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Sentence Examples Such a view, though defensible in theory, would destroy all semblance of coequality from a practical standpoint. Although they are by no means as striking as total eclipses, annular eclipses can afford a semblance of the experience. One day, during a lunch break, I found a semblance of shadow under the branches of a cotton plant, lay down and opened a notepad. Wheeler's love and Bell's book are twin focal points for the enigmas of truth and semblance. That act of folly summed up 30 minutes of dire rugby, but also seemed to spark Scotland into some semblance of life. Slowly, as June crept on, life began to take on some semblance of normalcy for most of the residents of London. After the departure of the Romans from Britain, the native inhabitants retained a semblance of Roman institutions. Minimal hand-carving blended the narrow taper of the leg into the foot turning and created the semblance of a carved cabriole leg at low cost. Everyone could sense it was futile, but at least for half an hour they got a chance at some semblance of competition. The ferry from Fajardo disgorges hordes of weekend visitors and creates a reasonable semblance of activity for the shops and bars. The donors may enjoy better control over the economic affairs of the country in the absence of any semblance of fiscal system. To some observers in the office she bore only a vague semblance to the miniature Aussie singer. It isn't until she starts in with lyrics that any semblance to the original recording manifests. At that phase, some of his works had some semblance to nature, like the barks of trees or a rocky landscape. Maybe a nice shot of single malt medicine would bring them back to some semblance of reality. The economy overheats and stock prices diverge wildly from any semblance of reasonable valuation. The shavetail saluted crisply and started prodding the crowd into a semblance of order. His hood still shadowed any semblance of a face, if he had even had one to begin with. Raven black curls fell riotously around her face, holding no semblance at all to the painfully tidy styles of the London ton. The design does its best to give a semblance of weightiness to something no bigger than an essay. Show More Sentences The trick here is meticulous preparation in order to avoid the intrusion of any semblance of reality. He turns aggressive and a verbal duel follows, shattering any semblance of peace that remains. We get no closer to any semblance of truth, or any semblance of an idea of the best possible way forward. Still, the Raiders have to generate some semblance of pressure with their front four. The rocks and soil continued to shift until they had achieved an obscurely manlike semblance. It finally took policemen wielding lethal looking lathis to bring the plaza back to some semblance of normality. Her show last year maintained a semblance of identifiable images suggesting real, if manipulated, skyscapes, seascapes and landscapes. Buoyant circles, rings and squiggles float like islands and lena, at times, an amusing semblance of comic-book drawing. The only option left now for the devastated Democratic party is to rally together and show some semblance of a united front. A narrow phonetic transcription of the yaourt lyrics will show how various formal features are employed to create the semblance of English. Barney has a semblance of a running story in each film, and characters and self-references appear in multiple films. It is often at the point of taking on extra management responsibility that any semblance of work-life balance is lost. It's as big as a breeze block, but the tome is the most ambitious attempt to corral the film industry into some semblance of order. My nose senses that this is a murky, damp place, but with some semblance of warmth and the faint scent of cold food. This weekend's spring tides might help scour out the bank of sand and restore a semblance of tidal passage. Ignoring their screams, I tried to maintain some semblance of calm, despite the storm raging about inside. The second fan generated a semblance of underwater movement in Atlantic, scrim rippling along the flow. But such a view, it becomes clear, is only a semblance, since outside of carnival time's hope and progress, hardship contradicts festal joy. Every time there's even a semblance of running water, we put something under the faucet to catch the precious drops. Thousands of commuters faced the prospect of trying to get home as the initial chaos gave way to some semblance of order by mid-afternoon. Show More Sentences Because grace could not bind itself to matter, Bogomils believe that Christ had only the semblance of a human body. By the time the Professor returned from the airport, all public areas of the house had been restored to a semblance of order and calm. Here, the battle commanders had been able to maintain a semblance of discipline and control. This beer is a winner with beer aficionados, especially hopheads who appreciate a hoppy beer that has at least a semblance of balance. All semblance of evil were slowly drained away as he drank swallow after swallow of this liquid fire. But then his expression cleared and he looked down