Sentences with phrase «words than realistic»

(Since supernatural books often create entire worlds, they sometimes require more words than realistic novels.)

Not exact matches

Even if all parties were to agree that American republicanism is not classically liberal, or that classical liberalism really is ontologically indifferent, or that the laws of nature and of nature's God are the foundation of constitutional order and that these are the same thing as natural law — even if, in other words, all parties were to agree to some version of a pristine American founding harmonious in principle with the truth of God and the human being — returning to the first principles of the eighteenth century isn't much more realistic than a return to the first principles of the thirteenth.

Though I spent hours researching each word and the few textual variants within these verses, I could discover no realistic way of translating these passages to say much of anything different than what is found in the majority of our modern English translations.

In other words, rather than swearing off bacon forever, it might be more realistic to tell yourself you can indulge occasionally as a treat.

That's not to say that this is a realistic film in any sense of the word — the lead characters are larger than life, the supporting characters are cartoonish — but there is a constant reminder that things could go horribly, horribly wrong for our hero at any moment.

It saddened me to realize that Mabel never got farther than the swamp, but I think it was also a more realistic ending (if we can really use the word realistic to describe a book full of alternative history and magical realism).

So far this semester, the prototyping team has worked on a game about fate, a zombie game with more - realistic - than - usual NPC behavior, a one - button, purely audio game, a game about words, and a game that uses dream logic — so we've been kept pretty busy over the past couple months.

The battle was difficult, and much more video game - y, for lack of a better word, than the more straightforward, realistic (ish) combat from previous games.

In other words, they want to know if your salary is realistic for the position — is it too low, meaning perhaps you aren't as qualified or appropriate as you seem, or that you are higher than the salary range they had set.

Mothers who are low in Self - Directedness and high in Self - Transcendence can be characterized as a having magical and unrealistic thinking; in other words, they become preoccupied by their fantasies and wishful expectations rather than accepting realistic facts and being practical (Cloninger et al., 1999).