"realism" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Heide Piehler said in her review for School Library Journal that this novel will "appeal to readers who want an alternative to the grim realism of much contemporary fiction."
- While Highway's treatment of his women characters is sympathetic and perhaps gentler than Tremblay's, their portrayal can only be described as gritty and grim realism.
- After 1950 the series began to resemble the farcical Abbott and Costello comedies-a far cry from the grim social realism of their 1930s films.
- In turning the play into a film, the fateful decision was made to pursue a grim, uncompromising realism that may be unprecedented for a nondocumentary film about the Holocaust.
- The setting of his film suggests a grim, didactic social realism, but Mr. Doueiri infuses it with the giddy, sensuous sweetness of a pop song.
- Baynton's short stories and novel display a grim realism and depiction of female suffering which represents an alternative view to the romanticism of the bush.
- Second letter from Li to Mo, and Li's second story, Meat Boy, which he calls "grim realism".
- But N.W.A. eased away from grim realism.
- The grim social realism is difficult to reconcile with the light-hearted bohemianism of Mori's.
- In many ways the most unusual comic book around is Harvey Pekar's "American Splendor," which abandons fantasy or humor for a picture of grim psychological realism.
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