true to life
idiom
: realistic and natural
The author presents the characters in a way that feels very true to life.
Examples of true to life in a Sentence
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Starting someplace ordinary, and then making a sudden departure—that feels true to life to me, too.
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Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
But when things become too true to life, Fuqua knows to cut the style and let the actors carry the scene.
—Eric Farwell, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023
Keeping the documentary true to life was paramount to the filmmakers, who worked with both surviving Beatles (Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr) and the widows of John Lennon and George Harrison (Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison).
—Kevin Jacobsen and Devin Herenda, EW.com, 9 Aug. 2023
In one scene, which is true to life, Grant gives away her dog right after Cannon gives birth.
—Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
As a result, her depiction of glittering balls and sweaty club nights, of elaborate dinners and stressful tutorials, feel authentic, though not every single detail is exactly true to life—or at least, not in my experience.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2023
And to articulate a grayness that is more true to life.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
This one is more true to life, and it’s loosely based on the hollyhocks in Fragonard’s Progress of Love series.
—Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
The stars of the show claimed that the drama that unfolds on screen is true to life in an August 2022 interview with PEOPLE ahead of the show’s release.
—Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
But when things become too true to life, Fuqua knows to cut the style and let the actors carry the scene.
—Eric Farwell, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023
Keeping the documentary true to life was paramount to the filmmakers, who worked with both surviving Beatles (Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr) and the widows of John Lennon and George Harrison (Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison).
—Kevin Jacobsen and Devin Herenda, EW.com, 9 Aug. 2023
In one scene, which is true to life, Grant gives away her dog right after Cannon gives birth.
—Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
As a result, her depiction of glittering balls and sweaty club nights, of elaborate dinners and stressful tutorials, feel authentic, though not every single detail is exactly true to life—or at least, not in my experience.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2023
And to articulate a grayness that is more true to life.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
This one is more true to life, and it’s loosely based on the hollyhocks in Fragonard’s Progress of Love series.
—Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
The stars of the show claimed that the drama that unfolds on screen is true to life in an August 2022 interview with PEOPLE ahead of the show’s release.
—Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
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