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Sentence Examples A photograph of a man bearing a resemblance to Mr Bond, circulated in March last year, appears on the Interpol website. The grison has a greater resemblance to the weasel than to any other animal. For one thing, it lacked resemblance to the most popular photograph of the poet, featuring a youthful visage and spectacles. In America, the current wave of reports of alien abduction bears a strong resemblance to out of body experiences. You probably haven't noticed, but my surname bears a passing resemblance to a certain vulgarity. Actors portraying actual historical persons usually have scant resemblance to them. The national language is Icelandic, a northern Germanic language with some resemblance to Middle English. The under-layer is now permeated by patterns of curving lines with a resemblance to the whorls of fingerprints. The alabaster sculpture on display at a Baghdad gallery bears a striking resemblance to some of the shocking photographs that emerged last week. As a reporter who covered the Johnson Senate, I can attest it bears little resemblance to the Daschle Senate. They're running tests on a John Doe who bears a striking resemblance to Sonny Corinthos. The resemblance to Western European customs is striking and has similar roots. Terry decided to highlight the resemblance to a stateroom on a 1930s wood cabin cruiser. In the standard Western division of genres, mimetic resemblance is the first criterion of portraiture. Not that it bears any resemblance to the original television series, mind you. Their slow-burning songs bear enough resemblance to Cave to have music journalists and PR hacks throwing around big nice words. Because there is no formal structure, Yardie gangs have little resemblance to organisations like the Mafia. There are places on Earth today that may bear a close resemblance to the Antarctic landform back then. Okarito's few houses and two streets bear little resemblance to the goldrush town of a century and a half ago. Now I see this written about in a newspaper on a weekly basis and I can only tell you that it has no resemblance to fact. Show More Sentences It sounds nothing like these, nor does it bear any resemblance to a dance number in any way. But the past has shown that men come up with solutions that bear no resemblance to reality. As the creation of the welfare state was high on the agenda of all parties, manifestos bore close resemblance on this point. The papers they handed in at the end of the course bore little resemblance to what they produced at the beginning. It explores many of the same themes but in a style which bears little resemblance to its predecessor. I had stared at my uncle to see if I could notice any resemblance between him and any of the men in the picture. With the latest reshuffle, it bears even less resemblance to ministerial portfolios. The feature that distinguishes the Bigfoot matter is the purported resemblance of this hairy creature to humans. This surface effect gives his drawings yet another bodily reference, perhaps unintended, in its resemblance to scarified skin. Jhalkari Bai's resemblance to the legendary queen Laxmi Bai of Jhansi earned her a place in history books. Every year pro ball bears less and less resemblance to the game collegians and kids play. It's hard to imagine that his conception of staunch realism will bear any resemblance to that of Robert Bresson. Wild rice was the name because of the resemblance to rice paddies and because it was just growing wild in the wilderness. A different resemblance between the two occupations, however, is now dismayingly germane. With uncanny resemblance to his own political career, Napoleon ensured that the drift from left to right continued apace. The scene game to an abrupt end and with it came the clarity that the girl bore a striking resemblance to herself at that age. The collapse of the Nasdaq bubble left the United States in a situation that bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the Japan of a decade ago. Although dwarfed in height, it bears a resemblance to skyscrapers like the Empire State Building and the Rockefeller Centre in New York. The matriarchal trouper and her feckless daughter bear more than a passing resemblance to a real-life theatrical pair from the past. Whether this resemblance indicates a close relationship between monoplacophorans and phyla exhibiting true metamerism is an open question. Show More Sentences 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. Belinda is a handsome woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to John Cusack. He was unable to see how evolution in biology could have any but the feeblest analogical resemblance to the evolution of society. Even more so, the vitreous resemblance to glass frames mutely enhances the colour of the wall behind it. If the result bears little musical resemblance to the original, it does capture the same hedonistic menace. In order for this resemblance to be in any way complete, man had to be created with free will. In May, planning chiefs ordered work to stop because the