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Neorealism is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Neorealism meaning

  1. A movement in art, literature and (especially in Italy) cinema, shortly after the Second World War, that concentrated on real life.
  2. A theory of international relations based on the idea that power is the most important factor.

Using Neorealism

  • The main meaning on this page is: A movement in art, literature and (especially in Italy) cinema, shortly after the Second World War, that concentrated on real life. | A theory of international relations based on the idea that power is the most important factor.
  • In the example corpus, neorealism often appears in combinations such as: from neorealism, neorealism and, of neorealism.

Context around Neorealism

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
  • Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

italian 3× pink 2× defensive 1×

Often after:

developed 1× effectively 1× bimal 1× came 1× millicent 1×

Sentence patterns with Neorealism

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

added to neorealism 1× along with neorealism the style 1× away from neorealism 1× between the neorealism of the 1× by italian neorealism bimal roy 1× called pink neorealism 1× cinema from neorealism to the 1× detail of neorealism 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

along with neorealism 1× bernhard s focus 1× elena ferrante herself 1× elsewhere italian director 1× forbidden notebook is 1× himself influenced by 1×

Common sentence endings:

added to neorealism 1× among film historians 1× away from neorealism 1× called pink neorealism 1× detail of neorealism 1× development of neorealism 1×

Words around Neorealism

Just before it in the word index:

neora 2 neopythagorean 2 neoptolemus 8 neoproterozoic 7 neoprene 13 neopolitan 2

Just after it in the word index:

neorealist 6 neorealists 3 neornithes 2 neos 21 neoscoin 4 neosho 29

Similar in corpus frequency:

aav 22 abdicating 22 abductor 22 abh 22 abhorred 22 abidal 22

Corpus analysis for Neorealism

  • In this selection, "neorealism" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, italian, pink, defensive, developed, effectively and bimal stand out and add context to how "neorealism" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include added to neorealism and along with neorealism the style. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "neorealism" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with neorealism

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present. (7 words)

In this film, Visconti combines realism and romanticism as a way to break away from neorealism. (16 words)

However, as one biographer notes, "Visconti without neorealism is like Lang without expressionism and Eisenstein without formalism ". (17 words)

Longer example sentences

The children play a key role in this, and their presence at the end of the film is indicative of their role in neorealism as a whole: as observers of the difficulties of today who hold the key to the future. (41 words)

Himself influenced by Italian neorealism, Bimal Roy was a mentor to both Mukherjee and Gulzar, and from him, one can guess, they may have learnt the tricky art of spotting cinematic potential from the verbosity of the page. (38 words)

In Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism, Millicent Marcus proposes that Visconti used this operatic paradigm throughout Senso, with parallels between the opera's protagonists, Manrico and Leonora, and the film's protagonists, Ussoni and Livia. (37 words)

Example sentences (18)

In addition, many of the filmmakers involved in neorealism developed their skills working on calligraphist films (though the short-lived movement was markedly different from neorealism).

Pink neorealism and comedy It has been said that after Umberto D. nothing more could be added to neorealism.

Possibly because of this, neorealism effectively ended with that film; subsequent works turned toward lighter atmospheres, perhaps more coherent with the improving conditions of the country, and this genre has been called pink neorealism.

Elena Ferrante herself owes so much to neorealism, and it’s she who has driven the rediscovery of Céspedes.

Forbidden Notebook is in part a documentation of postwar changes in women’s lives, observed with the meticulous detail of neorealism.

Himself influenced by Italian neorealism, Bimal Roy was a mentor to both Mukherjee and Gulzar, and from him, one can guess, they may have learnt the tricky art of spotting cinematic potential from the verbosity of the page.

Varda’s first film, “La Pointe Courte” (1955), set in the Mediterranean coastal city of Sète, was a bridge between the neorealism of the 1940s and the French New Wave.

Along with neorealism, the style had a homegrown precedent, specifically cited by Dassin, in director Henry Hathaway 's The House on 92nd Street (1945), which demonstrated the parallel influence of the cinematic newsreel.

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Bernhard’s focus on Jungian depth psychology proved to be the single greatest influence on Fellini’s mature style and marked the turning point in his work from neorealism to filmmaking that was "primarily oneiric".

Elsewhere, Italian director Luchino Visconti adapted Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice as Ossessione (1943), regarded both as one of the great noirs and a seminal film in the development of neorealism.

History Italian neorealism came about as World War II ended and Benito Mussolini 's government fell, causing the Italian film industry to lose its centre.

However, as one biographer notes, "Visconti without neorealism is like Lang without expressionism and Eisenstein without formalism ".

In Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism, Millicent Marcus proposes that Visconti used this operatic paradigm throughout Senso, with parallels between the opera's protagonists, Manrico and Leonora, and the film's protagonists, Ussoni and Livia.

In this film, Visconti combines realism and romanticism as a way to break away from neorealism.

Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present.

Kenneth Waltz made significant distinctions between his position on the three types of international relations in defensive neorealism and that of Morgenthau in his book Man, the State, and War from the late 1950s.

Significant works Precursors and influences The extent to which Italian neorealism was truly innovative continues to be debated among film historians.

The children play a key role in this, and their presence at the end of the film is indicative of their role in neorealism as a whole: as observers of the difficulties of today who hold the key to the future.

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Common combinations with neorealism

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

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How do you use "neorealism" in a sentence?
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What does "neorealism" mean?
Neorealism means: A movement in art, literature and (especially in Italy) cinema, shortly after the Second World War, that concentrated on real life.
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