(n.) The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's hounded out of town in the most hysterical way, but the film is reckless with its logic and fails to observe due processes of plot, milieu, verisimilitude – massive failings when dealing with such a sensitive subject.
(2) For those who like verisimilitude in their faux fags there are disposables – the hefty but effective Ten Motives or the petite, feminine NJOY – and rechargeable kits complete with USB chargers and cartridges from the likes of E-Lites, Halo and Skycig.
(3) "Clearly, it works the same way with awards voters, who appear to be easily impressed by performances with a visible standard of verisimilitude; 60% of the lead-acting Oscars in the past decade have gone to biopic performances."
(4) The fact that the next television novelty after incarceration game-shows was the revival of talent contests (The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent) suggests that "real people" will remain the medium's favoured working material: partly because it is cheaper but also because television has become addicted to verisimilitude, or at least the appearance of it.
(5) Made on the cheap, in sweltering conditions, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has a nasty, grubby feel, giving it a disturbing verisimilitude that has yet to be matched in any of its countless sequels, remakes and imitations.
(6) Like Defoe, Poe also ramped up "the potent magic of verisimilitude" (his own phrase) by borrowing freely from contemporary accounts of South Sea adventure.
(7) Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are rednecks, and Twain's language depends on verisimilitude for its comedy.
(8) The watchword of George Miller’s movie is verisimilitude; CGI sneered at for all but tweaks.
(9) He did a wordcount on George Osborne’s emergency budget of the season before, for verisimilitude.
(10) Irish actor Michael Fassbender, who plays a sadistic slaveowner, said the offending scenes were vital to maintain verisimilitude.
(11) In a concession to verisimilitude, Stevens appeared to be wearing the same M&S V-neck sweater and bad jeans I was wearing the day the Fifth Estate's screenwriter, Josh Singer, came to interview me.
(12) The fistfight-to-the-death scene was done with such startling verisimilitude that nearly all the stage furniture was demolished nightly, and Gough broke three ribs and injured the base of his spine.
(13) What adds a certain verisimilitude to the latest claim of a crush on Blair is the publication of a note, apparently written by Deng, in which she rhapsodises about Blair like a gushing schoolgirl.
(14) Gilligan is true to his word about his commitment to verisimilitude.
(15) The analysis shows that there is a fundamental trade-off in scaled down computer models between verisimilitude at the level of network interconnectivity and verisimilitude at the level of individual neuronal dynamics.
(16) They were against sadness, moonlight, sentimentalised love, syntax, monotony, the tango, Parsifal, Venice, marriage, the papacy, modesty, museums, English art, verisimilitude, the nude ("we demand, for 10 years, the total suppression of the nude in painting") and, perhaps most surprisingly, "that idiotic gastronomic fetish of the Italians", pasta.
Verity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being true, or real; consonance of a statement, proposition, or other thing, with fact; truth; reality.
(n.) That which is true; a true assertion or tenet; a truth; a reality.
Example Sentences:
(1) Verity said: "I would imagine that it's not impossible that over time the Wolds will become as well known as the Dales and other parts of Yorkshire … because of the Hockney effect.
(2) Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia by Verity Burgmann and Hans Baer Also from 2012, this book reports on a less well-known part of the movement.
(3) Separately, Verity James, a newsreader for ABC, told reporters she and a female producer were groped by Harris during a radio interview in 2000.
(4) 9.06am BST There are some eternal verities in politics and one of them is that British governments (especially Conservative-led ones) are always fighting a war on red tape.
(5) 2013 Verity Harding, a political adviser to Nick Clegg while he was deputy prime minister, takes a policy role at Google in London.
(6) Instead of a movie actress I once liked mildly for a season or two, I now only see an abstraction of the financial verities of modern movie superstardom.
(7) Martin Donnelly, permanent secretary of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), did not just wake up one morning and, on a whim, write a lengthy and carefully argued defence of the old Whitehall verities.
(8) Photograph: BBC Who knows, younger folk in particular might like hearing what’s really new and vital – especially if offered by dynamic and informed presenters such as Verity Sharp and Ian McMillan who don’t fall back on weary cliches or received opinions to communicate.
(9) Not to be outdone, Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, managed a "bonsoir" and a few "merci beaucoups" and even went for a Gallic kiss on Prudhomme's cheek at the end of the presentation.
(10) The bedroom tones of Verity Sharp and Fiona Talkington have enticed a cult audience to the late-night Radio 3 show, which jumps from Indian classical to American post-rock to British early music with an audacious rapidity that regularly outrages musical purists.
(11) Coalition’s climate policy 'best and most efficient' in the world, says Greg Hunt Read more This mirror reflecting back your own past verities could become a bit of a theme in your prime ministership, with all that you’ve said and all the things that now constrain you.
(12) It’s just part of the culture of the verity of certain things, to hold on to.
(13) On occasion, confirmation by the analyst of the verity of an experience in the patient's early life facilitates the analytic process.
(14) If so, he had done a masterful end-run around all the old verities of our own western economic development theory, systems and experience.
(15) Traditionalists in the Thatcher period clung to the old verities of national identity while struggling with the new, varied face of modern Britain.
(16) This belief has not been subjected to testing in clinical trials or laboratory experiments, and thus becomes a matter of belief rather than of scientific verity.
(17) Verity Lambert [the television producer] had no children of her own and was perhaps not conscious of the problems [facing working mothers], but she just wanted to have women in the workplace and make it possible for them."
(18) Dr Aaminah Verity A doctor of four years, Aaminah is now specialising in tropical medicine and international health in London.
(19) When they say “forget business versus society”, they mean “stop yammering on about human beings and get back to economic verities”.
(20) He's saying, 'Get back to the good old verities, you can't go out because you can't go out because you can't go out.'