at her with a semblance of calm. They clip-clopped along the semblance of a path at a constant but jerky pace. Television programs are resumed within this privileged enclave, and a semblance of normality returns within the walls of Bognor. She shook her unruly mane of red hair, attempting and failing to coax it into some semblance of order. The tables were dotted carefully around the coffee shop to give the semblance of disorder. Any semblance of nerve failed him, and for the second time in his life, Sakki Ryu ran from a fight. The absence of any semblance of discipline is to blame for this descent into moral turpitude. His monopoly, they say, was threatening to kill off any semblance of competition in a discipline that used to thrive on it. In our opinion, it is important that this task is taken from the Commission, so as to take away any semblance of nepotism and such like. His life is saved by the heroic revolutionary Fairfax and it is Fairfax who can unify and motivate a motley bunch of anti-monarchists into some semblance of an army. However if only half of what is going the rounds right now has even a semblance of credence to it then it would seem that there are problems to be ironed out. 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. There was only person helping him keep his semblance of saneness. Their initiation is to slay an infant in front of its mother in order to remove any semblance of humanity or emotion. It is not only encyclopaedias, dictionaries, and libraries that create the illusion of a semblance of order from a mass of chaotic and random materials. Show More Sentences I have nothing, not even memories of a home or a semblance thereof. The country was not any closer to even a semblance of self-rule. Truly dramatic explanations must, however, bear some semblance of reality. Braugher is the only one who appears to have a semblance of dignity. Diesel engines were once very crude things, often doing their best to pilfer ideas from the best petrol engines in order to imbue them with some semblance of bearability. Here's a man who can shoulder a crisis, keep the show on the road, juggle two mobile phones, a walkie-talkie and a landline and still keep a semblance of sanity. I had to at least hold my ground, or lose all semblance of competency. Many of the basic cable channels with even the remotest semblance of a news presence. One day I'll reorganise the sections into some semblance of order. Are Nietzsche and Heidegger the fathers of philosophies of existence partly because Germanic creates this semblance of physicality and there-ness? We chatted inconsequently, watching the kids screaming around the church basement gym while the junior scout leaders vainly tried to impose some semblance of order. 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. True courage involved secretly washing a thin camp uniform or crocheting underwear from stolen yarn in order to maintain some semblance of humanity. He remembers putting nails on a railroad track so the train could forge them into flat blades that he could sharpen into some semblance of a cutting implement. 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. Instrumental playing from La Nuova Musica under conductor David Bates is delicate and much more deadpan, providing a semblance of chasteness. That's what piers are for, too: idle chat with strangers, where an ad hoc bond forms under the semblance of being at sea. The only way to break through the semblance of total identity is immanently, using the concept. Rehnquist rose, buttoned his loud sport shirt to add a semblance of formality, and began. They created institutions with the semblance of democracy to cloak the most iron-fisted control. Show More Sentences Critics may be gladdened to learn that there is at least some semblance of oversight. And any semblance of normality that had previously existed seemed to have evaporated. First, the Neesonesque action hero must convey some semblance of hard-earned depth, which helps older viewers identify. To his many critics in Budapest, this means hollowing out democracy, retaining a semblance of pluralism while controlling all the key levers. He forced her, along with her older sisters, to forgo any semblance of a normal childhood. Despotism and authoritarianism are given a semblance of democracy in order to conceal their true nature. But for some semblance of camaraderie, lend an ear to their tales of woe. As a result, MAN SA and the Peruvian government both suggest that the study lacks any semblance of objectivity. For the first time in 40 years there is a semblance of broad-based government in Iraq. This, coupled with the implementation of spring road restrictions, should help keep some semblance of a floor under the cash market. It has a semblance of relevance to the Applicants' argument with respect to Hydro One's relationship with Inergi. Maintaining some semblance of a natural disturbance regime is an important long-term goal for non-harvestable areas. This was not the case with Mauritania, which put up a semblance of democracy without any possibility of alternation. While the capital markets are not back to normal, they have rapidly returned to a semblance of order. By supporting tensions with