The chaotic sixth-floor waiting room at Bronx Family Court suddenly seemed to become still yesterday for the passage of two wide-eyed, slender brothers, almost twin-like in appearance, and the row of burly police officers flanking them.
Opening five years apart in the mid-18th century, the British Museum and the Hermitage are "sisters, almost twins", MacGregor explained.
To nonscientific eyes like mine, they are almost twins of the more popular August-blooming garlic chives (A. tuberosum).
In "Jack Frost" the two men, almost twins, create another animated shape out of the space between their noses.
Though almost twins, separated by little more than a couple of grams of wool, the V-neck and crew neck are as different as uptown and down.
"Hmm," she said, walking around to the front of the barn and over to the house, almost twins in terms of volume.
Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, said it opened its doors five years before the Hermitage and that the two institutions were "almost twins, they are the first great museums of the European Enlightenment".
The Camileo X400 and X416 are almost twins, as instanced by their near-identical bodies and spec sheets.
Hope, to Dickinson, is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul; to Ryan, it is merely "the almost-twin / of making-do, / the isotope / of going on".
Sandwiched between these, one on each side of the Via del Corso, are the almost-twin Baroque churches of Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria di Monte Santo, designed in the 1660s by Carlo Rainaldi.
