Authentic, Authenticity, Authentically, Authenticate
authentic (adjective) - the real thing, genuine, not fake
authenticity (adjective) - the state or condition of being true
authenticate (verb) - prove something to be true
appear authentic
authentic details
authentic features
cast doubt on authenticity
test authenticity
check authenticity
it looks authentic but isn't
authentic versus fakes
discriminate between the authentic and the phoney
authentic name brand luxury goods
an authentic Prada handbag
authentic recipes includeing peasant dishes handed down through generations
authentic Tennessee ribs
authentic dishes from Sicily
authentic Sixties style clothes
in a slightly weather worn condition the train certainly looked authentic
go to great lengths to ensure an authentic feel in the TV programme
endorsed as authentic
written accounts endorsed as authentic
an authentic women's cinema which would portray real women as they really are
authentic family happiness
after a painful experience value now placed on authentic friendship
hailing the birth of an authentic champion
an authentic guide to news reporting in English
authentic reading texts
authentic business materials, eg memos, reports, letters,...
authentic texts taken from circulars, letters, reports, advertisements and brochures
finding an authentic voice as a writer
a moment of disappointment in which the real, the true, and the authentic are surrendered to, or contaminated by, the factitious and the contrived
Example sentences:
* The brilliant bravura variation when Kitri springs lightly forwards sur les pointes whilst fanning herself and Basil attempts to make his zapateado (heel-tapping) appear authentic by the slightly crouching pose of his body, add even greater panache to their efforts.
* His Spanish dance has therefore many authentic features seen through the eyes of a master classical teacher.
* Signora Anichini, the proprietress and her daughter Lisa are extremely gifted and their repertoire of authentic recipes includes some purely peasant dishes passed down through generations.
* Authentic Tennessee ribs a speciality.
* Mr Brown was Britain's most authentic jazz clarinetist.
* The sound was quite good, although not as authentic as some recordings I have tried recently.
* Ambivalence towards European culture, doubts about the possibilities of finding an authentic voice, a restless search for confidence and self-esteem, these are among the many bitter fruits of colonial rule in Latin America.
* Above centre in the catalogue: minis, donny caps and patent boots and shoes, all authentic Sixties style.
* His life is far too authentic.
* For some this is a moment of disappointment in which the real, the true, and the authentic are surrendered to, or contaminated by, the factitious and the contrived.
* The value which Leapor places on authentic friendship arises from painful experience.
* The prayer of parents is therefore profoundly important for authentic family happiness.
* A bumper sticker on the San Diego Freeway speaks with the authentic, sunny voice of greater Los Angeles: People are fantastic.
* This sexism was traced in the stereotyping of women (the madonna/whore dichotomy of classic Hollywood is a well-known example), and critics implicitly or explicitly called for an authentic women's cinema which would portray real women as they really are.
* The train resembled a site from the late 50s-;early 60s when numerous tours were staged on branch lines in this manner and with 75069 in a slightly weather worn condition it certainly looked authentic and fitted the part well.
* The new novelists, of the 1950s, by contrast, were authentic radicals in a Dickensian tradition, and in the post-war age realism, quite rightly, was felt to be radical.
* Together they present upper-intermediate students with an authentic guide to news reporting in English, and the types of language appropriate to each story.
* Each issue contains authentic reading texts, a variety of listening and speaking activities, and carefully structured writing exercises.
* If the public were schooled to discriminate between the germane and the irrelevant, the authentic and the phoney, and the reality and the appearance, nine-tenths at least of the advertising industry would be out of work.
* It did not matter two hoots to him that Blufton was not over-concerned with authentic period detail.
* A collection of 35 authentic texts taken from circulars, letters, reports, advertisements and brochures, representing both British and American English, and intended to help students develop their reading and writing skills.
* Book 1 reviews the past presented through authentic business materials, eg memos, reports, letters, etc.
* Many of the police series go to great lengths to ensure an authentic feel (otherwise the companies get shoals of complaints from the policemen who avidly watch such shows, and sometimes begin to model their behaviour on what they see).
