véritén.
Realism or naturalism, esp. in cinema, radio, and television; documentary method. Also attributive and in other combinations. Cf. cinéma vérité n. and adj.; verism n.
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1966 Listener 15 Dec. 880/2 There is an advanced cinema, a cinema of vérité which is rightly admired by intellectuals.
1976 Listener 23 Dec. 841/1 Jack Gold's early vérité-style account of an industrial dispute.
1978 Broadcast's Programme Edinb. TV Festival 10/2 The film was heavily criticised..[as] impressionistic, partial..an indication of the problematic nature of verite's claim to be..untainted evidence.
1978 Broadcast's Programme Edinb. TV Festival 10/2 Verite film brings to the screen the pathetic death of a drowned boy.
1979 Daily Tel. 7 Dec. 17/3 The method of ‘radio vérité’ reporting, with victims telling their own emotional stories and the guilty parties often getting quite annoyed, make [sic] compulsive listening.
1984 Listener 1 Mar. 32/1 What is over-the-top in a vérité film may be just what is required in sit-com.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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n.1966- in the eyes of the world
- in the face of
- in the face of adversity
- in the face of day
- in the face of it
- in the face of the sun
- in the family way
- in the far off
- in the farness
- in the feeling
- in the field
- in the fieri
- in the final analysis
- in the fine
- in the firing line
- in the first
- in the first brunt
- in the first degree
- in the first face
- in the first flight
- in the first flush
- in the first instance
- in the first person
- in the first place
- in the flesh