| The trend toward perfect lifelikeness seems like a trend away from artificiality. |
| Chekhov wrote The Steppe, appropriately the first tale in this volume, when he was 28, and it is a kind of manifesto of Chekhovian lifelikeness. |
| This tension, between the requirements of authenticity and the necessity for an imaginative ordering of materials to achieve lifelikeness, is perhaps best exemplified in the biographical problem of time. |
| She quickly lost this lifelikeness, and became waxy and peaked. |
| The first-person voice's capacity for lifelikeness and oral illusion has been Gurganus's great Southern storytelling inheritance. |
| The creation of a lifelikeness in art is perceived as a distraction that may jeopardize this relationship, causing the heavenly double to withdraw its spiritual protection. |
