The phrase "a certain likeness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific resemblance or similarity between two or more things.
Example: "In the portrait, there is a certain likeness to the famous artist, suggesting that it may have been inspired by his work."
Alternatives: "a particular resemblance" or "a specific similarity".
There is a certain likeness.
"I can the more readily believe it, inasmuch as, despite your colour, I can perceive a certain likeness to Major Lindsay, whom I knew intimately".
The editor of the Spectator at that time was none other than Boris Johnson and that description "coiled leopard" has a rather Johnsonian ring, not to mention a certain likeness to the term "greased panther," which "Boris" has jokingly used about himself.
It contains an artwork, the Martin Droeshout engraving that is our only certain likeness of the bard, but it is a cack-handed portraiture.
And he offers a digest of classical literary descriptions of the queen and a discussion of her iconography (including coin portraits, which are the only certain likenesses) to pinpoint those elements of her modern identity that only evidence from the period can prove or support.
"It's not so much about physical likeness as a certain attitude, a way of walking," he said.
She described her likeness as quite thoughtful and relaxed, but with a certain seriousness: "He has got me".
Lipinski rule of five is a rule to evaluate drug likeness to determine if a chemical compound has a certain pharmacological or biological activity to make it an orally active drug in humans [ 26].
She continued, "Also, there's a lot of politics that go on behind the scenes, like when a writer develops a certain character they get paid on the [likeness] of that character for every episode.
And it registers with equal force from a certain distance — the viewpoint at which the strokes snap into a stunning likeness of the subject, and innumerable colors (most of them blacks and grays) clear their throats and sing.
And he was the portraitist whom everyone wanted, not simply because he could "capture a likeness," but also because his portraits in oils would almost always radiate a certain moral security.
