Lexicographical Neighbors of Lifelikeness
Literary usage of Lifelikeness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1899)
"The illusion and lifelikeness effervesces and exhales out of a picture as it
grows old; and we go on talking of a charm that has forever vanished. ..."
2. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1888)
"The illusion and lifelikeness effervesces and exhales out of a picture as it
grows old; and we go on talking of a charm that has forever vanished. ..."
3. A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee (1915)
"One admires their skill; one takes a certain pleasure in the lifelikeness of the
characters —especially those of Howells—but cold lifelikeness is not the ..."
4. The Bookman (1890)
"... so to speak, are made as striking as possible ; in fact, we get all the apparent
lifelikeness of a pla - say the *tt*iv»t lifelikeness, because a pay is ..."
5. The Chautauquan by Chautauqua Institution (1908)
"This lifelikeness is important in a portrait. How many figures in pictures which
we see seem posed and stiff, and without life. ..."
6. A History of Ancient Sculpture by Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (1883)
"9), in consequence of which the greatest lifelikeness was sought to be obtained
in the statues of the deceased. Although there must have been a time when ..."
7. Descriptive Writing by Evelyn May Albright (1911)
"This is, after all, the real test of lifelikeness in the description of physical
experiences—that all the concrete matters shall be so interwoven and so ..."
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