Sentences with phrase «more of a realist»

I am more of a realist — it is highly unlikely that the universe with all its irreducible complexity and ultra precise design, not to mention our ever increasing plunge towards entropy, came to being by simple chance.

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'm probably more of a dreamer by nature, but I've become more of a realist as I've grown up and matured.

The younger Frank (Owen Kline) is more of a realist, siding with his mother.

I put them in my pictures because I want to be even more of a realist than I am.

«We knew the other side, the alarmist side, was already being discussed so our goal was to try to get both sides discussed by having something from more of the realist side in the discussion,» said Lennie Jarratt, who has managed the book's distribution for Heartland.

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They also are realists, of course, perhaps no one more than Jim Kim, a former university president and groundbreaking physician.

As a student of the Christian realist theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Obama is a far more pragmatic politician than his predecessor.

Being a Modern realist, I tend to be more certain of the ability of science to obtain the ultimate truth which forms the basis of realism.

His genre movie is more realistic — more capable of expressing contemporary Iranian - ness — than much of Iran's celebrated social - realist cinema.

That debate does not pit «realists» against «idealists,» but is, rather, a debate about the hard reality of religion in defining, more and more, the lines of conflict in politics among nations.

Trump ran for president as a kind of hard - nosed realist who cared more about America «winning» than about freedom outside our borders.

More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.

Which is more likely — that the Anglo - American people will respond to a world that satisfies no one by becoming Niebuhrian realists, or that some leader in the not too distant future will mobilize Anglo - American power and sense of religious mission by promising to eliminate once and for all the unsatisfactory realities that oppose the special destiny of the dynamic, liberal and capitalist world?

Collingwood interprets this characterization as follows: «In Whitehead the resemblance is more with Hegel; and the author, though he does not seem to be acquainted with Hegel, is not wholly unaware of this, for he describes the book as an attempt to do over again the work of «idealism,» «but from a realist point of view.»

There was and is a need for a philosophy of science which, as Edward Holloway writes, was more «existential in emphasis» than essential, whilst being truly realist concerning formal universality (cf. Perspectives in Philosophy, Vol III, Noumenon and Phenomenon: Rethinking the Greeks in the Age of Science, Faith - Keyway Trust).

Perhaps in the end true realists will recognize that the goal of global hegemony is unrealistic and guide the United States toward a more modest role in international affairs.

He perceived the realists in America more generally as sliding down the «slippery slope» of metaphysical obfuscation from which all had only so recently emerged.

... If our politicians were realists, they would think rather less about missiles and the problem of landing astronauts on the moon, rather more about hunger and moral squalor and the problem of enabling three billion men, women, and children, who will soon be six billions, to lead a tolerably human existence without, in the process, ruining and befouling their planetary environment.

There are, in the history of philosophy, continually renewed controversies between those who, where the theory of knowledge is concerned, are commonly called realists, and those who are sometimes called idealists, but also constructivists, between those for whom truth resides in the end in correspondence between proposition and fact, and those for whom it is something brought into being by more or less autonomous understanding.

The first «master medievalist,» the Cambridge legal scholar William Maitland, influenced Americans, particularly legal realists of the 1930s and «40s, more than his fellow Britons.

The realist is waiting for few good things happen - one more 5 - 3 at the Stamford Bridge (of course, sans van Persie), seeing off a resurgent Liverpool and progressing to the last 8 of the CL brushing aside Bayern.

In The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (Seal Press, Sept. 28, 2014), therapist Susan Pease Gadoua and journalist Vicki Larson take a groundbreaking look at the modern shape of marriage to help readers open their minds to marrying more consciously and creatively.

In researching LATs / apartners for The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels — which offers a living apart together model as one of many marital options couples can chose from to individualize their marriage — I discovered that LATs / apartners feel more committed and less trapped than live - in couples.

In researching LATs / apartners for The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels — which offers a living apart together model as one of many marital options couples can chose from to individualize their marriage — Vicki discovered that LATs / apartners feel more committed and less trapped than live - in couples.

