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- adverb In a
naturalistic manner.
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Examples
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Matt Stover's example, particularly the hyperrealistic fight scenes in Heroes Die, freed me up to portray violence naturalistically, which is something I've tended to avoid.
- r_urell 2006
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~ Mattering -- "Owen Flanagan’s new book The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World is an impressively wide-ranging exploration of the possibilities of meaning within a world conceived naturalistically, which is to say, materialistically."
Speedlinking 12/18/07 William Harryman 2007
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This is an expression of loyalty to the idea that art and entertainment are better -- more relevant, more resonant -- when they represent reality more faithfully, more naturalistically.
A Sodomite's Sermon Hal Duncan 2009
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In his celebrated 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the naturalistically modeled face, hands and bust are encrusted in a mosaic-like matrix of gold, colored paints and other media, resembling Hoffmann's dazzling jewelry of mixed gemstones and precious metals.
Modernism's Austrian Rebels Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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Not to mention a near zen-master trait with getting the shrubery done naturalistically in the netting.
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It is not to score a point with the liberals, not to placate the PC ideologues with a token gesture, but simply to represent reality more naturalistically.
A Sodomite's Sermon Hal Duncan 2009
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It is not to score a point with the liberals, not to placate the PC ideologues with a token gesture, but simply to represent reality more naturalistically.
Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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As you become a more accomplished writer, you will find your peer group expanding kind of naturalistically.
and his sister's weird. she drives a lorry. ccfinlay 2009
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This is an expression of loyalty to the idea that art and entertainment are better -- more relevant, more resonant -- when they represent reality more faithfully, more naturalistically.
Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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"But the feeling I had was that if I presented the materials as naturalistically as possible, and if the characters engaged emotionally, then – even if the particulars were elusive – viewers would sign on for a period of time and let the story unfold."
After John From Cincinatti, David Milch spies a change in his Luck 2012
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