semblance

Example Sentences

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For all their technical acumen, the hum and whir of life remains absent in their work, which merely mimics the semblances of behavior they’ve observed from other films.

From Los Angeles Times

The generals are looking for an off-ramp which will buy them a semblance of legitimacy, and win over some of their many opponents.

From BBC

“There’s an element of knowing we’re not alone in our pain, fear and anxiety that can be a source of some semblance of joy,” Garcia said.

From Los Angeles Times

Maintaining a semblance of truth, as Samuel Taylor Coleridge pointed out in the context of poetry, was necessary to procure “that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”

From Los Angeles Times

Two days later, they lobbed a missive at Warner: “WBD appears to have abandoned the semblance and reality of a fair transaction process,” Paramount’s lawyers wrote.

From Los Angeles Times