building bore little resemblance to the approved plans. All the characters in it are invented, none bears any resemblance to anyone living or dead. The authority said the building bore little resemblance to the plans it had passed and ordered work to stop last May. In this photograph, Kerry bears an odd resemblance to an ageing Beach Boy, another old trouper who promises good vibrations. With regard to appellatives, it is only the use of capital letters that bears resemblance to German writing conventions. Indeed, in the flesh he has more than a passing resemblance to a slightly moth-eaten circus lion. Our nation's business pages bear a close resemblance to the police blotter, and investor confidence is at an all-time low. As for Marsala Rubino, it bears the same resemblance to the historic Marsala as ruby port bears to vintage port. Muenster cheese made in the U.S. is a very bland cheese which has no real resemblance to Muenster made in France and Germany. When he asked to see the cashed cheque, the signature bore no resemblance to his own. He explained that it owes its name to its resemblance in shape and size to the nuts found in the cones of the stone pine. He's an overweight scruffy herbert with more than a passing resemblance to Captain Caveman. Despite the reptile's resemblance to an ostrich dinosaur, or ornithomimid, Effigia is actually some 80 million years older. 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. Show More Sentences Sadly, the resemblance ends there, or mycology would be considerably more popular than it is. Though they have little outward resemblance, deutzias are a member of the hydrangea family. Their resemblance to thrones is an ironic reflection of the violent bases of power. Take the oft-cited classic case of Batesian mimicry involving the dead-ringer resemblance between monarch and viceroy butterflies. However uncanny the resemblance is, this is not a slice of blueberry streusel cheesecake. After all the electrodes were attached, I bore a striking resemblance to Frankenstein. Desdemona may be Barry's child although she bears a striking resemblance to Cliff. Their resemblance to nuts accounts for many of their common names including nut grass, tiger nut, earth almond, and earth nut. Electric eels are not really eels, they are actually ostariophysians, but have a strong physical resemblance to true eels. Although their songs might lack the Seattle angst, their music bears a resemblance to the departed scene. Some of the subs bear resemblance to the Biskup submarine due to its long perspective. Later he was kept in jail for three days because he bore a resemblance to a photofit shown on Crimewatch. Instead, I've tried to ignore it, but whether I shave off my goatee, grow a beard or cut my hair, the resemblance won't go away. Their four-petaled flowers bear the resemblance to a Greek cross, which explains why they are frequently referred to as crucifers or cruciferous. Moreover, this pattern of resemblance is rendered still more striking by the prominent appearance of mock-heroic topoi and diction in both poems. Philippe, chevalier de Lorraine, like Guiche before him, bore a striking resemblance to Louis himself. The horse chestnuts are not closely related to true chestnuts or chinquapins, and the resemblance of their fruits is coincidental. The steel beladah was much like a sabre, but with a guard for the knuckles, while the bilbo was bore a close resemblance to a rapier. These airbags are very lifelike in their resemblance to small children perched on the front seat of driven motorcycles. Coincidentally, the model used by the team bore a close resemblance to one devised by climatologists in the 19th century. Show More Sentences There is a major resemblance in the personality traits of most trendy people. Phalangers, more commonly known as possums and cuscuses, are marsupials but with a vague resemblance to some monkeys. Another constraint on ejection is the close resemblance of eggs of hosts and parasites. Classed as a primitive breed, they bear little resemblance to more common types of sheep with thick white fleeces. Certain geologic formations that underlie the dike, and portions of the material that comprise it, bear a striking resemblance to Swiss cheese. We're in the realm of the satin pointe shoe and the sylphlike ballerina, but any resemblance to floaty romanticism ends there. Despite their resemblance to rodents, bats are not closely related to mice at all. In fact, it bears more than a passing resemblance to CD1 of her Greatest Hits. For three years, he has been developing Arnold, a three-wheeled robot which is the size of a small dog, and has a passing resemblance to one too. He even hitches up his shirt sleeve before every shot in a routine that bears more than a passing resemblance to that of Woods. The event itself was staged in a bullring that gave more than a passing resemblance to the alien mother ship at the end of Close Encounters. Lex is one of three remaining contestants in a reality TV show called Eye Spy, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Big Brother. When the teams formally slip on to the