Quotes About Verisimilitude

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

Merely corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and——

Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when taken by surprise, console themselves by introducing into the composition of the falsehood which they have to invent, thinking that it can be safely incorporated, and will lend the whole story an air of verisimilitude.