Refine the leaves to resemble a real one.
✒ Tis the season for leaving, and the trend is for medialand's leaving parties to resemble American comedy "roasts".
Severely disabled, as one might expect, "he tended to resemble, if left to his own devices, a large white appliance".
As he himself acknowledged, he simply could not write a love scene — if a plot required anything resembling one, it was left to the collaborator of the moment.
With such a focus on a slick look and feel there's almost no air left for the characters to resemble actual human beings.
By Sunday night of the Reading Festival, after three days of being out in the elements and with no money, no drugs and no booze left, the campsites begin to resemble something out of Lord of the Flies: posh kids with muddy faces setting fire to daddy's tent and braying "Bollocks!" into the night.
It's a House of Commons of Dr Moreau, where even the mildest of centre left or right politicians starts to resemble the lunatic fringe.
In later years, after Ms. La Plante left, and "Prime Suspect" began to resemble the more formulaic shows at the next level down — when it felt as if you were watching a superior episode of "Cracker" or "Morse" — Tennison began to take on some of the typical (and convenient) tortured-genius trappings of the television detective.
The lower part of the caulid (stem) is bare, and the upper part has two rows of phyllids (leaves), causing the plant to resemble a small fern frond.
