A verisimilar tale.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a verisimilar tale.    From Dictionary.com. 

But the ridiculous must no longer come forward as the pure creation of his own fancy, but must be verisimilar, that is, seem to be real.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature] Reference

And mostly he proceeds to write about the verisimilar power of fiction, which he ranks of supreme importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knocking Wood] Reference

The more a play is verisimilar, the more it runs the risk of showing the audience a mere picture of their daily lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

Modern writers of fiction seem to be more attracted to realistic biblical characters, involved in verisimilar situations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biblical Women in World and Hebrew Literature.] Reference

In science fiction there can be no inexplicable marvels, no transcendence, no devils or demons -- and the patterns of occurrence must be verisimilar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference

Occasionally he draws attention to the formal properties underlying those verisimilar effects—and those sections are by far my favorite parts of his book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knocking Wood] Reference

Are these dramas of his not verisimilar only, but true; nay, truer than reality itself, since the essence of unmixed reality is bodied forth in them under more expressive symbols?.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

First comes the long, learned or at least verisimilar discourse on the virtue of one item versus another, followed by effusive congratulations on the discernment and taste evident in the customer's choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Charms and Trials of Italian Shopping] Reference

It's virtually impossible for me not to characterize what I do in realist terms, because what I am doing in describing the whole topology of historical evidences is nothing other than developing a more verisimilar account.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-02-01] Reference

There might be some handful of radical formalists who argue that fiction contains no verisimilar power, and a few radical realists who claim that fiction is not artifice, but does anyone take such critics and views seriously?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knocking Wood] Reference

Change the surface of an object in a verisimilar way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference

Thus the fancy takes the place of the verisimilar of certain students of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

AKVIS Decorator lets you change the surface of an object in a verisimilar way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference

He reinserts the bit of the verisimilar, though he talks with admiration of the fancy, that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

Now, I am to perform all this, it seems, without making any thing verisimilar or agreeable!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07] Reference

Who does not recall the great part played in literary history by the criticism of the verisimilar?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

The verisimilar and perfect ocean waves represent the grand scenes of sea battle and bring you extraordinary experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference

Aesthetic truths for Baumgarten were those which did not seem altogether false or altogether true: in fact, the verisimilar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

Or is it not more verisimilar to think that it is the National Police spokeswoman who has a stake in minimizing the incident?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jihad Watch] Reference

We find the Cardinal Sforza-Pallavicino (1644) blaming those who look for truth or falsehood, for the verisimilar or for historical truth, in poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

But his power as a sociologist is no less real that it is unconscious, indeed infinitely more real and human and verisimilar that it is not polemical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain]

His polemic against the French school is chiefly directed to claiming a place in poetry for the verisimilar, as against absolute historical exactitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

Probes are indented into the skin in spatio-temporal sequences, analogously to pixels on a monitor, to produce verisimilar percepts of shape and motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

Various anecdotes of him are related by Boccaccio, Sacchetti, and others, none of them verisimilar, and some of them at least fifteen centuries old when revamped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books Second Series] Reference

But formerly, and especially by the theoreticians, by verisimilar was understood historical credibility, or that historical truth which is not demonstrable, but conjecturable, not true, but verisimilar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

You can from our bethe of carib chromatism ethanediol of a verisimilar illogicality dare moneran with a anthology or you can godwit your own burrow barcarole loire by cyclopedia an evaluator of chigoe arrogator and pyrotechnics deuteromycota.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

The active discussion of poetic theory, the criticism of Aristotle and of Plato's exclusion of poetry, of the possible and of the verisimilar, if it did not contribute much original material to the theory of art, yet at any rate sowed the seeds which afterwards germinated and bore fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

I am satisfied, not to have "so much art left me, as to frame any thing agreeable, or verisimilar;" but it is plain that he has, and therefore, as I ought in justice, I resign my laurel, and my bays too, to Mr Hunt; it is he sets up for the poet now, and has the only art to amuse and to deceive the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07] Reference

Indeed, I had grown so much interested in the phenomenon and its possible indications that I had invented various theories to account for them, some of which seemed to myself original and ingenious, while the common idea that they are vague reminiscences of a former state of being, I had again and again examined, and as often entirely rejected, as in no way tenable or verisimilar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3] Reference

"so much art left me to make any thing agreeable, or verisimilar, wherewith to amuse or deceive the people.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07] Reference

The quality of being verisimilar matters a lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2003-09-01] Reference

1) Red - verisimilar to the current "typical" house shot; however, the oil is recommended to.    From Wordnik.com.  [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference

"verisimilar.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

If "verisimilar" be translated by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

Critique of the verisimilar and of naturalism -- Critique of ideas in art, of art as thesis, and of the typical -- Critique of the symbol and of the allegory -- Critique of the theory of artistic and literary categories -- Errors derived from this theory in judgments on art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference