Sentence examples for yet akin from inspiring English sources

The novel's quiet clockwork encompasses a long, reflective "moment in April," a single day in Helsinki unlike yet akin to Woolf's "life; London; this moment of June".

Soberer, incredibly compact in their pictorial concept and yet akin to the Renaissance in their objective viewing, were the portrait drawings of Hans Holbein, the Younger, whose sojourns in 16th-century England proved stimulating to other artists as well.

But there is nothing that has turned up yet quite akin to what's here.

Yet something akin to this standard seems to have influenced the legal position of the Obama administration.

Figures are rendered with far more attention to individual human traits yet are akin in their majesty to the great prophets in the 13th-century windows.

There was a sense of community and intimacy that I hadn't quite experienced yet upcountry, akin to the "Southern charm" back in the States.

One of Bollywood's most charismatic actors, he has an overweight, jaded, vulnerable yet menacing presence akin to John Travolta in Pulp Fiction - only better.

Pialat captures the raspy, green-brown fields of the harsh provincial landscape and the garishly clashing colors of cramped domesticity with a frenzied yet tender eye akin to that of van Gogh (about whom Pialat made a fierce bio-pic in 1991).

The house is "a living painting", complete with a Dorian Gray-style portrait of Mother ("She looks quite…" "Horrible?"), rotting yet magnificent, more akin to David Lean's Great Expectations or Robert Stevenson's Jane Eyre than the B-movie aesthetics of Roger Corman or Hammer.

They weren't obviously political, yet they became something akin to a political movement.

Mr Akin may yet find he find himself forced to pull out of the Missouri race as the Republican leadership starves him of support and cash.