Normal’ probe families on the edge 2013-02-14T22:47:16Z

While people whose coronavirus experience consists chiefly of working from home may notice some literal dreams, theirs are, overall, more likely to be less realistic, she said. Why Am I Having Weird Dreams Lately? 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

The author envisioned a realistic cop as her protagonist, a dedicated and skilled professional — and yet “something more than just a policeman, you see, a complex and sensitive human being.” P. D. James, Novelist Known as ‘Queen of Crime,’ Dies at 94 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

It's a tad overwrought, and the play would be better served by more realistic restraint. 'Tree' at Victory Gardens ★★★ 2011-04-13T21:19:58Z

Evidently wanting to jump on the sellers-of-grossly-inappropriate-and-offensively-marketed-Halloween-costumes train, Amazon is selling a very special — and very realistic — getup, inspired by the female academics of the world. Happy Halloween: Actual PhDs respond to Amazon’s “women’s sexy PhD” costume and it is a treat 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

These pieces are horizontal, and thus feel more like landscapes, albeit ones that are kaleidoscopic rather than realistic. Review | In the galleries: Artist’s works criss-cross the paths of U.S. colonialism 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

The overarching idea is that the events of these acts are unreliable products of, or imprints upon, Anna/Anastasia’s memory, rather than realistic accounts. Review: ‘Anastasia,’ a Grand Duchess or a Great Pretender? 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

She's not exactly a feminist character — that's not really realistic in a medieval setting — but she also has a more expansive view of what women can be, even in this world. Alicent Hightower of "House of the Dragon" is the Karen of Westeros 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

So in the real world of dance, with its exquisitely trained athletes and ever-improving science, how realistic is the “Red Sparrow” scenario of a ballerina’s career ended by a freak injury? In ballet, injuries are all too real 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

The ticking clocks, alarms and chimes that open “Time” are startlingly realistic even when they’re no longer a surprise, and the perpetual-motion synthesizers and desperate footfalls of “On the Run” are eternally dizzying. After Half a Century, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ Still Reverberates 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

It looks less realistic and more like action figures sprung to life. E3: How 'Battleborn' was borne of 'Borderlands' cosplay 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

One part "Misery," one part entirely realistic nightmare, "Delivered" doesn't break much new ground, but it does offer an entertaining twist on some classic chills. "Delivered" review: Hulu’s "Into the Dark" slow-burn mommy horror offering is for "Misery" devotees 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

An initial realistic approach to the subject yielded disappointing results. Simon Rich: the funniest man in America? 2013-07-16T19:00:00Z

But “Good People” had to be done in realistic style, he went on, because he didn’t want to make his characters ridiculous. A Return to Southie, by Way of Broadway 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z

Is it too much to ask of a TV audience, to get them to tune in for four hours of realistic, often horrifying drama? Southcliffe: the most harrowing drama on TV 2013-07-26T13:00:00Z

"I need to make up some miles and I think I can, but … I try to be realistic," he said. NY man cycling to all 50 states reaches Florida, loses 30 pounds, inspires others 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

A movie like is not one that requires an examination of how realistic the plot is. What's with All the Lizards in The Amazing Spider-Man? 2012-07-10T12:00:04Z

From these and other voices, it’s not hard to sense the clear, realistic parameters of working-women’s lives. Fall Fashion: The Five Things You Need for Fall 2011-08-24T23:08:42Z

The one thing I will be more cautious of from now on is the slightly more realistic possibility of being engulfed in a panicking mob led by TSA agents. How to Stay Safe at the Airport 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Henley's report is realistic, positive, and bold: providing that is, that all, or most of, its recommendations actually translate into practice. Does Henley's report on music education strike the right note? 2011-02-07T13:05:28Z

The picture’s large blocks of bright color are more characteristic of Terrell, while the realistic touches, including the brown skin tones, are typical of Nzinga. Review | In the galleries: The American character, as molded by 11 female artists 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Stuffed with the three-course meal of insurrection, inauguration and impeachment, our upset bellies aren't quite ready to fully return to a realistic reckoning with race. From "The Bachelor" to "Bridgerton," examining the fraught dynamics of interracial romance on TV 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z

“I think what they did was realistic planning, and with a lot of the cities it’s just, kind of, speculative planning,” Mr. Wallechinsky said of London. With the Olympics Over, Six Former Host Cities Worth Visiting 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Some players are positioned in the auditorium, so that certain sounds — like an eerily realistic evocation of bird song — envelop the audience. Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

The bulk of the film was shot on a 60-foot platform on top of a mountain, to keep things looking realistic. ‘Fall’ Review: Things Are Looking Down 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

The quartet's work includes none of the most traditional forms of art – or drawings and paintings – which last year were represented by the Oldham artist Rachel Goodyear's highly realistic illustrations of fantastical subjects. Northern Art prize 2010 shortlist announced 2010-06-15T12:15:00Z

That feels realistic, given the forces and systems arrayed against the individual. How Jeff VanderMeer Prevents Writer’s Block 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Rebecca Hensler: First of all, there’s the realistic fear many have of living as out atheists. 8 atheist leaders actually worth listening to 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

It would be absurd to see Tudor England as more economically realistic than Medici Florence. Velázquez: the artist of Spanish decline 2012-06-11T09:48:33Z

They began using bronze, rather than marble, to create statues and honorific portraits more realistic than ever before, and an increasing number of affluent collectors were eager to bring these prized creations into their homes. Ancient Greek Bronzes Go on View at the Getty in L.A. 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

