Sentences with phrase «verisimilitude does»

Not exact matches

To sweat the sexual verisimilitude (as many have done) is like claiming Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt is no masterpiece because of unconvincing rear projection shots during the denouement.

Jordan crafts arguably the MCU's most intriguing, angrily heartfelt and tragically multifaceted villain, doing so with a fiery emotional verisimilitude that's astonishing.

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.

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.

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.

And something else that Halloween does that too few films of its ilk have managed is to leave us all uncomfortably questioning the thin filament intervening fact and fiction, tangibility and nightmare, as well as the texture and verisimilitude of evil.

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.

The verisimilitude is the tale's strong point and even though the characters constantly seem sedated, their moments of expressed emotion are effective and engaging and do well to hold interest.

It's when the film reaches Candie's plantation that it drops off considerably, largely due to less dramatic tension as well as an unconvincing performance by Samuel L. Jackson as Candie's trusted house slave (while the other actors at least make some attempt at period verisimilitude, Jackson sounds as contempo as he did in Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction).

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.

The issue should be obvious: Presenting Estes (or any photorealist) as a «consummate artisan,» in Adamson's words, emphasizes the gee - whiz, how - did - he - do - that aspect of his technique, as if photorealism were merely a quest for verisimilitude.

Shtini's «portraits» having nothing to do with verisimilitude and everything to do with an artist expanding the potential of his medium, while simultaneously injecting new life into the well trodden space of portraiture.

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

Though I can» t judge his use of scientific information in creating what speculative features he uses in his story, I can say his feeling of verisimilitude concerning the work of real scientists doing real science is infinitely more compelling than anything I've ever read from Crichton.