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Maybe Mary is being more realistic about a second marriage—but is it too much to ask for a little fire?

Just a month from that date, he now no longer believes that to be realistic, and will no longer estimate a timeline for the trial.

“I just wanted to make it realistic and not glamorize life,” she said.

Tiger Lily and her tribe, however, were outfitted in semi-realistic outfits (read: nearly naked).

John came to see The Realistic Joneses and we went out to dinner after and talked casually about the show, but that was it.

Kielland's method is realistic, and a number of his works are written with a fairly distinct "purpose."

One of the twins, deciding to play "savages," had pounced upon the ink bottle as a means of making the play more realistic!

As much as possible he banished from poetry a too realistic imitation of eloquence, passion, and a too exact truth.

The kind of criticism that is appropriate for realistic literature is here quite out of place.

Tootles had progressed along the arduous road to masterpieces to the extent that he felt a need of realistic detail.

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On this page you'll find 84 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to realistic, such as: businesslike, down-to-earth, practical, pragmatic, prudent, and rational.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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