Being so public about her weight loss has also been a way to "be realistic" about "what it actually takes to lose weight," she told Fox. Couple who lost a combined 146 pounds goes viral on TikTok: 'Life-changing' 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

But the world of “Shadow” is neither placid nor realistic in appearance. ‘Shadow’ Review: A Bleak World Splashed With Red 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

She is realistic enough to know that a world-class museum can't be created overnight, or even over a decade. Billionaire shapes an art museum for the heartland 2011-06-18T04:53:55Z

My whole family loves both books and TV shows for realistic depictions of working and traveling in space. Love astronaut-themed science fiction? Seattle Times staffers name their favorite books, movies and TV shows of that genre. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

He ensured that the battle footage in “Dr. Strangelove” was disturbingly realistic by shooting it like a documentary. Gilbert Taylor, Celebrated Hollywood Cinematographer, Dies at 99 2013-08-27T02:48:23Z

I am also realistic and understand that he may not love me or care about “us” anymore. Perspective | Ask Amy: Facebook message creates marital mess 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

“I always try to make my acting as realistic as possible, but I remember having that thought in that moment and just weeping.” Misty Copeland, a Ballerina With Real Acting Chops 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

And it was so much more gritty and, for want of a better word, realistic than I was expecting. ‘House of the Dragon’: Steve Toussaint on Playing Lord Corlys, Boat Guy 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

Her latest novel, “Little Eyes,” may be her most unsettling work yet — and her most realistic. Samanta Schweblin Talks About Her Creepy New Novel 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Beyond that, it is definitely my favorite because you can feel the care and thoughtfulness that went into crafting the very realistic characters. Readers Share Their Favorite Books of 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z

The color palette is close to realistic—East Coast vegetation against blue-gray buildings and industry—but only just. “Braddock, PA,” a Brisk, Remedial Documentary of a Rust Belt Town 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

Rather than idolize the characters, why not look at them through a realistic lens, so to speak? ‘Boomerang’ Returns, as a BET Comedy 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Moyes writes so masterfully of the communion between horse and rider that she manages to make Le Cadre Noir, the exclusive French riding school, a realistic goal for young Sarah. Jojo Moyes’s new novel, ‘The Horse Dancer,’ has a Dickensian spirit 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Linklater doesn’t stop at studying how a woman’s body changes over 12 years: he’s also relentlessly realistic about Olivia’s depressing fate. Forget the Boy: Watching Patricia Arquette Age in Boyhood Is Astounding 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

In the straightforwardly realistic “Sunlight,” however, what might have seemed bravura or inventive in another context simply feels silly or over the top. Books of The Times: Mark Helprin’s ‘In Sunlight and in Shadow’ 2012-10-05T05:17:21Z

And the closest that Helena Fitzgerald, a recent Columbia graduate, got was an interview at a top magazine, during which the editor dismissed her literary career dreams, telling her, “C’mon, that’s not realistic.” New York?s Literary Cubs 2011-11-30T23:21:40Z

Lucy Osborne's set, an architect's office complete with rain-drenched windows, is convincingly realistic. Like a Fishbone 2010-06-14T23:28:00Z

After that, we thought, 'What else can we do as a group that's going to make a realistic living for us?' From sketches to standup: the great escape 2011-08-08T20:30:02Z

Her photo-based, exquisitely executed drawings appear more realistic and seductive than photographs could ever hope to be. Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Autumn treats: comedy highlights Will Dean: The Inbetweeners: more realistic than Skins? The Inbetweeners: series three, episode six 2010-10-18T21:35:00Z

And none of the three tells a story so realistic or sustained that it feels jolting to interrupt. Review: In Chicago, an Opera Triptych Reaches for Connection 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

“Sometimes genre entertainment can illuminate troubling realities better than more earnest and self-seriously realistic films, and ‘Black and Blue’ belongs to that tradition,” Scott wrote. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Try Harder!’ and ‘Sheryl’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

Richard Eyre’s new production, though effective enough, is nothing special — a staging that splits the difference between the realistic depiction of a period and a bolder contemporary concept. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:20:26Z

But snow is his specialty, and though there are other special effects guys around the country who do snow for movies, it's Dieter Sturm who excels at manufacturing realistic snow. Hollywood's winter weather man 2010-12-30T06:00:00Z

If we removed the stigma, guilt and shame from the equation, people would find it easier to make a realistic, objective assessment of their  substance misuse and discuss it openly with a health care provider. 8 reasons addiction carries a stigma 2012-12-09T16:00:00Z

Of the three, Spacey's character is by far the most realistic; you do get bosses with real psychopathic tendencies. Horribly real 2011-08-01T08:25:17Z

But it is a meditation on whether magic cake can be eaten happily or whether it would go stale when exposed to the bitter air of a more realistic treatment. Lev Grossman's 'The Magician's Land' closes the book 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Take these five new Y.A. books, ranging from fantasy to realistic fiction to memoir. New Y.A. Books by Women of Color Rewrite Old Cultural Scripts 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Indeed, Palin said in 2009 that despite it being the surest way to prevent pregnancy, abstinence was "not realistic at all" for most people. Bristol Palin strikes back: 'This pregnancy was planned' 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

There were a number of films -- "Polar Express" and "Final Fantasy," for example -- that used motion capture to re-create very realistic human characters. Best and worst animated characters, explained 2011-02-09T21:15:00Z

