The realists gain nothing by hooting at the abuses of romance; and the romantics gain as little by yawning over realism at its worst.
He is entirely romantic in the direction of his thought; but it is very suggestive of the tenor of contemporary romance, to notice that he has taken the advice of the realists and seldom gone beyond his own experience.
We have been told also that the realists paint the manners of their own place and time, while the romantics deal with more remote materials.
In their endeavor to exhibit certain truths of human life, do not the realists work inductively and the romantics deductively?
Again, we have been told that, in their stories, the romantics dwell mainly upon the element of action, while the realists are interested chiefly in the element of character.
More and more, in recent years, the romantics have followed the lead of the realists in embodying their truth in scenes and characters imitated from actuality.
The realists have followed the letter, and the romantics the spirit, of other times and lands.
Thomas Hardy, the idol of the younger realists and the liberator of British fiction from the Victorian hoopskirt and the happy ending, is not a realist.
Mr. Lawrence has always been interested in slightly eccentric characters, and so he stands apart from his contemporaries who call themselvesrealists or naturalists because they deal with the commonplace or the recognizably normal.
Naturally the realists among them weren't concerned with any Utopian outcome: they simply saw the doctrine as a means to personal power for themselves and used it accordingly.
Wright and his colleagues are realistsof the first water.
The realists had won; the rest climbed on the bandwagon but quick; and the temple was cleansed.
I'll never forget the first planning session when we realists were underdogs, yet swung the basic direction.
And it is equally true that there are various sorts of realists that may be put into the second class.
We may divide realists into two broad classes, those who hold to this view, and those who maintain that we know it only indirectly and through our ideas.
The roar and dust of the daily battle of the Realists was continued under the flush of the sunset, the arms of the Romantics glittered, the pale spiritual Symbolists watched and waited, none knowing yet of their presence.
But if the realists should catch favour in England the English tongue may be saved from dissolution, for with the new subjects they would introduce new forms of language would arise.
No more literary school than therealists has ever existed, and I do not except even the Elizabethans.
They are realists in that they assert that by human thought the complete nature of objective reality can be determined.
To put it in other words, they are realists because they are psychologists, because they applied the psychological method to political problems.
They were realists in that they based their political studies on the world as it is and human nature as it is, rather than on some personal and fanciful conception of what man and the world ought to be.
He does not use detail for its own sake, as the realists use it; he uses it only when it has some definite value in unfolding the plot or revealing character.
All these novelists are realists, and realists of power.
Among comparatively modern novelists the realists were the first to break the shackles of this convention, and write frankly of sex.
I happen to be a realist because I was brought up on the great Russian realists like Gogol and the great English realists from George Elliot down to Thomas Hardy.
The significance of the term changes from year to year; the realists of one generation are the romanticists of the next.
Undoubtedly there are many writers who believe that they are realists because they write about nothing but sex.
But these extreme realists are not like Dickens, they have not his intimate knowledge of the life of the poor.
Many of the modern realists seem ignorant of the fact that the poor may be happy.
Walt Whitman and Robert Browning always were realists and always were optimistic.
It is one object of this chapter to show that, when it comes to a clash between the two forces, the wizards should rule, and the realists should serve them.
But these are especially adapted to being set in opposition to a list of mechanical inventors that might be called realists by contrast: the Wright brothers, and H.
In the first place, the idealists with us do not walk in the clouds so much as they do in France, nor do the realists load their palette so heavily.
In 1881 Galdos definitely joined the ranks of the realists with his La Desheredada.
The University of Paris was drawn in; the Nominalists triumphed in condemning de la Rive, and the Realists took their revenge by procuring from Louis XI.
With the English domination the Realists triumphed and expelled their adversaries, who were unable to return until the restoration of the French monarchy.
Duns Scotus was a Realist, though he differed with Aquinas on the problem of individuation, and the Realists became divided into the opposing factions of Thomists and Scotists.
Realists will not be persuaded that such excrescences are abnormal.
The struggle between the Realists and Nominalists was then raging all over Europe, and it divided the University of Basle into two parties, each of them trying to gain influence and adherents among the young students.
The Realists were at that time no longer in the good odor of orthodoxy; and, at the Council of Constanz, the Nominalists, such as Joh.
On many points the Realists were more tolerant, or at least more enlightened, than the Nominalists.
It has been usual to look upon the Realists as the Conservative, and upon the Nominalists as the Liberal party of the fifteenth century.
Of course, it is the contention of all us realists that all etherealists are but figments of the imagination.
The realists indeed have brought the remedial imagination to us as the sociologist has brought the remedial facts and figures.
Those of us who are amused, on the other hand, are so only because we are not such inveterate realistsas our neighbours.
The problem at issue between Realists and Idealists turns on the fact that there are two systems of images in existence.
Some Realists maintain that the brain actually creates the representation, which is the doctrine of Epiphenomenalism: while others hold the view of the Occasionalists, and others posit one reality underlying both.
In the twelfth, Abelard, and the controversy between the Realists and Nominalists, gave this science still more importance.
Of natural realists since the time of Reid, Sir W.
I asked a well-educated lady in Berlin, who had been talking a great deal about realism and the realists in art.
The very masters who are held to be great idealists in art—have not they been great realists in their own time?
It is entirely false that the great romantic, symbolic, or classic poets modified nature; such as they have expressed her they felt her; and in this view they are as much realists as ourselves.
It might be possible to make a stand against the assurance of some of the younger realists by saying that truth does not lie merely in the fact of being.
Still the fundamental flaw of the younger realists does not lie here so much as in the fact that, as far as art goes, truth depends entirely on interpretation rather than existence.
As realists the Russians easily lead all other nations in fiction.
The symbolists crowded out the realists in literature and the Neo-Impressionists felt the call of Form as opposed to Colour.
Do we flatter ourselves that the Logomachies of the Nominalists and the Realists terminated with these scolding schoolmen?
The Nominalists only denied what no one in his senses would affirm; and the Realists only contended for what no one in his senses would deny; a hair's breadth might have joined what the spirit of party had sundered!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "realists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
