Since language is subjective then measuring brand messaging — as marketers apparently must — is akin to putting your hand into a snake pit in the hopes of pulling out a docile python.
If they sounded different, it must have been be akin to those sounds that only dogs can hear.
One view is that since Descartes' eternal truths are neither finite mental things, finite physical things, nor God, they must be something akin to Platonic forms.[21] A problem with this view, of course, is that it does violence to Descartes' parsimonious dualism.
While historical legends of science had the luxury of being solo artists, today's best scientists must be more akin to conductors of orchestras.
It is more like some drawing-room comedy-farce in which the drawing room in question is big and fuselage-shaped, and the cockpit, where the big, secret issues must be bickeringly discussed, is akin to the kitchen where the host and his wife must frantically cover up the disasters about to befall their guests.
For Sander, it must have been akin to chopping off her head, or pulling her heart out of her body.
In that case, the thrill of Commander Kelly and Major Peake in seeing this zinnia flower for the first time last weekend must have been akin to that of North, one of the few well-known female explorers, discovering the gigantic Nepenthes pitcher plant in the Borneo jungle or Douglas coming across the stately fir in Canada that now bears his name.
For those who have yet to find it, Oprah's call to action must have been akin to dim light on a dark road.
You end up suspecting that Parker connected with Turner's story not only because it needed to be told but, more importantly, because grinding out the kind of acting work Parker had to accept must've been akin to de facto slavery.
Such abnegation would be akin to abdication.
