0 a way of thinking and acting based on facts and what is possible, rather than on hopes for things that are unlikely to happen:
His decision not to expand the business shows his down-to-earth realism.
1 paintings, films, books, etc. that try to represent life as it really is:
2 a tendency to accept and deal with people and situations as they are
From new regionalisms to new realisms ?
I feel that we have been in danger of overlooking that there have been a number of realisms, and those need to be brought back into consideration.
Therefore, whatever the limitations of the use of common understandings, it is at least not the case that only metaphysical realism gains support from them.
At the end of the 1920s, this "mater ialism" had taken clearer shape backed by an empir ical realism about the symbolic constructions involved.
The inevitable outcome of the process was the erosion of the realism of national plans.
Drawing on 'critical realism' and 'subtle realism', the arguments for the use of action research in community research and development are explored.
Therefore, critical realism implies a critique of this historical variant of old institutionalism.
Imprecise words such as 'realism' change their meaning, and it would be misleading to attribute to the audiences of the 1950s our idea of realism.
