Sentence examples for the semblance of from inspiring English sources

Verisimilitude, the semblance of reality in dramatic or nondramatic fiction.

This requires leaders representing differing philosophies to stand, so that we have the semblance of choice.

By the mid-1970s, Maritime Command had reorganized into the semblance of a naval staff.

Indeed, Laos has not even the semblance of an opposition and certainly no free press.

He also needs respectable politicians to give his new interim government the semblance of legitimacy.

Absent even the semblance of a public transport system, the motorcycle-taxis were vital.

The canopy of leaves, the semblance of an explosion, makes the tree one big benign firecracker.

Except that today we may literally have been thrown the semblance of a lifeline.

The men sleep in the part that still has the semblance of a roof.

On the right, there is the semblance of a tartan sampler.

At least they have the beginning of a philosophy and the semblance of a plan.