How To Use Similitude In A Sentence

Walsh should have mentioned the remarkable physiognomic similitude of Harris and Pollock.
Jonson's use of strict verisimilitude helps to facilitate yet another layer of deception by employing a fixed sense of time.
The tectonic framework of Bachu - and north - south dissimilitude.
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
According to the dimensional theory, the similitude criteria of lubrication performance in thrust bearing are deduced.

The slow and deliberate steps of philosophers, here, if anywhere, are distinguished from the precipitate march of the vulgar, who, hurried on by the smallest similitude, are incapable of all discernment or consideration.
I found that I had what they call fallen in life with absolute success and verisimilitude. Essays of Travel
The particles of which it is composed having a great similitude with those of which we are formed may easily be animalized when they are subjected to the vital action of our digestive organs. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
The skilled reader is not dependent on the adventitious aids of easiness or brightness; he is no longer, for instance, dependent upon plot for his enjoyment of fiction, or upon what is called 'actuality' or 'incident', or mere verisimilitude of description. 2010 January 08 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
‘The dissimilitude between the terms ‘civil marriage’ and ‘civil union’ is not innocuous: it is a considered choice of language that reflects a demonstrable assigning of same-sex, largely homosexual couples to second-class status.
Byatt's account of the jinx's stream of consciousness during her ritual killing ventures beyond the limits of verisimilitude.
It is the perception of similitude (however mistaken) rather than its a priori accuracy that matters here.
Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
Now whether that word hath origin in a Greek term meaning a conflict, as the best-read boys asseverated, or whether it is nothing more than a figure of similitude, from the beating arms of a mill, such as I have seen in counties where are no waterbrooks, but folk make bread with wind — it is not for a man devoid of scholarship to determine. Lorna Doone
Even if he was "phoning it in" or holding himself back while in rehearsal mode, the exteriority of the verisimilitude in his performance far surpasses most people, even on their best day. Ashley Wren Collins: Using Michael Jackson's Legacy to Open Can of Whoop Ass on Youth Work Ethic
As a step towards addressing these questions I would like to draw attention to another set of similitudes operative in ‘Loves Progress’: the monetary tropes linking value to love or desire.
a blasphemous meaning, yet they sheltered themselves under the similitude from the imputation of downright blasphemy. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Occasionally Voss would stage arrests in the street to maintain verisimilitude. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
The similitudes are opposed in equal number by contrasts.
She has included photographs in the book to lend verisimilitude to the story.
A myriad of historic details adds to the story's verisimilitude.
I would let verisimilitude and photogenics dictate my route more than proximity to Madison Square Garden.
Actually, my aunt had done nothing of the sort, but I like the substance as well as the euphony; it has verisimilitude, doesn't it?
The similitude is taken from some common custom among the Jewish children at their play, who, as is usual with children, imitated the fashions of grown people at their marriages and funerals, rejoicing and lamenting; but being all a jest, it made no impression; no more did the ministry either of John the Baptist or of Christ upon that generation. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
By which last wiredrawn similitude does Teufelsdröckh mean no more than that young men find obstacles in what we call 'getting under way'? Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
The different connotation between them dominates the aesthetic criterion. Anyway , the otherness of their conventional architecture is dissimilitude .
The historical adviser is there not to ensure verisimilitude, but to be an accomplice in furthering the aims of the producer.
Honestly, a lot of my more outrageous language is in similitude of much of the liberal posts made here. Think Progress » Netanyahu Adviser Ya’alon: ‘I Do Not Accept’ Any Withdrawal From Settlements
In goodness of heart, and in principles of piety, this exemplary couple was bound to each other by the most perfect unison of character, though in their tempers there was a contrast which had scarce the gradation of a single shade to smooth off its abrupt dissimilitude. Camilla
He is just a little too tall and too thin for verisimilitude. THE SAVAGE GIRL
The historical adviser is there not to ensure verisimilitude, but to be an accomplice in furthering the aims of the producer.
I'm writing about an experience that isn't my own, and in order to ensure some degree of verisimilitude, I use details from my own experience.
