Sentence examples for somehow akin to from inspiring English sources

François Crouzet, a French historian, calls the search for an explanation "somehow akin to the quest for the Holy Grail".

It is as though in the literary imagination climate change were somehow akin to extraterrestrials or interplanetary travel.

To the Editor: Ross Douthat proposes that the conjectures and affections surrounding the legacy of President John F. Kennedy are somehow akin to cultism.

This does not, as Goodes's plethora of reactionary critics also suggest, logically imply that other Indigenous people – including players who have not spoken out against the extant anti-black racism in Australian society – are somehow akin to "Uncle Toms".

That he regards the vomit films as somehow akin to painting (they are colourful) and the shitting films as related to sculpture doesn't get us very far - although there is, I believe, a French colloquialism that refers to defecating as "casting a bronze", so the idea is nothing new.

Taken alongside the rest of his writing, the scabrous addresses fall into place as part of a career-long obsession with isolation and miscommunication; lifted out of that context and boiled down into a "battle of the sexes," the movie risks presenting this most fiercely empathetic writer as somehow akin to the smug, tin-eared misanthropy of Neil LaBute.

You can still feel an early-American spirit here, but it's somehow more akin to Jack London's America than Thornton Wilder's, as if the sermons from this once-rowdy waterfront town were delivered by a saloon preacher rather than by some quaint Protestant minister.

When the lover sees that all these beautiful things are somehow akin in the beauty, he comes to think that "bodily beauty is a small thing" (210c5 6), and so, as before, becomes less obsessed with it.

This second volume of autobiography from Rupert Everett charts the actor's meandering path through the often vapid world of showbiz, deploying a largely detached tone; yet somehow reading it is akin to being held in the vice-like grip of a demon.

But then, as Frost/Nixon (out this Friday in the UK) tells us, along came a most unexpected white knight in the shape of David Frost, a lightweight British journalist associated with fluff and showbiz, who somehow managed to extract something akin to an apology from the greatest political bogeyman of the era.

Patients with DPD sometimes complain of the feeling that their self and body are somehow disconnected and this is akin to feelings of disembodiment, which are provoked by physiological disruption to the TPJ [40,41] and hence could conceivably be ameliorated by rTMS.