How to Use naturalism in a Sentence
naturalism
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With this view behind the curtain, the consultation scenes begin to take on a greater naturalism.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
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Don’t get trapped in naturalism, and be open to your dreams.
—Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jan. 2022
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One of the first things Friend did, in a move influenced by Roger Deakins, was to find naturalism in his shots.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Nov. 2022
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The unsparing naturalism of this self-portrait is the source of its hold on us.
—Eric Gibson, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
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Yet more good news concerns the naturalism of the black levels.
—John Archer, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
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Much of it owes to a strong sense of naturalism, though, from the setting and character details.
—David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
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Austin grounds every scene with the naturalism of his acting.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Nov. 2020
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The thing that distinguished his work, Ross said, was its naturalism.
—Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2022
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And the quiet moment in which Dotte (Nicole Lewis) reads Mabel’s fate in tarot cards is an acting class in naturalism.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 7 June 2018
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The only likable Dutton is Kayce (a very good Luke Grimes, whose naturalism stands out here).
—Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2018
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The film maintains a sense of naturalism even during its most tense moments.
—Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
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There is a fluid naturalism and energy to the film that starts at the page and flows through the movement of the camera and the physicality of the actors.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
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Both shed fresh light on an artist whose earthiness and naturalism paved the way for the female singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s.
—Marc Myers, WSJ, 12 July 2021
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Kramer has no interest in naturalism or for trafficking in the realm of the real.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 26 Jan. 2022
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But around 1890, with the rise of naturalism, critics soured on the potboilers that made her flamboyance shine.
—Rachel Shteir, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
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In his plays, naturalism is a red herring, designed to sucker you.
—New York Times, 24 Sep. 2019
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There the human truth emerges in all its naturalism, dirtier and sweatier, more full of fears and decisions to make.
—Jd Linville, Variety, 5 Nov. 2021
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Yet as the action escalates to ever-higher extremes, Choe gets dragged out of his comfort zone and the naturalism that comes with it.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
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Aguilera's new found naturalism comes at what seems like the ultimate time.
—Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 9 May 2018
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Her bright naturalism is the grounding force and guiding principle of the movie, the crucial key to preserving the spirit of Blume's writing.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 27 Apr. 2023
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Dunst plays Rose with a downbeat naturalism that at times hinges on a weird girlishness.
—Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2021
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Clearly, this is Jones’s way of dealing with the strangeness of the play, which isn’t amenable to naturalism because Horvath isn’t interested in truth.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2019
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France’s The Salt of Tears, with its black-and-white photography and its quiet, unforced naturalism, is a charmer about how young people meet, get to know each other, and form a deep bond.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020
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And the main cast mostly treats them that way, forgoing big gestures and jazz-hands theatricality for a more easy kind of naturalism that serves the modesty of the melodies well.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2021
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The upper and lower floors ramp up the naturalism of the piece, giving us the feeling that characters are truly inhabiting the space.
—Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 Apr. 2018
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The goal was an immersive naturalism, and Glazer went to great lengths pursuing it.
—Giles Harvey, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
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The story begins with the first stirrings of the naturalism that would define the Renaissance revolution in art.
—Eric Gibson, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
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From then on, trying to make sense of the story would be like trying to find documentary naturalism in Salvador Dalí’s melting clocks.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2018
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No matter: All are equally done in by the final scene, a bonkers scherzo in which the quasi naturalism is swept away by what is meant to be the joyful surrealism of children’s theater.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
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Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty turn in stellar supporting work, further enhancing the film’s sense of gritty naturalism.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2024
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