Sentence examples for semblance and from inspiring English sources

Het lied van schijn en wezen ("Song of Semblance and Substance"), the first part of which appeared in 1895, is a long philosophical poem.

Myth and reality are contrasted in Een lied van schijn en wezen (1981; A Song of Truth and Semblance) and in the fable-novel In Nederland (1984; In the Dutch Mountains); in both of these works, the lives of the narrators who are authors become interwoven with the lives of their characters.

This was predictable: a month before the visit, Kafka wrote that "if one bolts the doors and windows against the world, one can from time to time create the semblance and almost the beginning of the reality of a beautiful life".

"When he realized that he was not going to prevail by sheer charisma and vision for integrating with the West, he started to operate more and more in a pattern where he just didn't want to deal with those people who didn't like him — with the Abkhaz and the South Ossetians — and he created a kind of semblance and image, a Potemkin village of a peace process".

Instead, Nietzsche undertook a metaphysical inquiry into the essence of tragedy as a dialectical interplay of the contrasting aesthetic impulses of Apollonian semblance and Dionysian truth.

The MUSIC spectrum is more sensitive to the directional variation of a beam approaching the array, compared with ordinary beam-forming analyses like frequency-wavenumber spectrum, semblance and slant stacking (Schmidt, 1986; Goldstein and Archuleta, 1991).

Mexican goalkeeper Jorge Campos, who played in the 1994 and 1998 World Cups, abandoned any single colour – and semblance of taste – with a series of outfits he designed himself.

1. STEVE COLEMAN AND FIVE ELEMENTS "Harvesting Semblances and Affinities" (Pi).

But the group's bracing new album, "Harvesting Semblances and Affinities" (Pi), is the first such release in nearly a decade, featuring the same deft young edition of the band found at this Undead Jazzfest show.

Advertisements on the front of the ubiquitous cards may appear in any color, and no semblance of the authority's logo is required.

The correlation analysis between the time-averaged friction coefficient and peak sound pressure data is performed by applying a semblance analysis and a joint recurrence quantification analysis.