rink the Eagles are greeted like returning legionaries, to whom they bear more than a passing resemblance. And yes, with the carefully-coiffured blond hair, tan and surfer's smile, he does bear a passing resemblance to the actor. What he describes in this tight, staccato prose is a story which bears more than a passing resemblance to The Dirty Dozen. He bears more than a passing resemblance to a man at a gig a couple of weeks ago. They were stunned at the close resemblance and did not seem convinced by my denial. The voice of a mother, unleashed in all its power, bears a close resemblance to thunder. The resemblance is so close, that we suppose the latter has been derived from the former. One of them, which she calls baked French toast, bears a close resemblance to a shallow bread and butter pudding. Show More Sentences My own reputation suffered from his actions, for our close resemblance caused me to be credited with many of them. Even Daryl Hannah, as the ice-cold assassin Elle Driver, with her eye patch bears more than a passing resemblance to Ford himself. Like myriapods they have many trunk segments, but there the resemblance ends. In plan it bears a strong resemblance to a complex soap bubble or coloured clouds, with volumes merging and melding into one another. Is it too late to add a disclaimer saying that all characters are fictional and any resemblance to real people is purely coincidence? The game holds much resemblance to the brill Sci-Fi movies Back to the Future. Metaphor provides startling redescriptions of the world by revealing an unexpected resemblance between once distant and divergent terms. When she saw only trees and the distant resemblance of the garden that was behind the house, she couldn't understand what he saw. However, they bear only a distant, very abstract resemblance to real economic activity. The wing, landing gear, powerplant, empennage and panel have only a distant resemblance to the homebuilt's equivalents. By growing out his beard and donning a wig, he took on a remarkable physical resemblance to Ludwig. And the story bears a curious resemblance to accounts of tech start-ups or college kids cutting class to become dot-commers. Few widows, after so vast a lapse of years, could have gazed with so unaccusing a conscience on the resemblance of their husband. The ibisbill has no links to true ibises, to which it bears little resemblance except in its bill. She greets them with sweet singsong cockneyisms that bear no resemblance to her smoky Afro-American jazz singing voice. Correlations between perceptions of physical resemblance and social closeness and familiarity were positive and statistically significant. There is such a resemblance that letters have even been found in the pillar-box red bin in Easingwold. He saw the tribal leader drinking an infusion from a plant bearing a striking resemblance to Chinese tea. I'd gone from an organized woman of smooth purpose to a frenzied frump bearing a strange resemblance to a headless chicken. These days the manufacturer bears little resemblance to the gargantuan outfit it once was. Show More Sentences 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. That at least explains the surface resemblance of the two words, differing only by digraphs representing single consonants. The common buzzard bears little resemblance to the vulture, which is a buzzard in nicknameonly. Amazingly it bears a striking resemblance to some of the unofficial tube rules I've reported in my time. The location they display for Metro stations bears only an approximate resemblance to the actual location of the station itself. A clear and colorless glass, called cristallo in Italian for its resemblance to rock crystal, was a widely sought Venetian product. Neptis contains two astonishingly dissimilar insects generically, though superficially bearing some resemblance. Lord Edward bears a passing resemblance to Lord Peter but he is a year or two younger. And in sooth some who beheld the portrait spoke of its resemblance in low words, as of a mighty marvel. Although its resemblance to T. sowerbyi is not particularly close, it falls within the morphologic range of this very variable species. The LinuxBIOS build process bears little resemblance to the Linux kernel build process. Neither do his pictographic dramas have any resemblance to the covers from which his characters hail. The resemblance of the metempsychosis to Naldi's version is undeniable, and the Pythagorean model would seem to anticipate further genealogies of this kind. He's left idly speculating that his resemblance to his adoptive father isn't evidence that he was the product of his adoptive father with a surrogate mother. Miss Willerton, in fact, bears more than a passing resemblance to the dreaded penwomen O'Connor would write so disparagingly about in later years. And from the side, with the lips and ears elongated, the resemblance is uncanny. He does not admit it, but Miyazaki likely sees the resemblance between himself and Horikoshi as well. It becomes even more moving as you realize the resemblance between Nicole Diver and Zelda. As a result of