Definition of "realist" []

• One who is inclined to literal truth and pragmatism. (noun)
• A practitioner of artistic or philosophic realism. (noun)

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• "I feel a cynic is what they call a realist — you know what I mean?"
• "And I was in the movement -- in the pioneering phase of the movement 12 years before Martin Luther King joined, and I sat in the back of the bus 12 years before Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus and for the same reason: to -- to challenge Jim Crow, so it was Europe then that moved me away from my Wilsonian passivist moorings to what I call a realist humane position."
• "Against this comes what is described as a realist view of U.S."