lifelikeness

Example Sentences

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Just as Chekhov’s stories, beneath their veneer of lifelikeness, have a boiled-down, biblical simplicity, Hopper’s interiors are shorn of detail.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2019

It’s the kind of lifelikeness that could only come from showrunners steeped in Haredi society.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 14, 2019

That recording is then used to animate a creature whose movements have a peculiar lifelikeness.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2017

Joseph, Jacob, Isaac, Esau, Laban, Rachel, Leah take on vivid lifelikeness as characters in their own right, but at the same time their outlines are misty with suggestions of their ancestors and their posterity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although this head gives no such impression of lifelikeness as the best Egyptian portraits, it yet shows careful study.

From A History of Greek Art by Tarbell, Frank Bigelow