vraisemblance
Example Sentences
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It is the old argument of vraisemblance, as found in Maggi, Scaliger, and especially Castelvetro, whom Chapelain seems in part to follow.
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn
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 Robert Ross
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 Richard Burton
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 Burton Egbert Stevenson
Persons and scenes are brought into juxtaposition, in a manner to violate every principle of vraisemblance.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
