Sentences with phrase «uncanny verisimilitude»

4:30 pm — TCM — Gandhi Ben Kingsley plays the titular figure with uncanny verisimilitude, tracing Mohandas Gandhiís life and career throughout his quest for unbiased treatment of native peoples in British - held lands, especially India, where his leadership of a non-violent rebellion helped to gain India its independence from the British Empire.

Kiarostami shoots Africa with an uncanny verisimilitude, coming close here to his idea of a «poetic cinema» indebted more to poetry and music than the theatrical novelistic storytelling tradition.

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In perhaps the show's most inventive twist on medium, Sasha Pierce essentially disguises thinly extruded paint as thread, weaving it into a geometric tapestry so as to simulate textile with an eerie verisimilitude as uncanny as that achieved by Wayne.

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.