0 showing things and people as they really are, or seeming to be real:
She was saying how true to life the characters in the film were.
[ before noun ] a true-to-life story.
It's more true to life than an ordinary text.
So, contrived media samples of pragmatics may not be true to life.
His appalling views were only too true to life and therefore, perhaps, induced some viewers to be ashamed, for instance, of their own suppressed racism.
On the other hand, sometimes it is not really true to life, in that there is not the awful mess and horror of the real thing.
They are true to life.
Is it human, is it true to life, is it sincere?
That may be true to life, but for an otherwise mainstream movie, it's trouble.
Farsari ensured that the colours were true to life and that the best materials were used.