How To Use Semblance In A Sentence

The resemblance also of the human stomach to that of the orang-outang is greater than to that of any other animal. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Her words came so fast that I cannot attempt their semblance here, and her voice rose and fell in a kind of querulous chant to which sometimes she nodded her head, as if she was beating the time. The Fool Errant
I have seen human bathers acting just like the birds, though from a different cause, bobbing down towards the water, but afraid to dip their heads, and the idea of comicality arose, as it does in most of the ludicrous actions of animals, from their resemblance to those of mankind. The Naturalist in Nicaragua
Except for the fact that his hair was a solid black, the thin, slight boy of about fifteen or sixteen bore an uncanny resemblance to Kunihiko.
The bust of Thales shown above is in the Capitoline Museum in Rome, but is not contemporary with Thales and is unlikely to bear any resemblance to him

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There is an uncanny resemblance between this reasoning and that which had earlier led John Dalton to an atomic theory of chemistry.
The soil and the landscape of the Isonzo region in Friuli especially bears these resemblances. WTN: Channing Daughters Winery 2004 L'Enfant Sauvage Chardonnay (The Hamptons)
Many other species of Callia also resemble other malacoderms; and the longicorn genus Lycidola has been named from its resemblance to various species of the Lycidae, one of the species here figured (Lycidola belti) being a good mimic of Calopteron corrugatum and of several other allied species, all being of about the same size and found at Chontales. Darwinism (1889)
Still, the Raiders have to generate some semblance of pressure with their front four.
There is not much apparent resemblance between a barndoor Fowl and the Dog who protects the farm-yard. Essays
Kennaquhair, or because it agrees with scenes of the Monastery in the circumstances of the drawbridge, the milldam, and other points of resemblance, that therefore an accurate or perfect local similitude is to be found in all the particulars of the picture. The Monastery
The four that can attain this mark, because they depend solely upon the intrinsic properties of ideas, are resemblance, contrariety, degrees in quality, and proportions in quantity or number.
You probably haven't noticed, but my surname bears a passing resemblance to a certain vulgarity.
If they had any semblance of control over this match, they completely lost that after half an hour too. Times, Sunday Times
Our southern ally's loyalty to her beautiful "unredeemed" provinces, and her claim, which all right-minded Englishmen (I include myself) most heartily endorse, to dominate the historically Italian waters of the Adriatic, happily proved too strong for a machine-made sympathy for Berlin based on nothing better than a superficial resemblance between the histories of Piedmont and Prussia, and a record of nominal alliance with powers whose respect for paper treaties was always fairly apparent. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917
a striking resemblance between parent and child
If the result bears little musical resemblance to the original, it does capture the same hedonistic menace.
On the coasts of New Andalusia, the cuspa is considered as a kind of cinchona; and we were assured, that some Aragonese monks, who had long resided in the kingdom of New Grenada, recognised this tree from the resemblance of its leaves to those of the real Peruvian bark-tree. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Not that it bears any resemblance to the original television series, mind you.
We've traded our epic heroes for tragicomic ones who bear a stronger and stronger resemblance to ourselves. Christianity Today
As a result of centuries of both deliberate and inadvertent plant breeding, the varieties used today have little resemblance with their wild ancestors.
And he was helped by the fact that he bears a slight resemblance to the blond singer in Abba, too.
Resemblances also exist between the endospores and the spore-formations in the Saccharomycetes, and if _Bacillus inflatus_, _B. ventriculus_, &c., really form more than one spore in the cell, these analogies are strengthened. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Thinly disguised supercars clothed in bodies which have a passing resemblance to cars on sale in America race round, trading paint and slipstreaming for 500 miles.
This phenomenon is distinct from onomatopoeia - it is sometimes called sound symbolism: there is no question of auditory resemblance.
Tina bears a striking resemblance to her mother.
perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception
One searches the family portraits for resemblances and finds hardly a trace.
The design does its best to give a semblance of weightiness to something no bigger than an essay.
To cite a familiar instance, the teeth of the chalicotheres have a general adaptive resemblance to the titanotheres, the skull and neck to the horses, the claws to the edentates.
