Verisimilitude

[quislibet]

Here's a quotation from a Washington Post piece about the stage-managing of the President's public appearances that I am going to have to work into my dissertation (involving character portrayal in ancient historiography) somehow:

"White House officials do not deny that they craft elaborate events to showcase Bush, but they maintain that these events are designed to accurately dramatize his policies and to convey qualities about him that are real."