Sentences with phrase «historical verisimilitude»

I didn't want the detail to overwhelm the story, but I also know that historical verisimilitude is one of the great pleasures of reading historical fiction.

A masterpiece of historical verisimilitude and gut - wrenching mystery, this is the tale of a powerful WWII friendship between a pilot named Maddie and a spy named Verity (among other things).

The professed actuality signalled in the title card is immediately evident in the careful detail of the period's visual signatures, a commitment to historical verisimilitude.

Without them we should have far less than that full impression, even though their precise historical verisimilitude may be open to grave question.

Maine's language in Fallen is even less bound to the illusion of historical verisimilitude than it was in The Preservationist: Eve likens the memory of the Garden to «the remembered scent of a lover,» a changed object is said to «morph,» and the narrator likens Cain's mark to a «Tower of Babel reflected mirrorwise» that everyone sees differently.

Not exact matches

One is set in the past and expends great energy on re-creating a historical moment in vivid detail and with sweeping verisimilitude.

In the end, they no longer share a relationship to still life in the historical sense as a presentation of wealth or position, but strive to cast light on new verisimilitudes.