There are times when the utopian answers are the only realistic ones.

Should they not learn the difference between reasonable expectations and realistic ones?

Then there is a gradual modification to more realistic ones.

The goal of the therapy is to change negative thought patterns that lead to the patient's anxiety, replacing them with positive, more realistic ones.

In any event, the dreams ended, only to be replaced by darkly realistic ones.

Its songs aim to be anthems, but realistic ones.

Other satisfactions had taken its place, more realistic ones.

It was the realistic ones that sold first and started the phenomenon.

These are good lines, revealing lines, even realistic ones; you know people who might say them.

Once Louis's advisers were involved these grandiose plans gave way to more realistic ones.