Example Sentences

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Just as Chekhov’s stories, beneath their veneer of lifelikeness, have a boiled-down, biblical simplicity, Hopper’s interiors are shorn of detail.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2019

It’s the kind of lifelikeness that could only come from showrunners steeped in Haredi society.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 14, 2019

It fails to achieve the lifelikeness, not to mention the dramatic intensity, that Ibsen bequeathed as a legacy, or rather one of his legacies, to modern playwriting.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2015

In the end, she discovered that bringing a dead animal to lifelikeness isn’t so different from her career in fashion design.

From Washington Post

He does not, like the Realist, try to get a specious lifelikeness by heaping up banal and commonplace facts; he selects.

From Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography by Thayer, William Roscoe