Sentences with phrase «know of no realist»

I know of no realist work interested in post hoc political justifications for foreign policy actions.

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(Of course, as we all know, they will say that they do not want to be realists, for to be so would mean acquiescing in the very things they reject in our rationalistic civilization.)

I'm enough of a realist to know that such lofty concepts aren't always possible among humans — especially humans operating within a complex world of hatred and distrust — but that doesn't mean they can't be something we strive for.

The church's effort in the cause of reconciliation is advanced when it creates Christian realists who know that justice requires conflict.

But politicians are realists and they know they have to pander to a national full of idiots who believe in invisible men in the sky.

And Ahithophel, knowing that the plan can not succeed and that the rebellion is doomed, plays the role not of the spoiled child but of the unqualified realist.

Wright's solution is «a narratival and critical realist reading of scripture,» which he doesn't flesh out in this chapter, but will in future ones... which is good, seeing as how I don't know what the hell he's talking about.

Now I know there will be many out there who will say this is a negative view and that you should NEVER take that stance against your own club, but as well as being a dyed in wool Arsenal fan, I'm also a devout realist and finally the truth has sunk in with me, and I know in my heart of hearts that this season is going to be the longest and toughest many of us have experienced in an age.

That remark proved that Ned Harkness is a hockey realist, and a hockey realist knows that — regardless of all the patriotic and theoretical arguments propounded by hockey's America Firsters — the stuff of which good teams are made can be found only in the hinterlands of Canada, in bus - stop towns with names like Birsay, Sask., Port Credit, Ont.

I'm a realist, who knows constant moaning about something out of my control is futile and left to the impotent and weak minded, which I am neither.

NY - Gunner I am a realist I have an understanding of business, finances, and long time ago a little time in owning, managing, and playing in a non professional fotball club / legue, untill recently I was a strong suporter of AW and the business model of Arsenal FC but last couple of seasons I don't like what I see and it goes against everything what a competitive football club is all about, personally I have nothing against AW but a lot of fond memories but all good things come to an end, knowing when your time is up is a true professional I just hope AW knows what his doing.

Fair play to the UTD fan for having an opinion, I think a lot of people miss the point with Wenger, I know that all football fans want success now, if you look at the teams Arsene has built this is perhaps his third, even forth, and it is still in the making, he knows that they are not yet what they will be and that perhaps we will not get success immediately but if we are patient success will come, I am a realist and know that mortgaging your clubs future for immediate success is wrong and that sooner rather than later these birds will come home to roost.

As some of you know, Susan Pease Gadoua and I are co-writing The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (and just snagged a literary agent, so things are really looking promising!)

I'm a stay at home now single father of four and what I know is every one bitching and moaning needs to suck it up and stop being a baby and relize that guys do the most and woman are never satisfied I'm not sexisit I'm a realist and watch every woman in a relationship you know really watch and investigate and you will see I'm right.

Since I am (as you now know from last week's Civil Eats post) more of a realist than an idealist, I'm not especially hopeful that our elected officials will suddenly find the courage to defy Big Food — and forgo its campaign contributions — nor am I hopeful that industry will change its ways voluntarily on a widespread basis.

I am a realist and would like to get to know anyone who want to get to know me too... You miss 100 % of the shot you do nt take.

If Carry On ever decided to remake the Pink Panther series as a social - realist drama this well could be the end product, a warped farce of a farce that doesn't quite know what it is.

Director Sen, previously known for social realist films, and writer, cinematographer, editor and composer here too, shows masterful command of genre.

His best - known films of this realist sort include those in the series Six Moral Tales, Comedies and Proverbs, and Tales of the Four Seasons, although Rohmer was also a fascinating formalist when it came to period pieces, whether in his intentionally artificial interpretation of an Arthurian legend, Perceval (1978), or in his technically progressive take on the French Revolution, The Lady and the Duke (2001), an early film to utilize computer - generated imagery for its backdrops.

Tom Courtenay, most famous perhaps for his portrayal in «Dr. Zhivago» and known for social - realist «kitchen sink» drama of the sixties, turns in a performance (did I say «restrained»?)

An unfeasibly gripping social realist parable that provides a gravitational showcase for one of Marion Cotillard «s finest performances (and yes, we know that's saying something), the Dardenne brothers» «Two Days, One Night» sees the two - time Palme d'Or winners put in a serious bid for a third (though probably, Cannes rules being what they are, a Best Actress trophy for Cotillard is more likely).

