Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Presenting conditions and especially human relationships accurately; true to life.
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- adjective Based on
fact ,real ,true .
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Examples
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For a film to aspire to be Oscar-worthy, to become a future classic, and most of all to be true to its true-life subjects, the music under the king's words must be more than emotional aromatherapy.
Glenn Young: Au Contraire! The King's Speech Glenn Young 2011
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Modelled on true-life columnist Walter Winchell, Hunsecker possesses "the scruples of a guinea pig and the morals of a gangster".
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They're underrepresented as heroines in true-life stories on the big screen as well.
Dan Lybarger: A Complicated Legacy: Duane Baughman on Bhutto Dan Lybarger 2011
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"Scottis avid, exciting true-life mystery yields intriguing disclosures and reaffirms Mona Lisas unique powers."
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I have read the true-life story of Somaly Mam, who was a child sex slave, “The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine”, and it is a reality for many children in this world.
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They're underrepresented as heroines in true-life stories on the big screen as well.
Dan Lybarger: A Complicated Legacy: Duane Baughman on Bhutto Dan Lybarger 2011
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They're underrepresented as heroines in true-life stories on the big screen as well.
Dan Lybarger: A Complicated Legacy: Duane Baughman on Bhutto Dan Lybarger 2011
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I agreed with Heidi Waleson's Sept. 13 review of SF Opera's premiere of Christopher Theofanidis's "Heart of a Soldier," based on a true-life account of a modern hero in Vietnam in 1965 and at the World Trade Center on 9/11.
A Season of Meager Delights David Littlejohn 2011
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Mark Wahlberg plays a boxer giving it one last shot in this true-life fable.
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Like the nationally infamous Larry Lawrence, the big Democratic donor who invented a story of heroic action in the merchant marine and was briefly interred in Arlington National Cemetery, Daniel Wells had concocted his Vietnam war stories from true-life accounts in books and magazine articles.
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