its neighbour, Algeria is trying to save what it still can and to raise a semblance of 'national feeling. South Africa tried to give it a semblance of legitimacy by bringing the Alliance to power through elections. With the exception of a very few cultures with any semblance of a written language system, oral history is the main basis in which pre-Christian history is preserved. Teachers who fail to arouse curiosity in their students regarding the subjects of study fail to achieve even a semblance of order and administration in their classes. Still, amid the uncertainty the residents of bab al-Salameh do their best to carve a semblance of order into their lives. Since then, the Kampucheans have reintroduced a semblance of normality. Show More Sentences Pickering's woeful start continued when they slipped to their third defeat at Clifton Alliance but at least their batsmen began to show a semblance of form. We have intermittent communication with his children: they are in the care of a distant relative, and have left behind every semblance of their lives in Canada. The market is expecting some semblance of an average yield. With the University of Arkansas nearby, Beland said the meals take on the semblance of cookoff during football season. Houses made of wood and bamboo provide some semblance of normality. Instead what you once glean is the semblance of a jazz song distorted by recurring arhythmical beats and sounds that compete with each other. Well, first, any semblance of a strong local economy must be killed. Local authorities have expressed strong doubts about the safety of the march, even though the Pakistani military has long claimed its operations in the area have brought a semblance of security. Iraq's government has been removing blast walls little by little since late 2008, trying to restore a semblance of normalcy to this bunker city. We are still lagging behind and we must establish a semblance of order. Only when there is a cessation of hostilities can children begin the long journey back to a semblance of what is the most fundamental right of a child, the right to a life free from physical and mental violence. As feared, Mr. Rwiyamirira is now imprisoned in Rwanda for the crime of desertion, his children are in the care of distant relatives, and they have left behind any semblance of the lives they have known. Countries who have the worst human rights records are usually those that are also the least politically stable and often depend on armed oppression to maintain a semblance of order. Of one semblance, and of one make, So lich, that no lif thilke throwe, That one may fro that other knowe. Shakespeare's Richard was a cruel, vindictive and irresponsible king, who attained a semblance of greatness only after his fall from power. It was also the only armed militia that was ensuring some semblance of order in that area, where not even the Lebanese army had set foot since Tzahal had pulled out. And when is there going to be some semblance of organisation to what appears to be an unending programme of digging up and re-laying surfaces? He is defending the indefensible and trying to give it some kind of semblance of reason, but I think it's simply an opportunistic gambit that will give him nothing. Today's AI produces the semblance of intelligence through brute number-crunching force, without any great interest in approximating how minds equip humans with autonomy, interests and desires. It took months, she said, for any semblance of normality to take root. Show More Sentences And it was clear we would not even maintain a semblance of friendship. While the basic appeal of fancy dress lay in its semblance of permissiveness and escapism, this sort of amusement was controlled by a complex set of moral restrictions. Though Camby is capable of being a loping, leaping force when he is healthy, he seems unable to sustain a semblance of salubrity for long periods of time. Banking practices such as interbank lending and loan syndication will eventually return to some semblance of normal functioning, and many of the banks that now forswear project finance will eventually return to the market. The Senate can and should hold an open seat for Illinois until such time as justice has been served and some semblance of ethics has returned to the Land of Lincoln. It keeps the spirit of the season quietly ticking over in a semblance of subliminal festiveness that's not the usual in-your-face magpie-like attraction to sparkle. During the American period, some semblance of city planning using the architectural designs and master plans by Daniel Burnham was done on the portions of the city of Manila. On next meeting Mrs. Ottarson, she permitted no semblance of complaint or of adverse criticism to evidence the weightsome discouragement that oppressed her. The only time we had a semblance of independent foreign policy was when we wore the Blue Beret, and even young American travellers wore a Maple Leaf flag on their backpacks. This split highlights the different roles of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board and prevents any semblance of undesired exchange of information. Examples from Classical Literature Suddenly he laid his hat back, and drew up his form into