centuries of both deliberate and inadvertent plant breeding, the varieties used today have little resemblance with their wild ancestors. The English name refers to the gossamer veil which protects the gills when the cap is in its unexpanded state, and which bears some resemblance to a spider's web. Show More Sentences Aardvarks have a superficial resemblance to a long snouted pig. Rachel starts dating a guy named Russ, and would you believe that he bears a striking resemblance to ross? One image on ThatLooksLikeADick shows a sheep with an overgrown horn that bears a stunning resemblance to male anatomy. We proffer federally backed flood insurance at rates bearing no resemblance to the risks. This article is interesting, not least because several people have commented that there is more than a passing resemblance between myself and Hels's brother. On it, the frazzled remains of some poor beast were nicely complemented by rosti so thick and chewy it bore a strong resemblance to gardening twine. Discipline and training replace education for all but the privileged as schools increasingly take on an uncanny resemblance to oversized police precincts. The reason that that is interesting is that we think that it bears a big resemblance to the atmosphere that Earth had in its early history 4 billion years ago. The young man did bear a passing resemblance to the heir to the throne. The hotel is a terracotta-coloured delightful Belle Epoch creation, which has more than a passing resemblance to the Carlton in Cannes, just along the coast. The jokesmith best known for making gags about his resemblance to Prince is finally attracting a larger following after more than a decade of honing his act. But some have also recognized its resemblance to a fatty wax called adipocere, which is known to form from body fats buried in wet, anaerobic environments. Thinking back, I could see their resemblance in some ways to the starlings I knew, though they were notably different in structure, proportions, and behavior. That said, les Reines's approach to politics bears little resemblance to the strident methods of North America's street activists and big womyn on campus. His heroes tend to bear more than a passing resemblance to himself. Linger over the view, which encompasses the San Joaquin River Valley, Banner Peak, Mt. Ritter, and the sawtooth Minarets, named for their resemblance to mosque towers. Bizarrely, David cannot say too much about it, because he is bound by a confidentiality clause which bears a passing resemblance to War And Peace. The Dior dress Lawrence donned at the Globes bears a strong resemblance to a duvet cover accented with black tape. He was a clean-shaven man like myself, and the resemblance between us was still so great that, for an instant, I thought it was my own reflection in the glass. I did indeed see the remarkable resemblance, the fusion of nature and art. Show More Sentences When Radford and Wayne were not reprising their roles as Charters and Caldicott, they played other comic duos who usually bore a striking resemblance to them. The game no longer bears much resemblance to the sport it once was. The two species display similar body length and segment number as well as show resemblance in the shape of the clitellum and tubercula pubertatis. The competition was dreamed up by staff at the Lowry in response to claims by many visitors that dogs in the pictures bear a close resemblance to their own. I opened the door and the two of them were either side of a stocky young top-heavy woman who bore an uncanny, slightly skewed resemblance to Samantha. This response obviously bears no resemblance to the true answer. This year's group includes a single mum who loves Beyonce, a rocker who idolises Pink, and a handyman who bears a resemblance to first series runner-up Shannon Noll. It is therefore largely appreciated that the resemblance between ctenophores and cnidarians is superficial and does not reflect a particularly close evolutionary relationship. Many of Canon's articles, which, of course, bound it legally, bore a resemblance to those of other joint stock chartered or incorporated companies. Sadly, some of these myths have become so entrenched that we sometimes forget they are merely half-truths or untruths which bear little resemblance to reality. 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. His goal is to have as little a hand as possible in conveying their resemblance. The final scene bore scant resemblance to the director's cut. With a free wheeling expressive mind-set the band seem incredibly focused, displaying fetching guitar rifts demonstrating a resemblance comparable to a Libertines stage show. Charlie couldn't help noticing that he bore a resemblance to Jerome. Then, a long and limber girl with wide eyes and an uncanny resemblance to Rihanna grabs my hand and startles me by speaking. When a tiny girl bearing an uncanny resemblance to Cindy Lou-Who whispered that she liked dolls and told us her name was Becca Larson, I announced that it was time for a game. Sightings at a holiday resort in Norfolk have proved incorrect and a woman bearing a