Example Sentences

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He seizes our attention in every scene, naturalistically conveying Robbie’s touching decency as the walls close in on him.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2025

Instead of depicting a scene naturalistically, it uses forced or even impossible perspectives to show action on multiple tiers, revealing activity behind doors or walls that some of the subjects in the painting cannot see.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

If I’ve established the aesthetic world of the film to be lit naturalistically, the night work has to follow suit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2022

It’s to Jolie’s credit that she plays the scene in which she awakes to discover this atrocity naturalistically, with raw screams of rage and disbelief.

From Slate • May 29, 2014

The features of these enormous portraits are naturalistically carved and amazingly expressive— thoughtful or fiercely proud, mirthful or dismayed.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann