The quality of seeming to be true

Usage examples of verisimilitude.

He was able to induce hypnogogic hallucinations of remarkable verisimilitude, but they seemed no more real to him than so many line drawings.

The author's skill in portraying the humanity of characters who possess the power to destroy others with a thought adds a level of verisimilitude and immediacy rarely found in grand-scale fantasy.

Torn between fact and wish, between cynicism and idealism, Bernini tempers the all but caricatural verisimilitude of his faces with enormous sartorial abstractions, which are the embodiment, in stone or bronze, of the everlasting commonplaces of rhetoric - the heroism, the holiness, the sublimity to which mankind perpetually aspires, for the most part in vain.

High-def mask-entrepreneurs ready and willing to supply not just verisimilitude but aesthetic enhancement stronger chins, smaller eye-bags, air-brushed scars and wrinkles soon pushed the original mimetic-mask-entrepreneurs right out of the market.

Things appeared to proceed by logic, according to the laws of psycho­logical verisimilitude and the deep inner coherences of metropolitan life, but in fact all was mystery.

The amorous contact imagined by the jealous man is the only way he can picture with verisimilitude the beloved’s connubiality, which, if doubtful, is at least possible, whereas his own is impossible.

This verisimilitude may be dramatic art backed {70} up by knowledge of public life.

But, of course, a Monson girl may have been chosen by the inventors to give verisimilitude to the substitution story, simply because the family was friendly with Turner, and the tale of the lewd high jinks with Symon added to make it seem more likely that old Lady Monson would lend herself to such a plot.

In the interest of verisimilitude, I usually carried with me a blank military commission, given me by my friend and ally the Secretary of War.

It would have to be one of the older clones, of course, for verisimilitude, but the plastic surgeons had done a remarkable preliminary job.

For the past year he had done his work, dated women, visited Petal and gone to the supermarket like an actor playing a part, pretending for the sake of verisimilitude that this was the real him, but knowing in his heart of hearts that it was not.

The pavilion came equipped with eleven temporaries who were to be their servants: soft-voiced unobtrusive catlike Chinese, done with perfect verisimilitude, straight black hair, glowing skin, epicanthic folds.

But lest those who are ignorant of the force of mathematical demonstrations and who are not accustomed to distinguish true reasons from mere verisimilitudes, should venture.