Here, the director, Edward Zwick, and the screenwriter, Steven Knight (who co-wrote the story with Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson), provide a semblance of what might be called balance — a connection between Fischer's paranoia in the prime of adulthood and his primordial experience of espionage due not to the Soviet Union or the K.G.B., but to the United States and the F.B.I.
Then he elaborated for ten minutes while we listened, glanced, made notes, riffled the textbook to find refuge in print, some semblance of meaning that might be roughly equivalent to what he was saying.
ELLEN: Seeing your girl playing basketball has compelled me to scroll wistfully back to where our journey began, in the search of some semblance of logic that might explain how far we've strayed.
In the same way that a child looks to their parents to garner some sense of acceptable behavior and "adultness," I look for a semblance of what "normal" might look or feel like to those who appear to have their heads firmly planted on their shoulders, and seemingly breeze through their days unaffected by neuroses, anxiety, insecurity.
Had "Babymother" evoked even a semblance of social realism, it might have amounted to something more than a candy-colored, beat-driven show-business fantasy.
Even "super-Earths," orbs with masses that fall between one and 10 times that of our planet (depicted at right in the artist's concept above) and therefore offer some semblance of similarity to Earth, might be uninhabitable.
"These fat guys screaming at town halls are like rabid animals, tearing away any semblance of any bridge that might actually bring opposing sides together to repair what's so badly broken.
"Yet those words might fall short in restoring even a semblance of the political power he once held.
In short, this is a girl who might find herself somewhat vulnerable to anyone offering some semblance of stability, particularly anyone who might pass as a backup father figure.
Indeed, most humanitarian organizations cling to their independence and worry that any semblance of cooperation with the military might jeopardize their credibility.
The skeptical view of love, often tenderly at odds with sentiments of romantic yearning, loneliness and regret, gives "Marry Me a Little" a more convincing semblance of narrative than its origins might indicate.