This reductiveness is a strength, as the simplicity a convincing verisimilitude, and the theatrical structure keeps you focused on the story. Mira Schor: Will Obama Shoot Liberty Valance?
To Dow, this avoidance of similitude is what raises the decorative - a term he thought should be dropped altogether - to the highest, most primary level of creation, that of pure expression.
Painted with an almost Dutch-Renaissance verisimilitude, Harrison's work is of extreme close-ups that focus us on expressively open faces.
The explanation of the similitude is very dreadful, ver. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
In terms of Hollywood verisimilitude, that's pinpoint accuracy.
It can mean, neutrally, the kind of art which aims for verisimilitude, or it can mean one which succeeds in penetrating to the truth of how things are.
The major dissimilitude in this description is between highly conventional notions of essential masculine and feminine attributes.
Written with a pungency largely absent in Indian public discourse, the cables capture with startling verisimilitude the freewheeling political culture of the world's largest democracy and second-fastest growing major economy. Corruption on Singh's Watch
At the same time, Western artists are exacting and relentless in their pursuit of historical verisimilitude.
Graphics are to games what verisimilitude is to a novel.
Germ theory after 1880 subtly fed into this anxiety by vexing our notions of identity, depicting an invisible world with the power to enforce similitude and therefore to redraw the lines of community.
We were strangers to any species of disunion and dispute; for although there was a great dissimilitude in our characters, there was an harmony in that very dissimilitude. Chapter 1
It's not brittle facticity that Davis is after but more supple conceptions of plausibility and verisimilitude that speak to how a film stretches evidence to provoke, arouse, and speak to larger historical truths.
This branch of the similitude is only mentioned, and not prosecuted here. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
Shrubs - witch hazel, chokeberry, hydrangea, blueberry, sumac - added to the strange verisimilitude.
His regular attendance in the reference library had nothing to do with the pursuit of verisimilitude in his fictions. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
The worlds which we see - with all their properties of immensity, resemblance, and dissimilitude - result from the endless multiplicity of falling atoms.
In each case the similitude gives instruction about or illustrates an aspect of the kingdom.
And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities, similitudes, examples, as upon particular confutations and solutions of every scruple, cavillation, and objection; breeding for the most part one question as fast as it solveth another; even as in the former resemblance, when you carry the light into one corner, you darken the rest; so that the fable and fiction of Scylla seemeth to be a lively image of this kind of philosophy or knowledge; which was transformed into The Advancement of Learning
We have the following conversation which I shall translate into the dialect for verisimilitude.
As a novelist, I strive for verisimilitude: the appearance of reality.
Now there is a compelling formulation of the principle of Anglican comprehensiveness - ‘manifold and yet harmonious dissimilitude’!
Like Descartes, Le Grand used the example of the sword wounding the body to illustrate the non-resemblance or dissimilitude of the relations between external objects and sensations, and sensations and ideas. (1694, p. 327) Antoine Le Grand
Apart from the matter of a wide dissimilitude of pieties, the task was complicated by somewhat different understandings of the role of hymns in worship.
The pictographic paintings comprised not only recognizable but even vigorous representations of men and animals, depicted in form and color though without perspective, while the calumet of catlinite was sometimes chiseled into striking verisimilitude of human and animal forms in miniature. The Siouan Indians
In fact, much of what you'll see here smacks of similarity because it bears such a striking similitude to that sameness we saw from the same people in the same way some time ago.
At the required level of visual verisimilitude, computer animation is costly.
The 'prolixity' of descriptions of experiments and the detailed, naturalistic illustrations that went into the society's publications aimed to create the impression of verisimilitude. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
We do not consider all species differences or their combinations; rather, we focus on cases where species show similitude.
He called attention to the immense extent of territory comprehended within the limits of the United States, together with the variety of its climates, productions, and commerce, the difference of extent, and number of inhabitants in all; the dissimilitude of interest, morals, and policies .... The Enlarged Republic—Then and Now
Part of this similitude has to do with the role of the state in matters of the church.
