Sentence Examples:
All the arrangements to give verisimilitude to the appearance of a difficult escape were made.
There is an air of verisimilitude about this advertisement which reads like an actual transcript.
The principle of verisimilitude and of probability in fact dominates all historical criticism.
The principle of verisimilitude and of probability dominates in fact all historical criticism.
They attracted wide interest, and with few exceptions, scientists praised their verisimilitude.
Starting with these modest expectations we shall find the points of verisimilitude numerous.
This local verisimilitude, which contributed to his immediate success, now constitutes a limitation.
Have suppressed names of men and places, thus sacrificing verisimilitude on altar of discretion.
On almost every page of the Progress there is violation of sequence, outrage against verisimilitude.
The junction of human shoulders and animal necks is managed with no sort of verisimilitude.
Holbein never painted a head with greater verisimilitude than Van Eyck's rendering of the Donator.
She opened the magazine at random, and, presently, for the sake of verisimilitude, turned a page.
We are used to thinking the contrary, but the compression of time and space prevents verisimilitude.
His account of the origin of the sexes has the greatest (comic) probability and verisimilitude.
List of qualifications less lengthy, set forth with more modesty; object desired being air of verisimilitude.
The same truth and verisimilitude that regulated his forms, guided his eye with respect to color.
To the modern artist it becomes an occasional assistance in giving to his images an air of verisimilitude.
There is something remarkably solemn in this past thus suddenly revived with such intense verisimilitude.
A certain violence is done to that demand for verisimilitude which, perhaps wrongly, we now invariably make.
Now it must be confessed that this bears a sufficient air of verisimilitude to deceive the casual reader.
Nor have they wished to be judged by standards which considered only verisimilitude and technical proficiency.
The detailed truth of these Dialogues is not to be inferred merely from their vigor and verisimilitude.
While there is, then, no historical foundation for the "gallop," the verisimilitude of the situation is perfect.
The internal evidence in favor of this story is very strong; there is a striking verisimilitude about it.
The originality, the ingenuity, the verisimilitude of this tale and of its fellows are beyond all praise.
I am just sufficiently changed in my looks to justify and give verisimilitude to the game I am playing.
While the tale is not one of vast originality, it nevertheless recommends itself through simplicity and verisimilitude.
He did not introduce the practice, he merely developed it by a peculiar process, giving additional verisimilitude thereby.
The Chorus served to give verisimilitude to the dramatic action, and was, in a word, the ideal spectator.
The verisimilitude required in tragedy, is that the actions correspond to the manners, and the manners to nature.
To give his fiction verisimilitude, he retired hastily to his bedroom and received the messenger in his bed.
He pays with the desperate shifts to which he is driven in order to maintain any kind of verisimilitude.
As the verisimilitude of his representations bore upon him, he unconsciously assumed the sentiments natural to the situation simulated.
In either book, what we feel to-day to be the great objection to our enjoyment is the lack of verisimilitude.
The verisimilitude of both situation and conversation is complete; and in the process there is no exhaustion of emotional values.
He gave to his figures a vitality and ease, and impressed upon them a verisimilitude which appeal to every spectator.
For these suspicions there was absolutely no foundation or basis, nor had these assertions any proof or verisimilitude.
The praise which has been lavished upon De Foe for the verisimilitude of his novels seems to be rather extravagant.
The Supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle is distinguished by the same sort of cool, dry mocking verisimilitude.
In plot, incidents, emotions, verisimilitude and style this interesting story ranks with the best of this year's novels.
And let me tell you at once that no living musician could attempt to supply it with the smallest verisimilitude.
The way in which the baby is being held in the other indicates how little Giorgione thought of verisimilitude.
This verisimilitude, it should be observed, is not only difficult to attain: it seems not to be easy even to recognize.
The character of the publication, the general verisimilitude of the news, the consideration of the motive, and so on.
In working out this conception Schiller did not trouble himself greatly about the historical verisimilitude of his chief personages.
Yet they are vividly if broadly sketched, and genuine touches of human nature lend verisimilitude to their most improbable actions.
I have been the ass fondly to believe I told it with such detail and verisimilitude as to carry conviction to myself.
There is an air of verisimilitude in the eager features, and about the action altogether, of the bird, which stamps it genuine.
There is scarcely any end to the possibilities of variety, yet verisimilitude must be kept up and nature not violated.
Like any other reporter, he assumes that the interest of his story depends obviously and entirely upon its verisimilitude.
From every point of view, there is no cohesion between the different parts of the narrative; it is devoid of verisimilitude.
The delicate shades of thought we designate as verisimilitude, probability, possibility, were as little known to primitive man as to children.
There never appeared an actor in any one of our theaters whose voice and manner he cannot imitate with marvelous verisimilitude.
