likeness

How To Use likeness In A Sentence

• But to be fair to him, he kept his aplomb and asked me, with great seriousness, if the representation was a true and proportionate likeness. GALILEE
• Most Protestants only get as far as calling Catholic statues and icons a likeness.
• In the past year alone, numerous studies have highlighted our remarkable likeness not only to chimps, but to monkeys and apes of all kinds.
• There's a definite likeness there, don't you think, Arethusa ? DEVIL'S BRIDE
• For some eerie reason I am reminded of a passage in the bible where it talks of the Anti-Christ being made into the likeness of man …. perhaps corporate personhood is what this passage really meant? Think Progress » Corporations Speak Out Against SCOTUS Ruling, Call On Congress To Approve Public Financing Of Campaigns
• But they'd get an Identikit or whatever they called it, use computer imaging under her direction, and they'd get a likeness. DOLL'S EYES
• Like most dandies, his predilection for high-style fashion and cosmetic beauty betrays a likeness to his female counterparts.
• She has a remarkable likeness to an unknown figure who appears in his recurrent dreams, a fact that Paul takes as some sort of omen.
• That the portraits of Beethoven did not bear much likeness to the composer could be deemed a deliberate transgression.
• If there is any likeness at all between the machine and its embodied precursor, the closest analogy to that relationship might be between adults and the babies they once were.