vraisemblance

Example Sentences

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What I like about this story of St. Kevin are the dates—they give it such an unimpeachable vraisemblance!

From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

The story is full of that indescribable half-naturalness, that effortless vraisemblance, which is so commonly a charm of German writers, and so seldom paralleled in English.

From First Fam'lies of the Sierras by Miller, Joaquin

Everything that happens in an imaginary realm—in the realm of Ruritania, for illustration—has an air of possibility, at least a shadowy vraisemblance.

From Ponkapog Papers by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

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 Repplier, Agnes

The decoration becomes perfected and sterile; then p. 284there arises a more sophisticated generation, longing for naturalism, for pictorial vraisemblance, without the childishness of the cave pictures. 

From Masques & Phases by Ross, Robert