lifelikeness
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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
In the end, she discovered that bringing a dead animal to lifelikeness isn’t so different from her career in fashion design.
From Washington Post
But when he found that admiration for the lifelikeness of the partridge tended to distract the attention of visitors from the main figure, he painted it out.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
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