Looking out for the welfare of her family and enjoying some of the benefits that Josef offered was not surprising but she was at heart a realist and knew that Josef really was not the man for her.

But if you are a realist, you'll know we all end up in the same place at the end of retirement.

But she's a realist who knows that many of the cats will never be adopted.

Each canvas is a faithful replica of a well - known 19th - century New York area landscape painting, recreated by Simeon Lagodich, a contemporary American realist painter who resides in New York City and the Hudson Valley.

Works by David Siqueiros, a political, radical - minded Mexican social realist painter, and an adversary of Rivera, who was best known for his large fresco murals, are also included in the collection.

Porter once wrote: «The realist thinks he knows ahead of time what reality is, and the abstract artist what art is, but it is in its formality that realist art excels, and the best abstract art communicates an overwhelming sense of reality.»

It's a bit of a surprise to find a Noland show at the realist - oriented Farnsworth, best known for its holdings of paintings by Andrew and Jamie Wyeth (although Louise Nevelson, a Rockland girl, is strongly represented as well).

20 July 2015 traces the removal of several socialist realist sculptures from a prominent site in central Vilnius, known as the Green Bridge.

Three formidable realist painters — two of them well - known modern artists and a third who's currently active in the East End art...

The Bechers are celebrated for their deadpan images of industrial architecture (the water towers are best known), indebted to the 1920s German realist movement known as New Objectivity.

This title also referred to the realist style of art known as «Socialist Realism», then the official art doctrine of the Soviet Union and its satellites (from one which he had fled with his family), but it also commented upon the consumer - driven art «doctrine» of western capitalism.

Yingzhao Liu is one of China's best known realist painters.

Ellen Altfest is an American artist known for her realist paintings of still life and male figures in painstaking detail.

Three formidable realist painters — two of them well - known modern artists and a third who's currently active in the East End art community — bring the great outdoors into the inviting llle Arts gallery space in a summer show that prompts a happy response.

George Wesley Bellows was a highly acclaimed American artist, known for his bold, realist paintings and lithographs of New York City life.

Shannon Cannings is known for her pop inspired, realist paintings that render the sweetness of childhood with a sour note.

Photorealism came into its own at the end of the 1960s, arising from the challenge posed by photographic depiction to realist painting, and is mostly associated with well - known American and Western European artists and their works.

Contemporary realist and Connecticut native Thomas Adkins is known for his paintings of the farms and untouched landscapes of Litchfield County.

WAYNE THIEBAUD: «THE FIGURE» While best known for his Pop - realist paintings of food products, Mr. Thiebaud has also been a skillful and innovative figure painter, as this fine show of paintings and drawings dating from 1963 to 1992 demonstrates.

Exhibition explores full career of revolutionary Ashcan School artist WILMINGTON, DE American realist painter John Sloan (1871 — 1951) is best known for his images of New York during the early 20th century and as one of the pioneers of the Ashcan School.

The title of the exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery, International Exhibition of the New Realists, galvanizes the name «New Realists» for the American and British artists, who are represented alongside the work of the continental Europeans known as the Nouveaux Realistes.

The exhibition presents a unique and comprehensive study of the little - known twenty year illustration career of the realist master.

So a lot of the realists we thought were the painting equivalent of moldy figs, you know?

Patrick Angus was a New York City - based realist painter of the city's homosexual milieu, who was active in the 1970s and»80s; he's perhaps most known for his depictions of bathhouse and porn cinema interiors — such as the Gaiety Theater — crowded with men cruising, hooking up, or lounging.

Carole Feuerman is an American artist best known as a pioneering figure in the world of hyper - realist sculpture.

Patron of the artists and socialite Lady Cunard joined the British Committee and Laura Knight, an artist known for her realist, figurative painting, was also part of the selection committee.

Well known for his provocative realist paintings, Taner Ceylan (born 1967) began his Lost Paintings Series as a contemporary exploration of the Orientalist gaze.

Taking his starting point from the photo - based realist agenda of artists like Richard Estes and Gerhard Richter, Head has extended to concept of realism so that it is no longer concerned with the use of paint to reproduce the language of photography, but takes in the idea of all encompassing and mutifaceted space.

Although he described his work as realist, Degas is world known as one of the renowned members of the Impressionist movement.