| 单词 | verisimilitude |
| 例句 | 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. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z If the Brooklyn sets evoke Broadway to the smallest detail — like the fake Playbills in the characters’ dressing rooms — the verisimilitude reaches “Twilight Zone” levels when listening to theater people describe playing theater people. Television: ?Smash? on NBC, About Broadway, With Katharine McPhee 2012-01-19T17:14:32Z But Mr. Johansson does not get hung up on the verisimilitude of his designs. Special Report: Watches: For Luxury Watches, Life in the Fast Lane 2011-11-24T14:00:41Z Not merely for color and verisimilitude does he fill his dialogue with innumerable variations on “honey” and “yes’m” and “howdy do.” Review: In ‘The Traveling Lady,’ Hope and Regret Run Neck and Neck 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z In the work of another writer, Agnes’s and Heidi’s inability to move past that single confrontation might strain our notions of verisimilitude. What if We Pursued Vigilante Justice on Reality TV? 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z The strength of both shows, though, isn’t verisimilitude but invention. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Carell had not quite pictured the full impact of his request for verisimilitude. Are You Strapped In for ‘The Patient’? The Therapist Is. 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Given how often this happens to failed novelists, it feels like a fairy-godmother moment, lacking a certain verisimilitude. Passion and fame in the digital age: Watching 'Sex With Strangers' at the Geffen 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Some of the scenes for “Patriots Day,” including explosions, will be filmed on sets, but the real marathon provided a rare opportunity for verisimilitude. Filming Turns the Boston Marathon Finish Line Into a Set 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z It’s also precisely the kind of detail that Mr. Jarecki uses to enrich the film with a persuasive verisimilitude. Movie Review: Richard Gere in ‘Arbitrage’ 2012-09-13T21:28:56Z It may get a few things wrong, but it aims at, and finally achieves, an authenticity at once more exalted and more primal than mere verisimilitude. In ‘Whiplash,’ a Young Jazz Drummer vs. His Teacher 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z “Mad Men” has a reputation for extreme verisimilitude, and in certain categories — the costumes, the office interiors, the décor of the various Draper abodes — it has certainly earned that distinction. Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z It will be you who's shaped the resulting artefact, and its claim to verisimilitude can be seen as more deceptive than that of its straightforwardly fictionalised counterpart. Clio Barnard's The Arbor is out of lip-synch with reality 2010-10-25T10:06:00Z For the sake of historical verisimilitude, Mr. White played drums and the voluntarily displaced Mr. Diken played maracas. Andy White, Drummer on the Beatles’ ‘Love Me Do,’ Dies at 85 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Consider that it's the man who forced the extras on Fitzcarraldo to drag a real steamship over a mountain to aid the film's verisimilitude. Werner Herzog bags a bizarre voiceover role 2010-04-08T22:30:00Z So certain aspects of verisimilitude are dispensed with, without making a big deal over it. Review: Joan of Arc Is a Young Headbanger in ‘Jeannette’ 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z But “Comrade Detective” is so committed to the verisimilitude of a hamfisted propaganda drama — a killer wearing a Reagan mask is involved — that it often plays like one. Nostalgia Goes Niche in ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ and ‘Comrade Detective’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z A close-up of this beetle-browed artist, then in her 70s, imitating with uncanny verisimilitude a crying, chuckling and gurgling infant, it’s hilarious. ‘Unorthodox’ Faces Paradox at the Jewish Museum 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z An affectionate portrayal of a loving couple and their ordinary befuddlements in ordinary pursuits — balancing the family budget, planning a trip, giving a party — “Ethel and Albert” was distinguished by its verisimilitude. Peg Lynch, Writer and Star of Early Situation Comedy, Dies at 98 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Truth in Pixels: His oeuvre may be cartoonish, but he aims for verisimilitude. A Student Who Makes African Emojis 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z “Game of Thrones” makes the dragons, magic and other fantastical elements feel almost relatable by including lots of subtler moments of recognizable human drama and realpolitik verisimilitude. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Watch: Arguments in Family Court 2014-05-12T03:53:49Z These works are so inflected with character and moment that verisimilitude is by no means their only ambition. Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind – review 2013-02-10T00:05:45Z But any verisimilitude is undercut by a preposterous story and lines no actor should be forced to utter. Movie Review: ?Man on a Ledge,? With Ed Harris as an Evil Real Estate Tycoon 2012-01-26T23:44:01Z Meanwhile, the series is not without its flashes of spine-chilling verisimilitude: “Black tie means black tie,” Diana says before an awards ceremony. How Hollywood Gets the Publishing Industry Wrong 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Tolkien’s maps, eight of which appear in the exhibition, are about more than verisimilitude. Tolkien’s World: An Exhibition Transports Us to Middle-earth 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Sustaining this level of verisimilitude through an entire film is impossible, but “Harvest” comes closer than most. | 'Harvest': The Family That Stays Together Frays Together 2011-05-06T05:30:05Z Gilligan is true to his word about his commitment to verisimilitude. Breaking Bad: from Mr Chips to Scarface 2012-05-18T23:03:00Z So it’s more about verisimilitude, an appearance of truth, than finding an actual truth. Kathleen Turner on her soap opera days: “My character was so incredibly dumb” 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z But "Manhattan" is still a drama set in a specific historical period, and all that verisimilitude doesn't come cheap. 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z He had shown the film to Bernardo Bertolucci, he said, who compared its verisimilitude to the work of Andy Warhol. Gerard Depardieu on Welcome to New York: 'In all of us there is a monster' 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z While Soderbergh aimed for ruthless authenticity in depicting the horrors of late Victorian-era surgery, he and the writers were careful not to be too fussy about language or strict verisimilitude. 'The Knick' is a new twist on the TV doctor show 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Everybody is likely to agree that the eye-searing abundance of ill-fitting pants is pushing verisimilitude a pleat too far. Review: ‘Not About Me’ Remembers Decades Shrouded by AIDS 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Perhaps what I’m tempted to call a flaw is merely another element of the novel’s verisimilitude. Review | In Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Rodham,’ Hillary doesn’t become a Clinton. And Donald Trump isn’t president. 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z "The word to me is verisimilitude — not the truth but the appearance of truth," Dillon said. M. Night Shyamalan adds to the mystery on Fox's 'Wayward Pines' 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z McQueen’s visual grammar often entails staging a violent sequence with blunt, brutal verisimilitude, then lingering on the aftermath in queasy silence. Perspective | In a year of Black Death, the movies showed us Black Life 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z I created a General Ross before which created a verisimilitude for the monsters, by making him a human monster. William Hurt promises a new version of General Ross in 'Captain America: Civil War' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The interview was to go over the verisimilitude of the show — the blending of fiction with the memories of a real- life war and its aftermath. Finding solace through helping a TV show understand war 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z The director Erik Nelson adds realistic wartime sound effects to the silent footage, achieving an unsettling verisimilitude. ‘Apocalypse ’45’ Review: Graphic Images of Wartime 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z “Mr. Fullerton” also has the amusing verisimilitude of being produced, on the campus of Bard College at Simon’s Rock here, just 13 miles south of Wharton’s grand home, the Mount, in Lenox. Onstage, the Pen Is Usually Duller Than the Sword 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z That’s the precious gem mined from the ore of cinema, an affection and care all the more affecting for its basis in a hard verisimilitude. 'I want to break cinema': is Dick Johnson Is Dead the most radical film of 2020? 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z And, yes, female performers play the male roles with remarkable verisimilitude. Review: In Takarazuka’s ‘Chicago,’ the Midwest Looks a Lot Like Japan 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Having spent most of his working life portraying wiseguys, the latter actor was most likely a boon for the heist film’s obsessive fixation on verisimilitude. The Sopranos at 20: how the hit show changed the gangster genre 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The verisimilitude of “The Netherlands Lives With Water,” about a Rotterdam couple managing flooding in the globally warmed future, is as compelling as the story’s emotional landscape. Newly Released Books 2011-03-16T21:19:35Z The danger is that despite the verisimilitudes of text, setting and costume, a viewer’s grasp of events may not match the fabric being woven onstage. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z It’s immediately apparent that pains were taken in the name of verisimilitude—that iconic yellow ballgown more than anything—though the Beast’s double snaggletooth is conspicuously absent in the update. Here's a First Look at Emma Watson in 'Beauty and the Beast' 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Some strange stories create their verisimilitude by partially mirroring what most of us call reality. Collections of strange and satisfying tales 2013-03-01T00:13:36Z This is not just about being politically correct and demanding that all disabled characters must be played by disabled actors; it’s about verisimilitude and what will make for the best film. Isn't it time we let disabled actors and directors make their own films? 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z I kept wishing for a quirky, flattened landscape or marine view by the great Thomas Chambers to disrupt the fussy verisimilitude and endless vistas of the Hudson River school paintings. Crystal Bridges, the Art Museum Walmart Money Built ? Review 2011-12-26T15:29:45Z In a recent phone interview, Sterne discussed the challenge of continually rebuilding the show, what matters more than physical verisimilitude and the hardest role to crack. How ‘The Crown’ Casts Its Royals 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Nor was sonic verisimilitude attempted; it didn’t need to be because the actors lip-synced the writers’ recorded words while embodying them in their expressions and postures. Onstage, the Pen Is Usually Duller Than the Sword 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z A preliminary reaction in The Times to the film’s trailer read, it “seems to radiate a rare emotional verisimilitude,” and others have called everything it shows us about drug addiction as “entirely authentic.” What to Read Before Heading to Movie Theaters This Fall 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z In Ms. Wohl’s play, it has a flattening effect, the verisimilitude of the casting lessening the theatricality of a piece so dependent on make-believe. Review: ‘Make Believe’ Has a Cast of Children, but No Fairy Tales 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Such verisimilitude fosters the sense that this particular place existed and so this particular episode must have occurred.” T Magazine: Immaculate Perception 2010-12-05T23:00:00Z “We were really concerned about realism, verisimilitude,” Ms. Dunham said, adding that Jenni Konner, an executive producer, “is always there at my costume fittings to say, ‘That fits a little too well.’ ” On This Hit Show, the Clothes Make the ‘Girls’ 2013-01-02T21:41:52Z This trait isn’t just about the usual qualities associated with memorable acting — emotional verisimilitude, being in the moment, a star’s towering presence. Jan Maxwell Was a Star Made for the Stage 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Along the way, Nelson has established a style of theater that has its roots in Chekhov: not naturalistic or realistic, but, as Nelson said in a recent interview, an attempt at verisimilitude. Richard Nelson’s New Play Closes a Chapter of Theater History 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Mitchell, the third leg of the romantic triangle, shares certain biographical similarities with his creator — growing up in a Greek-American family in the Detroit area and attending Brown — and is drawn with considerably more verisimilitude. Books of The Times: ?The Marriage Plot? by Jeffrey Eugenides ? Review 2011-10-06T15:39:59Z It has the highest level of musicological verisimilitude of any novel ever written. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Mark Duplass: Are you denigrating The League’s verisimilitude in comparison to ? The League: Outtakes from our Conversation 2013-11-01T17:44:18Z He even likes verisimilitude in the extras: “I often employ people with their own pets in the background.” In the Company of Wes Anderson 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Keaton, for one, believes a move toward verisimilitude is healthy. ‘Love the Coopers’ and Other Films About Christmas Discontent 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z A viewer could come to similar conclusions about “Homeland,” which puts a primacy on verisimilitude and background expertise yet also finds itself eclipsed by the day’s relentless, sometimes surreal headlines. Are ‘24: Legacy’ and ‘Homeland’ really worth the added anxiety right now? 