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    resemblance
    [ noun ]
    similarity in appearance or external or superficial details
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    Resemblance \Re*sem"blance\ (-blans), n. [Cf. F. ressemblance.
    See {Resemble}.]
    1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude;
    similarity.

    One main end of poetry and painting is to please;
    they bear a great resemblance to each other.
    --Dryden.

    2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a
    likeness.

    These sensible things, which religion hath allowed,
    are resemblances formed according to things
    spiritual. --Hooker.

    3. A comparison; a simile. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

    4. Probability; verisimilitude. [Obs.] --Shak.

    Syn: Likeness; similarity; similitude; semblance;
    representation; image.

    1. Its pragmatic approach bears little resemblance to Soviet health magazines' traditional reliance on vague abstractions about "socialist families" when giving sexual advice.
    2. SWAT team police, chosen for their resemblance to the daughter and two other relatives, instead got in the Fiat and began driving, authorities said.
    3. The resemblance ends there, however, because Daniel North is an actor and in no way an alter ego for the author. He is at Heathrow airport when the novel begins, waiting to meet his father whom he has not seen for 13 acrimonious years.
    4. Their resemblance to the older men is remarkable.
    5. Fiat's new sleek Alfa Romeo 164, for example, bears a strong resemblance to the Saab 9000, and it should: Both cars came out of a joint design project between Fiat and Saab-Scania AB.
    6. Burke Pond, for instance, a 62-year-old with a striking resemblance to Fidel Castro, has bought sneakers before, but only the type he can pick up for $9.95 at discount stores.
    7. And at least I have a protagonist - sexy Harriet Costley - who bears not a flicker of resemblance to the current brood of sweaty, boiled-knuckled, post-feminist female investigators with whom publishers are enamoured.
    8. As the vision developed, a soulful trumpet sealed the resemblance.
    9. The same artist's view of Paris also bears a striking resemblance to Venice, while Hiroshige II's contemporaneous view of London looks rather more like Yokohama, where it was done, than any Western city.
    10. But publishing executives say the stripped versions of certain magazines don't bear any resemblance to the originals.
    11. "This is exciting," said Alonzo Mitchell, of Bainbridge, Ga., who decided to make the trip after seeing television news accounts of the 1986 homecoming and was struck by Mrs. Redford's resemblance to his sister.
    12. This medieval menu bore almost no resemblance to the national cuisines that evolved in the various nation states of the continent in the eighteenth century.
    13. "I think she wanted it to sting, but it didn't, because it's an absurd parody that doesn't bear any resemblance to the people I work with."
    14. Jan Leschly, a tall 52-year-old with a passing resemblance to Paul Newman, once played for Denmark's Davis cup team.
    15. She has alighted on Vera Lynn, the Forces Sweetheart, as her vehicle, prompted as much by a passing physical resemblance to the star as to the excitement of her career.
    16. Priestly routine in Poland, one of only five countries where the number of Roman Catholic seminary students has risen steadily the last decade, bears little resemblance to the difficult, uncertain life on the outside.
    17. A lie judged good enough to get the alleged author inducted into a liars hall of fame in Nebraska in 1987 bears a striking resemblance to a lie that won a Missouri man the title of World Champion Liar in the Burlington Liar's Club 1979 contest.
    18. The judge said there's clearly a "real relationship" between the fertility theme and a picture of six healthy, attractive children who all bear a striking resemblance to their parents.
    19. Ebaugh, who bore a resemblance to Roosevelt, rode in the president's car during the five-mile trip from the airport to the city, wearing Roosevelt's hat and cape with a cigarette holder in his mouth.
    20. Americans who meet her unfailingly note Vera's uncanny resemblance to Little Orphan Annie with her curly hair and cherub cheeks.
    21. But the brokers involved in the negotiations take a different view of the resemblance between the September and October proposals.
    22. Tannhauser himself, sung by tenor Richard Cassilly, bears a certain resemblance to the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart.
    23. But there is an ominous resemblance between the slowdown in world growth since 1974 and that of the inter-war period. Both long-wave downswings began with an international crisis (1914 and 1973) which dealt the first blow.
    24. In Quayle's 1980 Senate race, much was made of the resemblance between the young congressman and Robert Redford.
    25. It's not a gimmick," Ms. Smith said. "But Americans also seem to be fascinated with Russian items." Yes, but they're still Americans, and any resemblance to Moscow ends at the rear of the line.
    26. Consider the resemblance to a rotating fish bowl the next time you revolve.
    27. Even his parliamentary speeches -attacking Fianna Fail in a no confidence motion in November 1992 - have an uncanny resemblance to last week's assault.
    28. The fight over division of power bears little resemblance to the Constitutional Convention, where delegates were more concerned with whether the states should have any foreign-policy role and whether to maintain a military force in times of peace.
    29. Yet another resemblance between them is that Bildt, too, is presiding over his country's worst recession since at least the Second World War.
    30. He said: "The people who were interned really bore very little resemblance to those who were out to cause damage.
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