Sentence examples for by lifelike from inspiring English sources
"C," by Tom McCarthy (Knopf; $25.95) The novel is animated not by lifelike characters for whose fates we fear but by the prowling, quivering mind of its author.
The pieces were worn by lifelike wax models against a background of mirrors and Coromandel lacquer screens, of which she possessed one of the finest collections.
Their voices sound "ventriloquised almost, as though piped in from somewhere else"—an apt description of the novel itself, which is animated not by lifelike characters for whose fates we fear but by the prowling, quivering mind of its author.
Based on a 1973 film of the same name (written and directed by Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton), Westworld takes place at a Western theme park populated by lifelike robotic "hosts" who interact with "newcomers" — humans guests who've paid a hefty price tag for their visit.
Early-19th-century audiences would have been astonished by the lifelike movements.
A-life seeks to illuminate this problem by simulating lifelike processes within computers.
"Simple Gifts" (ages 8 and up), presented by the Cashore Marionettes of Conshohocken, Pa., on Sept. 23 and 24, will consist of individual vignettes by hauntingly lifelike figures.
As Mark Maremont reported in The Wall Street Journal on Monday, Romney invested $2.1 million in 1996 for a stake in the company; the idea was brought to him by a Lifelike partner who was a friend from Brigham Young University and Harvard Business School.
And there's an impressive canister-shaped reliquary dedicated to the martyred St. Oswald — his skull is still inside — crowned by a lifelike silver gilt "portrait" of the man.
There the audience whirls through four scenes, each populated by cheerful, lifelike dummies that move and talk with a facility that, inside of a minute and a half, convinces you they are alive.
Besides The Twilight Zone, the other obvious reference point is Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's twice-filmed sci-fi novel about a far-flung planet messing with the minds of orbiting astronauts by creating lifelike copies of the people they love most.
