verisimilitude

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The movie is a work of fiction, but it adds to its verisimilitude by including news footage and audio recordings of these attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Jean-Baptiste has credited this verisimilitude to Leigh’s intensive rehearsal process, where he and his actors work together to create characters from the ground up before shooting ever begins.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2025

Or so it seems — it’s only the halfway mark — as we ping-pong between screenings of revered directors leaping off the deep end, their former penchants for verisimilitude tossed aside.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2024

But physical verisimilitude, he decided, wasn’t the key to portraying his father: “Kingsley brought an emotional depth that nobody else brought to the auditions, and a magnetism,” he added.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2024

When he had landed on the roof of his building, he sat for a time, weaving together in his mind a story thick with verisimilitude.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick