Sentence examples for he bears only from inspiring English sources

Elba appears to have mastered the Mandela brogue to perfection, even if he bears only passing resemblance to the young freedom fighter.

Now, in Holy Fools, she has given birth to the greatest villain of them all: Guy LeMerle, a cut-throat so disloyal, so morally empty, that he bears only one comparison - Keyser Soze in The Usual Suspects.

Is he genuinely enthusiastic about the idea of unity among the workers of the world?" On the contrary, he concluded, the grocer's slogan is the lament of a double life, a public substitute for the truth that he bears only in private: "I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient".

The jersey he touched at the finish bears only a small panel with the iconic red, white and green colours, something that has not gone down well in the most traditional of cycling nations.

Todd Gray's take on panzanella with cucumbers and niçoise olives, which he serves at Equinox, his excellent Washington restaurant, bears only passing resemblance to the Italian version.

Sganarelle bears only a passing resemblance to the winsome scamp Mr. Epp played in the earlier production; he's ruder, rougher and perhaps even funnier.

The restaurant, which opened in November, bears only a slight resemblance to its forebears.

Not surprisingly, the figure that emerges bears only a passing resemblance to the legendary outlaw.

Owner Mikhail Prokhorov's team bears only a little resemblance to the old New Jersey team.

The egg, like the male gamete, bears only a single (haploid) set of chromosomes.

Leskov is emphatically unlike either Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky, and bears only passing comparison with Turgenev.