How to Use verisimilitude in a Sentence
verisimilitude
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Not all of the attempts to heighten verisimilitude pay off.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
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There’s stealth in Garrone’s approach: for the most part, the story sticks to a low-key, rough-hewn verisimilitude.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
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The sisters are stunned by the verisimilitude of Sachi’s rendering, and Sachi is in turn thrilled with their response.
—Sarah Archer, The Atlantic, 21 July 2021
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That verisimilitude was lacking a bit with the HoloBike.
—Marah Eakin, WIRED, 7 May 2024
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Above all, Conan Doyle excels in the you-are-there verisimilitude of his battle scenes.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
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That verisimilitude extended to the jargon of spying in his novels, which had the ring of truth.
—Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2020
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John Quincy Adams is long dead, but the verisimilitude of the image brings him back to life in some way due to the reflexes awakened in my brain.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2013
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Projections of the real ship and crew add verisimilitude, but this is not a docu-drama.
—Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2017
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The authors do cut the verisimilitude ever so slightly short, though.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 July 2017
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For the viewer, Davisson adds, there’s no verisimilitude with these kinds of recreations.
—Janet Manley, Wired, 26 Nov. 2020
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But there are larger issues with the film’s verisimilitude.
—Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
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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.
—Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
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For verisimilitude, Beanie Boy would be more likely to buy his instrument its own seat on a flight than risk damaging it in the jostling of the hordes.
—Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 5 Apr. 2017
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Holbein’s portraits are renowned for their verisimilitude, but in Anne’s case, the painter may have flattered his sitter.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
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Any discrepancy is used to adjust the speed of the video, in order to preserve verisimilitude.
—The Economist, 13 July 2017
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The director knew Ford would need to be de-aged with a level of verisimilitude that has proven elusive to filmmakers so far.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 21 June 2023
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Of course, working around real preteens upped the verisimilitude.
—Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 26 Feb. 2019
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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.
—Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
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The fact that Pym’s stories sometimes end nowhere can be viewed as verisimilitude, but an awful lot depends on contrivance.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
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So Sharolyn blends brown and yellow and black and white and red, and her final coats lighten and shade the Big Idaho Potato to burbank russet verisimilitude.
—Bill Manny, idahostatesman, 20 June 2018
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Days earlier, Jeff Pearlman, who wrote the book on which the series is based, had defended the show against complaints about its verisimilitude.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 May 2022
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Preferably the latter, and Lisa would be wise to get the verisimilitude to a passable level by adding a few talking points about her incredible hair.
—Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2021
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Just like the Delorean, there’s a verisimilitude to the design (to the extent that a talking or time-traveling car can be believable).
—Joe Veix, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2017
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Actually moving and clicking a mouse cursor with your stick, just for the verisimilitude, gets old fast.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 20 July 2023
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Many writers’ books go slack when their characters open their mouths, as if dullness equals verisimilitude.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
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So certain aspects of verisimilitude are dispensed with, without making a big deal over it.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
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But Cooper, who also directed and co-wrote (with Josh Singer), would hardly be the first lead actor contender to alter his schnoz for the sake of verisimilitude.
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
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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.
—Justin Chang, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
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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.
—Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2021
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Any Person’s sixteen essays about a life lived with books point to the several selves and verisimilitudes that exist within any one person.
—Hazlitt, 12 June 2024
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