“The shades are realistic and beautiful and don’t damage the hair. And when clients come to their next appointments, I’ve been able to color their hair nicely, which isn’t always the case with drugstore dye.” How to Touch Up Your Roots at Home 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

We need better promotion of realistic and achievable family meals, to reduce the pressure placed on already overburdened families. Five tips on how to keep family meals delicious, nutritious and stress-free 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

While the second part of that wish is pure fantasy, the ambition to become the Tardis' first woman owner is a genuine aim and one she believes is realistic. Heather Peace: 'I want to be Doctor Who' 2013-09-05T08:10:21Z

To ensure it offers a realistic human stand-in, measurements are taken from that old analog stand-by — cadavers. Yes, there are maggots: Mary Roach's 'Grunt' delights in the physicalities of going to war 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Favourite gadget: Bond's in-car defibrillator, which is used to restart his heart after LeChiffre poisons him at the poker table, is a realistic essential item of kit for a modern-day spy. My favourite Bond film: Casino Royale 2012-10-01T16:29:02Z

Schönebaum said that “lighting is part of the set,” and has come up with what Gerlach called “a refined visual approach” that is realistic compared with the other two contributions. One Opera, Three Acts, Three Different Stagings 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

She wants other women to have a more realistic idea of egg freezing than she did, when she answered that advert with its toothless baby, grinning. We need to talk about egg freezing 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

Here is where the story, like all good fantasy, bends toward the realistic. She’s Seeking Power, But She’s Not Power-Seeking 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

“They are at once abstract and at the same time realistic depictions of an elegant place.” Cultured Traveler: The Paris That Awoke to Atget?s Lens 2010-10-01T14:14:00Z

The better course is a “return to an earlier, more prudent, realistic and sensible policy tradition.” New Directions for American Foreign Policy 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

If a person hasn't seen shows that get closer to a more realistic take on new sobriety, like the tightly crafted "Single Drunk Female," this may not bother them. "The Flight Attendant" returns with double the baggage and showcase for Kaley Cuoco 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Ballard, “The Drowned Giant” is rendered here in mostly realistic animation, with the giant’s clean-shaven cheeks, tidy fingernails and muscular chest shown in aching detail. The Best TV Episodes of 2021 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

That’s a pretty realistic appraisal, coming as it does from a woman who has always relied on the kindness — and interest — of the male sex. Review: A Darwinian ‘Streetcar’ With a Feminist Streak 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

We propose that a more realistic approach might be to limit the mandate to those individuals earning upwards of $54,000 per year. Gingrich in 2006: Romneycare is 'Exciting' and 'Has Tremendous Potential' 2011-12-27T03:41:36Z

In a statement released last month, Morell insisted that Zero Dark Thirty was "a dramatisation, not a realistic portrayal of the facts". Did Zero Dark Thirty have secret links to CIA? US Senate vows to find out 2013-01-03T12:32:25Z

Relatively seamless computer effects render even the most preposterous ideas as relatively realistic while also blurring the line between what might be real and the imagination of the filmmakers. SXSW: Surprise 'Furious 7' screening met with tears by Paul Walker fans 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Sure, Carrie's writing career was never that realistic — she might be the only freelance writer on the planet who has never had to hustle. Forget Aidan. "And Just Like That" needs to bring back Carrie's voice – and column writing career 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z

And somehow, despite the fact that it includes a scene in which a phantom projectile scream-vomits hot white ectoplasm into the air above Kristen Stewart’s face, it’s also one of the most realistic. The 7 best movies new to Netflix in February 2019 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

Jonathan Dahm Robertson’s set contributes to both realistic and hauntingly stylized scenes. Review | Two plays set at the intersection of race and violence in America 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

The good news is, some kids — and even some celebrities — are talking back to the beauty and advertising industries and taking action to encourage more realistic images. The ugly truth behind pretty pictures 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

Instead, the visible contrasts are among the seasons, and between realistic images and nearly abstract ones. In the galleries: Remapping the boundaries of drawing 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

What I owe to the audience is a realistic portrayal of the given circumstance and to let them decide for themselves if they want to feel compassion. ‘There’s No Way to Do a Good Job if You’re Judging the Character’ 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

Perhaps reacting to this, he has embraced a realistic contemporary story, part thriller, part moral . Flight – review 2013-02-03T00:07:01Z

“Superhero films let people put away their fears. But this ‘saving’ is not very realistic. Son of Saul's László Nemes: 'Our civilisation is preparing for its own destruction' 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

“Omar” does not offer the promise of a just or satisfying resolution, a fatalism all the more devastating given its realistic methods and humane, understated performances. Movie Review: In ‘Omar,’ the West Bank Is a Backdrop for Betrayal 2014-02-20T23:28:48Z

This results in the gritty, realistic terrorists looking like they raided an Ed Hardy laser tag arena for their weapons. Online gambling’s weird new frontier: The $2.3 billion business of garishly painted virtual assault rifles 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z

Typically, to start, only respectful, realistic stories make inroads. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Foster responds to the outrageous premise of "The Beaver" by dialing back the direction and delivering the story in unassuming, largely realistic fashion. The role Mel Gibson was born to play 2011-05-04T20:01:00Z

The pages flip by, in realistic motion, showing draft after labored draft of songs like “Tangled Up in Blue,” with key passages highlighted and explanatory context added. The $10 Million Bob Dylan Center Opens Up His Songwriting Secrets 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