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z They show that the wall between verisimilitude and fantasy is leaky. The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable; The Machine; The Masque of Anarchy – review 2013-07-20T23:06:09Z In order to achieve such verisimilitude, Mr. Sides has drawn on a wide spectrum of sources. Books of The Times: Hampton Sides?s ?Hellhound on His Trail? Traces Martin Luther King Jr.?s Killer 2010-04-21T22:24:00Z “The Bear” has drawn praise for its verisimilitude. Ebon Moss-Bachrach Gives ‘The Bear’ Its Abrasive Edge 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z So does verisimilitude and fidelity to the way real things really look. Deep sense of mystery pervades Peter Zokosky's paintings 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z The cinematic virtue of verisimilitude, in short, replaces a keener aesthetic choice. 'Taste' and 'Backyard' revel in gore and lack style 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Do you want the reader to question the verisimilitude of the story? This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner on Art, Language, and Uber 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z In the profane world of hardcore rap, verisimilitude is prized. Using Rap Lyrics as Damning Evidence Stirs Legal Debate 2014-03-26T23:01:35Z A film about slavery with any verisimilitude would be absurd anachronism if the word was avoided to soothe modern sensibilities. Django Unchained: is its portrayal of slavery too flippant? 2013-01-10T21:00:04Z Despite the verisimilitude of hospital procedure and medical talk, there isn't really anything real life about the personal drama here; people talk in improbable summarising snippets so we know where everyone stands. Tonight's TV highlights: Three In A Bed 2011-03-30T23:05:01Z Atmospheric external filmed sequences were intercut with those taped on cramped studio sets, giving an impression of simultaneous verisimilitude and artifice. How Robin Hood became a socialist 2010-05-11T21:01:00Z The questions of verisimilitude versus safety, of what risks are permissible in the making of art, have not gone away in the 40 years since “Twilight Zone: The Movie” was released. ‘Twilight Zone: The Movie’ and the Deadly Accident That Plagued It 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Parenthood does an extraordinary job of portraying an ordinary family, but until we're further out of the wake of the holiday season, I'd suspect that verisimilitude is not what everyone's craving. TV Review: NBC Family Sitcom "Parenthood" 2010-03-03T20:49:00Z Every surfing feature film is a bit of a tease; those in search of verisimilitude would do better to rent a documentary like Riding Giants. Chasing Mavericks: Looking For That Big Break 2012-10-25T14:30:40Z Ira Todd, a Detroit homicide detective, is watching over the verisimilitude of the police aspects of the show. ‘Low Winter Sun’ Gives Detroit a Leading Role 2013-08-02T12:00:19Z One of the nicest touches in the novel, in fact, is Hornby's use of real people as a kind of heightened set dressing, a source of verisimilitude. Nick Hornby's 'Funny Girl' traces the road to stardom 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z The community meeting is usually described as occurring at another occasion, yet it fits into the first date with a verisimilitude as well as an emotional impact that justify the dramatization. The Authentic Joy of “Southside with You” 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The viewer feels no sympathy for Chip, while Galifianakis’s flair for the absurd and postmodern slapstick actually works against the verisimilitude and utterly banal Bakersfield feeling that the show works hard to create. How much Zach Galifianakis is too much? ‘Baskets’ pushes the limits. 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z These appearances added verisimilitude to a series already steeped in it. Television: ?Game? on: More Real Than Reality TV 2011-01-09T02:34:14Z It is less successful at telling a tale of journalistic power and politics, mostly because Miller struggles to do so without subtlety or verisimilitude. TimeLine finds heart of Africa in 'Darfur' 2011-01-26T16:13:49Z More unsettling in purely theatrical terms is the feeling that the attempted verisimilitude merely sounds phony when refracted through actors. Bumpy Starts to London’s Fall Theater Season 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Secrecy — and an ambiguity about true meaning — will be “Mad Men’s” legacy, a show that is so fussy about verisimilitude that it struggles to reveal its characters and their stories in a plain manner. In TV’s Silver Age, a logjam of shows that are ‘pretty good,’ but not great 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Upon his introduction as a potential suspect, the show returns to full form, taking on a documentary-like verisimilitude that makes you forget, eventually, just what genre of TV you are actually watching. “American Vandal” Season 2 Goes from Poop Jokes to Adolescent Dystopia 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Torres, a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, is especially good at creating a sense of heightened or supercharged reality — it's not surrealism, quite, or magic realism — without destroying his story's verisimilitude. Justin Torres' 'We the Animals': a childhood unforgettably drawn 2011-10-25T16:22:04Z He cast his film with non-professional actors, including men who survived such enslavement for verisimilitude. "Hard to stomach": "Buoyancy" director on the horrors of enslaved labor in the Thai fishing industry 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z But despite the minuteness of the research, her aim was not verisimilitude – Bonham Carter, for example, does not look much like Princess Margaret, nor ever will – but about allowing a performance to take place. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Entertainment Weekly spoke to the prolific author about the depiction of women and sexual violence in the books, which Martin defended on the grounds of historical verisimilitude. George R.R Martin fires back at critics of sexual violence on “Game of Thrones”: “I don’t think we should pretend it doesn’t exist” 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Instead, he spoke about the ability of opera to move past verisimilitude to something true. Lorin Maazel, child prodigy turned brilliant conductor and festival founder: 1930-2014 In Kansas City, she started "Last Kiss" three times, and the audience, enchanted by her display of verisimilitude, grew louder with each recommencement. Taylor Swift’s invisible merchandise: The era of surprise song collectibles 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z In other words, if the film wanted to walk the walk when it came to teenage verisimilitude, it also had to talk the talk. With One Strong Word, ‘The Hate U Give’ Couldn’t Hold Its Tongue 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Before Son of Saul, no movie had really “gone inside” Auschwitz with any degree of verisimilitude except Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone. The 10 greatest second world war films you haven't seen 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z The result is sometimes verisimilitude first, emotions second, with characters taking a few episodes to develop into something resembling real people, rather than allegorical constructs. Review: ‘The Breaks’ Captures Hip-Hop in the ’90s, Music and All 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z They are “filling time. Being boring” — re-created here with distressing verisimilitude. Review | Don DeLillo’s ‘The Silence’ is an absurdist look at our technology dependence 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Jacquot shot much of it at Versailles, which deepens the period verisimilitude, yet while the gilded rooms and satin clothes look sumptuous if often suitably absurd, almost clownish, the people in them breathe. Movie Review: ‘Farewell, My Queen,’ Set at Versailles 2012-07-12T21:53:22Z On an office set crafted with such verisimilitude you can practically smell the toner in the air, an upcoming episode has a group of mostly twentysomething executives reviewing a script for a TV spot. Shalom Auslander creates a curmudgeon much like himself in 'Happyish' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z These foreign phrases are meant to add verisimilitude to his yarn, and generally they do. Review | Only one sexy couple can stop a Russian spy from taking over the CIA 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z But that’s nothing to worry about; it’s only a touch of engineering verisimilitude. Set in the Space Race era, ‘The Last Pilot’ is nostalgic and heart-rending 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z In addition to its queasy verisimilitude, “Eighth Grade” offers acute observations on how social media and the language of self-care have warped teen life. The Cringey Teen Spirit of “Eighth Grade” 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z African art is understood as an inspiration to European artists, judged by the standards of European commitment to one form of visual verisimilitude or posited as an “other” that reinforces cultural difference. Review | The Met gives a long-overdue look at an African cultural powerhouse 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Though profanity does sometimes help create a sense of verisimilitude, it can also be employed to punch up everyday speech. Curses! And Why They Work So Well Onstage (Sometimes) 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The painter, it seems, used a set of visual cues to orient the eye, to let the viewer know where the light is coming from, which in turn heightens the illusion of verisimilitude. Review | Before the West, there was the East, and it was wild 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z This setting added verisimilitude, but also made the experience emotionally charged. For the Documentarian Alice Diop, Only Fiction Could Do Justice to a Tragedy 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z The promotional video features a discussion about real-life mercenaries, offering verisimilitude for the video game’s fictional scenarios. Vice Media goes gonzo on the news. Advertisers may be a different story. 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z I’m not 100 percent interested in verisimilitude and plot. Mike Mills’s ‘20th Century Women’ is ‘very long thank-you note’ to his late mother 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z You can’t exactly argue the verisimilitude of a political dog controversy this week. TV Weekend: Veep 2012-04-20T15:31:24Z And no wonder, since such verisimilitude was already in force, in Mughal realism, nearly 300 years earlier. Art Review: Putting Names to the Greats of Indian Art 2011-09-29T22:39:43Z There was so much dignity in the film and those little moments where the Black Freedom Struggle and day-to-day resistance and life is presented with such verisimilitude and sincerity. "Passion and anger without a strategy is called frustration": Bill Duke on positive systemic change 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z The historical, the personal and political are all randomized within parameters that lend eerie verisimilitude to these alternate histories. Video Game Review: Crusader Kings II by Paradox Interactive 2012-03-30T22:47:44Z The young Holbein would quickly become Basel’s leading painter, and with the relatively new medium of oil paint he produced portraits whose persuasiveness came from a blend of technical verisimilitude and humanistic allusions. Hans Holbein: Truth in Painting 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z But the live baby added to the verisimilitude of the production, he said. The Choreographed Cacophony of ‘Ferryman’ 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Photographs also play a key role in all of Sebald’s books, casting an aura of documentation and verisimilitude on the narrative, and yet they are also vague and unreliable. W. G. Sebald and the Emigrants 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z It’s a thin line between charming, candy-flavored verisimilitude and craven commercialism, and if Spielberg ultimately stayed on the right side of it, “E.T.” nevertheless helped open a Pandora’s box of product placement. Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Are some authors well known for their verisimilitude? Valerie Plame has one regret: “I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more” 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z The verisimilitude of their encounter started conversations about dating, power and consent. ‘Cat Person’ in The New Yorker: A Discussion With the Author 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z The sisters’ scenes together have an “utterly unselfish interplay” with “real emotional verisimilitude,” as Michael Wilmington put it in The Los Angeles Times. Like ‘Mommie Dearest’? Stream These Movies for Pride Month 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Dilating realism, in other words, means opening up a space in one’s fiction to reach a verisimilitude of feeling inaccessible through a direct account of incident alone. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Familiar faces invest the show with a real-Brooklyn verisimilitude, no small concern for a show that portrays a subculture obsessed with “authenticity.” Riding the Wave of ‘Girls’ 2014-03-19T21:41:45Z Not “almost true” and often not anywhere near truth, except in the way that make-believe can achieve a convincing verisimilitude. Perspective | ‘Snowfall’ is compelling and believable — which is why it could use a disclaimer 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z As a portrait of familial ambivalence, “If There Is” doesn’t approach the touching verisimilitude of “You Can Count On Me.” Theater Review: Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet’ 2012-09-21T02:00:00Z The fact that they figured out how to look and sound like a band gives the film a verisimilitude and resonance. Inside ‘Not Fade Away,’ From David Chase 2012-12-05T13:48:48Z The newsroom crackles with verisimilitude, its rotary phones, staccato typewriters and a veil of cigarette smoke evoking a bygone grittiness. Who’s Who in ‘The Post’: A Guide to the Players in a Pivotal Era 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Small plastic Nazis brutalise each another in a model landscape that combines the nerdy verisimilitude of a Hornby railway with the fantastic horrors of Bruegel. Why the art of war is hell 2013-07-25T14:36:27Z The watchword of George Miller’s movie is verisimilitude; CGI sneered at for all but tweaks. Mad Max’s Nicholas Hoult on hanging off lorries and channeling Andrex puppies 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z It’s hard to say if such outcomes show her commitment to verisimilitude or reflect her sense of justice, properly served. