More significant than its photorealism, however, was its emotional realism.

Especially in the last three movies, emotional realism has replaced artifice.

But the book, utterly devoid of emotional realism, reads as if Nellie is old and writing her memoir.

It is a performance that pairs superb theatrical artifice with genuinely harrowing emotional realism.

This is emotional realism, refreshingly sane, but it means the writer has to spend a lot of time raising earthbound souls to a more sublime altitude.

Here's an actress with a rare knack for emotional realism, the kind of intelligent, commanding presence that drains reality from lesser co-stars.

But what was missing, as is sometimes the case with Cuban pop music, was any sort of emotional realism.

It is famous for its vivid energy and unprecedented emotional realism.

The second time around she proves herself skilled at creating moments of emotional realism and drawing one into the jumbled mind of a young woman in love.

And it represented the kind of emotional realism from the heart and from the gut that we wanted to have as our signature piece.