It must feel exactly like life, must exhibit not, as he puts it, "lifelikeness" but "lifeness: life on the page." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Only one remained and that was Judas, whose baseness no citizen of Milan seemed to wear on his face, and to whom Leonardo began to despair of giving the absolute lifelikeness that was vital to his conception. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even when the quality to be valued is objectively there—coherence, clarity, accuracy or lifelikeness, what have you—its achievement is distinguished from the recognition of it, and from the even later claim that the quality is valuable. ❋ Unknown (2009)
What strikes me about the Clouet portraits is the amazing detail and lifelikeness of the depictions. ❋ Julianne Douglas (2008)
This distaste for not-quite-there lifelikeness is what causes me to assert that "The Polar Express" is a horror movie. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Also, because few game features are devoted to simulating the avatar lifelikeness in eve-o, imagination and 'shared hallucination' are left free to fill the gaps. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The single scenes and pictures which Boswell has given us will all of them bear close scrutiny for their precision, their economy of means, their lifelikeness, their artistic effect. ❋ Unknown (2004)
You cannot ignore it, vitality bursts from it, and everything seems sacrificed to this quality of striking lifelikeness. ❋ Harold Speed (N/A)
But from the third and second centuries we have a great number of portraits which are in the highest degree characteristic and individual, a wonderful gallery of philosophers and poets and statesmen which for lifelikeness cannot be surpassed. ❋ Various (N/A)
But when he found that admiration for the lifelikeness of the partridge tended to distract the attention of visitors from the main figure, he painted it out. ❋ Various (N/A)
In his later plays Marlowe makes gains in this respect, but he never arrives at full easy mastery and trenchantly convincing lifelikeness either in characterization, in presentation of action, or in fine poetic finish. ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)
Faerie Queene 'does not aim at intense lifelikeness -- a certain remoteness from the actual is one of its chief attractions. ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)
It has been remarked that Huck appears rather more conscious of the charms of external nature than his Hannibal prototype, Tom Blankenship, doubtless was; and of course, strictly speaking, he rises above lifelikeness altogether by his gift for telling a long yarn which has artistic economy and satiric point. ❋ Unknown (1921)
He does not, like the Realist, try to get a specious lifelikeness by heaping up banal and commonplace facts; he selects. ❋ Thayer, William R (1919)