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z But he also knew that, as an American director tackling a specifically Thai story, authenticity would be crucial — and that any deviation from verisimilitude would come at his peril. She’s the Secret Weapon in a Film About the Thai Cave Rescue 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z “I’m trying to create a world that is true and truthful. I wanted it to be conversational. Not naturalism, not realism, but a kind of verisimilitude: not real, but truth.” Seeing 2016 election insecurities through the eyes of one family 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Both can manipulate their audience members while giving the impression of verisimilitude. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The New Pope’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps by giving a false date to a false adoption, de Man thought to give the narrative verisimilitude. How Paul de Man hid his past 2014-03-30T15:00:00Z As the cast member with the closest ties to the hip-hop industry, Sticky Fingaz says he helped out with the verisimilitude, pitching in on “some dialogue, maybe some wardrobe choices.” Before ‘Empire,’ a Foundation Laid by ‘Platinum’ 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z For added verisimilitude, he has included lyrics about historical events that are mentioned to have happened in both timelines, King’s and ours. Billy Joel Meets Stephen King Meets The Simpsons 2012-08-29T14:05:58Z By the end of “Redemption Road,” the landscape is littered with bodies like a revenge-tragedy stage, verisimilitude itself lies bleeding, and the serial killer’s identity has been obvious for quite some time. ‘Redemption Road’ and the problem of thriller-killers 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z To maximize verisimilitude, black-and-white photos featuring the restaurant’s founder, Sirio Maccioni, with celebrities will travel with the pop-up restaurants as well. In Transit Blog: Le Cirque to Pop Up With Dinner on the Road 2012-03-04T15:00:25Z The conventional rules of physics clearly don’t apply to the House of Black and White or its residents, and I don’t want to obsess too much over details of verisimilitude. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 8: I’m Still Me 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z The word verisimilitude was invented for this movie! All hail Will Smith and Tom Hardy, Hollywood's bad accent kings 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z For all its verisimilitude “Goats” doesn’t add up to much. Movie Review: ‘Goats,’ With David David Duchovny and Vera Farmiga 2012-08-10T13:14:39Z That most of the show is shot in Austin by a longstanding crew on actual locations, rather than sets, gives it a verisimilitude most network television does not approach. On ?Friday Night Lights? the Other Side of the Tracks 2010-04-24T20:10:00Z You might argue Frank’s shock is realistic, but given that the movie is about an assassin kidnapped by an evil scientist, verisimilitude more or less goes out the window. Don’t take “The Assignment”: Michelle Rodriguez plays a transgender assassin in the year’s worst movie so far 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z And yet the appeal of this book lies in its conviction and verisimilitude. Can books be compared with works of art? 2010-10-13T17:01:00Z Nash makes place not by verisimilitude, but by summoning up totemic symbols, motifs and spirit. Frieze 2012: my big art inspiration 2012-10-10T17:20:01Z Above all, Conan Doyle excels in the you-are-there verisimilitude of his battle scenes. Review | Arthur Conan Doyle wrote more than detective novels. Let’s not forget his more swashbuckling stories. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The fistfight-to-the-death scene was done with such startling verisimilitude that nearly all the stage furniture was demolished nightly, and Gough broke three ribs and injured the base of his spine. Michael Gough obituary 2011-03-17T19:38:43Z Throughout his film, de Oliveira plays with the tension between verisimilitude and the artifice of performance. ‘The First Fallen’ Review: A Remembrance of Those Passed 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Which, ultimately, was the best measure of quality at the festival, even more useful than historical verisimilitude. New York Hot Jazz Festival Takes Over Players Club 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z He had no desire to make “Pitch” without the league’s approval — a fictional ball team was not going to work when verisimilitude was so important to the show’s world. That Padres Pitcher in ‘Pitch,’ She’s Got a Mean Screwball 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Sprinkled among this debate, however, were novel and provocative questions about who designs games, who plays games, whether games are art, which viewpoints are represented and what responsibility games have to historical verisimilitude. Should Board Gamers Play the Roles of Racists, Slavers and Nazis? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z In terms of verisimilitude, it makes Hollyoaks look like the work of Ken Loach. Rewind TV: The Fall; The Murder Workers; Skint; Made in Chelsea – review 2013-05-18T17:00:05Z She writes about characters who are stunning in their verisimilitude but never really predictable in their behavior, and Clare and William quickly emerge as two such figures. 2010-01-12T06:57:00Z When "A.D." moves beyond the human drama on Earth and gives us a peek at the powers of heaven at work, verisimilitude is thrown out the window in favor of attempted spectacle. 'A.D. the Bible Continues' a Sunday school lesson in your den 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Even so, the movie "specializes in the genteel PG-13 scare, aiming to awe you with its dinosaur verisimilitude rather than shock you with too much blood on the tracks." 'Jurassic World' clones some, not all, of original film's fun, reviews say 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z As with the baseball books, the text here is sprinkled with old photos and memorabilia to add a sense of verisimilitude. When Harry Met Harry 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z "Jones was aspiring to realism and verisimilitude and objected to the sanitisation of his novel," she said. Censored gay sex in From Here to Eternity restored for new edition 2011-04-05T15:20:59Z The smoothness of the camerawork and the deliberateness of the dialogue make “Billy Lynn” feel more like a filmed play than an adapted novel, despite the verisimilitude of the settings. Review: Oscar-Winner Ang Lee’s Super-High-Definition Take on the Iraq War 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The acting in "Black Souls" is strong across the board, and that the actors are not well-known in this country only heightens the film's strong sense of verisimilitude. 'Black Souls' a top-notch Italian gangster film 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Such verisimilitude could be therapeutic and humanizing -- or an off-putting recipe for disaster. 2010-01-15T03:56:00Z Many of those who had praised his earlier paintings of the Thames for their verisimilitude found these later works, and particularly the “Nocturnes”, perplexing—too slight, too decorative, too unfinished. A river runs through it 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z Narrator Adepero Oduye’s versatility with characters’ voices and her wonderful adeptness with various forms and manners of Nigerian speech add verisimilitude to this unusual story. Review | Three great audiobooks for your holiday drive 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z "It is difficult enough to reveal one's own thoughts and sensations...I write in the first person in order to get closer to verisimilitude." From the archive, 1 October 1965: 'I am somebody', Henry Miller says 2012-10-01T06:30:00Z If there’s one thing I worry about in this show, it’s the insistence on verisimilitude. 'Silicon Valley' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Datageddon 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z She also said, “It’s a novel so it didn’t need to be fact-checked, though a novel needs to have verisimilitude.” ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and the History in Historical Fiction 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z This is paradoxical: Jesus and his petitioner are painted with similar degrees of verisimilitude, but they are of entirely different orders of reality, one supernatural, the other earthly. Art Review: ‘Bellini, Titian and Lotto’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-07-05T21:59:59Z In retrospect, less television has come to imply lesser — by volume, by value, by verisimilitude. ‘Friends’ Is Turning 25. Here’s Why We Can’t Stop Watching it. 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The judges never seemed to know exactly what they were looking for from week to week, celebrating verisimilitude in one episode and fretting about work that was too “literal” in another. Art: Abdi Farah?s Bravo TV Prize Is a Brooklyn Museum Show 2010-08-18T22:18:00Z Why was that verisimilitude so important to you? “Problems like this don’t go away overnight”: “Spotlight” director Tom McCarthy calls for the Catholic Church to do more to address and prevent sex abuse 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Many writers’ books go slack when their characters open their mouths, as if dullness equals verisimilitude. Jennifer Egan Updates the Old-Fashioned Page-Turner in ‘Manhattan Beach’ 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Even for a show renowned for its verisimilitude, the fourth season of “Silicon Valley” hits reality in stride. How ‘Silicon Valley’ and ‘The Circle’ help explain our love-hate-can’t-live-without relationship with technology 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Or a creature as near to equine verisimilitude as the black arts of puppetry can provide. ArtsBeat: This Time, The Tonys Grow Up and Get It Right 2011-05-03T15:22:17Z To ensure verisimilitude, Mr. Hill consulted Morgenthau, who presided over the New York County District Attorney’s Office from 1975 to 2009, and who advised Mr. Hill “to be tough, but fair.” Steven Hill, a star of ‘Law & Order’ as DA Adam Schiff, dies at 94 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z An act called the “Theater of Hands” was just that: a miniature drama in which the characters were portrayed by a performer’s hands, with remarkable verisimilitude. Review: In Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Kurios,’ a Frisson of Novelty 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z There’s a wonderful free spirit with the use of New York City locations that ditches verisimilitude for storytelling. John Wick review – a thrill ride driven by a relentless vengeance machine 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Some of the real-life figures in “Vinyl” are just background performers to add verisimilitude. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 3: Rock Star Karaoke 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z But what it loses in detail, it gains in verisimilitude. My Stories Become Someone Else’s: Adapting a Book to Film 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z He followed it with “A Prophet” and “Rust and Bone,” a prison drama and a boxing picture that fused raw verisimilitude with something close to Hollywood fantasy. Review: ‘Dheepan,’ About Sri Lankan Refugees, Looks Like a Prophecy 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z McDonell evokes the clandestine machinations of the US military and the thrusting students and weary academics at Harvard with a heady verisimilitude. An Expensive Education by Nick McDonell ? review 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z And while that helped add the last touches to the interior of the store, it also lent verisimilitude to "Nope" techie extraordinaire, Angel. "Nope" and the Fry's Electronics UFO sighting that almost wasn't 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z For verisimilitude, she basted its underside in grease. Paola Pivi’s American Moment 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z But as with their designer wardrobes, verisimilitude is beside the point. Why the ‘Euphoria’ Teens Listen to Sinead O’Connor, Tupac and Selena 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Perhaps the best part of this episode is the way that its writer and director, Vince Gilligan, captured office life with such uncanny verisimilitude. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 12 Recap: Hit the Road 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z But when it came out, it was critically acclaimed and saluted by the passengers’ loved ones for its verisimilitude and poignant “let’s roll” ending. The Twin Towers After September 11: A Tribute or a Painful Reminder? 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z On land and underwater, the verisimilitude of the violence is numbing. ‘Medieval’ Review: Flaying Alive 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Throughout the episode, Mr. Padilha toggles back and forth between his footage and documentary shots of the real Escobar and his exploits, which plays up the show’s commitment to verisimilitude. 