Sentence examples for only the semblance of from inspiring English sources

We already interact with things that have only the semblance of sentience.

This contributed to the poor quality of Hong Kong films, because directors often began shooting with only the semblance of a script.

And it's still not so easy to reach: the two-flight, roughly four-hour trip from Manila (including a layover in Cebu) has only the semblance of a schedule part of the year because of mercurial weather.

From the perspective of these times, the story of two Depression-era ranch hands thwarted in their efforts to create their own home seems to possess only the semblance of moral complexity, not moral complexity itself.

Thamus worried that people "will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves": The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing.

The dictionary describes such a creature as "mute and listless" with only "the semblance of life".

But the semblance of unity held, just about.

The author's original wording referred only to her having the semblance of ineptness, and this version has now been restored This article was further amended on 11 July 2011 at the writer's request.

Of the Three Musketeers, who voice their motto, "All for one, one for all," several times in the movie without sincerity, only Matthew Macfadyen's Athos exhibits the semblance of a personality.

The only way to break through the semblance of total identity is immanently, using the concept.

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