1.   First, there was the social realism of the Glasgow slums.

2.   Audiences become attached to soaps that have a strong sense of social realism.

3.   Both style and subject announced his commitment to social realism and leftist causes.

4.   A bond was forged between American comics and the social realism of artists like Ben Shahn and Kathe Kollwitz.

5.   Christopher Fry, Ronald Duncan and others who had helped him pioneer a poetic revival in Britain also fell victim to the vogue for social realism.

6.   Critics continually reevaluate the play, analyzing whether it is a dated piece of social realism or a timeless psychological drama.

7.   Her early poetry, which she has since renounced, embraced the social realism style of the Stalin era in Poland.

8.   In his visceral first feature, Tamahori offers social realism with a savage kick, depicting Maori New Zealanders whose ties to their own history have been destroyed.

9.   Loach incorporates enough ambiguity to keep his story painfully lifelike, and he finds scorching social realism beyond the bare facts of this tale.