'Narcos' Episode 1 Recap: Meet Pablo Escobar 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Peterson is the linguist TV producers go to when they need to add verisimilitude to their fantasy or science fiction shows. Do you you speak High Valyrian? Duolingo launches Game of Thrones language app 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z “My One and Only” is not the place to look for verisimilitude — you’ll find only flights of fancy, and flying feet. | Connecticut: Broadway Rhythm Reappears in ?My One and Only? 2011-05-29T16:22:33Z Furthermore, having the Ukrainians mostly speak English with one another — despite the presence of Polish, Russian and German elsewhere in the movie — distracts from the verisimilitude. ‘My Name Is Sara’ Review: Keeping Secrets in Close Quarters 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z The special effects are only distinguished by a peculiar concern for verisimilitude — the initially snowy George gets really dirty on his way to Chicago, while the unnamed giant wolf appears to be suffering from mange. Review: ‘Rampage’ Turns to Rubble, Even Before the Mutant Animals Show Up 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Recorded in quarantine, it’s a spare, quiet album that allows her modest voice to work on its own terms, giving her songs a fresh verisimilitude in the process. Perspective | Album of the year is the Grammy that nobody deserves to win 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z He saw the war from high positions and low ones, experiences that added greatly to the verisimilitude of several crucial books in the “Dance” series. ‘Anthony Powell’ Captures the Rich, Long Life of the Man Behind an Epic Series 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Playing a famous figure can reduce acting to a verisimilitude test, one that Academy voters tend to reward. Oscar Spotlight: The Actresses 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Millepied jumped at the chance not only to choreograph, but also to be a ballet consultant to ensure the film’s verisimilitude. Benjamin Millepied Leaps Into the Spotlight 2011-02-02T23:36:06Z Ms. Hochstrasser does not mention it, but I would not be surprised to learn that van Aelst used some sort of newfangled optical device like the camera obscura to achieve his often nearly photographic verisimilitude. Art Review: Willem van Aelst Still-Life Paintings at National Gallery 2012-08-10T04:50:08Z What is the point of this interweaving of reference and verisimilitude? ‘Fake Accounts’ Examines the Alluring Trap of Our Online Personas 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z There's a remarkable verisimilitude to the actual process, with some superb audio feedback subtly conveying the scratch of a pencil or the gentle scuff of brush on paper. Art Academy 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Despite the movie’s gripping performances and the verisimilitude of many elements, I simply didn’t believe the story. ‘Camp X-Ray’: Acting shines through darkness of Gitmo tale 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z That’s the labyrinthine, heavy-breathing soap opera, the likes of which dominated afternoon television until the dubious verisimilitude of reality shows largely elbowed it off the small screen. Review: Exploring the Edge of Soap Opera in ‘Shadowland’ at La MaMa 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z America’s cold reality is far different than the romantic Republican dysfunctional fever dream, born of dissatisfaction, disinterest, dismal verisimilitude and disingenuous divisiveness. GOP finally picks a speaker: But the hellish chaos of D.C. won't end anytime soon 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z In part, that’s due to the fiction’s high level of verisimilitude — from L.A.’s dives and ratty apartments to the predictable patterns of addiction. This L.A. pharmacist's debut novel is loaded with sex and drugs. Don't tell her boss 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z The decision to keep Connah in the role gives the show’s internal passage of time astonishing verisimilitude, as well as an emotional wallop, but it was not without its perils. Why 'Happy Valley' couldn't end until its child star grew up 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The verisimilitude is upending luxury fashion, which relies on quality and exclusivity to justify its high prices. Your Friday Briefing: A Coronation Preview 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z As you might expect, monsters are a crucial element of D&D, but the CGI renders them with varying degrees of verisimilitude. Review | The new ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ film mostly captures the game’s magic 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Showrunners Scott Neustadter and Will Graham invested vast sums in certain kinds of historical “verisimilitude,” carefully re-creating the legendary Sunset Strip bar Filthy McNasty’s in the actual present-day Viper Room, for instance. Review | ‘Daisy Jones & the Six,’ rocking through the ’70s with rote emotions 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z For his part, Moreno Ocampo credits the film’s courtroom verisimilitude to Mitre and Argentine producer Victoria Alonso, who “understand very well these John Ford movies on justice.” Dictators and criminals fear this USC instructor who's making the case for an Oscar 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Told in a distinctive, unflinching voice, it is a hard read in places, with a strong sense of verisimilitude. 5 New(ish) Australasian Books for Your Reading List 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Lending verisimilitude to this alternate universe, the tech described isn’t particularly Jetsons-like — flying cars and robot maids these are not. The last satirical novel from a tech-world alum? It's got a bug 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Standing 6 feet 3, the actor focused less on physical verisimilitude and more on the star’s soft-spoken offstage demeanor. Austin Butler's not the first to shake, rattle and roll as Elvis Presley on screen 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z There is a verisimilitude in the latter that “Star Wars” can never match. There were no Jedi, and other reasons 'Andor' was great 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z I tend to reject the widely held notion that the best, most persuasive war films are those most adept at turning violence into spectacle, as if state-of-the-art verisimilitude were the genre’s highest aspiration. Review: War is hell (again) in Netflix's new adaptation of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z But beyond this astonishing verisimilitude, “Tár” is, above all, a movie for listeners. Cate Blanchett on ‘Tár’ role: ‘Music is often the starting point for me’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The physical verisimilitude is both jolting and enveloping. Review: 'Athena,' a fiery drama of civil unrest, is mostly blowing smoke 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Rohde's painted figures have highly detailed, utterly individual characteristics; their eyes and mouths, beards and wrinkles, grimaces and bared teeth have a near-photographic verisimilitude. Review | In the galleries: Looming impacts of climate change close to home 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z But “Blade” too often feels like, well, a house of cards, more interested in driving a metaphor home than verisimilitude. Review | ‘Both Sides of the Blade’ fails to cut through French baloney 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z As it happens, this portion of the country is also my backyard, so I can testify to the verisimilitude of Tremblay’s portrait of this place from the 1980s to nearly the present day. Review | Paul Tremblay delivers another mind-bending horror novel 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Yet rather than abide in the author’s eerily pedestrian near-reality, the film undermines any verisimilitude with a fanciful vision of prison. Page-to-Screen: 'Spiderhead' the movie squanders George Saunders' classic short story 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Other than the shell of a reconstructed barracks and the palisades outlining the fort, there were no other attempts at verisimilitude. Opinion | Is Jamestown worth saving? 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z In the 1950s, a film crew using the rocks as a stand-in for Red Rock Canyon in Nevada painted them red for vermilion verisimilitude. Griffith Park is named for a guy who shot his wife — and other true stories of L.A. parks 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Their involvement speaks to Eggers’ characteristic insistence on verisimilitude, born of an obsessive, research-driven approach to filmmaking that might seem persnickety if it weren’t so passionate. Review: Robert Eggers' mighty Viking epic 'The Northman' puts the art before the Norse 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z But even in its surreality, this foray, like many in the novel, achieves a startling verisimilitude, as Bennett shares not just the story of Superbus but how she arrived at it. Review: Plenty of novels moralize about books saving your life. This one treats them like a drug 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z There is, however, an uncomfortable sense of verisimilitude to this parable of cabin fever, and the emotional twists and turns that occur between its protagonists. Review | ‘The Pink Cloud’ movie feels like a vivid allegory of covid-19. Maybe a bit too vivid. 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z For one, their lead actor Davenport is also visually impaired, which adds a certain verisimilitude. Review: 'See for Me' effectively uses tech for a new spin on familiar subgenre 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Coppola insisted on verisimilitude, even overseeing the color, quality and trajectory of the blood in the gory, unsettling scenes of gangland executions. Review | Behind ‘The Godfather,’ misfits, showdowns and the real mob 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z The forces that have made her who she is come into clearer focus in “The Lost Daughter’s” frequent flashbacks, in which Jessie Buckley plays the young Leda with seamless verisimilitude. Review | Maggie Gyllenhaal makes an astonishing directorial debut in ‘The Lost Daughter’ 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z When the cameras weren’t rolling, Faist lent further verisimilitude to the production by embracing a leadership role of sorts among the actors playing the Jets. Mike Faist was a ‘blue-collar working theater actor.’ Now, he’s ‘West Side Story’s’ standout. 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Not all of the attempts to heighten verisimilitude pay off. How Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' finally solved the problem of 'I Feel Pretty' 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z But Kidman’s appearance lies in the so-called “uncanny valley,” where her resemblance to the real Lucy feels paradoxically close to, yet simultaneously miles away from, verisimilitude. Review | Golden Age of TV is tarnished in Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Being the Ricardos’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z As with those star turns, the illusion seizes hold in fits and starts, but you’re fortunately in the hands of an actor with more to recommend her than strict verisimilitude. Review: Nicole Kidman has a ball with Lucy in the fitfully effective 'Being the Ricardos' 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Samuel tells the colorful, even cartoonish tale with verve and a healthy disrespect for verisimilitude. New movies to stream this week: ‘The Harder They Fall,’ ‘Love Hard’ and more 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z New retro horror scoffs at such notions of verisimilitude. A new wave of lo-fi games is reshaping horror 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Instead, it’s what makes the flesh-and-blood verisimilitude of his portraits so captivating. Review: Hans Holbein struts his stuff at the Getty Museum 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Mannerism had many fascinations, but the Bolognese scholar Count Carlo Cesare Malvasia set the general tone when he dismissed the style a century later as “far from verisimilitude, not to mention from the truth itself.” This simple painting revolutionized art Two influences Franzen claims are Paula Fox and Penelope Fitzgerald — two of my favorite writers — but their brilliance is tied up not only in precision and verisimilitude but also in their brevity. Review: Is Jonathan Franzen too big to fail? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The resulting film was rough and ill-shaped, but it had a sense of emotional honesty and verisimilitude that made it electric. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Magnetic Star of the French New Wave, Dies at 88 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Despite never attending a traditional university herself — she graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada — Oh approaches each of Ji-Yoon’s calamities with so much verisimilitude that I squirmed and laughed in recognition. I'm an Asian American woman in academia. Here's what 'The Chair' gets right 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Stunning verisimilitude melds each stylish strand, gleaming in the light, with the sitter’s authority of being one of the few able to afford a painting’s commission. Review: Hans Holbein struts his stuff at the Getty Museum 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z He devised a process by which he would airbrush separate layers of red, yellow and blue to create full-color pictures of striking photographic verisimilitude. Chuck Close, artist of outsized reality, dies at 81 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The cast’s performances belong to different productions, ranging from McCarthy’s broad pugnacity to Keddie’s hushed verisimilitude. Review | ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ isn’t the worst TV show of the year, but it might be the biggest letdown 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z As the plot unfurls, Awad tears away the veils of verisimilitude. ‘All’s Well’ in Mona Awad’s latest novel, a gripping reimagining of Shakespeare 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z “Jungle Cruise,” despite its more-than-capable leads and its much-vaunted attention to detail and verisimilitude, never feels transporting in the way that even mediocre blockbusters were once able to muster. Review: Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt are fun, but not enough to make ‘Jungle Cruise’ see-worthy 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z It is, of course, totally fine that “Ted Lasso” is a fantasy; most fictional series, and many nonfiction works for that matter, eschew verisimilitude or complicating realities. Review | ‘Ted Lasso’ overwhelms with its kindness and compassion. It’s okay to find it annoying. 