real-worlder

plural real-worlders

1. Synonym of realist, a practical person who lives in the real world as distinguished from those perceived to inhabit cloudcuckooland or similarly detached from reality in some way.

   Our approach privileges the perspective of military practice. In the tutorial sessions, we put real-worlders in charge.

   2016, Maarten Rothman, “Theory for Real-Worlders: Teaching International Security Studies to Dutch Cadets”, in Infinity Journal Special Edition: International Relations in Professional Military Education, page 20

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   Another trouble within this schematic diagram is that within each school there is a division between the "real worlders"--those who recognize the world is complicated--and the "gimmicksters"--those who want to depend on a once-and-for-all problem-solving gimmick.

   1965, The Politics of Military Policy: Seminars on the Politics of Policy-making, page 12

   The scholars who found the postmodernists most outrageous were those who thought they actually were discussing the “real world.” […] What the real-worlders missed was that the extreme relativists were engaged in games of a yet another sort, language games, with double entendres and other clever word-play.

   2002, Yale H. Ferguson, Richard W. Mansbach, “Remapping Political Space: Issues and Nonissues in Analyzing Global Politics in the Twenty-First Century”, in Yale H. Ferguson, R. J. Barry Jones, editors, Political Space: Frontiers of Change and Governance in a Globalizing World, →ISBN, page 89

   Synonyms: realist