How To Use Verisimilitude In A Sentence

  • Fantasy fiction relies heavily on generic verisimilitude, precisely because so much of its content centres around what is ‘not real’.
  • Poe saw how ‘all are affected by the potent magic of verisimilitude.’
  • At the required level of visual verisimilitude, computer animation is costly.
  • All of this being ‘merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative’.
  • Ursula K. LeGuin loaned verisimilitude to WIZARD OF EARTHSEA by having her magic rules copy the real beliefs of primitive peoples, who do not reveal their true names to strangers for fear of being hexed. Explain Me This
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  • Verisimilitude as 'griff' said was what was missing most. '60z
  • But what does stand out in Adrian's novel is the way he combines verisimilitude with implausibility.
  • The need for verisimilitude can sometimes resemble futurology, since both depend upon extrapolation. Talking about science fiction « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…
  • I basically advised them on the accuracy of the film and verisimilitude issues, kibitzed with them.
  • That is, does it have verisimilitude, the appearance of being true or real?
  • Is realism, "lifeness" or verisimilitude a necessary quality of good literature? Archive 2008-12-01
  • Valentine is fictional, a character in Judith Krantz's Scruples, a book that positively sizzles with brand-name-dropping, put there not as paid product placement but as verisimilitude of an especially glamorous kind. Archive 2008-07-01
  • But the younger generation of Congressmen - its members are in their 20s and 30s - imparts verisimilitude to the definition.
  • The historical adviser is there not to ensure verisimilitude, but to be an accomplice in furthering the aims of the producer.
  • Who else would write, let alone attempt to sing, a line such as ‘I hate verisimilitude’, or punningly entitle a song ‘Neil Jung’?
  • In other words, Clarissa's language mirrors the novel's verisimilitude, while Lovelace's repeats the figures of fiction's past.
  • Research is vital but I have a problem with focussing too much on verisimilitude.
  • In such cases, verisimilitude takes over motivation, because each word of that story will expatiate on or repeat the nuclear word that begets it, for each such word is also a metonym of that nucleus.
  • Because of my developing view that there is often more verisimilitude than veracity in folk wisdom, I carried out a replication.
  • After all, this is a TV series in which Stephen Hawking's wheelchair is able to transform and fly; it is not exactly striving for verisimilitude.
  • This perhaps explains the strident colors which characterize his paintings as certainly it suggests the source of their extreme verisimilitude.
  • But polyglotism has its limits and, at some point, a reader must depend on the translator for some semblance of literary verisimilitude. Mark Axelrod: The Day Before Happiness
  • Like Picasso, Bacon sought neither photorealism nor photographic verisimilitude, nor were his paintings merely the sum of their sources.
  • The fragment seemed Kosher, with phraseology, vocabulary, metaphor, style and expression of apparent authenticity and verisimilitude.
  • This is a very slight discrepancy from strict verisimilitude here, but one that revealingly triggers disproportionate reactions among critics.
  • We moderns tend to unthinkingly equate the quest for verisimilitude with the quest for historical accuracy, yet here it clearly is intended to serve the heart, and not the head.
  • Yet the faultless verisimilitude of the flowers conveys little of their actual presence or inhesion.
  • RESULTSL Three - dimensional data of facial profile was accurate and the images were reconstructed with verisimilitude.
  • lifeness" or verisimilitude a necessary quality of good literature? Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • This type of reality is in fact undistinguishable from a verbal mythology, of network of signs underpinned by commonly shared ideas about verisimilitude.
  • Frye refers back to his scale here, where he says that, given the historic tendency of verisimilitude to provide plausibility and "reading forward in history [...] we may think of our romantic, high mimetic and low mimetic modes as a series of displaced myths, mythoi or plot-formulas progressively moving over towards the opposite pole of verisimilitude [away from myth, which doesn't require verisimilitude], and then, with irony, beginning to move back" (52). Anime Nano!
  • Because of my developing view that there is often more verisimilitude than veracity in folk wisdom, I carried out a replication.
  • They situate and reassure the reader by promoting verisimilitude, the quality of appearing to be real.
  • Where the narrative is aimed to function mainly as an immersive Story, authenticity and verisimilitude may be held more important than even basic literary skills. Archive 2009-12-01
  • At the required level of visual verisimilitude, computer animation is costly.
  • The historical adviser is there not to ensure verisimilitude, but to be an accomplice in furthering the aims of the producer.
  • Actually, my aunt had done nothing of the sort, but I like the substance as well as the euphony; it has verisimilitude, doesn't it?
  • 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.
  • In terms of Hollywood verisimilitude, that's pinpoint accuracy.
  • Painted with an almost Dutch-Renaissance verisimilitude, Harrison's work is of extreme close-ups that focus us on expressively open faces.
  • This reductiveness is a strength, as the simplicity a convincing verisimilitude, and the theatrical structure keeps you focused on the story. Mira Schor: Will Obama Shoot Liberty Valance?
  • 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.
  • The historical adviser is there not to ensure verisimilitude, but to be an accomplice in furthering the aims of the producer.
  • He is just a little too tall and too thin for verisimilitude. THE SAVAGE GIRL
  • The historical adviser is there not to ensure verisimilitude, but to be an accomplice in furthering the aims of the producer.
  • Written with a pungency largely absent in Indian public discourse, the cables capture with startling verisimilitude the freewheeling political culture of the world's largest democracy and second-fastest growing major economy. Corruption on Singh's Watch
  • I would let verisimilitude and photogenics dictate my route more than proximity to Madison Square Garden.
  • A myriad of historic details adds to the story's verisimilitude.
  • She has included photographs in the book to lend verisimilitude to the story.
  • Occasionally Voss would stage arrests in the street to maintain verisimilitude. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • Even if he was "phoning it in" or holding himself back while in rehearsal mode, the exteriority of the verisimilitude in his performance far surpasses most people, even on their best day. Ashley Wren Collins: Using Michael Jackson's Legacy to Open Can of Whoop Ass on Youth Work Ethic
  • Byatt's account of the jinx's stream of consciousness during her ritual killing ventures beyond the limits of verisimilitude.
  • The skilled reader is not dependent on the adventitious aids of easiness or brightness; he is no longer, for instance, dependent upon plot for his enjoyment of fiction, or upon what is called 'actuality' or 'incident', or mere verisimilitude of description. 2010 January 08 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
  • I found that I had what they call fallen in life with absolute success and verisimilitude. Essays of Travel
  • The pictographic paintings comprised not only recognizable but even vigorous representations of men and animals, depicted in form and color though without perspective, while the calumet of catlinite was sometimes chiseled into striking verisimilitude of human and animal forms in miniature. The Siouan Indians
  • Shrubs - witch hazel, chokeberry, hydrangea, blueberry, sumac - added to the strange verisimilitude.
  • Filming the movie on location in New York and San Francisco and on an elaborate backlot in Los Angeles adds a verisimilitude that the filmmakers hope will offer a different kind of power.
  • This perhaps explains the strident colors which characterize his paintings as certainly it suggests the source of their extreme verisimilitude.
  • At the required level of visual verisimilitude, computer animation is costly.
  • It is not a semblance of the divine nature, an analogon, or verisimilitude, but the love of God himself in man: so that man is in this sense an incarnation of the divine. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
  • His Russian was good enough, and he thought that he could lend some verisimilitude to the proceedings. KARA KUSH
  • The 'prolixity' of descriptions of experiments and the detailed, naturalistic illustrations that went into the society's publications aimed to create the impression of verisimilitude. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • At the required level of visual verisimilitude, computer animation is costly.
  • Jonson's use of strict verisimilitude helps to facilitate yet another layer of deception by employing a fixed sense of time.
  • As a novelist, I strive for verisimilitude: the appearance of reality.
  • We have the following conversation which I shall translate into the dialect for verisimilitude.
  • His regular attendance in the reference library had nothing to do with the pursuit of verisimilitude in his fictions. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • Shrubs - witch hazel, chokeberry, hydrangea, blueberry, sumac - added to the strange verisimilitude.
  • It's not brittle facticity that Davis is after but more supple conceptions of plausibility and verisimilitude that speak to how a film stretches evidence to provoke, arouse, and speak to larger historical truths.
  • Graphics are to games what verisimilitude is to a novel.
  • At the same time, Western artists are exacting and relentless in their pursuit of historical verisimilitude.

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