But as social mobility comes to resemble an odd historical blip with no resemblance to contemporary reality, we should, it seems, encourage a degree of faking it.
That food bears little resemblance to contemporary European cuisine.
The book describes how 2054 world order was established, and the process has a striking resemblance with contemporary Ukrainian events.
"Goblin" is spiteful, internal, confident, vitriolic, vividly bruised stuff, a shocking — and shockingly good — album that bears little resemblance to contemporary hip-hop.
The anomalists, who concentrated on surface irregularity and who looked then for regularities deeper down (as the Stoics sought them in logic) bear a resemblance to contemporary scholars of the transformationalist school.
The overarching themes in such Biblical interpretation also bear a strong resemblance to contemporary talk of a culture war pitting secular liberals against conservative Christians, said Timothy Weber, president of Memphis Theological Seminary.
His originality is best seen in his ballads and his nine "English Eclogues," three of which were first published in the 1799 volume of his Poems with a prologue explaining that these verse sketches of contemporary life bore "no resemblance to any poems in our language".
For some reason, the largest objects — an intact fire truck with carefully folded hoses but a burned-out cab; a steel column plastered with prayer cards; a storefront jeans display still covered with World Trade Center ashes — are the easiest to take, maybe because of their public identity, or even their resemblance to contemporary sculpture.
If this is Leibniz's argument, it is of some historical interest that it bears striking resemblances to contemporary objections to certain materialist theories of mind.
(Children might enjoy its resemblance to certain contemporary superhero toys).
"Legendary" might as well have been set in the 1960s for all its resemblance to the contemporary world.
