They situate and reassure the reader by promoting verisimilitude, the quality of appearing to be real. |
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This is a very slight discrepancy from strict verisimilitude here, but one that revealingly triggers disproportionate reactions among critics. |
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I'm writing about an experience that isn't my own, and in order to ensure some degree of verisimilitude, I use details from my own experience. |
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In other words, Clarissa's language mirrors the novel's verisimilitude, while Lovelace's repeats the figures of fiction's past. |
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Research is vital but I have a problem with focussing too much on verisimilitude. |
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Both arenas require the deft verisimilitude of the stage actor, the ability to squeeze a tear from the old dear in the back row. |
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We have the following conversation which I shall translate into the dialect for verisimilitude. |
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I basically advised them on the accuracy of the film and verisimilitude issues, kibitzed with them. |
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Byatt's account of the jinx's stream of consciousness during her ritual killing ventures beyond the limits of verisimilitude. |
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In a photomural at the end of a back alleyway, a louche fellow in a raincoat could be seen, intensifying a sense of verisimilitude. |
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At the same time, Western artists are exacting and relentless in their pursuit of historical verisimilitude. |
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I would let verisimilitude and photogenics dictate my route more than proximity to Madison Square Garden. |
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Like Picasso, Bacon sought neither photorealism nor photographic verisimilitude, nor were his paintings merely the sum of their sources. |
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But what does stand out in Adrian's novel is the way he combines verisimilitude with implausibility. |
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Jonson's use of strict verisimilitude helps to facilitate yet another layer of deception by employing a fixed sense of time. |
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The fragment seemed Kosher, with phraseology, vocabulary, metaphor, style and expression of apparent authenticity and verisimilitude. |
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Because of my developing view that there is often more verisimilitude than veracity in folk wisdom, I carried out a replication. |
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That is, does it have verisimilitude, the appearance of being true or real? |
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Painted with an almost Dutch-Renaissance verisimilitude, Harrison's work is of extreme close-ups that focus us on expressively open faces. |
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In terms of Hollywood verisimilitude, that's pinpoint accuracy. |
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Krapp and others have noted that the primary effect of eye dialect is not the achievement of exact verisimilitude, but the assertion of difference. |
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Or a creature as near to equine verisimilitude as the black arts of puppetry can provide. |
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The primitiveness of the inventors of such imaginations, and the imaginations themselves, discard completely their verisimilitude. |
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Himself a former CIA agent, Mr Eisler brings detailed knowledge of the covert world and his books' verisimilitude boosts their appeal. |
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Read this book then for its internal symmetries, not for its verisimilitude. |
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This means prominence which is not justified by the editorial requirements of the programme, or the need to lend verisimilitude. |
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The idea of realistic sensational detail will emerge, giving an opportunity for discussion of the use of verisimilitude for reader impact. |
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The arrival of the Renaissance brought with it a growing search for verisimilitude. |
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This type of reality is in fact undistinguishable from a verbal mythology, of network of signs underpinned by commonly shared ideas about verisimilitude. |
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A myriad of historic details adds to the story's verisimilitude. |
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An extra touch of verisimilitude in this production is provided by the stage direction of Mr Adamo, who certainly knows not only what he wants, but how to get it. |
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It can mean, neutrally, the kind of art which aims for verisimilitude, or it can mean one which succeeds in penetrating to the truth of how things are. |
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And the verisimilitude of that, the reality of that and the funniness of that is what we're going after. |
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Adding verisimilitude to the act, the Hungarian Military Police Detachment contributed their professional services, cuffing MFO members and hauling them off to the hoosegow. |
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A space where the matter of resemblance and verisimilitude is secondary. |
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By actively working to ensure the authenticity of our signatures: eliminating those which are obviously fraudulent and checking, as far as is possible, the verisimilitude of the others. |
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The power of the novel lies entirely in the resurrection of a bygone age brought back to life through a rich mass of plausible detail and a stunning sense of verisimilitude. |
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Development now withdraws behind its appearances, and persists only in the form of an 'as if', a trompe-l'oeil whose verisimilitude is enough to make us forget its lack of reality. |
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The diameters of the pores in this matrix match those of natural bone. For added verisimilitude, the team coated the internal surfaces of the pores with a material similar to mother of pearl. |
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Popper's original attempt to define not just verisimilitude, but an actual measure of it, turned out to be inadequate. |
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Yet the faultless verisimilitude of the flowers conveys little of their actual presence or inhesion. |
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A large survey of history does not belie these generalizations, and the history of the period since Rousseau wrote lends them a melancholy verisimilitude. |
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My husband claims his favourite words are cumquat and verisimilitude. |
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