Semblance

Obviously the Napster that return today has no semblance to the original: bar the logo and the name.

she tried to force her thoughts back into some semblance of order

The only option left now for the devastated Democratic party is to rally together and show somesemblance of a united front.

Braugher is the only one who appears to have a semblance of dignity.

The trick here is meticulous preparation in order to avoid the intrusion of any semblance of reality.

it bears some semblance to the thing I have in mind

It isn’t until she starts in with lyrics that any semblance to the original recording manifests.

To some observers in the office she bore only a vague semblance to the miniature Aussie singer.

it bears some semblance to the thing I have in mind

Truly dramatic explanations must, however, bear some semblance of reality.

The donors may enjoy better control over the economic affairs of the country in the absence of anysemblance of fiscal system.

Maybe a nice shot of single malt medicine would bring them back to some semblance of reality.

Still, the Raiders have to generate some semblance of pressure with their front four.

she tried to force her thoughts back into some semblance of order

We get no closer to any semblance of truth, or any semblance of an idea of the best possible way forward.

At that phase, some of his works had some semblance to nature, like the barks of trees or a rocky landscape.

Can amnesia run so deeply as to eliminate all traces of any sort of memories, semblances thereof, or feelings thereof?

He is trying to hold onto the last semblances of honor.

In some of the sculptures Holley is more explicitly figurative, bending wires into semblances of human profiles or, in at least one case, painting a head on an assemblage element.

Such distance is based on the insight that all of the upheaval is ultimately just a non-substantial proliferation of semblances that do not really concern the innermost kernel of our being.

To ordinary perception it seems full of characters and objects, all the semblances of a world.

It was one long string of notes, connected not in harmony or key, but with semblances of consistency that emerge in rhythm and timbre.

These Mucks also have semblances of arms, although they are probably useless.

He knows them to be vidharma, anti-religious movements, chala-dharma, false religion, or dharmabhasa, mere semblances of religion.

The distorted semblances of the trees on the other side were vaguely visible through it, mocking him cruelly in the emptiness.

All semblances to actual persons or events, living or dead, is frankly impossible, but if there is a resemblance then it is either accidental, or a lampoon, and in either case you can’t prove it so don’t bother suing me.

Like anything else of importance (goodness, understanding, God), adoration (or love, as we might as well call it) is plagued by false semblances .

Change produces anxiety – especially a postmodern change in which all semblances of certainty have been removed.