verisimilitude

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• And the conceit of total artifice deprives us of what Tolstoy is best at: marrying artifice with verisimilitude.

• Orwell needed a certain level of artifice to maintain verisimilitude.

• Yet Pakula also sought to inject well-researched verisimilitude in his film.

• It appears she writes about these things because excluding them would strain verisimilitude far more than including them.

• But including real-world details and events can also add verisimilitude and depth to a story, something Silva does quite well.

• Neither the model, the wood, nor the varnish possesses much verisimilitude at different periods of his career.

• The unconventionality and vitality of such a production are startling, and obtain a high degree of verisimilitude.

• Have suppressed names of men and places, thus sacrificing verisimilitude on altar of discretion.

• But this absolute failure in verisimilitude is practically universal before Scott.

• This verisimilitude, it should be observed, is not only difficult to attain: it seems not to be easy even to recognise.