Martin, however, is as realistic as he is determined, and applies to get educated only to be told that he is lacking in basic knowledge. Here are 6 great film performances you missed in 2020 – and how to watch them 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

I don’t know—or I don’t care—if it’s a realistic world or an unrealistic one. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

Either stop this immediately, or at least be a bit more realistic about it. Oi! Celeb chef! Stop saying 'For me' 2013-01-01T10:00:00Z

Bureaucratic rivalries are part of any realistic modern spy story. Review | In ‘The Spy and the Traitor,’ a tale of Cold War espionage that’s both thrilling and true 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

The realistic prison picture is a powerful indictment of the dehumanising effects of the US penal system. Richard Collins obituary 2013-02-20T18:14:54Z

Though the emphasis is in one way realistic, it has also sapped the strength of the left. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z

Making something look realistic and convincing is ultimately the aim. Dinosaurs on film – fun, fiction and failures 2013-05-16T16:12:00Z

But being a fashion designer didn’t seem like a realistic goal in those days, she recalled. The Chic Octogenarian Behind Barbie’s Best Looks 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

"What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?" is a magical, realistic romance. "What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?" director counters a curse using cinema as "modern magic" 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

The attractive urban set by David F. Weiner isn't meant to be strictly realistic, though there are moments when Sueko's navigation seems a bit too casual. Review: Moving power of love in 'Stop Kiss' confronts brutality

And the ending, with the entire family embraced in a tentative rapprochement, struck her as both satisfying and realistic. Hedda Gabler to Medea to Frazzled Mom 2010-12-31T15:49:56Z

This was too realistic, more of a docudrama. David Cronenberg: “Hollywood hasn’t fed me very much. Biting their hand would be gratuitous” 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

I believe that true horror, meaning realistic, is more terrifying because readers can identify with it whereas they enjoy ghosts and creatures, but they realize they're not in real life. V.C. Andrews felt she had "prophetic powers": Longtime ghostwriter on "Flowers in the Attic" author 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

Rather, Kinsley is intent on being wryly realistic about coping with illness and the terminal prospects ahead. Michael Kinsley’s ‘Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide’ 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

At the same time as “Sunflowers,” she also paints “Pond,” a more complicated, realistic landscape, tinged with Matisse’s influence. Review: ‘Russian Modernism’ at Neue Galerie, Figurative Focus With Amorphous Results 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

To read his account of the administration’s foreign policy is to yearn for an earlier era of American diplomacy, when blarney about the nation’s omnipotence was not permitted to substitute for realistic prudence. Yearning for an Earlier Era of American Diplomacy 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

In my heart, I operate in a realistic world because I’m producing a TV show. ArtsBeat: How 'Mad Men' Landed The Beatles: All You Need Is Love (and $250,000) 2012-05-07T21:56:36Z

It is allied with “verismo,” a post-Romantic musical and literary movement that centered on relatively realistic characters — as opposed to the aristocratic and mythic figures previously the norm. ‘La Bohème’: Puccini’s bohemians live on, in opera and in life 2013-02-14T23:41:36Z

Besides, it's good to be realistic: the puppet show The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik is a total joy from start to finish, but it's not King Lear. Lyn Gardner on Edinburgh star ratings 2011-08-21T20:59:02Z

But the two young leads had almost nuclear chemistry, and young women identified with Bella’s determination to choose her own fate – as well as her realistic Seattle-grunge clothing choices. Ten years of Twilight: the extraordinary feminist legacy of the panned vampire saga 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

His suggestion that you’re his last hope is neither flattering nor realistic and doesn’t say much for either of you. I want to leave my partner of 15 years. Am I being selfish? | Mariella Frostrup 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

Ms. Lovell’s book shines by painting a refreshingly realistic picture of the design process. Design: How Dieter Rams Made Braun Look Cool 2011-06-06T10:51:36Z

I, both a romantic and a lawyer, attempted to argue my case — “Doesn’t love find a way?” — and he, the realistic, number-crunching one, pointed out the obvious practical hurdles. Accepting Applications for a Black Boyfriend 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

He puts his actors on an island — a slab of concrete that floats in the middle of the Fichandler’s in-the-round stage — and doesn’t bother with the realistic hubbub of household life. The ’80s are back with a vengeance in Wilson’s ‘King Hedley II’ at Arena 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

One slogan of an earlier era of student revolt was “be realistic: demand the impossible,” and Ms. Keshavarz’s indifference to some of the sober conventions of realism is very much in this spirit. | 'Circumstance': ?Circumstance,? Directed by Maryam Keshavarz - Review 2011-08-25T21:59:50Z

In fact, Vineland was less than 400 pages long, largely American rather than international in its settings, realistic in style for long stretches, and relatively earnest, even sentimental, compared with what Pynchon had previously written. Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z

As exquisitely detailed and historically accurate as many of its scenes are, “Pasolini” is less concerned with the realistic reconstruction of the past than with communicating a mood in the present. ‘Pasolini’ Review: One Rebellious Filmmaker’s Tribute to Another 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

The more realistic bits of Becky’s story feel like little more than loose sketches of characters and circumstances, and there’s a lack of chemistry among cast members. Review: ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ Brings the Witches but Forgets the Magic 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

How were you able to create her as a character in a way that felt realistic while still being respectful? Making the bodies of “The Staircase”: The challenge of depicting Kathleen both in life and in death 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z

“It’s actually been a very exciting period, the last eight years — finding new color and atmosphere without being realistic.” ?Will Barnet at 100? at the National Academy Museum 2011-10-09T04:00:20Z

The pieces of this puzzle are realistic, but some of them — such as a rock outcropping topped with trees both real and fake — are incongruous. Review | In the galleries: Whimsy rendered starkly, in black and white 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

The fact that I looked younger than my years didn’t help the cause of realistic thinking. On (Not) Wasting My Time With a Younger Man 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

It’s worth going back to American Graffiti just to remind yourself that this man once appreciated humanly possible action, realistic settings, lifelike characters, talk and dramatic situations one might have seen at night in Modesto. The folly of Empire: how Star Wars menaced Hollywood 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hoffman is excellent, but you’re always aware that you’re watching an aesthetic creation built on technique, executed with craft and aided by realistic accouterments like a leather jacket, bushy sideburns and dolorous mustache. Harry Dean Stanton: Fully Inhabiting Scenes, Not Stealing Them 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

But the artist also inserts realistic botanical motifs such as leaves, vines and blooms, while evoking a sense of place derived from her training in traditional Chinese landscapes. In the galleries: Small universes and a large cosmos at Greater Reston Arts Center 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

“I wanted to make sure I was being as realistic as possible and as honest as I could be.” Kaitlyn Dever on Becoming a Face of Addiction in ‘Dopesick’ 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

What I like about Submarine is that it feels realistic. Ayoade takes helm in Submarine 2011-03-15T08:38:48Z

But Mr. Morello, in a Trump-red “Make America Rage Again” hat, is realistic about the potential for impact. Prophets of Rage Bring Their Anger to the Republican Convention 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

“A Door in the Earth” tells a convincing story of misplaced do-gooding from across the political spectrum, and the passages that Waldman includes from “Mother Afghanistan” seem depressingly realistic. A Novel Set in Afghanistan Challenges the Myth of the Good Occupier 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Jane Hawking, Stephen Hawking's former wife, on whose memoir the film The Theory of Everything is based, says that she was "astounded" at how realistic Felicity Jones' performance was. Hawking's ex on 'uncanny portrayal' 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

“Achingly realistic teenage rom-com” provoked a collective cultural yawn, so he reworked that into “super-scary and surprisingly well-made horror flick,” and the difference is obvious. “It Follows”: An instant horror classic about the dark side of teen sex 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

The concept is fleshed out with grimly realistic sets and war-torn costumes. Review: Cecilia Bartoli Has Dramatic Depth as ‘Norma’ at Salzburg Festival 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

“And it’s, ‘How do you get something that’s as realistic as possible, and still comes out of the costume, and doesn’t turn your actor into an itchy mess?’ For the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s props director, one blood is not like another 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Such details are essential for any novel that aspires to be a realistic portrait of cancer. 'Alice & Oliver' is like 'Love Story,' but with more grit and less sap 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

The Mirror's Mark Jefferies found their contributions "a little stiff", suggesting Smith "seemed to be lost for words - or realistic sentences". Mixed reviews for BBC gymnastics show 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

Uriu’s materials vary from rabbit pelts and blackberry brambles to photocopies and realistic drawings. ‘The Veil’ exhibition at Bridge Productions spans ideas of what’s seen and unseen 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

While the bulk of “The Lost Girl” is set in a realistic world, the final section is suffused with magic. New Fantasy Novels for Kids (and Adults) Ready to Go Beyond Harry Potter 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Reacting to every slight or let down is neither realistic nor fair; it sends the message that we expect the other person to be flawless in relationship. What Girls Really Need to Know About Friendships 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

I needed to find a realistic way Dr. Merck would react to this obviously miraculous, magical event. Q&A with J.M. Sidorova, Seattle author of ‘The Age of Ice’ 2013-08-09T21:33:45Z

If you are being brutally criticised, try silently replacing your parent’s negative comments with something more realistic and positive. Horrible parents: a survival guide 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

The film follows her around her dimly lit suburban house as she works on creating and selling reborns: extremely realistic dolls of newborn babies. The Screening Room: “Dollhouse” 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

It's the Netflix series that is, incredibly, changing the lead actors to make the aging Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip look more realistic. Emmy Nominations 2018: ‘Game of Thrones’ and Netflix Lead the Way 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

On a literary male writer’s inability to create realistic female characters: “His women are all temper . . . and tampons.” ‘The Silkworm’ by J. K. Rowling, as Robert Galbraith 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

An enjoyable family movie, with some great flight sequences – and there's an interestingly realistic sense of the dangers involved in risking your neck for others. Film review: How to Train Your Dragon 2010-04-01T22:15:00Z

Borkowski offers advice to all those trying to face down the might of the Mail: firstly be realistic, then take the long view. George Clooney row with Daily Mail boils over as actor shuns apology 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

The film's animation drew praise from reviewers, and several aerial sequences — including a memorable twilight flying scene — are filled with eye-catchingly realistic uses of light. Software behind 'Big Hero 6' pushes envelope on computer animation 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

It was an argument that resonated widely in the 1960s, when Marxist intellectuals could still believe that a realistic alternative to capitalism existed, could still argue that "true" Marxism hadn't been tried properly. EP Thompson: the unconventional historian 2013-03-06T15:05:11Z

But rather than make “a fairy tale,” Mr. Lee said, it was more logical to him to apply this technology to “a realistic drama — I think that’s a more likely experiment, so to speak.” The Real Message in Ang Lee’s Latest? ‘It’s Just Good to Look At’ 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