resemblance to Carly seen at the Notting Hill Carnival was traced. This species is commonly referred to as the bulldog bat due to their resemblance to large mormoopids except for the existence of large upper lips in place of a moustache. And the facts on the ground in Kramatorsk also bear no resemblance to what is being claimed in Kiev by government officials. Show More Sentences As our imagination chops up and forms new ideas, it is directed by three principles of association, namely, resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect. Unlike Hume, he did not distinguish between resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect, and he offered no detailed analysis of causal association. Unlike Kafka, to whom he bears some resemblance, he doted on his father. There was, as well, resemblance to a golfer in his roomily draped wine-red sweater, in his striped collar hanging free, less so in his bluejeans and his white running shoes. We are fortunate that the real world bears little resemblance to this. It is unlikely they bear any resemblance to Frankenstein's creation. Sometimes the sore throat arising from sycosis may bear so close a resemblance to that of secondary syphilis, that it will be difficult to found a diagnosis. It is odd that today's strange vehicles should bear a close resemblance to those seen by a scornful poet at London's Rotten Row a couple of generations earlier. The architecture is Fatimid, bearing resemblance to buildings in Cairo. There is an evident resemblance between those barons who humiliated King John and the Whig magnates who invited William of Orange to usurp the throne. This genre bears an obvious resemblance to notions of pietas, which themselves constitute a utopian community situated in a past so idealized that it is almost fictional. The living armadillos of South America bore a striking resemblance to fossil glyptodonts, extinct armored mammals whose fossils occurred in the same area. Although unconscionable conduct in this narrow sense bears some resemblance to the doctrine of undue influence, there is a difference between the two. The fruit's name comes from the resemblance to pine cones that European explorers noticed, along with the slight apple flavor the early fruits had. It seems odd that the hawk owl should emerge as a vole specialist at all, given the owl's strong physical resemblance to birds that prey on other birds. Inimicus didactylus is feared by those who come in contact with it due to its painful, venomous spines and resemblance to more deadly stonefishes. Cusk eels and catfish eels are not true eels, but species of fish which bear some resemblance to eels, although more to cusk and catfish respectively. He found confidence in his resemblance to Jackson and noticed the respect the King of Pop received from white Americans. Yuriana Castillo turned out to be another El Chino girlfriend who bears some resemblance to Kardashian. The eventual deal, approved by Law 840 in June 2013, bore little resemblance to the original. Show More Sentences Cast primarily because of his physical resemblance to Debussy, Oliver Reed has surprisingly little to do except intersperse smouldering broodiness and violent rage. Local stories, accents, and images are drowned out by a multi-channel bombardment of glossy programming, bearing little resemblance to the Caribbean experience. However, the really close resemblance is between ostrich and emu. 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 type of lung is known as a bellows lung due to its resemblance to blacksmith bellows. The oxidized and bioturbated material at these locations has lost any resemblance to cohesive laminated lacustrine sediment. They often bear some resemblance to English words, as Lombardic was akin to Saxon. Furthermore, the results become even more tantalizing in view of the apparent resemblance between the dilaton and the Higgs boson. Some dialects, particularly those of the Chittagong region, bear only a superficial resemblance to Standard Colloquial Bengali. These two cases of witkop had a close resemblance to favus, but no evidence of fungus infection was found. However, there is still controversy over how much resemblance modern Druidism may or may not have to the Iron Age druids. Shetland toponymy bears some resemblance to that of northwest Norway, while Norn vocabulary implies links with more southerly Norwegian regions. By the end of the century, poleis had been established throughout the Hellenic world, all bearing a marked family resemblance. They look like a regulated graveyard or a series of futuristic standing stones with a passing resemblance to television sets. The hill bears a strong resemblance to the Cavehill in Belfast in terms of its geology and proximity to a major urban site. This time it concerns Dobby the house-elf character's alleged resemblance to Russian President Vladimir Putin. This time her playful behavior stands in contrast with her restrictive blue suit, which bears a resemblance to the Chinese Red Army uniform. In this respect the decerebrate condition offers some resemblance to the cataleptic state. The setts