At least since the Red Scare of the 1950s, mainstream institutions had viewed ideological conservatism with condescension or contempt, as either a joke or a personality disorder — a series of "irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas," in Lionel Trilling's excellent summary.
Pay for performance in private schools also does not resemble ideas being floated for public education.
Several housing consultants pointed out that the banks' latest proposals resemble ideas that banks circulated in Washington several years before the financial crisis.
It shows appearances that resemble an idea of reality.
Zadeh's argument resembled an idea that Albert Einstein had expressed four decades earlier, in his book "Geometry and Experience".
For him beauty was a preanalytic intuition that based standards for aesthetic judgment on a single, transcendent beauty resembling a "mystical Idea".
Knowing this, it'd be an absurdity to hold onto anything even resembling the idea that, for women, bringing life into the world is the only way to have lived fully that, somehow, having children gives a person's life more meaning than someone's who didn't.
Don't go out expecting Eyes Wide Shut, or, for that matter, anything resembling the idea you have in your head; you're much more likely to find a room full of people who look like your aunts and uncles.
Except, as curator Paul Roberts points out, it does not seem to have much resembled our idea of a bedroom at all.
In late September, North Korean officials and Mr. Yang presented a blueprint for the zone that resembled the idea behind China's early special economic zones, which allowed largely unfettered trading and investment in areas that had limited access to the rest of the country.
There was the white set with a concave, spherical ceiling that resembled an architect's idea of a modern, corporate conference room.
