Word: realisme
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...City, like last year’s pretty but boring Sky Captain, was shot entirely with actors against green-screens. Everything else was filled in later by computers; however, Sin City’s black-and-white sets have a gritty realism that the sepia-tinted Sky Captain lacked...
...based on personal experience. One wonders what former roommate is the naïve “New Graduate” and what hated and despised former boss is now called “The Worker Bee.” James occasionally injects a shot of realism, reminding readers that “You don’t just wake up one day, stretch, look at the sun and say, ‘Oh baby, I’ve found the real...
...City, like last year’s pretty but boring Sky Captain, was shot entirely with actors against green-screens. Everything else was filled in later by computers; however, Sin City’s black-and-white sets have a gritty realism that the sepia-tinted Sky Captain lacked...
Kennan retired from the foreign service 50 years ago to perch at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study as America's most venerated foreign policy intellectual. Although he retained the moral streak of a Presbyterian elder, it was balanced by a Bismarckian realism. With a clarity of mind to the end, he issued warnings about the dangers of the ideological passions and crusading hubris that he saw infecting America's foreign policy today. --By Walter Isaacson
...hospital, finally joining him in the operating room. What he learned is set down in long passages that describe in loving (and graphic) detail the procedures of brain surgery. Work itself is a form of heroism in this book. So is love. So is a dry-eyed realism about our fates. McEwan and Perowne are both fond of quoting Charles Darwin: "There is a grandeur in this view of life." There's a grandeur in Saturday...