Six miles above the forks, on the west side of the Jefferson, there is a bluff or point of a high plain jutting into the valley to the brink of the river, which bears some resemblance to a beaver's head, and goes by that name. Life in the Rocky Mountains
When governments sell defence equipment to each other, the price usually bears little resemblance to the costs charged by industry. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the horror and destruction, a semblance of life goes on. Times, Sunday Times
The nucleus must be taken from the blastula and gastrula stages of frog embryos (at this point no semblance or form of the creature is distinguishable).
Buoyant circles, rings and squiggles float like islands and lena, at times, an amusing semblance of comic-book drawing.
It bears strong resemblance to a gravestone. Times, Sunday Times
The distorted semblances of the trees on the other side were vaguely visible through it, mocking him cruelly in the emptiness.
The initial resemblance of the ancestral stick insect to a stick must have been very remote.
But it bears no resemblance to a traditional Italian 'bolognese', known as a ragu, which has no garlic whatsoever, nor a single herb. Home | Mail Online
From what has been said, it must be evident that life is the effect of a number of external powers, constantly acting on the body, through the medium of that property which we call excitability; that it cannot exist independent of the action of these stimuli; when they are withdrawn, though the excitability does not instantly vanish, there is no life, no motion, but the semblance of death. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
And yes, with the carefully-coiffured blond hair, tan and surfer's smile, he does bear a passing resemblance to the actor.
All the streets seemed identical, and my tourist map bore little resemblance to the actual street plan. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
We've traded our epic heroes for tragicomic ones who bear a stronger and stronger resemblance to ourselves. Christianity Today
He brings neither huge experience nor formidable physical presence to the game, which England must win to restore some semblance of credibility. Times, Sunday Times
Any resemblance to nasty industrial poutine is purely nominal. Globe and Mail
This is called the morula (= mulberry-embryo) on account of its resemblance to a mulberry or blackberry. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
'It is found upon the lower Himalayan slopes, and bears a close resemblance to the white odontoglossum of commerce, except that the flower is much smaller. Fire-Tongue
The fifteen ships set sail from Harfleur, financed by the French for the destruction of England, loaded with the worst men in Europe, drilled by Swiss instructors into some semblance of an army, commanded by Jasper, and led by Henry, more frightened than he has ever been before in his life. The Red Queen
From photographs on the web site sheep101. info, they bear a strong resemblance to Rambouillet rams, “the backbone of the American sheep industry.” Park Avenue Recession Art, by Lalanne
The bernicle, or brent goose, is interesting from the curious superstition which formerly prevailed respecting it, as it was supposed to have sprung from the shell called the barnacle or lepas, which adheres to the bottoms of ships, and which has a fringe of cirri projecting from between its valves bearing some faint resemblance to the feathers of a bird. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
Their aroma bears some resemblance to bay laurel, though it is distinctly stronger, with a dominant eucalyptus note from cineole. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Some Late Precambrian Ediacaran fossils bear strong resemblances to colonial coelenterates called sea pens.
Her show last year maintained a semblance of identifiable images suggesting real, if manipulated, skyscapes, seascapes and landscapes.
I was struck by her resemblance to my aunt.
The feature that distinguishes the Bigfoot matter is the purported resemblance of this hairy creature to humans.
The common buzzard bears little resemblance to the vulture (not shown), which is a buzzard in nicknameonly.
With his deep-set eyes, square jaw, 1950s hair and tight-jeans-and-T-shirt image he bears more than a passing resemblance to his father.
I suppose that on maybe two or three tracks, at the beginning and the end of the album, there are faint stylistic resemblances, but the emotion and the intent seem to me to come from somewhere else entirely.
Whether or not these family resemblances are accurately identified, this kind of inheritance is now firmly established by experience and science.
It bore no resemblance to any corvid that had ever lived, but somehow the lines managed to convey an expression of fierce intelligence. Blood Lite II: Overbite
A patchwork or quilt like assemblance of world order will be the more fufilling chioce for all of us. Think Progress » Rep. Tancredo: Bush Wants To Merge U.S. With Mexico and Canada
The ice-encrusted cairn eventually appeared through the gloom and I was glad to retrace my steps downhill to a little niche where I could find some semblance of shelter.