So begins chapter one of therapist Susan Pease Gadoua and journalist Vicki Larson's new book The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, which challenges readers to consider alternate marital agreements in a world where lovers live together without tying the knot, more couples are having children out of wedlock and about half of all marriages end in divorce.

While realism should do more to engage with the impact of «soft power» and historical patterns on calculations of interest, power, and threat, there is no reason why these factors are necessarily excluded from realist thinking.

This paradigmatic liaison between constructivism / post-rationalism and strategic studies refined the understanding on state conduct by providing a more culturally - informed explanation of how strategic policies are constructed and why states opt for certain policies even when such strategic options would not necessarily correspond to «realist» interests of maximizing power.

While he identifies some inconsistencies in American realist analysis of the Ukrainian conflict, his purported cure might be more damaging than the supposed disease.

I am a compassionate and down to earth kind of guy, a bit of a realist but more of an optimist!

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And Woody Harrelson, as the hard - drinking realist Haymitch, who guides Katniss through every terror, is the core of intelligence in the movie; he is used more centrally here than in the first film, and his glare and his acid voice cut through the meaningless fashion show.

But instead of the deep rich nostalgia of Manhattan, this is more grounded, sometimes edging towards the brutal neo realists.

Peter Bogdanovich's movie musical «At Long Last Love» developed one of those reputations as a career - killing stinker, but in hindsight, it's a pretty darn good mix of 1930s tunes with the slightly more realist sensibility of later musicals.

An adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur's magic realist novel, the film uses poetry to lift its political statement on the suffering of Iranian women to a higher, more human level.

EV: Now that we've made the genre film with the more flashy style, it's easy to say that the movies before were kind of naturalist and realist, and this is completely different.

With an urban - slum setting similar to Danny Boyle's Oscar - winning phenomenon Slumdog Millionaire, only without any feel - good carrot at the end of the string, Pedro Costa's three - hour drama In Vanda's Room paints a realist picture of the more

«Sieranevada» is one of a trio of films in competition whose running time veers dangerously close to three hours, and in its own way feels like a riff on a film by a more nuanced British realist.

These moments are rooted deeply within social realist cinema, and the everyday interactions of these men and the women in their lives reveal far more than any of the other, more grandiose statements the film attempts to make.

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).

But while Haigh, thirty - seven when he made Weekend, worked his way up the ranks of British cinema — he was an assistant to Ismail Merchant and worked as an assistant editor with Ridley Scott — his sensibility has more in common with the realist tendencies of the contemporary American independent scene, in particular the naturalistic intimacy and political intent of filmmakers like Kelly Reichardt and Ramin Bahrani.

In a lively and engaging narrative, Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever - combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time; Hamilton, whose audacious manner and deep economic savvy masked his humble origins; Jefferson, renowned for his eloquence, but so reclusive and taciturn that he rarely spoke more than a few sentences in public; Madison, small, sickly, and paralyzingly shy, yet one of the most effective debaters of his generation; and the stiffly formal Washington, the ultimate realist, larger - than - life, and America's only truly indispensable figure.

As James Thomas and I continued collecting, we noticed the shorter the work, the more it questioned the terms of «traditional» (realist) short - story characteristics.

Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the «magic realist» tradition, is famous for novels... (more)

A more realist (and better option), is to have candid discussions with your child early on about costs, expectations of contribution, and potential ROI.

I have recently discovered your videos and blogs and felt they addressed important key areas of building and marketing art in more current and realist ways.

One of the first painted altarpieces in North and Western Europe, it also marks a more populist approach to Christianity, with realist figures depicted next to more sacred elements.

In the April 1999 issue of American Artist magazine the contemporary realist painter Jack Beal is quoted as saying about his commissioned portraits, «I tell my clients that when my portrait of them is finished, they will hate it — and their spouse will hate it even more.

The first comprehensive survey of the beloved figurative realist painter Fairfield Porter to be published in more than two decades.