In contrast to many war novels which came before it, Under Fire describes war in gritty and brutal realism.

Michael Winterbottom portrays the events with brutal realism.

It uses folk tales and short episodes of brutal psychological realism to describe the mental transformation of an angry young woman.

"Beloved" tackles the difficult subject of slavery with a mix of brutal realism and dreamlike sequences.

But it is also true that there is still a lot of wishful writing under the surface of television's brutal realism.

He is, as a writer, remarkable for his ability to give brutal realism a mythic dimension.

He is determined to use it to create an artistic piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can pour his whole self.

Although she has her sentimental moments, she generally projects a brutal realism about the world and about herself.

At the back of her sober, almost brutal realism, there is always an inkling of something unanswerable.

The sonata was "an intense expression of the South," with its "frenzied gaiety, high rhetoric and brutal realism."