painted all differ from one another and very few of those painted show any resemblance to today's clan tartans. The cathedral that Wren started to build bears only a slight resemblance to the Warrant Design. Show More Sentences Portland cement was used by Joseph Aspdin in his cement patent in 1824 because of the cement's resemblance to Portland stone. She had an uncanny resemblance to someone I had seen before. Captivity usually bears little resemblance to wild habitat, and captive whales' social groups are foreign to those found in the wild. While Indian Chinese cuisine is heavily derived from traditional Chinese cuisine, it bears little resemblance to its Chinese counterpart. These nundinals bear a very great resemblance to the dominical letters, which return every eight days, as the nundinals did every nine. This was met with a mixed reception, as their style and fan base bore little resemblance to the heavy metal background of Iron Maiden. Notice the resemblance between the p-adic ordinal and the base-p logarithm. The flight of the Chatterer bears much resemblance to that of the starling. There is also the resemblance between the Hindu game of pachesi and the Mexica patolli, so close as to be virtually identical. Initial stages of the Great Pyramid probably date to the Terminal Formative Period and show stylistic resemblance to early Teotihuacan. Browne wrote hauntingly of the resemblance between the urn and the womb. The word sole in English, French and Italian comes from its resemblance to a sandal, Latin solea. In style and method, the dictionary bore little resemblance to earlier editions. In one crosslight all this bears a strong resemblance to Animal Farm, where, though all animals were equal, some were more equal than others. The cuffs, or epimanikia, which fit over the sticharion, bear little or no resemblance to the maniple. These changes imparted a lipoblast-like resemblance, giving the impression of an atypical lipomatous tumor or a liposarcoma. And he bore an uncannily resemblance to the spaghetti monster sketch. During his own lifetime, it was noted that Edward showed little resemblance to his father. At Baskerville Hall, Holmes notices a resemblance between Stapleton and a portrait of Hugo Baskerville. Today, the Scouse accent is completely distinct from others in the North West of England and bears little resemblance to them. Show More Sentences While Engle has heard the name African rosewood used for bubinga, he thinks bubinga bears little resemblance to rosewood. He says Reidenberg and Laitman use misleading measures that mask the close resemblance of the fossil to modern human hyoids. The Science Area, in which most science departments are located, is the area that bears closest resemblance to a campus. In the synagogue, situated in the Froggery, they still preserve the faint resemblance of the ancient worship. Hunter claiming to have made a complete descent, but the account is exaggerated and bears little resemblance to reality. The whole symbol bears a passing resemblance to the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, particularly with the lion supporters. It does expose a resemblance between fundamentalisms and pre-modern ordinary religion. The corporatization of a country these days bears great resemblance to the colonization of the yesteryears. Saltzman disliked the design's resemblance to a prison, but Hamilton liked it enough that it was built. Captivity usually bears little resemblance to wild habitat and captive whales' social groups are foreign to those found in the wild. Here the resemblance between Reaganism and the new climate in the Arab world is very striking. Interestingly, a putative relationship between bracoviruses and Oryctes rhinoceros virus was suggested about 30 years ago, on the basis of a remarkable structural resemblance. Sarrel, the estrogen used in Prempro bears little resemblance to the estrogen produced by a woman's body, and it contains MPA, one of the strongest progestins available. After renovations lasting several years the museum opened in September 2012 with a new composite extension that has been called 'The Bathtub' due to its resemblance to one. Now, in charging an author, more particularly a poet, with copyism, the resemblance ought surely to be at least as marked as in the foregoing extract. We're hoping it's the same shade of white as his old Fiat 500, in which he was wont to play motorway snooker on long journeys such was its resemblance to a cueball. The new publication bears limited resemblance to its previous iteration. The two, ferrite and cementite, precipitate simultaneously producing a layered structure called pearlite, named for its resemblance to mother of pearl. Hooke coined the term cell for describing biological organisms, the term being suggested by the resemblance of plant cells to cells of a honeycomb. Demian's instrument bore little resemblance to modern instruments. Show More Sentences An electric dipole has a formal resemblance to a magnetic dipole. The skull within the lead box not only bore the marks of multiple sword blows, but the features bore a remarkable resemblance