Sentences with phrase «n't verisimilitude»

The compelling immediacy of the documentary can't be topped: it isn't verisimilitude — it's the real thing.

What seduces most about Ask the Dust isn't its verisimilitude, but its gloriously old - fashioned backlot sheen - the L.A. of old Hollywood movies and of our collective fantasies.

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But rendered in Cash's whisky - soaked baritone, it's difficult not feel the verisimilitude in each note.

When it comes to Jesus, a portrait is not an achievement of external verisimilitude, but a means for us to catch a fleeting and clouded glimpse of the divine, to allow the eye to see what the mind might not know unaided.

Although Marvel's decision to cast Chris Evans as Captain America initially caused a great deal of controversy, his portrayal of one of the most iconic comic book heroes eventually won the hearts of millions fans, and nowadays we can't imagine anybody else besides Evans playing the part with such verisimilitude.

The imagination is the thing, not how close to verisimilitude you can achieve with the image.

The animals Brady works with and trains are real creatures to him; they're not symbols of innocence lost or a bygone way of life, and the film's verisimilitude depends on that literalness.

With This Is 40, Apatow gets closer to making his quintessential dramedy — one which may not deftly express the universal experience of midlife (as if there even is one), but moves past its veneer of autobiographical verisimilitude and rings with something like real truth.

The point is that it doesn't need to: eXistenZ isn't about virtual - reality verisimilitude so much as it's about fictional identities coming to matter more than real ones.

This film takes the Christopher Nolan Batman approach of arbitrary realism, sprinkling a sheen of verisimilitude over the proceedings that doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

They bring a verisimilitude to a story that does not restrict itself to mere realism, instead diving into a third act confrontation that spirals into surreal sights and violence that manages to unsettle in a desensitized, glib genre.

PBS had a fabulous documentary series years ago called American High and not even last years» American Teen could capture the level of verisimilitude that's non-existent in the fluff that passes for teen drama on television today.

But it's been 20 years since his last winner (Missing), and in Capital, his anger over corporate chicanery, specifically in the world of global financial services, isn't supported by anything approaching verisimilitude.

Rated R in the US, the widely available DVD features a few shots cut from the original theatrical version, including a very realistic erect penis that Jane Campion insists isn't real but has a remarkable verisimilitude.

Whether that is an improvement or not I think depends a great deal on how important you feel verisimilitude is to realism.

Though much of the film's early press focused on von Trier's audacity in digitally superimposing porn actors» genitals onto the stars» bodies to maximize the verisimilitude of the sex scenes, Nymph -LRB--RRB- maniac is not an ironic essay on digital magic but rather a defiantly old - fashioned affair, grounded in well - trodden narrative traditions.

In order to create a world of verisimilitude, the writer has to research all of this information, and so it's difficult for them to believe the reader doesn't need to know it, too.

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.

He hasn't edited out certain enemies or weapons that might eat away at the tight verisimilitude he's after — instead he's done his best to rationalize a world of demons and monster closets.

Similarly, the smaller portrait The Guilt of Looking, 2014, uses an extreme economy of means — pencil — and produces not just verisimilitude but an uncanny aura around the figure's coiffure and cashmere sweater.

It's certainly not realism as verisimilitude; it's realism in another, materialist sense.

Describing himself not as a photographer but as a conceptual artist for whom photography is an intrinsic part of his creative process, Demand's work challenges photography's claims to verisimilitude and disrupts notions of authenticity and artifice by questioning the medium as a faithful record of reality.

In contrast to the form's more architecturally oriented pioneers, however, Gentile doesn't pursue totalizing verisimilitude for his meticulously crafted