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realist; realistic; bottom-line; hard-nosed; material (wordfiend); workable (raf); lifelike (Anglophile); feasible (Georgy Moiseenko); living (Aly19); hard nosed; kitchen-sink (adjective [attrib.] (of art forms) characterized by great realism in the depiction of drab or sordid subjects. The term is most used of post-war British drama, such as John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956) and Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959), which uses working-class domestic settings rather than the drawing rooms of conventional middle-class drama, and of a short-lived school of British social realist painters. NOED. a kitchen-sink drama. OALD. 1. chiefly Britain • portraying or emphasizing the squalid aspects of modern life the kitchen-sink realism of contemporary British drama – Current Biography 2. • being or made up of a hodgepodge of disparate elements or ingredients kitchen-sink soup–made with … meat, chicken, fish cake, shrimp, mushrooms and greens – Mimi Sheraton. WTNI Alexander Demidov); true-to-life (напр., об изображении или фотографии vlad-and-slav); no-nonsense (Alex_Odeychuk); well-observed (The story is a closely/well observed [=very realistic] portrait of the city. VLZ_58); closely-observed (VLZ_58); credible (Ремедиос_П); life-like (MichaelBurov); spot-on (MichaelBurov); deliverable (Goosak); doable (Tatiana_Ts_) |