His Russian was good enough, and he thought that he could lend some verisimilitude to the proceedings. KARA KUSH
The canvases authored by van Gogh and Gauguin never approached indistinguishability, let alone striking similitude.
The similitude is explained in the following words, It is a people of no understanding, brutish and sottish, and destitute of the knowledge of God, and that have no relish or savour of divine things, like a withered branch that has no sap in it; and this is at the bottom of all those sins for which God left them desolate, their idolatry first and afterwards their infidelity. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
See Foucault on resemblance and similitude.
The dissimilitude is so striking, that the utmost you can here pretend to is a guess, a conjecture, a presumption concerning a similar cause; and how that pretension will be received in the world, I leave you to consider.
We shall need to learn how to appreciate anew that ‘manifold and yet harmonious dissimilitude’ that characterizes the people of God on earth.
The similitude is very elegant (ver. 1-5), but, II. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
II. ii.56 (444,8) gild the faces of the grooms withal,/For it must seem their guilt] Could Shakespeare possibly mean to play upon the similitude of _gild_ and _guilt_. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
It is not a semblance of the divine nature, an analogon, or verisimilitude, but the love of God himself in man: so that man is in this sense an incarnation of the divine. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
At the required level of visual verisimilitude, computer animation is costly.
This perhaps explains the strident colors which characterize his paintings as certainly it suggests the source of their extreme verisimilitude.
Filming the movie on location in New York and San Francisco and on an elaborate backlot in Los Angeles adds a verisimilitude that the filmmakers hope will offer a different kind of power.
Shrubs - witch hazel, chokeberry, hydrangea, blueberry, sumac - added to the strange verisimilitude.
RESULTSL Three - dimensional data of facial profile was accurate and the images were reconstructed with verisimilitude.
It appeareth likewise that I have assigned to summary philosophy the common principles and axioms which are promiscuous and indifferent to several sciences; I have assigned unto it likewise the inquiry touching the operation or the relative and adventive characters of essences, as quantity, similitude, diversity, possibility, and the rest, with this distinction and provision; that they be handled as they have efficacy in nature, and not logically. The Advancement of Learning
In such cases, verisimilitude takes over motivation, because each word of that story will expatiate on or repeat the nuclear word that begets it, for each such word is also a metonym of that nucleus.
It is observed in similitude, inasmuch as it forms the ground of species or form, and so is called speciosity, because beauty is nothing but numerical equality, or a certain disposition of parts accompanied with sweetness of color. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5
From a sociological point of view, it is therefore an expression of similitude of being, but also agency (the means to act) within a social technology.
In other words, an instant repressor of any subversive initiatives the asymmetry is not between the United States and Venezuela, in which case we would speak of a sidereal dissimilitude of military options, but rather between the people and the Government. 06/05/2005 - 06/12/2005
Research is vital but I have a problem with focussing too much on verisimilitude.
This ‘moment’ implies nothing less than the emergence of a structure of similitude: animal or human bodies in here like ones out there.
In other words, Clarissa's language mirrors the novel's verisimilitude, while Lovelace's repeats the figures of fiction's past.
His blessedness is here illustrated by a similitude (v. 3): He shall be like a tree, fruitful and flourishing. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Suppose it be of a thing that is white; when the present sense of it is vanished, there is yet retained the remembrance; when many memorative notions of the same similitude do concur, then he is said to have an experience; for experience is nothing more than the abundance of notions that are of the same form met together. Essays and Miscellanies
Empedocles says, that the similitude of children to their parents proceeds from the vigorous prevalency of the generating sperm; the dissimilitude from the evaporation of the natural heat it contains. Essays and Miscellanies
The most generally received opinion is, that the first letter, K+ (caf) is a servile letter, and a note of similitude, and, therefore, that the word cherub is of the same force as if it were said, ` like a boy. ' Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
Though full of similitudes and routine panegyrics, the book is valuable for its lack of originality and reflection of current views.
