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
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
Throughout the entire film there is not a break in Brando's almost magical lifelikeness.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is kinetoscopic, first of all, in its lifelikeness and the convincing reality of the actions it pictures.
From An Anarchist Woman by Hapgood, Hutchins
