life-likeness

The head somehow combines the uncanny life-likeness of the Roman portrait busts on view elsewhere in the museum with a modernist emphasis on the relationship of forms.

A Most Revealing Face Karen Wilkin 2011

The elder brother, towards the close of the parable, presents a life-likeness of the Pharisees; in him they might have seen their own shadow on the wall.

The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot

Even at the London Institution a scientific lecturer has borne witness to the life-likeness of Mr. Reed's

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

If the bulk of his book becomes tiresome to some readers, it nevertheless gives a picture of unrivalled fulness and life-likeness.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

_ Whatever his scenes or objects, he sees them with perfect clearness and brings them in full life-likeness before the reader's eyes, sometimes even with the minuteness of a nineteenth century novelist.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

These additional details appeal to his imagination and give life-likeness and freshness to the tale, but they do not detract from the impression of the original or confuse the identity of the characters in the old tales.

A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

His wide experience of men and things is manifest in the life-likeness and mature power of his poetry, and it accounts in part for the broad truth of all but his earliest work, which makes it essentially poetry not of an age but for all time.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

As for life-likeness, what's the old dame talking about!

Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

As for life-likeness, what's the old dame talking about!

Portrait of a Philosopher 1911

Then his strange life-likeness began to affect me queerly -- as I blocked the head in I felt as if he were watching me do it.

The Verdict 1908