Word: realist
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While I advocate self-reliance, I’m also a realist. So, if a random hook-up provides a suitable distraction, go for it. Just watch out for the confusion that might follow. Post-hookup is when guys tend to get vague. Do they want to hook up again? Unclear. Do they want to court you? Unclear. Are they straight? Unclear...
...were a liberal, but a realist, and, having finished both lunches with the party chairmen, you stopped to think about the contrast—Warren Buffett for the Republicans and Al Roker for the Democrats—wouldn’t you be worried...
...April 10 at 59, began his mission rather unpromisingly: after graduating from Shanghai's premier art institute in 1965, he spent a decade monotonously painting propaganda art and portraits of Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution. But after migrating to the U.S. in 1982, Chen found his hyper-realist paintings of pastoral scenes and flute-playing maidens a hit with foreign collectors, who snapped up the oils for as much as a quarter of a million dollars each-making Chen the highest-earning mainland-born artist at the time...
...greets Wagener in a red dressing gown and scarlet slippers with turned-up toes. To anyone familiar with office politics, this is a calculated rudeness. Wagener does not seem to get the message. Ever the intellectual snob, he sees Gring as a mental patient rather than a shrewd realist who knows the difference between theatricality and self-delusion...
...York City—the ’75 Daily News headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” showed that even the federal government had given up hope on the cesspool the city had become. Coated in a mob-thriller plot and realist filming techniques, this exploration of the nature of friendship continues to be relevant, amusing, and heartbreaking almost 30 years later...