Cosgrove, however, takes pains to cast her own child protagonist, Jam, in a more realistic vein.

Though he paints in a realistic vein, he creates a world of folklore and mythical characters combining his traditional style and methods with contemporary digital techniques.

Ms. Leach pursues this theme, quietly at first, in her most realistic and exacting vein.

These abstract works, just as much as those in his realistic vein, display a distinctive and exacting draftsmanship.

While both of these stories draw strength from the fantastic elements in Hopkinson's heritage, she is capable of working her magic in a more realistic vein.

This is the first clue that the story won't continue in a realistic vein.

However, some are in a more realistic vein, or are adaptations of novels.

Moreover, only in his early stories did he work the realistic vein those novelists mined.

I hope it's so definite that nobody will be anything but convinced, even if what I'm doing is not strictly in the realistic vein.