Sentence examples similar to external semblance from inspiring English sources

Alan Davie, Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon, William Scott and Bryan Wynter explored the sensitive zone between representation and abstraction: testing the expressive potential of the material of paint itself, and of the mark and gesture, while retaining semblances of subject matter, external references or imagery.

Trying to do such "multigenic" testing with any semblance of reliability and then balancing the complex effects caused by external factors is, to say the least, a truly daunting task.Expecting personal-genome services like 23andMe and Navigenics to be licensed is not unreasonable.

And it's still only a semblance.

Over time, a semblance of normalcy returned.

A semblance of normal life has returned.

Some semblance of spring had momentarily arrived.

A semblance of political comedy.

Do they have any semblance of guilt?

Any semblance of legislative bipartisanship would vanish.

But I also wanted some semblance of tradition.

Slowly, the war's end brought a semblance of peace.