But for all the fantasies he devised, Levine, who died Tuesday at 83, was a realist.
I find myself mostly in the realist camp, looking hard at achievable goals and usable power.
Mugglemarch Ian Parker, The New Yorker J.K. Rowling writes a realist novel for adults.
Cozzens, largely forgotten these days, was a 20th-century realist writer in the mode of Theodore Dreiser.
But I assume its author would have been drummed right out of the realist Fiction Writers League.
More and more as a realist he devoted himself to the presentation of character at the expense of plot.
"They don't have much choice," Captain Feldman said, always the realist.
Whether or not realistic fiction shrinks from the unpleasant depends also on the particular nature of the realist.
In the first place, it does not mean that Greek art is what we call ‘naturalist’ or ‘realist’.
What puzzled Philip was that this fabricator of "stories" for the newspaper should call himself a "realist."