Moreover, this pattern of resemblance is rendered still more striking by the prominent appearance of mock-heroic topoi and diction in both poems.
Care I for the limb, the thewes, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! The second part of King Henry the Fourth
The resulting animal bore a close physical resemblance to its prehistoric ancestor with a temper to match its fearsome reputation. Times, Sunday Times
Though they have little outward resemblance, deutzias are a member of the hydrangea family.
The menu bears no resemblance to what is actually on offer, and what food there is varies comically from day to day. Times, Sunday Times
Juergen Buettner, a German retiree who lives in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-largest city after the capital, Sofia, complained of his difficulty in finding "anyone who speaks a semblance of English, let alone German, even though they supposedly have degrees in tourism and languages. Bulgaria Wants More Tourists
The resemblance between Susan and her sister was remarkable.
Where but a few moments before had been men were only grotesque heaps, swiftly melting, swiftly rounding into the the semblance of the mounds that lay behind us — and already beginning to take on their gleam of ancient viridescence! The Moon Pool
But at that point the resemblance between these two books ends. The Times Literary Supplement
He longs for human contact and a semblance of normality. Times, Sunday Times
He was touched by the simple self-respect that would not let her suffer from what was not wrong in itself, but that made her shrink from a voluntary semblance of unwomanliness.
In May, planning chiefs ordered work to stop because the building bore little resemblance to the approved plans.
Ignoring their screams, I tried to maintain some semblance of calm, despite the storm raging about inside.
Grasping her prey with her legs and jaws, in another moment the wriggling body is passive in her grasp, subdued by the potent anæsthetic of her sting -- a hypodermic injection which instantly produces the semblance of death in its insect victim, reducing all the vital functions to the point of dissolution, and then holds them suspended -- literally prolongs life, it would sometimes seem, even beyond its normal duration -- by a process which I might call ductile equation. My Studio Neighbors
Yet the resemblance between the two is nominal, or numerical. Times, Sunday Times
Family resemblances can be studied at length between reunions, and stories heard and reheard.
It all adds up to a strong presumption that unless there's a clear family resemblance to the civil rights movement, civil disobedience is simply beyond the pale. Christianity Today
Each of these in turn divides, giving four, and by repeated divisions of this kind there arises a solid mass of smaller cells (Fig. 8, _b_ to _f_,) called the mulberry stage, from its resemblance to a berry. The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity
Secondly it was held that the ideas arising from these two environmental sources become linked to - gether by principles of association such as contiguity and resemblance. BEHAVIORISM
In general, out of a series of 40 random realizations of simulated single-molecule spectra, there is usually at least one that has a strong resemblance to a specific experimental spectrum.
Correlations between perceptions of physical resemblance and social closeness and familiarity were positive and statistically significant.
Oriental alabaster, the alabastrites of the classical writers, is a translucent marble (calcium carbonate) obtained from stalagmitic deposits; because of its usually banded structure, which gives it some resemblance to onyx, it is also called onyx marble, or simply, though incorrectly, onyx. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
For the next two weeks, the fully autonomous robot, which bears an uncanny resemblance to a Volkswagen Beetle, will plumb the previously inaccessible microbial mysteries of the sinkhole -- or "cenote" -- El Zacat√≥n. NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: May 2007 Archives
Twelfth Night," among the dizziest and most farcelike of his romantic comedies, bears a definite family resemblance to the damn-the-torpedoes craziness of such classic examples of the genre as "Bringing Up Baby" and "The Lady Eve. What's Up, Bard?
The rocks and soil continued to shift until they had achieved an obscurely manlike semblance.
bear a resemblance
The documentary was a misrepresentation of the truth and bore little resemblance to actual events.
a close resemblance
Usually the doodle turns into a four-legged creature with a vague resemblance to an elephant. TOY SHOP
They were mopping up after a crisis that bore an uncanny resemblance to the one we lived through recently. Times, Sunday Times
But still a shadow and resemblance of it was retained; and in the papal church itself to this day, particular confessors are esteemed competent judges of the meetness of their penitents for an admission unto the sacraments of their church. A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity
Even the second project, which was unled, uninspired, unnational, and almost unconscious, and which began and continued as though in obedience to some irresistible and unchangeable natural and economic law, assumed different shapes and semblances, as it blended or refused to blend with the patriotic projects of the idealists. The Story of Newfoundland
I was immediately struck with the resemblance of those organs, called ramenta, to what are fairly assumed to be the male bodies, in certain other families of the same grand division; and I at once came to the conclusion, that the barren fronds, were barren, because almost destitute of these ramenta; and that as these ramenta were confined to the base of the stalk, that is, to the part below its first ramification, an obvious necessity existed for the peculiar nature of the vernation. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
More standard festive fayre as a series of musclemen who bear more than a passing resemblance to the side of a bus come face to face in an attempt to discover who's the strongest of them all.
Everyone is afraid that there's going to be a test and they'll need to know that Pablo Picasso's father bore a strong resemblance to Edgar Degas, that Nicolas Poussin despised Caravaggio, that the third centurion to the left in the Rembrandt crucifixion scene was a dead ringer for Ignaas van der Hoeven, a baker who once stiffed the artist out of 50 guilder. Three Tips for Surviving the Art Museum
They were capped by flat discs and had a smooth surface without any semblance of an aero dynamic profile.
Huxley first called attention to certain noteworthy resemblances between the Neotropical and the Australian regions of Sclater, and held that a primary division of the world was into Arctogaea, comprising the great land masses of the Northern Hemisphere with a part of their extension across the equator, and Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work
On Crusius as an antinomic thinker with resemblances to and influence upon Kant, see Heimsoeth's Studien zur ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON
The archimagus, or high-priest, wears, in resemblance to the ancient breast-plate, a white conch-shell ornamented so as to resemble the precious stones on the _Urim_, and instead of the golden plate worn by the Levite on his forehead, bearing the inscription _Kodish Diary in America, Series Two
It has lately been the fashion to focus the mind entirely on these mild and subordinate resemblances and to forget the main fact altogether.
As a reporter who covered the Johnson Senate, I can attest it bears little resemblance to the Daschle Senate.
She was trying to get her thoughts back into some semblance of order .
Maybe a nice shot of single malt medicine would bring them back to some semblance of reality.
Or it may take the more material form of the exudation of a strange white evanescent dough-like substance called the ectoplasm, which has been frequently photographed by scientific enquirers in different stages of its evolution, and which seems to possess an inherent quality of shaping itself into parts or the whole of a body, beginning in a putty-like mould and ending in a resemblance to perfect human members. The Vital Message
It is rust of iron, finely crystallised: from its resemblance to mica, it is often called micaceous iron. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
The twist is, Ranulph cannot now - um - swive the now orphaned Lady Maud Clifford, his love interest, because of her strong resemblance to her father. Fiction: Damn! An off-topic reversal
Rising from the earth on the edge of Lambourn is an edifice, which at first glance bears a passing resemblance to a rollercoaster. Times, Sunday Times
Kylesa's resemblance to a sludgier Built to Spill cannot be overstated (it's heard to best effect on the trippy, majestic opener, "Tired Climb," an arena-metal lighter anthem if ever there was one). CD review of 'Spiral Shadow' by Kylesa
Yet, the shapes were sufficiently indefinite to make me careful not to let myself be overimpressed by the uncomfortable resemblance, though I must confess, the very thought was sufficient to set some odd thrills adrift in me. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
Calling it “Symphony for Eleanor,” the nearly ten-minute work bears little resemblance to the original other than springing from the structure of the original melody and using the original lyrics. Midweek Music Moment: Vehicle, The Ides of March « A Progressive on the Prairie
And he could see the lines of the half-miler Benny Vaughn, and Hosford and Atkinson, the whole team, all the lifelines going off in all directions, most of them still moving like his, putting down little tracks toward some unseen goal, some moving target of achievement, some semblance of wealth, some jot of immortality, or perhaps just some measure of repose. Again to Carthage
A narrow phonetic transcription of the yaourt lyrics will show how various formal features are employed to create the semblance of English.
It is unlikely they bear any resemblance to Frankenstein's creation.
