lifelikeness
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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
It fails to achieve the lifelikeness, not to mention the dramatic intensity, that Ibsen bequeathed as a legacy, or rather one of his legacies, to modern playwriting.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2015
It permitted likenesses of a limited sort, but lifelikeness was beyond it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The intense lifelikeness of the play predominated over every other feeling.
From The Hillman by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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