Sentence examples for badges of authenticity from inspiring English sources

"Something more primal, almost Greek in its archaic power, is at stake in 'Winter's Bone,' and its visual and emotional starkness do no not feel like simple badges of authenticity".

"Something more primal, almost Greek in its archaic power, is at stake in 'Winter's Bone,' and its visual and emotional starkness do not feel like simple badges of authenticity," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times about this film, directed by Debra Granik and based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell.

For some chefs, the warning is a badge of authenticity.

For Ernaux, speechlessness is a badge of authenticity.

Even worse, they didn't socially transition as toddlers — the new badge of authenticity.

Cobain and his band have become a badge of authenticity in an age of emptiness".

It's a cinema culture in which unevenness is practically a badge of authenticity.

The Duplasses' technical clumsiness is clearly a badge of authenticity and their well-acted movie is affecting and truthful.

In return, they receive a gold-colored picture identification card, which leaders hope customers will recognize as a badge of authenticity.

That changed with songs by people like John Lennon, James Taylor, Carole King – and since that time autobiography has become ubiquitous, and is often used as a badge of authenticity".

Dressing grunge is no longer a badge of authenticity, though: the signifiers of rebellion (Dr Martens boots, plaid shirts) are omnipotent on the high street.