We find, in fact, that there is at least one very important and very well-known instinct in another class of creatures, which has a strong resemblance to that of the huanaco, as The Naturalist in La Plata
Butterfly could be a tatpurusha compound, in which the relation is one of interaction rather than resemblance. Languagehat.com: Q.PHEEVR ON 'BUTTERFLY.'
Page 58 that on Laurel River in Madison County is also said to be equal to the French, and in Montgomery County, on the Yadkin, the same resemblance to the French buhrstone exists. The Resources of North Carolina: Its Natural Wealth, Condition, and Advantages, as Existing in 1869. Presented to the Capitalists and People of the Central and Northern States
In the scrub adjoining our camp we found a new and remarkably beautiful shrub bearing a fruit, the stone of which was very similar to that of the quandang (Fusanus acuminatus) although there was no resemblance either in the form of the tree or of the flower. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2
It might be kloonobargan, the hairy, man-eating savages; or a tharban, that most frightful of lion-like carnivores; or a basto, a huge, omnivorous beast that bears some slight resemblance to the American bison; or, perhaps worst of all, ordinary human beings like yourself, but with a low evaluation of life -- that is, your life. Escape on Venus
The true place of Moringa seems to be near Xanthophyllum with which genus it has some remarkable points of resemblance, witness the papilionaceous corolla; unilocular stamina, their situation, ovary, placentation, and lastly glandulation. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honour of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright. The Ten Books on Architecture
-- - The flowers of these plants are called papilionaceous, or butterfly-like, from the fancied resemblance of the expanded superior petals to the wings of a butterfly. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
So: nine glass and paper lambdoid forms stand clustered, as ciphers and as semblances. Art from Weaving Women's Words: Baltimore Stories
Yellow haematite, which bears not the smallest resemblance either in colour or weight to the metal, is employed near Kolobeng for the production of iron. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
Unlike Kafka, to whom he bears some resemblance, he doted on his father.
It has much general resemblance to the manatee or lamantin of the West Indies, and has been confounded with it; but the distinction between them has been ascertained by M. Cuvier, Annales du M.seum d'Histoire Naturelle 22 cahier page 308. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
a resemblance between this pseudograph and certain references of ecclesiastical writers to Acta or Gesta of Pilate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Indeed, in the flesh he has more than a passing resemblance to a slightly moth-eaten circus lion.
It also walks on the soles of its feet like a bear, but the resemblance ends there, as the badger is actually from the same family as otters and weasels.
Roberto's undoing is his resemblance to her father - she latches on to him as a surrogate who she can "punish" - and I suspect that this goes deeper than his physical appearance. DVD Times
It sounds nothing like these, nor does it bear any resemblance to a dance number in any way.
Despite the Cube's resemblance to a van, the rear doors don't slide and the right-hinged rear hatch swings out an enormous distance.
That, of course, is bureaucratese for saying ‘Employment growth in the core public sector is completely out of control and bears no resemblance to what the Government should be doing.’
They could of course be accidental, but their resemblance to letters, a P certainly, and a badly formed M perhaps. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
The question then concerning our faith in the existence of a God, not only as the ground of the universe by his essence, but by his wisdom and holy will as its maker and judge, appeared to stand thus: the sciential reason, the objects of wit are purely theoretical, remains neutral, as long as its name and semblance are not usurped by the opponents of the doctrine; but it 'then' becomes an effective ally by exposing the false show of demonstration, or by evincing the equal demonstrability of the contrary from premises equally logical. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
That act of folly summed up 30 minutes of dire rugby, but also seemed to spark Scotland into some semblance of life.
Unbroken barriers work best to reduce noise, but to acquire some semblance of year-round noise reduction from plants, use mixes of evergreens, including arborvitaes, spruces, pines and hollies. Green Scene: Ways to dampen traffic noise on your property
The potato's resemblance to a truffle is shown in the 16th-century name turma de tierra (earth truffle) and in early Italian names tartufo bianco (white truffle) and taratufflo.
In later life he was sensitive to the resemblance between the Thomistic scholasticism in which he was trained and the Marxist scholasticism that he embraced as an adult.
