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
In the end, she discovered that bringing a dead animal to lifelikeness isn’t so different from her career in fashion design.
From Washington Post
On the contrary, it is greatly to his credit that he should have created a character of sufficient lifelikeness and sufficient complexity to serve as basis for "problem"-discussions of the kind.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury