vraisemblance

Example Sentences

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This vraisemblance, which is so seldom witnessed in the opera, seemed to strike every eye.

From Edmond Dantès by Flagg, Edmund

This is quite aside from its remarkable range of character-portrayal, its humor, pathos and vraisemblance, its feeling for situation, its sonorous eloquence in massed effects.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard

Splendid as is the scene between her and Savonarola, the vraisemblance is spoilt by this impossibility of condition.

From Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations by Alexander, Mrs.

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 Coppee, Henry

Between the preacher and the pews there is certainly neither affinity nor vraisemblance.

From Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities by Jeans, J. Stephen (James Stephen)