"It was important that we showed this more realistic, more human side of Lara, " Pratchett said.
Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution says the School of Hard Knocks has brought Rice around to this more realistic approach to the Middle East.
So if we use this more realistic baseline, we can say that more than 100 percent of the long-run deficit problem is because spending is out of control.
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With the world economy in better shape, this looks more realistic than it did six months ago.
This is a more realistic, pared-down "Tristan" than we've had in the past.
The next level is 1378-1382, an area that needs to hold to keep a constructive stance (this area is more realistic).
This approach is more realistic and infinitely less destructive than requiring those 11 million-plus people to leave the U.S. and then reenter through normal legal channels.
This approach may seem more realistic than either charging a fee for advice or placing other obstacles in the way of showroomers.
This time the tune is more realistic, Asia, the president says, is good for America.
Adnan Pachachi, this month's president of the U.S.-appointed Governing Council, said he backs direct elections in principle but indicated the caucus-elected assembly, or some variation of this plan, would be more realistic in view of the June deadline.
Let's be more realistic about this.
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This time the chatter is altogether more realistic.
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This happened a few more times, providing a realistic taste of scientific research, where the most common experience is failure.
Knowing this about yourself positions you to achieve a more realistic goal and in the process be more satisfied and comfortable with yourself.
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But like the panic over marriage, this panic over the F word is more ideological than a realistic assessment of the world as we know it.
"In the case of a firefighter who develops a long term condition this means carrying out a risk assessment and taking a much more realistic approach, " says Ms Valentine.
The more that house prices surge ahead, the less realistic this sanguine scenario looks.
In the shadow of these giants, this year's nominees for album of the year offer a more realistic snapshot of what success looks like today.
The flip side of this is that I think shares are now in stronger hands, with more realistic expectations and at better average prices.
Semenya now has the opportunity to compete in the world junior championships in Canada later this month, but October's Commonwealth Games in Delhi is a more realistic target.
There are more assertions about whether the bid to increase the numbers moving to work is some kind of scam, but this seems tendentious: a goal of moving more people into jobs may be realistic or not, but more people in more jobs would be more people in more jobs.
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Whether consumers actually need all this power is an open question, but it opens the door to more exciting, realistic-looking games to appear on mobiles in the future.
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"So, while we will keep working towards that date, we have set ourselves a more realistic target of achieving universal 2 Mbps access within the lifetime of this Parliament, " he added.
This race is making the markets more efficient, and so making the academics' models look more realistic than before.
This can be the year that financial health becomes less of a distant hope and more of a realistic goal.
The staggering and loss of balance and the hyper-realistic movement all make for much more interesting combat than we normally see in this genre.
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Croft, the relateable heroine, became less of a realistic person and more of a remorseless killing machine, the sort that populates most games in this genre.
Mr. BRAY: Well at this point, the main thing they're trying to do is figure out how to make the games more visually realistic in terms of the movements of objects, in terms of the movements of characters.
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