Although unconscionable conduct in this narrow sense bears some resemblance to the doctrine of undue influence, there is a difference between the two.
This bone lies on the roof of the frog's mouth, and bears a number of denticles, and altogether there is a very strong resemblance in it to a number of placoid scales the bony bases of which have become confluent. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
They could of course be accidental, but their resemblance to letters, a P certainly, and a badly formed M perhaps. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
Belinda is a handsome woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to John Cusack.
a resemblance to spectacles; and there is a still smaller species called the "bava," which is found in Lake Valencia, and in many South American rivers. Popular Adventure Tales
As the creation of the welfare state was high on the agenda of all parties, manifestos bore close resemblance on this point.
Cowslip and oxlip are familiar names of varieties of the same plant, and they bear so close a resemblance that it is hard to tell them apart. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
The Bedlington Terrier is often described as a "lamb on a leash" because its unique blond, curly hair and soft, round features give it an uncanny resemblance to the farm animal.
Yet the resemblance between the two is nominal, or numerical. Times, Sunday Times
There was a semblance of swing on an overcast morning and spin on a sunlit afternoon, but the conditions were no excuse for a limp batting performance. Times, Sunday Times
Change produces anxiety - especially a postmodern change in which all semblances of certainty have been removed.
Their resemblance to thrones is an ironic reflection of the violent bases of power.
The Soviet ambassador to the United Nations and other officials noted the resemblance between the two proposals.
And the heart, which has no resemblance to an anatomical heart, is a simplistic illustration of an aroused and engorged vulva, a holy yoni. Donna Henes: On Valentines And Vulvas
They could of course be accidental, but their resemblance to letters, a P certainly, and a badly formed M perhaps. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
I must admit there is more than a passing resemblance between us. The Sun
The reasoning here is the same as in Greek, and, derivatively, in English, namely the resemblance of a delta region to a cartographical triangle. Magicians of Gor
There is a strong facial resemblance among the simious races -- _Simia Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 10, June 4, 1870
The plot of the movie bears more than a passing resemblance to Jane Austen's "Emma".
But there is usually some semblance of coherence to the proceedings, and a proper hook to draw us on.
From common form seem to originate beauty and deformity; and, as they recede from each other in opposite directions, they become less and less like their parent, _common form_, but never totally unlike; for it is their likeness to that form that constitutes the one beauty, and the other deformity; for, were there no resemblance in deformity to the common form, it would be a different species, and no longer disgust; and none in beauty, it would no longer please. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etc.
As true Wit consists in the Resemblance of Ideas, and false Wit in the Resemblance of Words, according to the foregoing Instances; there is another kind of Wit which consists partly in the Resemblance of Ideas, and partly in the Resemblance of Words; which for Distinction Sake I shall call mixt Wit. Spectator, May 11, 1711
-- E.] [Footnote 314: It will be seen in other voyages, that the Malays, who are widely diffused over the Indian archipelago, often live under a kind of aristocratical republican government; even where they are subjected to kings, partaking much of the feudal semblance. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
Many performers succumb to corpsing, and I have on occasion been known to set it up, while of course retaining the semblance of a consummate professional.
In contrast, our experimental study of an oviparous species that does not have parental care is of considerable interest, as any observed family resemblance is likely to be less dependent on pre- and postnatal influences.
All the more striking, then, are the resemblances between their early experiences, in many respects uncannily close.
That at least explains the surface resemblance of the two words, differing only by digraphs (ch- and qu-) representing single consonants.
Their newest model bears a close resemblance to that of their rival competitor.
I retired to rest at night; my slumbers, as it were, waited on and ministered to by the assemblance of grand shapes which I had contemplated during the day. Chapter 10
They take their name from the Latin word clavus, or the French clou, both meaning a nail, and to which the clove has a considerable resemblance. The Book of Household Management
The green bean was generally referred to as the haricot; the mature bean, dried and divested of its pod, was called the fêverole.59 The latter seems to have been less used in polite society, perhaps because of its windy nature, but its resemblance to the fava bean was close enough to guide cooks in preparing it. Savoring The Past
With deft fingers, she carefully sculpted the whitish-gray mass into a semblance of a man, a fat, chunky man with sagging limbs, but a man nonetheless.
