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

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

The single scenes and pictures which Boswell has given us will all of them bear close scrutiny for their precision, their economy of means, their lifelikeness, their artistic effect.

From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Osgood, Charles Grosvenor