Culturally, the entire West Coast now resembled Esalen, and colonies were springing up from Koh Samui to Kitzbühel.
Most of this material hadn't been used, and the space now resembled the den of an orderly hoarder.
The river, ordinarily a greenish-brown color, now resembled milky tea, and a drab sludge slathered its banks.
Although its body and integral space frame were entirely new — and formed of aluminum — the sedan's styling now resembled its classic ancestors more closely.
The Times sadly concluded that England now resembled a foreign land:Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers.
I returned a few weeks later to see the finished S.U.V., which now resembled nothing so much as Tony Soprano's living room on 24-inch chrome wheels.
We went around a bend and the office building disappeared momentarily and then reappeared, so that its giant antenna now resembled a needle stuck in an arm.
A family friend, wandering through the subdivision that now resembled a fiery war zone, spotted the dress, still in its garment bag, draped over the limbs of a neighbor's cherry tree.
Speaking last Monday, Shaker Aamer said that the camp's inmates on hunger strike now resembled "starving Biafrans" and detailed alleged mistreatment from guards and force-feeding practices that lead to vomiting and bleeding.
Neighborhoods fell to the militants in startlingly quick succession, so that Saeed's mother's mental map of the city where she had spent her entire life now resembled an old quilt, with patches of government land and patches of militant land.
Mr. Bush, in an interview last month, said that those sanctions now resembled "Swiss cheese," and he left no doubt that he would find a way to stop Mr. Hussein from rebuilding his military power.
