Sentence examples for semblance of structure from inspiring English sources

The post gives his day a semblance of structure.

Speechwriters take desperate measures to hold the thing together, to give it some semblance of structure.

Isolations, botched spacing and meaningless cuts became the norm, as all semblance of structure vanished.

Their scenes are the most strained of the film, inserted as a lazy framing device to add some semblance of structure to what's otherwise an admirably scattershot narrative.

The same black-and-white pop-up tents, dotted with sponsor logos, that had littered the beach in previous contests sprung up again, offering a semblance of structure in between the concrete support Ts that used to hoist the boardwalk.

It's perhaps not how Kobe envisioned the end of his career, on a failing Laker team careening towards another lottery pick without a semblance of structure, although recent news of his desire to play in next year's Olympics could offer him a respite.

Davis gave the band two chords, and "there was a semblance of structures, but they were a little fragmented compared to what we usually played".

Monologues delivered by assorted unidentified losers in love who relate their unhappy stories to an unseen listener lend "Heartbeats" the semblance of a structure.

The barnstorming sessions took on some semblance of a structure: The Power Team would arrive in town on a Wednesday for five nights of shows.

The apparently rambling structure of the book is in fact bracketed by opening and closing sections, arranged like the rest as letters, which "give form and scale and even a semblance of narrative structure to what would otherwise have been a shapeless anthology".

Since our view was several miles north, it took a few minutes to confirm what we had all suspected and the minutes in between were spent in ashen horror asking one another whether any semblance of a structure still stood behind the smoke.