lifelikeness

Credit where it's due to the lifelikeness of Madame Tussauds' creations.

His colleagues struggled to outdo him in lifelikeness, in art that was a pure conjuring trick on the sense of sight.

His "Dead Dad" was drop-dead astonishing: a smaller-than-life-size figure of uncanny lifelikeness, or in that case deathlikeness.

He does not, like the Realist, try to get a specious lifelikeness by heaping up banal and commonplace facts; he selects.

A 1931 portrait of a young man named Geoffrey Taylor is extraordinary for its combination of crusty paint and deftly achieved lifelikeness.

What is it that ravishes the weaker sense, makes sight goodly, and beguiles the maker, the specter's verisimilitude or its pulchritude, its lifelikeness or its desirability?

Her models achieved international renown, both because of their great anatomical accuracy and lifelikeness, and because she apparently had a method of making wax models that did not melt.

In its intense artificiality it may even be conceived injurious in a certain degree (unless constructed with consummate skill) to that real lifelikeness which is the soul of the drama of character.

Investigating more closely the oddly scattered sculpture, Garth saw that all were of an amazing lifelikeness; were it not for the uniform gray of the stone, many could be mistaken for living people.

Although originally completely preoccupied with money, her complexity is eventually displayed in her ability to defy the societal pressures in order to achieve happiness unrelated to wealth; praised as a character for her "vivacity and lifelikeness", with greater complexity than some of the other, more static characters.

"never permitted to catch a marlin" while on location, so the "camera could never catch him at it" and the result is "Sturges must cross-cut so interminably-fish, Tracy, fish, Tracy-that Old Man loses the lifelikeness, the excitement, and above all the generosity of rhythm that the theme requires.