to portraits made of the man in life. It was this physical resemblance that supplied the plot for Chaplin's next film, The Great Dictator, which directly satirised Hitler and attacked fascism. Hooke in a 1682 lecture to the Royal Society proposed a mechanistic model of human memory, which would bear little resemblance to the mainly philosophical models before it. I have sometimes known a poet in danger of being convicted as a thief, upon much worse evidence than the resemblance of hands hath been held to be in the law. This plant is also known as false heather due to its superficial resemblance to the true heathers, which are in a completely different botanical group. The computer mouse was named in English for its resemblance to the animal. In addition to an apparatus criticus the hymn is accompanied by a list of passages from other authors which bear some resemblance in phrasing to Cleanthes' text. Montserrat is nicknamed The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean both for its resemblance to coastal Ireland and for the Irish ancestry of many of its inhabitants. Actually, it's Dean Zeligman, whose backswept brown hair and curling sideburns give him an uncanny resemblance to the boy from the backwoods of Tupelo, Miss. The game bears some resemblance to a coconut shy, or skittles. While their constitutional status bears some resemblance to that of the Commonwealth realms, the Crown dependencies are not members of the Commonwealth of Nations. Sister Lucy, five, had a more out of this world suggestion, putting forward Chewie, a possible reflection on the alpaca's resemblance to a Star Wars character. Though relatively little of this has survived, it bears resemblance to the similar endeavours of other Germanic tribes of northern and central Europe from the same era. This almost unbelievable speed under sail was not coming from a kiteboard or radical sailing 'thing' that held no resemblance to a 'real' sailboat. It bears no real resemblance to that attitude of negativity and jaded scornfulness that sees the worst of intentions behind the apparent good motives of others. They typically have deep, ungainly bills, showing a greater resemblance to those of the pelicans, to which they are related, than is obvious in the adults. That said, Gastr del Sol's particular brand of innovation bears more resemblance to funambulism than to any one of the band's scholarly references. For the argument to stand up to scrutiny, it must first be established that Campos is indeed the heteronym who bears the greatest psychological resemblance to Pessoa himself. Similarly, Peltigera leucophlebia was used as a supposed cure for thrush, due to the resemblance of its cephalodia to the appearance of the disease. Show More Sentences It is not known whether Marina was chosen because of a phonetic resemblance to her actual name, or chosen randomly from among common Spanish names of the time. And need we mention that the squat, puffed-out Myers version of the Cat bears little resemblance to the tall, Astaire-with-hair version Geisel drew? If you attentively regard almost any quadruped's spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrae to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls. Even McBrayer sent him a letter to chide him about the resemblance. Examples from Classical Literature Irpex, a harrow, so called from a fancied resemblance of its teeth to the teeth of a harrow. The cassolette is so named from its resemblance to a small vessel made of copper and silver in which pastilles were burnt. At this point, Marcus noticed a brown something bearing a strong resemblance to the swamp stalk, known among boys as the cattail. The guanaco, a quadruped allied to the lama and with some resemblance to the camelopard, is found in considerable numbers. Almost everyone emphasizes the resemblance of the song to that of the chipping sparrow. There were many points of resemblance between Altamont and Hatteras, but no affinities. Hence I think the numbers above given conclusively demonstrate the resemblance between this oil and rape oil in composition. But even in those feasts there is nothing that bears the resemblance of conviviality. The striking resemblance of Kingia, in caudex and leaves, to Xanthorrhoea, cannot fail to suggest its affinity to that genus also. I have already referred to the close resemblance which certain cycadaceous genera bear to certain of the fern family. From the superficial resemblance of the shell to that of an Ostracod, this is known as the Cypris stage. Just north of Damaraland there are a number of tribes that bear a strong resemblance to the Damaras. Not only in colour but also in shape the swallow-tail bears a remarkable resemblance to the danaid. In its structure and general arrangements it bears a general resemblance to the palace of Phaestus and Cnossus on a smaller scale. The resemblance is so obvious that no detail in the quiche scale calls for special mention. The god of agriculture among the Tongan Islanders has one very curious point of resemblance to Demeter. Find more words! 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