social realist

collocation in English

meaningsofsocialandrealist

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social
adjective
uk
/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us
/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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realist
noun[C]
uk
/ˈrɪə.lɪst/us
/ˈriː.ə.lɪst/
someone who hopes for or accepts only what seems possible or likely, and does not hope for or ...
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(Definition ofsocialandrealistfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In this way,socialrealisttheatre was conceived as drama with a moral message.
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Thesocialrealistview of applied linguistics depicted by the authors, therefore, seems to be far from adoptable by applied linguistics as a guiding disciplinary approach.
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Politically left wing for his era, he was noted for hissocialrealistportrayals of working class figures, particularly fishermen and their families.
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These works were rendered in thesocialrealiststyle.
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But it is extremely difficult to do this sort of writing within the structures of the conventionalsocialrealistnovel.
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The novel is about a town and its people written in thesocialrealiststyle.
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By the early 1960s, the briefsocialrealistburst in narrative was already growing stale.
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He developed a personal style based on thesocialrealistapproach, producing compassionate images of workers and their working lives.
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Shehzad focuses on actor performance and realisation within a neo-noir/socialrealist/expressionist dimension.
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The story of thesocialrealistnovel is schematic and uncomplicated.
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It's actually a very realsocialrealistdrama with some songs.
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Since the 1980s, every work has come from an archive of propaganda tracts,socialrealistphotography books and other art approved by politically driven authorities.
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In the 1960s, in line with social developments in other countries at the time, there began to be published novels dealing withsocialrealistthemes.
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Not from a tourist perspective, which he despised, but with the passion of a convincedsocialrealist.
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Kennington became known not only for his idealised paintings of domestic and everyday-life scenes but also for hissocialrealistworks.
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