Sentence examples for pale resemblance from inspiring English sources

Four years later, struggling with knees that were falling apart, he was a pale resemblance of that wondrous player.

Lacking intensity and stamina, Paulinho was a pale resemblance of the box-to-box midfielder that led Tottenham into making one of their club-record signings last season.

But the prize for pale resemblance in AIDS art has to go to Jonathan Larson's "Rent," which opened on Broadway in 1996.

And even that sacrosanct symbol, the apple pie, now faces a demeaning makeover: the popular Sara Lee brand is selling a fat-free version that bears but a pale resemblance to the genuine article.

Mona, a pale, freckled redhead with a certain resemblance to the young Tilda Swinton, is lying in the faded grass, beside the red Honda motorbike she's just bought.

The tall, pale Mr. Hoch, who bears a haunting resemblance in looks and speech to Huntz Hall of the Bowery Boys, is a gifted performer who uses his mastery of rap rhythms to invest his characters with remarkable energy and definition.

In Greece, officers' suspicions were raised when they spotted the girl, who has light blond hair, pale skin and green eyes and bore no resemblance to the other camp residents.

The cap surface is silvery-grey and covered with concentrically patterned darker scales of a grey, brown or blackish colour that grow paler toward the cap margin, Secretan noting its resemblance to the cap of Sarcodon imbricatus.

With her distorted face, pale skin and dark hair, she bore an eerie resemblance to Michael Jackson.

They noticed the lack of resemblance between the blonde-haired, green-eyed, pale-skinned little girl and her parents, and found further discrepancies when they investigated the family's documents.

They noticed the lack of resemblance between the blonde-haired, blue-eyed, pale-skinned little girl and her parents, and found further discrepancies when they investigated the family's documents.