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  • It is no secret at all that Dr Rice basically spit in the face of her *anti-Neocon* mentor Scrowcroft who is known as a Realist which is often juxtaposed against Neocon.

    Think Progress » Rice Was Against Iraq Group Before She Was For It 2006

  • The Realist was the inspiration that kept pushing me to the next level; there was no way I could continue reading it and remain the same.

    Paul Krassner: Remembering George Carlin 2008

  • Tolstoi has often been called a Realist by those who are eager to label everything and everybody succinctly; but Tolstoi is one of the representative

    Books and Culture Hamilton Wright Mabie 1880

  • He was a Realist, that is, he maintained that every general term, or abstract idea, has a real and independent existence.

    The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852

  • (also called Realist or Naturist) had waned in public popularity, although artists like Hill continued to pursue Ruskin's advice that "if you can paint a leaf you can paint the world."

    Museum Blogs 2009

  • I think the "Realist" subtitle goes against what's in the first book, which leads you to believe this isn't a companion book.

    Color and Light Book James Gurney 2010

  • Promoted to Headline (H3) on 3/6/09: Neocons Wage War on a 'Realist' yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Neocons Wage War on a \'Realist\' '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: But that is not the world in which the United States finds itself.

    Neocons Wage War on a 'Realist' 2009

  • Krassner and his 'Realist' were part of a '60s fad -- publications attacking the values of the establishment -- which produced some very good papers and some very bad ones.

    Paul Krassner: Strange Bedfellows Among the Yippies 2008

  • "Realist" fictional detectives solve crimes as police tend to, by methodical, scientific examinations of evidence; "intuitionists" solve them by leaps of perception.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Douglas Wolk 2007

  • "Realist" fictional detectives solve crimes as police tend to, by methodical, scientific examinations of evidence; "intuitionists" solve them by leaps of perception.

    Week 42: Doing Donuts on Free Lunch Drive Douglas Wolk 2007

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