The biggest risk for them is that Fred West is dead, thereby scuppering any realistic chance of a sequel. Haven't we had enough of murder on the telly? 2012-06-03T19:00:06Z

Here is a survey of Texas TV, arranged in order from the realistic to the ridiculous. Texas TV: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

As for Ms. Kim, she said: “Initially I wanted to wear a beige trench coat with black leggings because I am always realistic in the way I approach things.” The Superheroes From House of Slay Are Here to Stay 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

“The movie is realistic enough to make all corporate climbers, but especially men over 50, quake in their boots,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times in December. DVD: Chopin, Schubert and Dietrich (the Latter Nude) 2011-06-03T17:11:56Z

And they have to be sober and realistic about the conclusions they draw from their research. Are kids from religious backgrounds really more selfish than their nonreligious peers? 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

Biden is a 77-year-old lifelong leader of his party’s Washington establishment who emphasizes a more realistic approach to core policy issues such as health care and climate change. Super Tuesday results show Democratic Party race is between Biden and Sanders 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Nottage’s writing falls into expositional phases that provide the actors with plenty of realistic detail and local color but these passages slow momentum. Who are these Trump voters? For a thoughtful portrait, turn to playwright Lynn Nottage's 'Sweat' 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

In other words, flexibility and realistic expectations increase your chances for contentment. Book review: ‘Honeydew,’ short stories by Edith Pearlman 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

If a robustly realistic counterweight is now on the way to our screens, perhaps it should be given an eager welcome. Race and the romcom: is Think Like a Man realistic or racist? 2012-06-25T09:44:31Z

“Boyhood” is one of the most realistic coming-of-age stories ever made. ‘Boyhood’ a coming-of-age movie like no other 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

After a three-day bender, he opts for a more realistic approach to his life, and decides to become a systems engineer. Eduardo Sacheri's 'Papers in the Wind' 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

The more common and realistic educational path weaves through community colleges and smaller state schools, and is accompanied by additional challenges from family and financial obligations. When factory jobs left Gary, Indiana: whites left, 'but we blacks didn't have a choice' 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

“I totally agree. And let’s be realistic. If you went through anyone’s email in America, you’d find a deluge of nasty stuff about co-workers. Imagine what the inbox of a Wall Street analyst looks like.” How the Sony Corporation Hack Revived the Lost Art of the Phone Call 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

The finished pieces range in viewpoint from close up to wide angle, and in style from realistic to very nearly psychedelic. Review | In the galleries: A heightened homage to trees and what they can teach us 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

While the game graphics aren’t quite state of the art, they seemed realistic enough to satisfy the tiny, tougher critics around me. Dance Review: ?The Radio City Christmas Spectacular? - Review 2011-11-18T22:47:37Z

The figures may be realistic or neo-Cubist, and rendered in terra cotta and stoneware, alabaster and limestone. In the galleries: At annual benefit show, the world goes round 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

A more realistic goal at this point might be "slightly bigger than the Ordinary Boys", but ultimately there's no shame in that. This week's new live music 2011-02-12T00:05:30Z

Of course, it probably wasn’t realistic to do a proper “Next Generation” reunion without having Brent Spiner resurrect Data. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Night at the Museum 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

The picture we draw of other parents is probably less than realistic and completely unachievable, but that doesn’t save us. Weekend Breakfasts to Warm the Heart, and Belly 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

The Left Hand of God introduces a vast variety of secondary characters as well, most of them skillfully developed, intriguing and as realistic as an epic fantasy character can afford to be. The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman - review 2013-03-02T09:00:00Z

Even Richard’s compression algorithm, the breakthrough technology at the center of the show, is realistic; a Stanford compression expert consulted on the tech. ‘Silicon Valley,’ Mike Judge’s New Series, Debuts on HBO 2014-04-02T16:55:21Z

“Our lawyer told us two months to a year, so I’m hoping two months,” says Rød, “But I’m being realistic.” Until visas do us part: three couples on marrying for papers – and for love 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

If you imply that the community is not realistic and the experts are the only ones with reality, it concerns me. Amid an epic dispute over the future of L.A.'s Southwest Museum, a new report sees hope 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

She loves what I call an emoji heel: a stacked, realistic heel. Solange Knowles’s Stylist Will Do Anything to Hunt Down a Look 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

And Levingston offers Kennedy’s realistic assessment in his search for how progress toward equality might be attained: “It often helps me to be pushed.” Kennedy and King: The remarkable intersection of two great lives 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Stop-motion animation is the perfect format for the hoarse, whispered messages of "The House": a form of animation where objects gain lifelike but not totally realistic movements, and a painstaking process of art-making. What the fuzzy animals of Netflix's "The House" can teach "Don't Look Up" about climate anxiety 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

In addition to the legality of such a ceremony, a hybrid event like the Gagnons’ is “much more in-demand and realistic,” she said, “because couples want both in-person and virtual experiences.” Getting Married in the Metaverse 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

“I didn’t think we were done with the world of ‘Brooklyn,’ but I’m also realistic,” she said recently. ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Is Back, and Stephanie Beatriz Is Making the Most of It 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

At Horizon High, both classes and an extra-curricular club provide realistic scenarios for training students. In "At the Ready," teens' path to Border Patrol & law enforcement is "akin to military recruitment" 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

Now I view myself as becoming ever more realistic and grounded. Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel –interview 2013-03-17T00:05:39Z

Consider keeping a journal of your driving habits in order to keep yourself realistic about what you need. Ten Common Car-Buying Mistakes 2010-05-07T20:10:00Z

