Sentence examples for outward semblance from inspiring English sources

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Ovid's talent is not of that highest order which can pierce the outward semblance of people and things and receive intimations of a deeper reality; but what he could do, few if any poets have ever done better.

But woe betide those blinded by her beauty, which is almost literally skin-deep – one of the most frightening things about her is that she smells "metallic" when she's angry, as though a secret interior furnace blazes up, burning off her soft outward semblance.

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In the capital, there was a semblance of outward calm — people went to work, African women walked by with loads on their heads, and pairs of white women went jogging through neighborhoods with names like Trelawney, Avondale, and Belgravia — but the tortured bodies of missing M.D.C. members were still turning up, and Tsvangirai and many of his fellow party members were living in semi-hiding.

Have the color facing outward.

Outward Bound.

And it's still only a semblance.

Over time, a semblance of normalcy returned.

A semblance of normal life has returned.

Some semblance of spring had momentarily arrived.

Outward appearances are important.

A semblance of political comedy.

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