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

Throughout the entire film there is not a break in Brando's almost magical lifelikeness.

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