as near a semblance of dignity as its portliness would allow. The latter was obliged to flee from porto alegre with hardly a semblance of resistance. But I hope you will not be led into investing the ideality with too much of the semblance of reality. A touch of Circe's wand changed them into their semblance of maturer years. Only an alarm of cossacks could restore to their eyes a semblance of martial resolution. He had schooled himself to a semblance of stoicism when he reached his office. The crowding tenements of Walthamstow could have had no semblance to any of these, at any height. We shall have him,' he cried, ridding himself of the semblance as hastily as he had assumed it. The semblance of a human face to be formed on the side of a mountain, or in the fracture of a small stone, by a lusus naturae. They were twisted and gnarly, and with scarcely the semblance of the full meaty calf such as graces your leg and mine. The brief paragraphs of animated narrative, however, are often without even this semblance of a topic sentence. She was conducted to London, and instated in at least the semblance of power. The ravages of time and the weight of many inmates have demoralized it out of all semblance of a bedtick. When I tried to preserve the semblance of unconcern he became positively cruel. As I came near to dubhe, I scanned the surrounding skies and was surprised to find that the whole semblance of my dipper was lost. Let every thing which has the least semblance of the sabbatic rest be annihilated. The semblance of archaism disappears, and leaves a vision of pure beauty, delicate and spiritual. There was not much of the night left in which to sleep, even had a semblance of sleep been achievable. Nothing can be easier than to counterfeit the semblance of the American Indian. The only semblance of waist was the line drawn by her gingham apron-string. Show More Sentences One of these, grounded upon several others, the vast boulders of some diluvian flood, had the rude semblance of a roof. No divided allegiance, no hollow semblance of queenship for her! After prayers the Synagogue shortly took the semblance of a writing school. Their ellipses elongate and flatten again to the semblance of circles. The profound and treacherous night with its silence and semblance of peace settled upon the camp. King of Japan, whose lofty jet they say at times assumed the semblance of a snow-white cross against the sky? Boreas was enamoured of them as they were feeding, and covered them in the semblance of a dark-maned stallion. Then the colossus put forth his strength, and, blundering again, at last blundered into the semblance of victory. Taranto is overbuilt into the semblance of a medival if not a modern city. Ere they departed, the family was welded once more into a fair semblance of unity. How still and clear is To, a phantasm with the semblance of permanence! In piratical vessels, to frighten their prey with a semblance of valour. And in company with this, is the woolen semblance of her plump husband. At such times the gills lose all semblance of branchial organs. The lawyer, therefore, leaned forward with a semblance of frank eagerness. The yards, taken as a whole, have some semblance to a real garden. From time to time she gave a sigh, and that sigh, which had all the semblance of sensibilities, made the unhappy colonel tremble with hope. I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh. The Doric temple preserves the semblance of the wooden cabin in which the Dorian dwelt. It was through nature, ennobled in this way by the semblance of passion and thought, that the poet approached the spectacle of human life. Show More Sentences Thus the difficulty of ascension, in the present case, lay more in semblance than in reality. Then the old dame stood the figure up in a corner of her cottage and chuckled to behold its yellow semblance of a visage, with its nobby little nose thrust into the air. A freshgathered cow's tail lay on the floor, and by its side two pieces of black velvet-my black velvet-rudely hacked into the semblance of masks. Was it because when he had died, she still had had Martin, demanding, vital, to goad her on and give the semblance of a point to her life, and now she was left alone, adrift? It was a monstrous task to keep even a semblance of harmony among them, and it was a marvel to me that he got them to the city without a mighty battle among themselves. The most eloquent poem is her final song of leavetaking to the whole valley, which had acquired the semblance of an itemized map of her daily life in that place. The paddles were continually fouling one another, or being merely dipped into the water and withdrawn without the faintest semblance of a stroke made. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of semblance? Words that rhyme with semblance What is the plural of semblance? What is the adverb for semblance? What is the adjective for semblance? What is the noun for semblance? Translations for semblance Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words semblable semasiology semasiological Semarang semaphoric semaphore Semblance of semblances semble seme semeiotic Semele 9-letter Words Starting With s se sem semb sembl sembla semblan semblanc