J. J. Redick

I always talk about shooting being broken down into three things. You have to have some semblance of good form. The second part is repetition: doing things over and over again until you really develop a skillset. And then the third part is confidence. But for me, you can't have confidence without having that second part.

American Athlete

James T. Walsh

Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.

American Politician

Asha Parekh

Over time, my mother also gave up her dream of seeing me as a bride because whomever she showed my horoscope to would say my marriage wouldn't be a successful one. It was not the kind of thing I believed in, but it did grant me some semblance of peace.

Indian Actress

James Purefoy

As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.

English Actor

Jeff Kober

To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our ability to control.

American Actor

Desiderius Erasmus

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Dutch Philosopher

Melina Kanakaredes

It's a wonderful time when you sit down around the table for dinner and discuss life. No matter where you are, it gives the semblance of normalcy to my crazy world.

American Actress

Tom Green

Vegas is exciting, and it's nice to be somewhere on a regular basis rather than just criss-crossing the country. It allows me to have a semblance of a life.

Canadian Comedian

Glenn Danzig

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

American Musician

Robert Downey, Jr.

All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.

Used when something only looks real or true, but lacks substance.

Not Genuine

Focuses on how things appear on the surface, not deeper qualities.

Surface Image

Often used to describe an effort to keep things looking normal during chaos.

Maintaining Order

Indicates something that appears real but is fake or forced.

Fake Reality

Suggests a deceptive resemblance to the real thing.

Imitation of Truth

Refers to when there is only a tiny bit of some quality or substance.

Minimal Presence

Useful for indicating the smallest presence of something needed to be recognized.

Bare Minimum

 or a speeding narwhal, or even an abstract character with some semblance of joints, simply print, cut, and fasten your character's limbs together in a neutral pose. You can use fasteners, string, or even just place and move them each time. All the same rules and theories that we use in the computer

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 and tried to keep a semblance of normal life going it wasn't easy but they tried they set up youth recreation centres they staged public place and they tried to this people spirits by launching a campaign where they painted street walls and neighborhoods and try to animate

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 quickly because otherwise it just gets too warm and even though they have this incredible ability to cool their body down with their ears they still are having to try and and just kind of get out into some semblance of shade no excuse my head there I held it in frame

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 wants to believe that they are so of course they visit so this is the space the landscape in which superstition lives as science demystifies the universe there is an existential angst that it will take away all semblance of meaning from our existence as well and

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 down to a situation where we are in phase two right now where we are able to to to dine out to some degree in restaurants and have some semblance of of normalcy returned i was just gonna dovetail on something that um that mayor bowser said before

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 But many more, like Aki’s parents, endured. They constantly sought to recreate some semblance of life outside the camps, but the reality of their situation was unavoidable. Like many younger incarcerees, Aki was determined to leave her camp.

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 has some semblance of the truth, and then you're able to believe it. It's not just kids who can get there. Adults can too, and we get there when we read. It's why in two days, people will be descending on Dublin to take the walking tour

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 to maximize our use of time so that we can do more things in less amount of time and as a result the contemporary world operates in terms of global synchronization things happen in real time and the semblance of simultaneity

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 autocratic rule I think we have to really want ask some deep questions about what are we willing to do to protect democracy even the imperfect democracy that people of color of experience to to keep some semblance of

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 that's as tough as my wonderful wife right here. And what were the first signs that recovery was not only going to be possible but you were going to have some semblance of the life that you and Gabby had planned?

Semblance