The best work typically has been interested in class and race, with similitude and difference as always already present in the making of colonial orders the world over.
Who else would write, let alone attempt to sing, a line such as ‘I hate verisimilitude’, or punningly entitle a song ‘Neil Jung’?
The historical adviser is there not to ensure verisimilitude, but to be an accomplice in furthering the aims of the producer.
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
But the younger generation of Congressmen - its members are in their 20s and 30s - imparts verisimilitude to the definition.
The greatest part of physicians affirm, that this happens casually and fortuitously; for, when the sperm of the man and woman is too much refrigerated, then children carry a dissimilitude to their parents. Essays and Miscellanies
Valentine is fictional, a character in Judith Krantz's Scruples, a book that positively sizzles with brand-name-dropping, put there not as paid product placement but as verisimilitude of an especially glamorous kind. Archive 2008-07-01
With both her hands on his arm, she shored it back and tried to draw it forward sharply in similitude of a punch. CHAPTER XIII
Is realism, "lifeness" or verisimilitude a necessary quality of good literature? Archive 2008-12-01
Or it may be taken figuratively, for his laying the country waste, and this very similitude is used in the history of it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Fantasy fiction relies heavily on generic verisimilitude, precisely because so much of its content centres around what is ‘not real’.
I basically advised them on the accuracy of the film and verisimilitude issues, kibitzed with them.
The translator found the corruption 'bataille' for 'taille.' for they were neither angels nor spirits, but men formed to the similitude of their lords, saying why should they then be kept so under like beasts; the which they said they would no longer suffer, for they would be all one, and if they laboured or did anything for their lords, they would have wages therefor as well as other. The Chronicles of Froissart
The need for verisimilitude can sometimes resemble futurology, since both depend upon extrapolation. Talking about science fiction « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…
But what does stand out in Adrian's novel is the way he combines verisimilitude with implausibility.
Verisimilitude as 'griff' said was what was missing most. '60z
Ursula K. LeGuin loaned verisimilitude to WIZARD OF EARTHSEA by having her magic rules copy the real beliefs of primitive peoples, who do not reveal their true names to strangers for fear of being hexed. Explain Me This
Richard Eyre summed it up well recently: cinema and television are mediums of similitude, and radio and the stage mediums of metaphor.
All of this being ‘merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative’.
(Gr. parabole), a placing beside; a comparison; equivalent to the Heb. mashal, a similitude. Easton's Bible Dictionary
This similitude of marking between the rectrices and subcaudals renders the distinction between these two kinds of feathers less sharp than in many other Gallinaceans, and the more so in that two median rectrices are considerably elongated and assume exactly the aspect of tail feathers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882
At the required level of visual verisimilitude, computer animation is costly.
Poe saw how ‘all are affected by the potent magic of verisimilitude.’
That is, does it have verisimilitude, the appearance of being true or real?
49 And behold, thou hast seene the similitude of her: and because she lamented her sonne, thou beganst to comfort her: and of these thinges that haue chanced, these were to be opened to thee. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
Resemblance among objects of the same kind, and dissimilitude among objects of different kinds, are too obvious and familiar to gratify our curiosity in any degree:
This similitude reveals the undeniable affinities between the two cultures, owing to the similar manner in which they perceive the sacred.
The historical adviser is there not to ensure verisimilitude, but to be an accomplice in furthering the aims of the producer.
'You are apprehensive, then, of some dissimilitude of character prejudicial to our future happiness?' Camilla
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude likeness of God.
At the required level of visual verisimilitude, computer animation is costly.
While it may seem like something out of science fiction, many insist clones would be naturally predisposed to such similitude, and caution that cloneish behavior would be evident in every facet of life.
Where the narrative is aimed to function mainly as an immersive Story, authenticity and verisimilitude may be held more important than even basic literary skills. Archive 2009-12-01
They situate and reassure the reader by promoting verisimilitude, the quality of appearing to be real.
Because of my developing view that there is often more verisimilitude than veracity in folk wisdom, I carried out a replication.