Each spectator is charmed in proportion to his recognition of a triumph over difficulty which is measured by the degree of verisimilitude.
It has a greater verisimilitude than they have, and is full of touches which recall the experiences of human life.
The only objection that can be taken to the verisimilitude of this description is the reference to the cider apples.
A sort of verisimilitude in the picture drawn by her Radical-minded brother could not escape her; her thought was troubled.
Not truth, but verisimilitude, is his aim; for the stage is the realm of appearances, in which intrusive realities become unreal.
It has also been seen that for him, as for the Italians, verisimilitude, and not fact, is the test of poetry.
Yet in order to attract the morbid curiosity of the crowd, this scene was enacted with every attempt at verisimilitude.
The usual method is to seize upon real characteristics of a victim, and only paint these in darker colors, which allows verisimilitude.
When it does not interfere with verisimilitude, give the tasks to one person rather than two, or two rather than three.
They have nothing to do with this story, but their names and addresses make for verisimilitude; or at least, I hope so.
On this passage in the story he does not dwell, and such verisimilitude as may be, must be supplied by my imagination.
The picture, however, falls far below those of the other chapters in power, finish, and even an approach to natural verisimilitude.
Before him came a line of six sovereigns with little historic verisimilitude: they must be called faint memories of epochs, not actual men.
His heart was in the work of making the past live again, and he succeeded in giving verisimilitude to the scenes he described.
It must be remembered, however, that the standard of verisimilitude naturally and properly varies with the seriousness of the theme under treatment.
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.
Like Bunyan, or Swift, Melville has enforced his moral by giving an independent and ideal verisimilitude to its innocent and unconscious exponents.
He saved himself, however, from absolute skepticism by the doctrine of probability or verisimilitude, which may serve as a practical guide in life.
They are nothing more to me than opinions or anticipations, judgments on the verisimilitude of intellectual views, not the possession and enjoyment of truths.
This observation will at first surprise you, but after my explanation it will, I trust, have more verisimilitude in it than you can now imagine.
As to his sincerity there was no possibility of doubt, and this lent to all he said an air of verisimilitude which was most convincing.
I've tried to make them happen, now and then, on paper, but they always seem to lack a good bit in the way of verisimilitude.
To gain a sense of verisimilitude the narrator pretends to be working from a manuscript, a device which Defoe also employed in his Memoirs of a Cavalier.
Such charm as it has is derived from the strict verisimilitude of the character drawing, and the fidelity with which the emotions are represented.
They determine their judgments by what is probable, what is safe, what promises best, what has verisimilitude, what impresses and sways them.
They must be given reality and verisimilitude, but their aspects and implications unimportant to the story should not be detailed and thereby stressed.
Another example of the same attitude of mind meets us a little lower down in another passage that has the same strong marks of verisimilitude.
You must know enough of animal, plant, and human life, and of geography, to be particular here and there and thus give verisimilitude to your pictures.
They are intended to have an attraction independent of any originality of subject, any happiness of general design, any verisimilitude in the piling up of fictions.
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.
A few touches of verisimilitude are sufficient to portray a servant, whose business is to come when he is called and to help others in their necessities.
There must be an open trial, and the more detailed the information that could be got the more verisimilitude would be given to the story told.
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.
His answer came in substance to this, that if the matter of the dialogue be true to nature, the entire verisimilitude of the form is a secondary consideration.
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 narrative of Rabelais is a tissue of adventures shocking every idea of verisimilitude, and serving only as a vehicle for the strange humor of the writer.
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.
That is a plain, almost a mathematical problem; and we can therefore judge his success, and receive pleasure from the ingenuity and verisimilitude of his creations.
All warnings, reflections, considerations of verisimilitude, of the delicate, the natural and the possible, of the value of his independence, had become as nothing to him.
And, by the bye, he will be calling to see you very shortly, and you could lend further verisimilitude to your story by renewing acquaintance with him.
At that instant it occurred to me that she was an adept in preserving a mystery; she could practice deception with a verisimilitude little short of marvelous.
The extraordinary associations, the weird fancies and bizarre impulses that are here laid bare give an air of convincing verisimilitude to the supposed confessions of a starving journalist.
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.
With Defoe fiction gained verisimilitude, it ceased to deal with the incredible; it aimed at exhibiting, though in strange and memorable circumstances, the workings of the ordinary mind.
Vic went to the outer door, feeling the necessity for a somewhat careful conning of his tale to give it, as he said himself, a little artistic verisimilitude.
In this union of collective excellence and individual verisimilitude, the mind feels, and at once acknowledges, a power of awakening and reflecting its own truest, best sympathies.
Maclean knew well that this shadowy second-self simulated the real self, and that even all the actions of the body were reproduced with a grotesque verisimilitude.