The new regime ruthlessly crushed all semblance of armed opposition which threatened national unity.
His heroes tend to bear more than a passing resemblance to himself.
The country was not any closer to even a semblance of self-rule.
I had stared at my uncle to see if I could notice any resemblance between him and any of the men in the picture.
He is trying to hold onto the last semblances of honor.
That the two contemplative ways have some resemblance with the old parable of the two moral ways, the one beginning with incertainty and difficulty, and ending in plainness and certainty, and the other beginning with shew of plainness and certainty, and ending in difficulty and incertainty. Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature
She bore a striking resemblance to him and had inherited his handsome features a thousandfold, albeit her eyes were different, being large, brown, and wide apart; from them beamed a sweetness, a benignancy, and tenderness that, to the impressionable Farrel, bespoke mental as well as physical beauty. The Pride of Palomar
The Cupid, irretrievably damaged, has been altogether removed, but the landscape remains, and it certainly shows a strong family resemblance to those which enframe the figures in the Three Ages, Sacred and Profane Love, and the “Noli me tangere” of the National Gallery. The Earlier Work of Titian
The resemblance, it would appear, is purely coincidental. The Times Literary Supplement
Last year, he thralled and apalled observers when he wore a white suit with black braiding which gave him an uncanny resemblance to late king of rock'n roll. ANC Daily News Briefing
Later he was kept in jail for three days because he bore a resemblance to a photofit shown on Crimewatch.
David Cameron even spent a knackering night deferring to the proletariat, telling workers at Morrisons that they worked all night so he thought he should too (yes, Dave, but they don't work in the day as well) and handling halibut at Grimsby fish market, which had the unfortunate effect of highlighting the resemblance between the fish's thin lips, and cold, dead eyes, and his own. Christina Patterson: Thanks to the politicians, we're all 'hard-working' now
The second fan generated a semblance of underwater movement in Atlantic, scrim rippling along the flow.
The story has points of resemblance to a Hebrew myth.
a face called Mongoloid, because of a certain resemblance to that of some of the Mongolian races as will be noted above. Applied Eugenics
They clip-clopped along the semblance of a path at a constant but jerky pace.
The term "analogy" was to be retained for cases of functional resemblance, whether homogenetic or not. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
At an indefinite height overhead something made the sky blacker, which had the semblance of a vast architrave uniting the pillars horizontally…
Obviously I'm white but my current prosthesis - and the one now being made for me - bears only a passing resemblance to my actual skin colour.
We were only shylocked once - an exorbitantly priced lunch, the final total of which bore no earthly resemblance to the prices of the food we'd seen inside the door just moments before.
Miss Willerton, in fact, bears more than a passing resemblance to the dreaded penwomen O'Connor would write so disparagingly about in later years.
Named the Sombrero Galaxy for its hat-like resemblance, M104 features a prominent dust lane and a bright halo of stars and globular clusters.
Dr. Priestley founds, not on the _resemblance or analogy, _ but on the _essential difference_, between created and uncreated intelligence; but, in point of fact, the _difference_, great and real as it is, has no bearing on the only question at issue; it is the _resemblance or analogy_ between all thinking beings and the Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
But while it is true that the United States is again enmeshed in controversial wars in Asia, the circumstances prompting the show's rebellious acts feel as if they bear only tangential resemblance to modern America. The wonderfully unruly 'Hair' is still a blowout 42 years after its Broadway debut
The gripping storylines feel authentic but bear little resemblance to reality. Times, Sunday Times
Peter says, "The resemblance between Brody and the matador is really amazing! Filmstalker: Brody and Cruz in tragic Matador tale
These multitudinous strata present such resemblances and differences among themselves that they are capable of classification into groups or formations, and these formations again are brigaded together into still larger assemblages, called by the older geologists, primary, secondary, and tertiary; by the moderns, palaeozoic, mesozoic, and cainozoic: the basis of the former nomenclature being the relative age of the groups of strata; that of the latter, the kinds of living forms contained in them. Essays
Phalangers, more commonly known as possums and cuscuses, are marsupials but with a vague resemblance to some monkeys.

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