And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities, similitudes, examples, as upon particular confutations and solutions of every scruple, cavillation, and objection; breeding for the most part one question as fast as it solveth another; even as in the former resemblance, when you carry the light into one corner, you darken the rest; so that the fable and fiction of Scylla seemeth to be a lively image of this kind of philosophy or knowledge; which was transformed into a comely virgin for the upper parts; but then The Advancement of Learning
On what ‘table’, according to what grid of identities, similitudes, analogies, have we become accustomed to sort out so many different and similar things?
Frye refers back to his scale here, where he says that, given the historic tendency of verisimilitude to provide plausibility and "reading forward in history [...] we may think of our romantic, high mimetic and low mimetic modes as a series of displaced myths, mythoi or plot-formulas progressively moving over towards the opposite pole of verisimilitude [away from myth, which doesn't require verisimilitude], and then, with irony, beginning to move back" (52). Anime Nano!
This type of reality is in fact undistinguishable from a verbal mythology, of network of signs underpinned by commonly shared ideas about verisimilitude.
His afflicted historian is compelled to fling his net among prosaic similitudes for an illustration of one thus degradedly in its grip. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
lifeness" or verisimilitude a necessary quality of good literature? Culture | guardian.co.uk
The philosophers are misled, I have come to believe, when they teach us that sleep is death's similitude. GALILEE
More than any other person, Bishop Holsey was the constructer of the plan after which our financial systems since then have been similitudes. The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America: Comprising Its Organization, Subsequent Development and Present Status
Because of my developing view that there is often more verisimilitude than veracity in folk wisdom, I carried out a replication.
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.
Thus he illustrates by a similitude taken from a woman in travail, to whose sorrows he compares those of his disciples, for their encouragement; for it is the will of Christ that his people should be a comforted people. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
Yet the faultless verisimilitude of the flowers conveys little of their actual presence or inhesion.
And, therefore, in the _infancy of learning_, and in rude times, when those conceptions which are now trivial, were then new, _the world was full of parables and similitudes_, for else would men either have passed over _without mark, or else_ REJECTED FOR PARADOXES, that which was offered _before they had understood or judged_. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
We moderns tend to unthinkingly equate the quest for verisimilitude with the quest for historical accuracy, yet here it clearly is intended to serve the heart, and not the head.
The first of Boethius's four subdivisions was similitude, used of the case of the noun ‘animal’ said of both real human beings and pictured human beings.
The disparity could not be starker yet those who should be informing and defending cower like little girls, covering themselves in a shroud of self righteous evasion and dissimilitude. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
This is a very slight discrepancy from strict verisimilitude here, but one that revealingly triggers disproportionate reactions among critics.
He further suggests that there are two types of parables: narrative parables (comparisons with narration) and similitudes (comparisons with ‘is like’ or ‘is as if’).
On the whole, this custom has about the same disadvantages and advantages which Warton points out as resulting from the four rhymes of a Spenserian stanza; -- the advantages, -- picturesqueness, ingenuity, discovery of new beauties: the disadvantages, -- art not concealed by art, tautology, imparity of similitudes, a caricature of typology, painful and affected elaboration. Hymns of the Eastern Church
The music here is certainly exciting, but its exhilaration does a lot to mask the core similitude of these songs.
The fragment seemed Kosher, with phraseology, vocabulary, metaphor, style and expression of apparent authenticity and verisimilitude.
Like Picasso, Bacon sought neither photorealism nor photographic verisimilitude, nor were his paintings merely the sum of their sources.
But polyglotism has its limits and, at some point, a reader must depend on the translator for some semblance of literary verisimilitude. Mark Axelrod: The Day Before Happiness
This perhaps explains the strident colors which characterize his paintings as certainly it suggests the source of their extreme verisimilitude.
After all, this is a TV series in which Stephen Hawking's wheelchair is able to transform and fly; it is not exactly striving for verisimilitude.
Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for, as it addeth deformity to an ape, to be so like a man, so the similitude of superstition to religion, makes it the more deformed. The Essays

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