Sentence examples for has something akin from inspiring English sources

It has something akin to the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey about it, like a communication from somewhere unknown.

There are degrees of everything, after all – and almost everyone has something akin to an OCD, even if it doesn't meet Dr Pemberton's professional standards.

Whereas the US National Football League has something akin to a closed shop, with no automatic relegation and various balancing measures including a player draft, English rugby clubs are miles from being masters of their own destiny.

McDougall researched its history to better understand its workings, reading up on its music hall roots, but the form has something akin to an oral tradition, too; a practical lineage passed from dame to dame, director to director.

Ms. Mullally has the toughest job, playing a hospital administrator who has something akin to multiple sclerosis; pratfalls by a disabled character who uses crutches constitute dangerous comic territory.

His kitchen, which is brighter than a beach house (and only slightly smaller than the dining room itself), has something akin to a gold vault or the Queen of England's bedroom, existing in an atmosphere above such trivial indignities as battered stock portfolios and recessionary slumps.

One day last year in precalculus class, though, he had something akin to a spiritual conversion.

These machines will also have something akin to emotions -- in particular, guilt.

For the first time, the Tigers have something akin to a political wing with seats in parliament.

We need to have that ethical understanding, we need to have that training, and we need to have something akin to a Hippocratic oath.

Between Apple and Samsung, that means at least 68percentt of U.S. smartphones already have something akin to the "kill switch" capability.