vraisemblance
Example Sentences
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Such a novel deserves to be called quite as truly romance and prose poem, save that Balzac's vraisemblance, his gift for photographic detail and the contemporaneousness of the setting, make it modern.
From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton
The incidents in Smollett's history are not very numerous, and some of them are narrated, under faint disguises, with inimitable vivacity and vraisemblance in his own fictions.
From Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan
This vraisemblance, which is so seldom witnessed in the opera, seemed to strike every eye.
From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg
The accessories are few, but of supreme importance; and it is inconceivable that a keenly intelligent actress like Mrs. Fiske should sacrifice vraisemblance to a meaningless refinement.
From Americans and Others by Agnes Repplier
His Chinese letters—for the idea of which he was indebted to the Lettres Persanes of Montesquieu—describe England in his day with the same vraisemblance which we have noticed in The Spectator.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
