How to Use historicity in a Sentence
historicity
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Cut to 2016, when Netflix premiered The Crown, that sense of irony and historicity vanished in the grandeur of the series’ production value.
—Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 26 Nov. 2020
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This is due largely to the strange and beautiful way in which Raulff handles the problem of historicity and narrative.
—C. E. Morgan, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
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The silverware onboard, by the way, was used by the Italian navy in the 1920s—there’s historicity for you, regarding something quite new under the Tuscan sun.
—Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 12 Feb. 2018
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The historicity of this candidacy, of all the candidacies — that speaks to us.
—Tal Kopan, SFChronicle.com, 11 Aug. 2019
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Crew members even had time for two television broadcasts to celebrate the flight's historicity.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
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The digital face with LED numbers of the Pulsar lost historicity and inculcated a perpetual present available at the push of a button.
—Charlotte Kent, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
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There’s also a curious lack of historicity that feels freeing.
—Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2020
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What these folks want is a new house wearing the skin of an old house, often for the purpose of communicating authenticity or historicity.
—Kate Wagner, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2018
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But that soapiness does sap Snowfall of some of its credibility and historicity, turning the show from gripping piece of crime history to later-season Breaking Bad knockoff.
—Richard Lawson, HWD, 5 July 2017
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Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan want to explore that further in Season 2, that historicity of the way that women who are undergoing mental health issues are treated and treated very differently than men.
—Wilson Chapman, Variety, 15 Apr. 2022
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Now, some faithful Latter-day Saint scholars and respectful outside historians — laying aside the book’s historicity claims — have begun exploring Smith’s work as a translator.
—Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
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Converts to Orthodoxy come from many backgrounds: former Evangelicals in search of historicity, analytical Christians seeking something more hands-on, weekend churchgoers in search of fuller, more regular engagement.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 24 June 2017
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The result is a three-bedroom residence that exudes historicity without sacrificing contemporary creature comforts—which blend seamlessly into the old architecture anyway.
—Lauren Ro, Curbed, 28 Mar. 2018
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