Their goal, they said, is simply fabricating an existence so realistic that upon first glance, Jana and Luise appear to be real people. Tally of the Dolls 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

It’s enough to make even the most committed advocate of conventional fiction wonder if Shields and company are on to something: Maybe the realistic novel has outlived its usefulness. Kate Atkinson’s ‘A God in Ruins’ 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

How about violence and those shoot em up video games are becoming realistic. Parenting in the Age of Online Pornography 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Pieces of magic also surface in Linda Hogan’s evocative and largely realistic “People of the Whale.” Books for Left-Brained Readers 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

Their teacher provided a very realistic prop gun. Haley Joel Osment Plays Pool at His Favorite N.Y.U. Hangout 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Neither of these prospects was realistic, but there was a shared recognition that there might be a problem in rapidly rising human numbers. Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott – review 2013-07-05T07:01:01Z

Pegasus nor the more realistic ones set on the Massachusetts shore feels especially credible. Review: Tina Howe’s New Englanders Thrash in the Shallows of ‘Singing Beach’ 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Finally, encourage your daughter to challenge media norms that are often not realistic. Worried your child has an eating disorder? This pediatrician has advice. 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

There are musical documentaries and romantic ones, war documentaries and Western documentaries and documentary comedies, experimental documentaries and realistic documentaries and hallucinatory documentaries. Robert Drew’s Portrait of a Jazz Trumpeter 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z

While a bit of self-improvement is a wonderful thing, as Wynne suggests, living with this kind of hopefulness can make it tough to differentiate between what is realistic and what is fantasy. 5 Ways to Stop Shopping Right Now 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

Forget the World Series or even the playoffs: A realistic goal for the Phils this year would be to get better as the season goes along and win maybe half their remaining games. Aiming to be an Olympian? Long-shot goals may make you ignore small victories. 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Sylvia Weinstock, the wedding cake visionary who died Nov. 22 at the age of 91, was known by fans as the “queen of cake” for her ornate, colorful and realistic confectionery designs. Remembering the ‘Queen of Cake’ 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

Lilliefors sells the idea of weather manipulation as a realistic concept, but the rest of the novel suffers from a lack of interesting characters. Review: `The Leviathan Effect' disappoints 2013-03-19T15:50:20Z

Call of Duty isn’t trying to be realistic; it’s trying to be fun. Critic?s Notebook: Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty 2011-11-15T23:16:57Z

It’s an ever-shifting performance and as realistic a depiction of adolescence as any in recent film. Breakthrough Performances of the Summer Movies Season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

But around the time that “The Blue Lotus,” the fifth Tintin book, was published, Hergé started meticulously researching the destinations, relying less on caricature and weaving more realistic current events into the stories. ?Tintin? Film Casts Cars Among Star Performers 2011-11-27T03:07:02Z

It begins with the most realistic of desires: more living space. Where Evil Lurks 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

In the 1970s, when the estate was divided to pay off taxes, “La Famille” was considered one of the most valuable because its realistic style was so unusual, he said. Picasso’s Granddaughter Plans to Sell Art, Worrying the Market 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

This is more of an observation than a criticism — the result can be female characters who are more complicated and realistic, if less superficially exciting, than their male counterparts. When the Heroine Is Less Than Perfect 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

“So we have a realistic scenario, where eventually people will start to fall over chairs, or end up being sick,” Majgaard said. Virtual reality game shows Danish teenagers how to party – without a hangover 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

And certainly it’s a slippery slope when we start to criticize scripted shows for being insufficiently realistic. “The Newsroom”: Cliched as hell 2012-06-21T00:00:00Z

When he was still a cardinal, he posed for a hauntingly realistic terracotta portrait bust. Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries 2010-09-06T14:32:00Z

Huge, the monochromatic portrait is the epitome of what might be dubbed realistic Expressionism. Contemporary Art Auction Reels in $190 Million 2010-05-13T11:00:00Z

The stylistically diverse sketches range from realistic to playful and indicate a familiarity with both Old Masters and the New Yorker. In the galleries: Unfinished works at Target Gallery 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

The descent becomes more meditative and includes what may be the most realistic evocations of a storm in symphonic literature. L.A. Phil and Semyon Bychkov achieve a musical summit with 'Alpine Symphony' 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Lee praised the show and those involved with it for making “a realistic problem we all face come to life so creatively.” ‘Squid Game’ and Lee Jung-jae make Emmys history. 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

A 1973 article in The New York Times said that “Japan Sinks” is “a chillingly realistic work of science fiction” by an author “who evidently knows his geophysics.” Sakyo Komatsu, Japanese Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 80 2011-08-10T16:25:10Z

While no realistic observer of American sports could call this movie inspirational, these sequences definitely make it engrossing. ‘The Redeem Team’ Review: Squad Goals 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

We just wanted to make it dirty and messy and realistic, so that’s what we set out to do. The funniest man on Twitter moves to TV: Rob Delaney takes a dirty, messy, realistic look at parenting and marriage 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

A tale that was once implausible in its stringing together of coincidences no longer seems subject to the same mundane rules of realistic storytelling. 'Color Purple' musical on Broadway has a divine, moving spirit 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

For the upcoming release The Mummy, Tom Cruise insisted on filming an action sequence 64 times in a zero-gravity environment just to make it as realistic as possible. Let's try that again … the most difficult scenes to film in cinema history 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

