Sentence examples for close in appearance from inspiring English sources

Guwen is close in appearance to jiaguwen, the ancient pictographic script found on oracle bones and turtle shells.

"Its appeal in France lies in its wonderful shape and texture and in the fact that it is very close in appearance to the French cheese cantal and yet has a totally different taste," says Quatrehomme.

They happen to be representations that are fairly close in appearance to what they stand for, but verisimilitude is hardly an unheralded problem in the past few centuries of European and American art.

"It's all so sophisticated and these people are so close in appearance to police that most motorists don't have any idea that it's a village holding itself out as having a police force when they don't have any right to do that," Mr. Scott said.

In its asymmetrical orchestration and multitude of spatial-temporal interactions, the abstract-organic images are close in appearance to the concepts of 'moving paintings' and 'living sculptures' Seidel develops for more than a decade now".

Whether it is Gaitonde's intent to remain close in appearance to authentic alphabets and grammars, or is an exercise in visual rhythms and repetitions, the overall pattern of Gaitonde's art appears to be one of staying close to, without strictly copying, real systems with real meanings and functions.

Somewhat closer in appearance to the classic Roman structure was a limestone aqueduct built by the Assyrians about 691 bce to bring fresh water to the city of Nineveh.

This is what lies behind the ridiculous standards of thinness expected of women in the public eye, rendering them closer in appearance to 12-year-olds than 32-year-olds.

Rock gardeners have long appreciated the smaller, prostrate species, including D. alpina, and D. cneorum, which seem closer in appearance to their cousins in the thyme factory than do other daphnes.

Reality television, as we know it, in fact, could exist only in a culture infatuated with passing — a world where white suburban boys dress to look more like Nelly and Punjabi girls from Queens wear blue contact lenses to link them closer in appearance to someone who might trace her lineage four generations in Laguna Beach.

Houses found today in Zeeland are closer in appearance to the fine Dutch brick houses of New York than are houses from other parts of the Netherlands.