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

Whereas liveliness, if not lifelikeness, is exactly what Shapiro's sculptures are about.

From Time Magazine Archive

In four generations, whose representatives are placed before us with uncommon plasticity and lifelikeness, the decaying family slowly passes across the stage.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various