This work of meticulous realism is based on a series of novels by Fyodor Abramov, drawing mainly upon "Two Winters and Three Summers" (the only volume available in English).

Somehow she pulls off what never quite seemed possible before: combining the meticulous realism of domestic fiction with the witchery of a natural-born storyteller.

His artwork is sometimes referred to as "meticulous realism," a subcategory referring to the artist's startling attention to detail.

Blamey's style, though varying slightly at different periods, was generally a meticulous realism.

But his meticulous realism helps the play dramatically as well, serving almost as a crucible, an intensifying container for Mr. Auburn's abstract inquiries into the natures of genius, genealogy and love.

He was doing, with meticulous realism but with a highly romantic effect, a study of a young girl dancing, a wood nymph, against a pine forest background.

Zevager, who prided himself on the meticulous realism and authenticity of his exhibits, besought the former king to allow such an effigy to be made of His Highness and displayed.

I had to really fight my way there, out of my habits of a very meticulous realism.

Occasionally, meticulous realism become Magic Realism, as in Alan Magee's watercolor of a gray pebble flecked with small white fossils.

That's the trouble with meticulous realism - if indeed it is a genre unto itself.