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real or true- We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- It was short but brimming with authentic grief and love.Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song
- There is no consensus about whether Neff's hidden message is authentic.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- On the other hand our freedom obliges us to make something of ourselves, to live 'authentically' or 'truly.'Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- Amongst other authentic documents, we here find a great many relating to the affairs of New England and Virginia during this period.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- I responded to her authentic and down-to-earth personality.Jaycee Lee Dugard -- A Stolen Life
- Las Vegas is now so contrived and artificial that it has become something authentic, a place unlike any other.Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
- The couple watched the films together, and Oswald even told Marina that the films felt authentic.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
- But what is authentic about it, I keep asking Anatole.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- I could hear the authentic sorrow in her voice, and I paused, unable to sum up the last couple of years into a single statement.Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John
- The tower hid the older brick sections of the hospital, whose architecture felt authentic and aligned with the neighborhood.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- A Senator from a Western state hurried up to him, hand outstretched, babbling on in what he apparently believed to be the authentic Pima tongue.James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
- "I appreciate you making things look authentic, but you didn't need to go that far."Kiera Cass -- The Selection
- 'If I'm going to do this, I want to be authentic about it.Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key
- They know that we like to feel that things are authentic.Ally Condie -- Matched
- It's a good laugh, authentic, unforced; I like it, but I am feverish.Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
- I ordered some authentic Chinese food—pig's intestines and sea slugs.Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
- But it was absolutely authentic, he swore; he knew for a fact Taiwanese cuckoos, especially hem-orrhoidal ones, looked and sounded precisely like that.Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
- It's pretty authentic, actually.Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
- I'm trying for the authentic camping experience."Gayle Forman -- Where She Went