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z In that sense, “Summertime” does hew closely to the venerable Hollywood musical formula, which was never known for gritty verisimilitude. Review | A spoken-word love song to Los Angeles, in the performance-poetry movie musical ‘Summertime’ 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z “To my mind this word captures the first priority and goal of a film director, regardless of genre or style,” tweeted Mangold, who included an illustration of Superman holding a banner with the word “verisimilitude.” Richard Donner tributes pour in from filmmakers: Spielberg, Gibson, Wright, Mangold 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z Today, I think historically based fiction entertainment must portray the burden of racism in our nation for the sake of the art form’s claims to verisimilitude and authenticity. Opinion | Tom Hanks: You Should Learn the Truth About the Tulsa Race Massacre 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z But it added the embassy could not evaluate the “verisimilitude” of the information. Cuba warns Colombia of possible ELN rebel attack 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z It’s not just accuracy or verisimilitude; from set pieces in Vietnam and Chile and Tanzania to memories of previous trips and life in Hanover, N.H., Review: A family travel memoir makes a timely pitch for personal risk 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Yet his foreign assignments and his experience in the London headquarters of the spy service — known as “the Circus” in his books — gave his fiction an air of verisimilitude. John le Carré, who lifted the spy novel to literature, dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z The verisimilitude he was shooting for, in true proletarian-novelist fashion, was thematic: social justice, income inequality, workers rights. How Jess Walter went from Hollywood satirist to Steinbeck's modern heir 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Normally, attack ads try to offer verisimilitude by citing news articles or reports. Fact-check: Biden claims Trump is ‘pushing to slash Medicare benefits’ 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z It was terrible — really just incredibly shoddy in terms of both verisimilitude and humor — but a personal achievement all the same. I learned to make a lip-syncing deepfake in just a few hours (and you can, too) 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z A happy ending is harder to come by in a real pandemic, and verisimilitude is important to writers of literary fiction. The Covid novels are arriving. And they'll be a warning to future generations | Laura Spinney 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Which may indicate changes in TV disaster/apocalyptic storytelling, at least if writers are hoping for verisimilitude. TV in the time of COVID-19: Why we flock to stories of pandemics and other disasters 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Despite this, Disaster Report 4 achieves a certain degree of verisimilitude through its attention to detail and the clear passion that has been put into it. Disaster Report 4 is 2020’s best PS2 game 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Rosen made one conscious decision to rupture the verisimilitude, though it’s likely few will notice it. Netflix's 'Unorthodox' went to remarkable lengths to get Hasidic Jewish customs right 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z They drown a painting of sea life at the primary school, adding verisimilitude to the cartoonish renderings of grinning sharks and manta rays. Adapting to Rising Seas, Schools Move to the Rafters and Cats Swim 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Isolation perfumes the show, and this is the thing about “High Maintenance,” with its obsessive verisimilitude, that actually feels the most accurate. ‘High Maintenance’ and the New TV Fantasy of New York 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Working with cinematographer Michael Latham, her lean, efficient, “just the facts, ma’am” style enhances the core of verisimilitude that is one of “The Assistant’s” strengths. Review: With restraint, ‘The Assistant’ reveals the true terror of a Harvey Weinstein type 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Like a lot of American filmmakers fictionalizing a real-life story, Malick is not overly concerned with strict historic accuracy or, for that matter, linguistic verisimilitude. Review: 'A Hidden Life' is Terrence Malick's strongest film in nearly a decade 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z In “Bombshell,” they combine their breezy style with a powerhouse cast for a colorful TV-styled dramatization that - despite the disclaimer - verges more on caricature than verisimilitude. Review: ‘Bombshell’ breezes through a Fox News rebellion 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Jones had a way of imbuing the world with mystery, adding a layer of cinematic verisimilitude that caught my attention. I Worked for Alex Jones. I Regret It. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z She rehearsed an American accent, and, for added verisimilitude, hired a French assistant, whom she called Mike. Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z The filmmakers constructed a fake house to match the one that sits along a specific stretch of the French track, to further enhance the verisimilitude. In 'Ford v Ferrari', famed Le Mans racetrack came to life in Agua Dulce 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Things calm down after that, as, episode by episode, the show takes full advantage of its setting, with a freewheeling disrespect for verisimilitude. Mixed Débuts on Apple TV+ in “The Morning Show” and “Dickinson” 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z But the attention to such granular verisimilitude creates, paradoxically, a kind of imbalance. Review | ‘Midway’ is a big, old-fashioned war movie, with one thing missing: human beings 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z But one reason it’s generally unwise to talk about a single style called “realism” is that prose narrative is so often lured away from conventional verisimilitude by rival genres, notably allegory and fairy tale. A Neglected Modern Masterpiece and Its Perverse Hero 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Sadly, perhaps because of the small scale and limited verisimilitude of these experiments, no nitrates were generated in these buckets, so the team turned to another kind of chemical sleuthing. This Volcanic Eruption Set Off a Phytoplankton Bloom 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Yet if the perfect symbol of yesteryear doesn’t exist, he’ll do what he’s so good at: creating a fresh visual fiction that ripples with verisimilitude. The story behind the fake Mad magazine and TV Guide covers in ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood’ 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z I figure verisimilitude, because what comes next is what actually segued out of “Stepping Stone” on that long-lost Monday morning and etched Hendrix’s performance into history. Jimi Hendrix's 'Star Spangled Banner' is the anthem we need in the age of Trump 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z But inside its pulsing directness is a dispiriting verisimilitude about how wide the chasm has gotten, and whose hand is strongest. Review: Stéphane Brizé’s French drama 'At War' takes up the gritty cry of the working class 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Hage is too wedded to a certain understandable verisimilitude, and the register he aims for, when he goes big, is poetic rather than systemic or a more muscular abstraction. Review: A love note to Beirut and a lament for war — Rawi Hage's latest is a hell of a story 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z At least initially, alt-meat companies are aiming for verisimilitude to attract meat-eating consumers. Who are you calling chicken? Tyson Foods is getting into the business of plant-based meat. 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z I Am Mother is marvelously acted and features an impressive mix of CGI and puppetry, creating a sense of visual wonder and verisimilitude that’s rare for a film set almost entirely within one indoor location. I Am Mother and Moon make a perfect science fiction pairing 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Your sets look like found structures from the period, but using mostly practical effects to craft scares adds even more of a stripped-down verisimilitude. ‘The Wind’ director Emma Tammi on her supernatural western horror film 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z "The writing; the performances; the verisimilitude. Fleabag will be a tough act for Waller-Bridge to follow." Fleabag finale praised as 'perfect' by critics 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z As cartoonish as they are, the film’s Burtonesque touches lend the magic and the fantasy of the story a quality of paradoxical verisimilitude. Review | Tim Burton’s ‘Dumbo’ remake is decidedly — and deliciously — dark 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z There are great moments of verisimilitude – Cave reading his own letter to MTV, or Ben Kingsley reading the letter Gandhi wrote to Hitler, 32 years after portraying the Indian activist. Benedict Cumberbatch on the explosive power of letters: 'They're grenades!' 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z But with just 24 hours to go, any verisimilitude helps. Inside the Oscars rehearsals and the wild cards still in play for tonight 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Another aficionado of Mexico and its people, the director cast stars of Mexican cinema for small but memorable roles to give the movie a verisimilitude unusual for the genre. Greatest Western film? ‘Wild Bunch’ book argues its case 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z But, in the end, nothing much happens; the two mainly talk—a verisimilitude that I appreciated rather more than the narrator’s superfluous analysis of why they mainly talk. Writing About Writing About the Border Crisis 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Although the colorized film and veterans’ voices give it an air of verisimilitude, “They Shall Not Grow Old” should perhaps have opened with the common film disclaimer, “Based on a true story.” Opinion | Peter Jackson’s new documentary isn’t perfect. But its implications are immense. 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z That verisimilitude is, not surprisingly for a filmmaker of Cuarón’s abilities, no more than a means to an end. Review: 'Roma' lives up to lofty expectations with a beautiful, deliberate and ultimately moving portrait of domestic life 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z A second network, the “discriminator,” would judge the verisimilitude of those images by comparing them with the “ground truth” of real landscape photographs. In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing? 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z If the playwright’s limitations are conspicuous, his knowledge of criminal-justice realities brings an uncompromising verisimilitude to an ending that should leave Broadway audiences gasping for breath. Review: 'American Son,' with Kerry Washington, is a painfully topical, if imperfect, Broadway drama - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Modernism lauded the abstraction of white forms and derided earthy verisimilitude in sculpture. The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The Californians, sure, were California cool about any slips in verisimilitude. East Coast Meets California Cool at Pacific Standard 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z “I wanted it to be conversational. Not naturalism, not realism, but a kind of verisimilitude: not real, but truth.” Perspective | This ‘Vanya’ is a teachable moment — for how to stage a classic play today 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Now she’s marrying the two, melding historical verisimilitude with fantasy in Disney’s “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms.” A world of fantastical costumes fills Disney's new take on 'The Nutcracker' 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Joyce flouts taboos in the service of verisimilitude, not titillation. Bloomsday Tribute to James Joyce, Greatest Mind-Scientist Ever 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The action has moved from Harlem to Atlanta, with a few quick stopovers in Texas and Mexico for that extra jolt of contemporary drug-war verisimilitude. 'Superfly' is a flashy, violent and fitfully compelling remake of the 1972 blaxploitation hit 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Working with veteran casting director Avy Kaufman, Layton made shrewd choices for the actors playing the quartet, and selecting gifted players who are not yet household names adds to the story's verisimilitude. True-life heist story 'American Animals' is one of summer's freshest and most entertaining films 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Anatomy schools were one source; fabricated porcelain dentures were another, but their brittleness and lack of verisimilitude put off self-conscious aristocrats. Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Now, having lived in the New York area for nearly a quarter-century, I can attest to the verisimilitude of his descriptions. Opinion | American literature, and American life, will be poorer without Tom Wolfe 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Cole was deeply immersed in the new scientific treatises of the day, reflected in the detail and verisimilitude of the plants, clouds and other natural phenomena of his painted world. Environmentalist art before there was an “environment” 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The two-pronged approach ended up giving Sweetwater a palpable sense of verisimilitude and discovery. A day in real-life Westworld from a host’s perspective 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z As politicos spin-doctored reality in speeches, fact-checkers at Snopes.com, FactCheck.org and OpenSecrets.org rated them on their verisimilitude, with PolitiFact.com waggishly ranking statements as True, Mostly True, Half True, Mostly False, False, and Pants on Fire. Is Truth an Outdated Concept? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The movie, simple and straightforward, derives most of its appeal from its verisimilitude - from its distinctly un-Hollywood-ness. Review: Eastwood’s ‘15:17’ recreates a thwarted attack 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Mollo had been fascinated by military uniforms since childhood, and his grounding in history made him adept at creating verisimilitude in worlds both imagined and remembered. John Mollo, Whose Costumes Made ‘Star Wars’ Seem Real, Dies at 86 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z The secret to this effect is eerie verisimilitude. The Impossible Burden of Playing Donald Trump 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z The ballad of Barry Seal doesn’t end very well, but it does better by us — or at least those of us who are looking for a shred of verisimilitude. Review | ‘American Made’: Tom Cruise’s latest flick can be outlandish. It’s also pretty funny. 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z “The Deuce” is so far the most convincing, at least in terms of squalor — and its blunt depiction of the once-bustling sex trade in Times Square plays a large part in its seedy verisimilitude. How HBO's 'The Deuce' brings the female perspective to 1970s porn and prostitution 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Sitters frequently used props—sometimes even bringing their own—in the name of verisimilitude. Hashem El Madani and the private lives of the Lebanese 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z For inspiration, Jasper told Macdonald to watch “Rocky” for its underdog vibe and “The Sopranos” for its Jersey verisimilitude. Dreams come true for Geremy Jasper, Danielle Macdonald and Bridget Everett with 'Patti Cakes' 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z There’s a breezy, day-to-day verisimilitude to its protagonist’s road from disaffected layabout to half-there recruit and, finally, once she locks eyes with Rex — an adorably commanding presence throughout — Marine with a purpose. 'Megan Leavey' tells a tale of two war heroes: a woman Marine and her bomb-sniffing K-9 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Being dreamlike and fluid, the scenes aren’t hung up with the kind of particulars that are involved in aiming at literal verisimilitude.” Maurice Sendak’s Wild Things 1966-01-14T05:00:00Z It drips with the verisimilitude of late 1980s suburbia, hinting at toxically masculine aggression that hangs in the everyday air even outside the confines of the Whites’ walls. The serial killer-thriller ‘Hounds of Love’ tries for female empowerment in its suburban horror tale 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z For Quillévéré, the emotion of the moment — a tenuous link between two lives, one at an end while the other awaits a reprieve — would depend on a foundation of verisimilitude. French filmmaker Katell Quillévéré bridges medicine and metaphysics with 'Heal the Living' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z The portrayal of the tech world on “Silicon Valley” might scan as absurd to anyone outside the industry, but within the valley the show is known and appreciated for its verisimilitude. Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z “The verisimilitude portrayed by Keith Ellison and Tom Perez that everything is hunky-dory at the DNC is belied by the contentious relationship between the establishment and liberal factions of the Democrat Party.” Inside the Beltway: Remember your original mission, Mr. President 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Politics percolate in evocations of social class and function, with verisimilitude tipping toward the surreal in, for example, a set that suggests at once a beauty parlor, a medical facility, and a prison. The Whitney Biennial’s Political Mood 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Matsoukas planned technical details to create a sense of verisimilitude, shooting some scenes with a Bolex camera—for a “grainy look,” like that of documentary footage—and others with a camcorder. The Provocateur Behind Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Issa Rae 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z “He spoke about his work in a way that I’m trying to bring about in mine: it’s not naturalistic, it’s not realistic; it’s really an effort at verisimilitude. I’m trying to do truth.” The Gabriels: heartbreaking plays take on new meaning as everything changes in America 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z His non-professional models, found in New York and New Jersey, paid homage to street people in a way that was unnerving in its verisimilitude. Opinion | The fashion world was rattled by the election — and you can see it on the runway 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Going for verisimilitude, for something spare — sometimes, even, for eerie silence — is to make your movie not seem like war anymore, no matter how accurate this portrayal might be. NYFF: Ang Lee's war film 'Billy Lynn' divides audiences. But are traditional assessments beside the point? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z In both this film and his previous one, Berg has met the challenges of the assignment with blunt sincerity, striking verisimilitude and a shrewd understanding of his talents and limitations. Into the inferno with the gripping 'Deepwater Horizon' 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z “Kicks” is gritty to the core, and its commitment to verisimilitude is its undoing. It’s gotta be more than the shoes: ‘Kicks’ is a modern fable without a moral 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z If the dialogue is hard to follow, that’s verisimilitude too: “The actors are trying not to perform, trying not to relate to the audience.” The Gabriels: heartbreaking plays take on new meaning as everything changes in America 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Ms. Chalif said this was one of Mr. Erbe’s early efforts to deconstruct objects, “creating abstract forms and a tension between verisimilitude and abstraction in the final composition.” Gary Erbe Tricks the Eye With a Dose of Pop Culture 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Roddenberry obsessed over the verisimilitude of the gadgets, costumes and terminology. A Bold Vision: How 'Star Trek' First Made It to the Screen 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Whether or not it works comedically, this new push for verisimilitude shows Silicon Valley is eager to expand its scope. Silicon Valley season 3 channels the story of Steve Jobs 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z But the film is more about attitude than verisimilitude. Elvis & Nixon is fun, fluffy filmmaker fan-fic 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z All of the critical writing regarding American Crime Story mentions the show’s verisimilitude, mostly through the prism of its performances. I loved American Crime Story, and I knew nothing about the O.J. Simpson trial 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Adding to the verisimilitude, but also, potentially, child/parent frustration, many are quite difficult to do. At Wizarding World of Harry Potter, magic comes to life, or as close as it gets 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The latest turn in the peculiar Valeant saga, though, smacks of scapegoating in the full psychological sense: a company desperately trying to lend verisimilitude to a completely unrealistic explanation of its troubles. Valeant: Blame Our Accounting, Please! 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The scenery was likely very simple, but, over the centuries, audiences came to demand both pageantry and verisimilitude. Designing Stages for Shakespeare and Kanye 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z A major change in the current iteration was the casting of two transgender actors, who have added not only to the show’s verisimilitude, but also to Mr. McCarthy’s empathy. Jeff McCarthy: Actor, Artist, Beast, Beauty 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Webber’s efforts to clear a treacherous sandbar, just to reach the open ocean, are depicted with a visceral verisimilitude. ‘The Finest Hours’ tells a terrific tale, but suffers from intermittent inertia 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The stills offer a miraculous time machine, a journey into verisimilitude. Alexander Litvinenko: the man who solved his own murder | Luke Harding 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Getting dirty on a muggy August morning is just one more way she's bringing verisimilitude to Harlee Santos, the mildly corrupt Brooklyn cop she plays. Jennifer Lopez gets down and dirty for 'Shades of Blue' (and the dog poop is fake) 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Arguments that support them hinge on the belief that the verisimilitude predicts actual behavior and increases the chance of survivability in a real event. Active shooter situations are traumatic to children – even when they are just drills | Sabrina Vourvoulias 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z But then verisimilitude is Port Revel’s stock in trade. The World’s Ship Pilots Putter Around in Tiny Scale Models 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z "The verisimilitude is of paramount importance to me. The subject matter is so visceral." To capture dark world of dance, 'Flesh and Bone' used pro dancers and a 'Breaking Bad' writer 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z It may reenact a true story with gasp-inducing digital verisimilitude, but “The Walk” still seems like a fantasy — a throwback to an upbeat, jauntier age of filmmaking. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘Pan’ and more 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z As long as such arrangements are “organic and not forced,” they’re fine with him—what’s crucial is not the money but the verisimilitude that brands provide. What Advertising Does to TV 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Zemeckis forces the viewer’s perspective to look down, up, sideways and around with vertiginous verisimilitude. ‘The Walk’ review: A high-wire act with stomach-flipping you-are-there-ness 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z It may reenact a true story with gasp-inducing verisimilitude, but “The Walk” still seems like a fantasy — a throwback to an upbeat, jauntier age of filmmaking. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘The Walk’ and ‘The Martian’ 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z This show seems to work best when it leans on lots of L.A.-centric verisimilitude, from traffic jams on the 405 to requests for selfies while out in public. Fall TV Preview 2015: Every new show, the schedule for every returning show, and what’s worth watching Experiments can help scientists get to the bottom of what's causing a given behavior, but that means sacrificing some verisimilitude, he says. In an unequal society, feeling richer than others makes you a jerk 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Virtual reality is still far from the verisimilitude imagined by novelists and screen writers. Grand illusions 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The book is filled with echoes, and yet the storylines, the set pieces, are not overconnected into false or forced verisimilitude. Don DeLillo’s Underworld – still hits a home run 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Watts, who wrote the movie with Christopher Ford, shows a facility with the pokey verisimilitude of boys at play, even if his attitude toward their bad decision-making verges on unsympathetic. Dark 'Cop Car' could use a real hero 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z And a good tax platform needs verisimilitude as much as narrative. How to Tax Gordon Gekko 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z As you make your way to the second floor through a dark stairwell the feeling of verisimilitude is overwhelming. The Top 5 Myths About the Fourth of July 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z But the flashy “Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll” is bizarrely lacking in verisimilitude, particularly where the music is involved, which bogs down the show’s funnier jokes and moments. Summer TV Preview 2015 | Every new show, the schedule for every returning show, and what's worth watching There was a time when one could use the phrase ‘war of ideas’ but it lacks verisimilitude in the current context. Top Kremlin Critics In The West Face Media Smears On The Home Front 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Much of it, I suppose, will look familiar — I still remember imagining jelly bean-like workers living in my stomach when I was very young, which were present in almost unsettling verisimilitude in Riley's long-term memory. Pixar's Inside Out plays with our emotions both effectively and recklessly 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z This shaky-camera gimmick is intrusive and annoying, adding nothing to the story — least of all verisimilitude. ‘A Girl Like Her’: faux documentary follows a high-school bullying scandal 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z It’s designed to resemble the facilities often used at refugee centers to ensure verisimilitude in the trial. ‘Pee Power’: A New Way to Light Up Refugee Camps 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z Lawyers may note an unrealistic aspect to Dunbar’s arguments in front of the Court, despite the show’s attempts at verisimilitude. What Francis Underwood Gets Right (and Wrong) About Drones 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Plausibility was not, however, a concern for Groucho Marx, whose commitment to absurdity was as fervent as Americans creator Joe Weisberg’s is to verisimilitude. How To Be A Spy, According to Groucho Marx 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Having been to children’s museums where kids can wheel trolleys around a play-set supermarket, I thought I knew what to expect from KidZania, but nothing had prepared me for its verisimilitude. A City Run by Children 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Presence is still coming into a definition, but we know two things about it: It feels good, and it’s different from verisimilitude. Virtual Reality Fails Its Way to Success 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Nolan stages their journey with impressive, even thrilling verisimilitude, juxtaposing the deafening rattle and thrum inside the rocket with the eerily quiet world just outside. ‘Interstellar’ movie review: There’s a lot, but does it add up to anything? But whatever the degree of its verisimilitude, “this isn’t a history or educational show,” he insists. Nixon comes alive in a new show from Harry Shearer 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z “It’s only through achieving real verisimilitude that you discover the flaws in your protocols.” Spain's Ebola Case Exposes Gap in Disease Defenses 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z It would be unfair to expect verisimilitude from a tale like this. ‘The Notebook’ movie review: In World War II Hungary, more strange than startling It’s always going to be hard for an outsider to portray the spy world with verisimilitude, but some of the plot threads in “Night Heron” mirror real-life cases. Q. and A.: Adam Brookes on China, Secrets and Spies 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z The place looks like the rec room in a Downey apartment complex, needing only a half-broken pingpong table to complete its verisimilitude. Restaurant review: At Night + Market Song, just eat, don't ask 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z In terms of writing, a combination of the insider and outsider perspectives may actually lead to a more objective verisimilitude. Sinosphere Blog: Q. and A.: Detective Novelist Qiu Xiaolong on Chinese Corruption 2013-12-24T21:00:50Z The very fact that the question is being asked so earnestly is a testament to the verisimilitude of the movie. What Does A Real Astronaut Think Of 'Gravity'? 