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But, for the time being at least, the Republican front-runner Mitt Romney seems to rely more on realists than neocons.

Yet after the wave of secular uprisings, it is the cynics who seem out of touch, and the idealists have turned out to be the realists.

As America's foreign-policy " realists " such as Mr Baker and Henry Kissinger have long argued, talking to foes is often essential.

The realists portrayed life not in terms of an emotional ideal but in accordance with the hard facts revealed by science and philosophy.

With so much money sloshing around the art world, it's not just cynical realists who worry that the market is overheating.

One of the most notable recent realists is the former U. S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who was a great fan of Metternich.

That would be the realist argument, but I think this is one of those situaions when realists don't sound terribly grounded in reality.

She'd be able to chunk Victorian novelists into one group, Magical Realists in another group and Renaissance poets into another.

The "realists" also advise putting pressure on Israel to deal in a more forthcoming way with the Hamas-dominated Palestinian government.

Rudy Giuliani, having flirted with "realists" , has decided to stick with neocon foreign-policy advisers.

The last decade has favoured "promise big and hope for the best" politicians over realists with grit.

Classify Zhu Wei among the 'cynical realists', and he strenuously objects.

But the hard-headed "realists" , strong believers in the notion of credible threats, also have reason to be pleased.

Responding to these sentiments, Realists writers sought to capture and preserve the "local color" before it was lost.

The displeasure of trading partners unwilling to retaliate is of no consequence to Chinese uber-realists.

There were novelists of the time, like Howells, who avowed that they were "realists" .

Ammerican realists may scoff, but within the confines of Europe the brutal laws of power politics really have been repealed.

It may soon confound realists who think that for all his flaws, Mr Assad is preferable to the chaos that could engulf Syria in his absence.

Therefore, the majority of classical realists believe that power is the ultimate goal of international politics.

Realists insist the U. S. and China are slated for military conflict in the decades ahead.

The legal realists questioned the assumption that judges apply the law impartially , logically, and uniformly.

Anti-realists suppose a distinction between empirical knowledge and theoretical knowledge.

They could be described as "realists, " although they were not as openly opposed to military interventions as I was.

As realists, we acknowledge that no one process, technique, language, or platform is good for all situations.

The neo-isolationism, however, has encountered criticism from the neo-interventionists, idealists and even realists within America.

Do not take it lightly. People who say, "My commute is killing me! " are not exaggerators. They are realists.

As things stand, we have the sceptics, the activists and in the middle, I suppose, the realists.

Yet, realists would argue, it is interests rather than ideas that end up shaping the foreign policy of great powers.

Above all, realists warn against basing policy on wishful thinking, on the assumption that all will go as we want it to.

Realists recorded in often gritty detail the present-day existence of humble people.

First, there are the most seasoned Chinese America watchers, all sophisticated realists.

The utopians are not dreamers, but your so-called realists who condemn utopians are stupid.

During twenty-year cease-fire period, a heated controversy over international ethics was going on between realists and idealists.

At such times, even their children took sides: the realists against the fantasists .

In 1962 the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York marked the changing tastes in art with an exhibition called The New Realists.

Some anti-realists have even wanted to restrict science to things that can be observed.

For foreign-policy realists, who see China and India locked in a battle for Asian supremacy, this is inevitable.

Based on their different perceptions, residents were classified into there groups: "favorers" , "realists" and "haters" .

Or two realists, I mean.

at the risk of being expelled from the realists club , i beg to disagree.

He is commonly considered the first of the realists in Renaissance art.

I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists.

Realists dislike them for their destabilising foreign policy.

These New Realists may also have seen what happens to those women who actually manage to get The One.

All of us, even postmodern philosophers, are naive realists atheart.

Realists may often be right, but they are rarely convincing.

"Many people who went down to the countryside are realists with regard to life, " he suggests.

Italians are realists.

People who invest the future are the true realists.

Maybe the realists are right.

But we are also realists, as are Canadians.

That is almost always more difficult than naive realists tend to suppose.

I think there is a way that we can be realists, AND have a useful view of reality.

M: I'm in America, I went there to study the Art. The American realists. I thought you knew.

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