In his case, he is appealing to a growing taste for customisation – one that new production technologies are making ever more realistic. The art of craft: the rise of the designer-maker 2011-08-01T15:08:33Z

The sex scenes in "Leap Year," by the way, are explicit and realistic, but a bit detached and not purposefully alluring. Pick of the week: A dark, erotic "Leap Year" in Mexico 2011-06-24T00:30:00Z

"Pacific," in its totality, conveys a sense of the combat experience that is as complete and realistic as any work of film could be. "The Pacific" a realistic view of American combat 2010-03-02T02:39:00Z

Watching barbarians destroy his life as he was growing up probably inspired Lem to write his first, most realistic novel, “Hospital of the Transfiguration.” Review | Stanislaw Lem has finally gotten the translations his genius deserves 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Styles veer from highly realistic to complete abstraction and everything in between. Exhibition makes clear that women artists are all around us — you just have to look 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

William Dudley's set works in a similar way, presenting the audience with what seems at first to be simply a realistic, if slightly self-congratulatory, family "back yard", that becomes increasingly claustrophobic throughout the play. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z

If I thought directly about it, if my wishes grew too realistic or personal, the guilt was too heavy to carry. How many times had I wished my father dead? This time, it was different 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z

But in any case, if we’re going to be realistic and recognize that NBC is a business and will act like one, are there better characters to spin off The Office? For the Love of Beets: Are You Ready for an Office Spinoff About Dwight? 2012-01-26T15:03:06Z

Her realistic prose and naturalistic characters eventually clash with the melodrama that overtakes the plot. Tracy Chevalier’s ‘New Boy’ illuminates the peculiar trials of our era 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Yeah, that wasn’t a realistic possibility when you were making the original film. Ivan Reitman on directing the original “Ghostbusters” and why fans will be “very, very happy” with the female-centric reboot 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

For all the movie’s stylization, its closely observed details make for a realistic work with a tactile, searing intensity. Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Obviously the story isn’t meant to be realistic, but do you think there will come a time when we’ll all be building moon rockets in our Oxnard driveways? This Week in Fiction: Tom Hanks 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

There was even a hunting scene complete with a slain stag that looked so realistic I found myself wondering how such a thing might be transported through customs. The Winter's Tale – review 2012-05-30T17:10:17Z

His topics, illustrated by realistic images and abstract structures, include U.F.O.’s, time travel, alchemy, the mind-body problem, utopia, relativity and quantum theories, and science-fiction movies like “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Art in Review: Paul Laffoley: ‘The Boston Visionary Cell’ 2013-01-17T22:45:06Z

The games portrayed in the series are not just realistic, they are real, based on actual competitions. I’m a Chess Expert. Here’s What ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Gets Right 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

Ma’s figures are equally realistic, equally strong, but the depth is built through narrative and setting rather than solely through the body. In ‘Get Naked,’ artists take back control of the female image 2013-09-13T14:01:09Z

“Parasite” is a satirically comedic thriller about poverty, about the contrast between the rich and the poor, about the injustice of inequality, that avoids the conventions and habits of realistic social dramas. How “Parasite” Falls Short of Greatness 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Other updates, mainly playing up Alice’s agency and self-awareness, come with a price: We lose a caricature and gain a realistic portrayal, but cede the foundation upon which the initial narrative is built. ‘Arden of Faversham’ Review: An Elizabethan Noir Lost in the Fog 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

The intricacy of the patterns and subtleties of colors that create this realistic image are astounding. Tacoma folk-art exhibit displays everyday treasures 2011-11-23T22:31:04Z

It might be the least realistic, most satisfying news conference in modern film. Chris Matthews is America’s greatest champion of ‘Love Actually.’ So we watched it with him. 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Not that catastrophe is more realistic than a happy ending, but the serenely integrated group in this by-the-numbers movie has to be nearly as much a fantasy now as then. Joyful Noise: Is it Awfully Nice or Just Plain Awful? 2012-01-12T21:30:09Z

The parallels between addiction and “Moby-Dick” do not sync up, and neither do the realistic and symbolic scenes. Review: Exploring Addiction in ‘Chasing the New White Whale’ 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Knowing what I do about language from my day job as a developmental psychologist, I also strongly suspected that my only realistic hope of learning an instrument was to become completely immersed. Guitar Zero: psychologist Gary Marcus says science proves it's never to late to learn music 2012-06-05T15:11:01Z

“But, I find that Nuri and Yasir are not just updated versions of our characters, but more realistic ones as well,” he added. The Black Sitcom Steps Out of the ’90s and Gets Real 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

For a world going wild with technology, they may be the most realistic literature around. Science fiction's five best guides to the present 2013-07-26T09:59:29Z

The show was, in other words, classic fashion sleight of hand: an accomplished and realistic collection dressed up in the septum rings of the revolution. From Givenchy to Stella McCartney: Rebelling Against the Tyranny of the New 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

What if the assessment of the required workload wasn’t realistic? 4 Ways to Use Goals and Rewards to Beat Procrastination 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

The D.C. resident worked from photographs, mostly his own, to draw realistic but not overly technical close-ups of the device. Review | In the galleries: A rock-and-roll odyssey through sex, race and religion 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

But the novel deftly brings together the fantastic and the realistic, and it touches on a variety of issues, from politics, race and murder to disability, domestic tragedy and myth. Review: ‘Time of the Locust,’ by Morowa Yejidé√

Some were minimalist and surreal, others determinedly realistic and violent. Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z