semblance

And any semblance of normality that had previously existed seemed to have evaporated.

Still, amid the uncertainty the residents of Bab al-Salameh do their best to carve a semblance of order into their lives.

And it was clear we would not even maintain a semblance of friendship.

It took months, she said, for any semblance of normality to take root.

First, the Neesonesque action hero must convey some semblance of hard-earned depth, which helps older viewers identify.

He turned his eyes upon her; but no sympathy was in their beams; no belief in the semblance of her tears.

Like art, too, on its representative side, play aims at producing an imitation or semblance of something.

The imitative impulse prompting to the production of the semblance of something appears very early in child-life.

A quite young child will, for example, pretend to do something, as to take an empty cup and carry out the semblance of drinking.

Secure in his authority, to its outward semblance he was rather indifferent.