verisimilitude
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The movies employed the found-footage style made popular by “The Blair Witch Project,” using supposedly homemade video to lend an air of this-could-happen-to-you verisimilitude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
This isn’t only because, as Ms. Whitlum-Cooper and Ms. Tedbury write, Christ’s body is “vehemently real,” but also due to the verisimilitude of his loincloth and the “complex depths of its falls and folds.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
On the silver screen, it dazzles like few contemporary science fiction films do, opting for color over the pallid gray verisimilitude that often bogs down its peers.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
Director Guillermo Cienfuegos allows verisimilitude to get the better of pacing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
When he had landed on the roof of his building, he sat for a time, weaving together in his mind a story thick with verisimilitude.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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