Sentence examples for not lifelike from inspiring English sources

"Fredericksburg, for example, was not lifelike.

It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.

Mr. Margulies's expertly imagined Hetchman belongs to the parallel universe of folklore, where people are not lifelike, but bigger, stranger and realer than life.

During its best stretches, one wants to say of this book what Lord David Cecil said of Irving's ever-hovering forebear: "It does not matter that Dickens' world is not lifelike: it is alive" — peopled with preposterous but not to be denied characters, fossil-fuelled by archaic but surefire narrative strategies, and redeemed by its own boisterous belief in kindness over cruelty.

Success depends on fitting the auriform cartilage scaffold into the overlying skin, but current approaches can just give results that are not lifelike and can lead to complications.

In the first, the Jedi Master Yoda originally a puppet capable of conveying lifelike emotion but not lifelike movement– becomes a swordsman of amazing speed and power.

On these terms, it isn't lifelike at all.

The animation in "Hopeless Pictures" is not exactly lifelike -- "They all look like they've been run over by a truck," is how Mr. Balaban described the figures.

Military roboticists are also eager to turn up the "creep factor" by exploiting the basic human fear of insects, as well as the phenomenon known as the "uncanny valley," where robots that appear and act almost (but not perfectly) lifelike evoke a deep-seated revulsion. .

"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 acoustic itself has problems — the sound is vivid but hazy, suggesting an incredibly good but not quite lifelike stereo system — but the hall seduces the eyes with its mahogany veneer.