2013-10-17T16:19:00Z Such verisimilitude is characteristic of “Mad Men,” but already, the knives are out: one online report described the episode as “one long McDonald’s ad” and another described how the characters “all shill for McDonald’s.” Advertising: Clips, Quips and Snips: A Wrap-Up of Upfronts 2013-05-17T00:50:14Z Technically, in terms of verisimilitude and smooth running, the results seem almost perfect. Britain's long history of model-making may be the Olympics' biggest loser 2012-09-28T20:30:01Z No matter how shiny the production, it will not satisfy a growing public need for verisimilitude and authenticity. The Media Equation: Political Conventions Can Learn From Reality Shows 2012-08-26T20:36:22Z No one in their right mind looks to ITV two-part crime dramas for a shot of uncompromising verisimilitude, but even so, Thirteen Steps Down set new records on the codswallopometer. Rewind TV: Olympics Closing Ceremony; Accused; The Best of Men; Ruth Rendell's Thirteen Steps Down – review 2012-08-18T23:05:45Z One of the results of this willful ignorance, which Dr. Provine points out in his book, is a shocking lack of verisimilitude in movies that feature the lighting of passed gas as a male ritual. Books on Science: ‘Curious Behavior’ Review - A Fearless Look at the Body’s Mundane Functions 2012-08-13T23:14:33Z The ad created a sensation, with many critics questioning both its verisimilitude and its legality. Files on big political donations vanish at FEC 2012-07-17T13:53:00Z We should focus on verisimilitude rather than total realism, in crafting a believable fiction rather than somehow emulating real life. Creepy Robots: Why Crossing The Uncanny Valley Might Just Be A Bad Idea 2012-07-12T19:07:47Z Hitherto there had been some consistency in my dream; for if my mode of seeing were dream-like and fantastical, what I saw had the verisimilitude of reality. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z Of all the elements that go to make up a good story,—plot, verisimilitude, happy incident, local colour, excellent style,—none perhaps is more important than the touch of understanding sympathy. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z This kind of delicacy and purity, which is rather truth itself than verisimilitude, pleases me greatly. The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century 2012-02-25T03:00:10.400Z How one goes about the book, the verisimilitude of it all, how one sees that. India Ink: A Conversation With: Naresh Fernandes 2012-02-24T10:23:06Z It is full of his peculiar verisimilitude and has all the interest of Anson’s or Dampier’s voyages, with a charm of style superior even to that of the latter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Mr. Murray said, “Even the people who watch it later appreciate that it was live; it adds to the verisimilitude of the video.” News Organizations Plunge Into Video Production 2012-02-05T23:19:29Z "Auchindrane," though retaining a little of the Radcliffian mystery and mystification which Scott never quite outgrew, also tells its domestic story with a directness and verisimilitude not usual among the romanticists. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z But, above everything else, it would be modern in psychology and color treatment, written with that realism for which the only excuse was to provide a more exact verisimilitude for romance. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z He excels in the verisimilitude of his portraiture, in the authentic delineation of character, preserving the type and developing the main lines of thought and action by imaginative insight, with high artistic fidelity in details. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Often writers of such artificial dialogues abandoned any attempt at characterization or conversational verisimilitude, merely substituting "Q." and "A." to indicate a series of queries and responses. Citt and Bumpkin (1680) 2011-12-21T03:00:27.683Z The verisimilitude of both situation and conversation is complete; and in the process there is no exhaustion of emotional values. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The result of these structural changes is a loss of verisimilitude. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z If it lacks something of the air of verisimilitude which gives yours such a finish, let me remind you that there are those who lie like truth. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z They would carry me too far back—which possibly outlived verisimilitude in them is what I wish to acknowledge. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z The same sort of verisimilitude which deceived the readers of Memoirs of Captain Carleton and Journal of the Plague Year supports the illusion of an eye witness account. A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborogh 2011-09-24T02:00:14.813Z The absence of verisimilitude is pretty nearly equal in both Gospels, but these traditions grew up, and were unconsciously rounded by the contributions of pious imagination. The Gospel According To Peter 2011-09-22T02:00:26.513Z If the Elizabethan play is confused, long spun out, and not especially edifying, it is yet occasionally intense in its emotional effect and maintains some verisimilitude of life and character. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Neither the model, the wood, nor the varnish possesses much verisimilitude at different periods of his career. Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.337Z From every point of view, there is no cohesion between the different parts of the narrative; it is devoid of verisimilitude. Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:34.690Z The Supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle is distinguished by the same sort of cool, dry mocking verisimilitude. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z The poor lord’s evil genius, indeed, Gashford—who has no historical original—tries the reader’s sense of verisimilitude rather hard; such converts are uncommon except among approvers. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z The reason is because once I formed an opinion on the subject, it became a belief, subject to a host of cognitive biases to ensure its verisimilitude. The Believing Brain: Why Science Is the Only Way Out of Belief-Dependent Realism 2011-07-05T11:15:00.580Z When it does not interfere with verisimilitude, give the tasks to one person rather than two, or two rather than three. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Malcolm contributed a garbled history of recent events, and one of the Brahmin’s seals, which came into Havelock’s possession when Cawnpore was occupied, lent verisimilitude to the script. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z It was a spot which you might aptly call The Valley of Seclusion! he was enabled to describe, with the verisimilitude of perfect memory, the dim sea-reaches where,— ... A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2011-06-08T02:00:18.910Z Its ease of style, its rapidity, its interest from page to page, are admirable; and it shows that inimitable power—the storyteller's gift of verisimilitude. Dawson Black: Retail Merchant 2011-06-04T02:00:16.620Z He has avoided the introduction of trivial and vulgar persons and the intermingling of comic and tragic elements; he has used the chorus, and has observed the laws of verisimilitude and decorum. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z The videos lack the verisimilitude of, say, the special effects that substituted the face of Natalie Portman for that of a professional ballerina in some dancing sequences in “The Black Swan.” Advertising: Casting Yourself in a Wild, Forgotten Night 2011-05-02T03:15:56Z On this passage in the story he does not dwell, and such verisimilitude as may be, must be supplied by my imagination. The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z What is needed is a sort of twilight of the soul, a simple directness such as children value, a sense of grave verisimilitude, hopelessly alien from the business-like Puritan mind. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z While the traditions of medieval song were thus preserved, the prose-romances followed, as closely as possible, the style of a chronicle, and aimed at the verisimilitude of authentic history. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It has also been seen that for him, as for the Italians, verisimilitude, and not fact, is the test of poetry. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Wii Top Spin 4 Take 2 Interactive As such, it almost seems churlish to complain about the moments where Top Spin 4 lacks verisimilitude. Top Spin 4 ? review 2011-03-20T00:04:11Z There with as much verisimilitude as I can give it, is how the Folkestone mermaid really came to land. The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z And if we did attempt verisimilitude we should find that in a Chorus it is simply unattainable. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z He had added the "Junior," for the sake of verisimilitude. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z History, accordingly, does not regard verisimilitude or necessity, but only truth; poetry must take care to establish the probability of its subject in verisimilitude and necessity, since it cannot regard truth. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z It needs little argument to show that a poet of this order can easily secure the effect of verisimilitude to life, and will owe much of his success to that fact. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z So far I have been very full, I know, and verisimilitude has been my watchword rather than the true affidavit style. The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z They are both closely connected with the question of verisimilitude. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z There must always be enough to be convincing, to give to the story the atmosphere of verisimilitude, and to justify and reward our interest in the affairs of the persons. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z But as a temporary thing, they accept the lack of verisimilitude. City Critic: The Grass Is Fake, but the Splendor Real 2011-01-16T00:48:31Z In this series, where genius is excluded from the outset, Tieck expects a strict adherence to fact, to verisimilitude, and the correct interpretation of Shakspere must be insisted on. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z There were certain details of which I stood in need, certain scenes and conversations of which my passion for verisimilitude had scarcely a crumb to go upon. The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z And as for verisimilitude, we simply do not think of it. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Barker’s Luck covered the ground; and Three Partners, a more ambitious story, is far below it in verisimilitude and in dramatic effect. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Her adeptness in "suggestive" scenes, to which she lent a startling verisimilitude, soon gained for her a large, if not altogether intellectual, following. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z Any one who has seen Irving's masterly representation of the dying Louis cannot but be imprest by the verisimilitude of Northcote's presentation. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z In the interest of verisimilitude, the ark is to be built with wooden pegs and timber framing by Amish builders, Mr. Zovath said. Noah?s Ark, the Theme Park 2010-12-06T01:45:00Z Ernie Banks's son was the technical adviser on baseball, not that the movie is noted for its verisimilitude. Leslie Nielsen, baseball and the Mariners made for a comedy classic 2010-12-05T00:11:00Z It has every appearance of verisimilitude: you truly believe this woman exists and has been filmed at all these various stages of her life. A word on our sponsors: John Lewis ? Always a Woman 2010-04-26T11:07:00Z For the sake of verisimilitude, former top American policymakers and intelligence officials — some well known — were added to the mix. Imagining an Israeli Strike on Iran 2010-03-27T18:15:00Z The only visible difference is in color and scale, along with the introduction of shadows for a greater sense of verisimilitude. Art Review | Long Island: Processing Alex Katz, From Sketch to Finish 2010-02-26T23:46:00Z Virgil does not attempt to bring before us the rich variety of social grades, which adds vivacity and verisimilitude to the spectacle of life and manners presented by Homer, Chaucer, and Shakspeare. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The destruction one after the other of the descendants of Hrethel sounds historic: at any rate it possesses verisimilitude. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn They are nothing more to me than opinions or anticipations, judgments on the verisimilitude of intellectual views, not the possession and enjoyment of truths. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Since I have thought more about it, I have greatly abated the fear that the verisimilitude of such relations might not sufficiently appear to readers. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies It is hard to sympathize with the "sensitive reviewers," though to the native ear, to be sure, the utterances of the American lack verisimilitude. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors The ambassador was an old friend, and I used his presence here to give verisimilitude. The Gay Adventure A Romance Such charm as it has is derived from the strict verisimilitude of the character drawing, and the fidelity with which the emotions are represented. A Short History of French Literature They determine their judgments by what is probable, what is safe, what promises best, what has verisimilitude, what impresses and sways them. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent There’s such a sound of verisimilitude about mud baths! What a Man Wills They hasten the catastrophe, and give a verisimilitude to the abrupt and full submission of the zamorim. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem It is only of late that stage talk in naturalness has begun to rival the verisimilitude of dialogue in the best fiction. How to See a Play In representing him, therefore, as under the control of superstitious impressions, I trust I have not transgressed, at least, poetical verisimilitude. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 Inference is the conditional acceptance of a proposition, Assent is the unconditional; the object of Assent is a truth, the object of Inference is the truth-like or a verisimilitude. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Moreover, a story as a whole will gain in verisimilitude by judicious distribution of its mechanical elements. The Technique of Fiction Writing While there is, then, no historical foundation for the "gallop," the verisimilitude of the situation is perfect. Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation His chestnut curls, brushed into a glossy similarity, crept out and lay on the folds of the red cape of the calash with a verisimilitude that seemed almost profane. The Story of Old Fort Loudon With more verisimilitude than is usually the case, she too is piteously slain. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare As the verisimilitude of his representations bore upon him, he unconsciously assumed the sentiments natural to the situation simulated. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories They must be given reality and verisimilitude, but their aspects and implications unimportant to the story should not be detailed and thereby stressed. The Technique of Fiction Writing The hat with the green feathers was a special proof of Bach's powers of invention, and stood out with picturesque verisimilitude against the blue-coated tobacconist. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature The minor bequests the Q.C. regarded as ingenious inventions, pure play of fancy, 'intended to give artistic verisimilitude,' as Pooh-Bah says in the opera, 'to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.' Miss Cayley's Adventures So you suggest that for me to write effectively about a given period I must breathe the very strains, the odours, verisimilitude of the age? The Land of Look Behind Now, with their recurrence to his recollection, their verisimilitude was urged upon him. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories He must describe all these to give his narrative verisimilitude and concreteness. The Technique of Fiction Writing We have employed the inconsiderate verisimilitude of a novelist repudiating romance in his portrayal; towards her he kept a better face. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Certainly this setting bears very little resemblance to the actual; but just as certainly its artistic fitness to the tale of terror which it preludes gives it an imaginative verisimilitude. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews All this may have been false; but, if false, it was invested with a wonderful verisimilitude, and to Huguenots and Papists it had, so far as their actions were concerned, all the effect of truth. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 As a copy of "yellow" models it is a work of artistic verisimilitude; indeed, were Mr. Dowdell a somewhat older man, we might justly suspect a satirical intention on his part. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The events of a story are the story; its people and its setting are drawn only to give the fiction the highest attainable degree of verisimilitude. The Technique of Fiction Writing The weaknesses of the peoples of other nations are fair game; but it is the essence of just caricature that it should have some verisimilitude. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations I found that I had what they call fallen in life with absolute success and verisimilitude. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Certainly this setting bears very little resemblance to the actual; but just as certainly its artistic fitness to the 116 tale of terror which it preludes gives it an imaginative verisimilitude. A Manual of the Art of Fiction "The Flying Dutchman," a Romance of the Sea, by Joseph Parks, is more replete with nautical verisimilitude than with literary force. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The fiction writer is a dramatist in a very real sense, but he cannot depend for verisimilitude on flesh-and-blood actors, painted scenery, and actual properties. The Technique of Fiction Writing Pocket pressed for earlier details with a morbid appetite which was not gratified without reluctance, and out of a laconic interchange the deed was gradually reconstructed with appealing verisimilitude. The Camera Fiend On the contrary, he habitually disclaimed, not without acrimony, dogmatic atheism; and once even condescended so far as to declare that 'the hypothesis of design has much greater verisimilitude than that of a blind mechanism.' Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications Yet it is by no means lacking in the more superficial verisimilitude either. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays While the tale is not one of vast originality, it nevertheless recommends itself through simplicity and verisimilitude. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The other necessity, to describe setting to give the story verisimilitude and concreteness, is not so easy to state or to meet. The Technique of Fiction Writing The rest of the politicians and the other half of the inhabitants of England were pretending to believe what Belfast said so as to give an air of more terrific verisimilitude to the bluff. The Red Hand of Ulster The chasuble is lined with red, and it and the rich vestments, on which scenes of the Passion are displayed, are the patient verisimilitude of ancient vestments. Holbein The conception of the conquest of the human soul by the irresistible operation of divine force is so foreign to modern thought and faith that Bunyan's similitude no longer seems a verisimilitude. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 It is a curious little touch of verisimilitude. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters Most stories might be told without a single word of strict description, and no such word should be given place in any story unless it will forward the fiction to a higher degree of verisimilitude. The Technique of Fiction Writing Such passages, though they add nothing to the verisimilitude of Kathrina's character, help to make her appear consistent in not laughing at a certain weird poem which her lover reads to her. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Microscopical examination of the roasted bean lends verisimilitude to this contention. All About Coffee When this method has once been recognized, discomfort on the score of lack of verisimilitude practically disappears, and the reader yields himself to the joy of the rich, subtle, and stimulating analysis. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Now, by considering this latter fact, in conjunction with what is asserted by Mr. Savary, some verisimilitude seems to be imparted to the hypothesis of the tobacco plant having sprung originally from Egypt. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 The writer's chief aim will be to write not only clearly but vividly, for the story of action must depend chiefly upon vividness for its verisimilitude. The Technique of Fiction Writing It is hardly possible to construct a play with no characters but monarchs and their suites, and at the same time preserve the verisimilitudes of life. Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare This it was which gave verisimilitude to Kutusoff's boast and made the French occupation of Moscow a matter of doubtful expediency. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) It is, of course, obvious at the first glance that there is a lack of verisimilitude in Pippa's rich and beautiful soliloquies. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Starting with these modest expectations we shall find the points of verisimilitude numerous. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest In writing it the author's aim is the same as in writing the commonplace story, to give it plausibility and verisimilitude, but the task is infinitely more difficult. The Technique of Fiction Writing What I ask from a book is precisely this huge weight of formidable verisimilitude which shall surround me on all sides and give firm ground for my feet to walk on. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The point is that, in previous fiction, circumstantial verisimilitude of this kind had hardly been tried at all. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 When we analyze Browning's way of presenting a character, however, we find that the lack of verisimilitude is usually external and has to do chiefly with expression. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning But we have not yet done with the points of verisimilitude in our story. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest Very possibly he may miss some of the warm verisimilitude that derives from writing of familiar things and constitutes the keystone of the fictional arch. The Technique of Fiction Writing They believed now that he was about to oblige them by supplying that corroborative detail which, in the words of Poohbah, "lends artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative." The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Fallock, or Farrington, needed these outside contributions, not only to give the newspaper a verisimilitude of genuineness, but also to fill the columns of the journal. The Secret House At this point Margery said her best word, "Gorky," which means, "A thousand thanks for the verisimilitude of your charming and interesting story, but is not the love element a trifle weak?" Happy Days When Lady Davenant was accusatory it was within the limits of perfect verisimilitude. A London Life and Other Tales In other words, the fiction will not have verisimilitude emotionally. The Technique of Fiction Writing The only thing we regretted was that we had not left some portion of our clothing on the beach to give verisimilitude to the suggestion. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason An explanation by himself of his ill-will to the book, which has been handed down by Osborn, has an air of verisimilitude. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Art, besides, only aims at verisimilitude; but verisimilitude depends on the observer, and is a relative and transitory thing. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Historical accuracy and local colour concerned him as far as they were needful with his courtly spectators for verisimilitude. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. It follows that he will do well to go about with an observant eye, for it is the little details of the novel of manners that lend verisimilitude to the whole. The Technique of Fiction Writing This is what Pooh-Bah calls "corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and unconvincing narrative." The Romance of Words (4th ed.) Wiley wanted to add clinching verisimilitude to the document and took a long shot. The Fifth Ace Mr. Lucy's touch is light and original, imparting an appearance of interest and entertainment to the dullest debate, and of verisimilitude to the most doubtful statements. The History of "Punch" It is not that they are all wanting in verisimilitude. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 The measure of verisimilitude attainable by any story is limited by its content. The Technique of Fiction Writing I was struck by the absolute verisimilitude of this suggestion. Chance A Tale in Two Parts The dark condition of the man who longs to believe and longs in vain, he can represent with a verisimilitude and touching beauty, which shows it to have been familiar to himself. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Besides it will go far to assist the verisimilitude of your travels. Olla Podrida What could be a finer testimony to Miss Harding’s verisimilitude than the blandishments of these sweet innocents? The Lady of the Basement Flat He should remember that each item of unessential matter given place by him will lessen by just so much the number of words available to give the real story verisimilitude and consequent interest and appeal. The Technique of Fiction Writing This is a delightful monograph, executed with consummate skill and verisimilitude throughout. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 No expense has been spared to get an air of verisimilitude into these pictures, at a private view of which we were permitted to be present. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 The same truth and verisimilitude that regulated his forms, guided his eye with respect to colour. Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. Never has Mr. Weyman achieved, in fact, a higher degree of verisimilitude. In Kings' Byways Even farce misses its true effects if it contains no verisimilitude. Personality in Literature What he gives one, vividly enough, is national colour, not local colour; he is essentially Irish, just as Fielding is essentially English; but he aims at verisimilitude rather than veracity. Irish Books and Irish People Still, enough verisimilitude remains to make an amusing half-hour. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 In yet another paper there was a vivid picture—scenery, date, Greenwich time, and all to give an air of artistic verisimilitude—of the signing of the Peace armistice. Bulgaria The detailed truth of these Dialogues is not to be inferred merely from their vigour and verisimilitude. John Knox |
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