"Each student has to have a realistic sense of their ability or they become disillusioned and get led down a road," he said.

And those that finally were made weren't portraits in any realistic sense.

"Our parents' generation of lawyers tended to have a more realistic sense of what the practice was all about."

He says, "I wanted to provide a more grounded realistic sense of horror.

In these matters, I think the students may have a more realistic sense of the situation than the teacher.

"Our theme is tempered hope with a realistic sense of the challenges that lay ahead."

Obama's announcement last night reflects a realistic sense of where our country is and what it can do.

He has a more realistic sense of working together, of consensus politics.

Britain was better, he argues, when our leaders had a realistic sense of the country's limitations.

Further, Bell said, after nine years in the majors, he has a realistic sense of his abilities.