How to Use realist in a Sentence

realist

noun

• Yong: The pessimist, and maybe the realist, in me is not hopeful.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2020
• On the one hand, maybe there isn’t, since Shiv’s realist husband is the one who betrays them.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
• Lee made his name as a realist, one who thrived on restraint.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• And that’s just who Hassan is — a realist, like a true Virgo.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 1 Oct. 2023
• Some fans have taken the realist approach to the question.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 14 Dec. 2019
• At 33, Babel is enough of a realist to know his career is in its twilight's years.
  — Matt Majendie, CNN, 16 Oct. 2020
• Fauci is a realist, and the facts were obvious to anyone who cared to look.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Well, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• But the realist in me still thinks of the pillars as an exercise in pounding square pegs into round holes.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• Lola said that Hospel was a realist about life, knowing a day would come when one of them would have to live without the other.
  — Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2021
• She’s a realist, and says PC building takes trial and error.
  — Alex Cranz, Wired, 21 Apr. 2021
• The artist observes nature closely, yet is not a realist.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
• Close did not like to think of himself as a realist, photo or otherwise.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• Not just because the young idealist who wanted to save the world has evolved into a wizened realist.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2020
• The second realist case for vaccine diplomacy is the danger that the virus will mutate to evade vaccines.
  — Ben Sasse, WSJ, 17 May 2021
• Helen is the realist, Grace the artsy friend who loves glitter and is a fabulous baker.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
• And as a writer I’m supposed to be a staid realist with Jamesian tendencies.
  — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• Warda speaks to Westerners not as a beggar but as a realist.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 28 Dec. 2020
• Brother Alive is a book of ideas, a book of fathers and sons, a magical-realist mystery, and a revenge story.
  — Jonah Bromwich, The Atlantic, 22 July 2022
• But, a Big Ten head coach who’s now spent more of his career at the college level than the one beneath it, Allen is also both a realist, and a pragmatist.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Aug. 2023
• The architect, now 93, is a realist as well as an idealist.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• The realist could look for opportunities either way and make the best of today.
  — Mike Bass, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2022
• The second ethic is associated with the realist, who codes as a savvy pol and cares about results.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2020
• There’s a magical-realist dance number in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria that doesn’t quite land.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2021
• Many of the realists whose novels are being interpolated by this show, though, were obsessed with the present.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2023
• Then, as Saban spoke via video chat from his home office for his radio show, his demeanor turned from that of a motivator to one of a realist.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 25 Sep. 2020
• But in a magic-realist twist, this underground railroad is no metaphor.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 13 May 2021
• Hrabal got his start as a realist poet so the novel is filled with all these arresting images.
  — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2022
• Kabat-Zinn is a realist, though, and acknowledges that most people face constraints to living this way.
  — Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2021
• Treating a human being as an art object, a socialist-realist poster boy, the doc sacrifices Smith to the cause.
  — Armond White, National Review, 16 Dec. 2020
• Rather than faithful realist depiction, the gun’s boxy black shape, aimed at the prone body, smartly opts for blunt expressive power.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024