The phrase "semblance of respect" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when someone is acting in a way that appears to show respect, even though their behavior might not actually be respectful. For example, "The student remained silent during the teacher's lecture, but she maintained a semblance of respect in her posture."
Still, when it comes to the question of how to honor your creativity while also maintaining a semblance of respect for yourself, Wurtzel and Hannah are similarly flummoxed.
The danger is in what's already happening—Americans losing any semblance of respect for what a free press means in this country, Americans disregarding fact-based reporting.
This has provided some semblance of respect, but they are far from being viewed as equal and at best regarded as exotic and marginal.
An immediate pullout is the only way to achieve some semblance of respect for our disingenuous and increasingly dangerous foreign policy.
Aik Ansari from Britain commented: "If the U.S.-appointed puppet Karzai has any semblance of respect for Afghanistan, he would insist on trying the guilty party in Afghanistan under Afghan Law.
Or, for that matter, showing any semblance of respect for Manson's victims.
"Any pursuit by Ehud Barak of the blasphemous rabbi, from this moment on, should be considered as unconscionable kowtowing, as the abandonment of any semblance of self-respect and as groveling for the seats that will give this government another few months," said Shalom Yerushalmi, a columnist in Maariv, another major paper.
While 50 miles to the north, in Sacramento, a bankruptcy judge and lawyers for Stockton and its 18 creditors have begun to sort out who owes what to whom, Stockton's 292,000 residents have been left trying to hold together some semblance of order and respect for themselves.
In essence, Skelly rights ensure that employers treat permanent employees with some semblance of courtesy and respect.
And to further add to the circus of failed efforts we now have clueless Mitt Romney attempting to exhibit some semblance of heft with respect to understanding, a word I use generously here, of foreign affairs.
hardly seem like paragons of immune health, but the study implies that they've successfully managed to achieve, at least in one respect, some semblance of toughness.
