The characters are unglamorously, unforgivingly, all-too-realistically drawn through deft description and revealing dialogue.

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Clair knows it's too late to realistically expect Target to change its tune this year.

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The changes are too large to realistically estimate the outcomes.

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Mr Dodds said current legislation was too complex and widespread and could not be realistically understood by public sector workers.

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More realistically, it is trying to do too much with too little.

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Geographically surrounded and historically dominated by its larger neighbour, it was perhaps too much to expect that Lebanon and its own sectarian divided factions, could ever realistically remain immune to events next door.

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The bottom line is that far too many Americans, not simply those with low credit scores, have borrowed more money than they are realistically capable of repaying.

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