Sentences with word «verisimilitude»

Doug Liman's American Made largely eschews any sense of verisimilitude in favor of wacky comedy bits.

Dillon's career - long quest for verisimilitude brings him to Fox's new 10 - episode drama «Wayward Pines,» tackling TV for the first time.

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.

Nichols and his cast were able to draw from that material (Nichols regular Michael Shannon cameos as the photographer) and other footage from the period, including Nancy Buirski's 2011 documentary «The Loving Story,» to lend the film as much verisimilitude as possible.

Dreyer prepared separate German, French and English versions of the film, and even though he shot them without sound and post-synched all the dialogue, he had his cast perform their dialogue in all three languages for greater verisimilitude in the dubbing.

More than that though, there's an incongruity between the apparent attempt at verisimilitude in the directing and the other major elements of the film.

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

The accompanying Dolby Digital 5.1 audio could've been mastered at a louder volume but nevertheless does justice to Slither's creepy - crawly soundmix, whose frequent over-the-should effects lend verisimilitude to the onslaught of gummi worms.

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.

Unlike traditional photography, which captures an instant of reality, her images are constructed from photographs taken in different locations over the course of several months, then layered and blended until the real and the fabricated become a seamless composition whose verisimilitude prompts the viewer to question the nature of both the medium and its content.

In fact, the expressionist impulse continued to evolve: either through verisimilitude (Dix, Grosz, Beckmann), landscape painting (Kokoschka), Neoclassicism (Picasso), Surrealism (Joan Miro, Yves Tanguy, Arshile Gorky), and Cubism (Picasso's portraits of Dora Maar).

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

Dude preached «to no one, yet his technological mastery was so facile that, via adept video splicing and sound effects, his broadcast presented an eerie verisimilitude of the real thing, an eeriness that carries over to this day.

As they had grown older, they had become eager to add more verisimilitude to their costumes and either sought or had suggested to them a surgical transformation that would include breast implants, penile amputation, and pelvic reconstruction to resemble a woman.

«But none of the early dutch still - life or early trompe l'oeil painters were able to achieve such verisimilitude as we are able to do now.»

Killing Ground combines great aesthetic elegance - including beautiful cinematography and naturalistic editing - with an acrid, lingering foulness, derived from knife - edge performances and a terrifying premise executed with airtight verisimilitude.

Her drawings and paintings, often of natural expanses like seascapes, desert terrain, starry skies or spider webs, are rendered so meticulously that they seem to tip from verisimilitude into abstraction.

The mask or the grotesque face, a central although not always visible motif in Grotjahn's painting and drawing practice from the beginning, has broken out of the flat surface into a three - dimensional form, and thereby freed the artist from the need to adhere to any face - like verisimilitude in the painting process.

This is a world that beckons you, invites you to get lost in it, and masterfully conceals its clockwork mechanisms under a thick layer of vibrant verisimilitude.

On the other side, Clement Greenberg, the most articulate midcentury advocate of abstract painting, said toward the end of his career, after having studied the Lascaux cave paintings, «The closer the work of art comes toward verisimilitude, the greater it is.»

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.

Unlike traditional photography, which seizes an instant of reality, her images are constructed from photographs taken in various locations over the course of several months, then layered and blended until the real and the fabricated become a seamless composition whose verisimilitude prompts the viewer to question the nature of both the medium and its content.

While a portrait is typically an artistic representation of a person where verisimilitude is the goal, here the inquiry is questioned and expanded.

With striking verisimilitude, Swenson's uncanny dioramic sculptures, inspired by the artist's childhood passion for the taxidermy animals at the natural history museum, are populated by mythical animals; these hybrid creatures are strangely familiar and yet appear to come from an entirely different realm.

This is perhaps due to their meticulous hand - made quality, which mimics with exacting verisimilitude the object it represents, while still displaying the tiny inconsistencies and flaws of Gober's process.

Setting the everyday details of life against extraordinary backdrops is something of a specialty for Johnson, who went to North Korea to research The Orphan Master's Son and ended up asking the sort of «verisimilitude questions» his minders had never heard before.

The incredible verisimilitude that she works into her forms — the translucent depth of skin tones and intricate landscape of surface details that pock and individualise each being — attest to painstaking care and empathy.

The sudden verisimilitude doesn't feel faux, but lived - in.

The defining characteristic of the later notion of virtual reality is not its visual verisimilitude, but its feedback and its acceptance of our manipulations.

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.

Hanson has said that the shocking verisimilitude of his creations is in the service of allowing us to relate to them.

Of course given that The New World deals with characters who once existed, the question of verisimilitude arises, but it's quickly swept to the side.

The recreations of key scenes from that kitsch classic are shot with stunningly tacky verisimilitude and played to the scrappy hilt by an up - for - anything cast, including Zac Efron, Ari Graynor, Josh Hutcherson and Jacki Weaver.

Suffused with fantastical elements, dreamlike sequences and hallucinatory images, A Fantastic Woman stars Daniela Vega, a trans actress, and her performance roots the film in a kind of intimate verisimilitude.

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.

The stellar design team and animators find room for both the sun - kissed verisimilitude of a homey pueblo, and the razzle - dazzle of elaborately designed folk - art animals called alebrijas that become flying, hot - colored spirit creatures in the Land of the Dead.

But on the other, he's so enamored of clever ironies and tidy storytelling that the fuzzy - lined unreality of his «realistic» films speaks in counterpoint to their supposed verisimilitude.

It's a rich, engrossing ensemble drama that reveals itself very slowly, is filled with multidimensional characters and multi-layered performances, and works toward an amazingly verisimilitude.

The real Mr. Stahl, who has a small role as a stern doctor, supervised the wardrobe verisimilitude and other small, scarily authentic details.

It's a film so exactly costumed and so exactly designed — verging on working - class cosplay — that verisimilitude functions as diversion.

Looper's time travel backstory is sufficiently detailed for a sense of verisimilitude without getting bogged down in the minutia of detail.

Zemeckis forces the viewer's perspective to look down, up, sideways and around with vertiginous verisimilitude.

Most of Lady Bird's teen characters are united by these and other populist totems (in one adorable departure from a world of cultural verisimilitude, Sacramento seems to be a haven for Stephen Sondheim nuts), but the film finds them increasingly aware of the highly visible class markers that separate them.