Meanings of brutal realism in English

But Saturday night in Citywest was a short, sharp illustration of brutal realism.

Nor does she fight shy of brutal realism when necessary.

There are certainly these two strains in his work: the harsh, even brutal realism and the exuberantly daring mythmaking.

What it gave to games was a visualised consequence and effect that allowed for a brutal realism on screen.

Nothing compared to raw honesty, the brutal realism, the truth about what men think on topics that are rarely discussed.

The second school was that of the Naturalists, who professed to study Nature alone, representing with brutal realism her repulsive aspects.

His candour, his brutal realism, his defiance and scorn for poetic theories, presented to her the sharp contrast which made him doubly fascinating.

And yet I had forgotten the brutal realism of the final paragraphs, preferring to remember only Fritha's final realisation of her love for Rhayader.

Brutal realism is offset by romanticism, idealism, even a flawed human grandeur.