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Sentence Examples The likeness of the poet and the bench he sits upon are cast in bronze which has acquired a fine and appropriately green patina. The best thing about the site, for my money, is that I've managed to avoid having any photographic likeness of myself included anywhere on it. One says that our rights come by virtue of our humanity because we are created in God's image and likeness. The first mission of you women is to remake yourself in the image and likeness of the Divine Female Principle, the female aspect of God. From the very beginning, he wanted a people who would welcome him into their hearts and yield to him as he shaped them into his likeness. Just as we have often made God in our own image and likeness, we now may run the risk of being shaped by machines we have created. They belong to us because we are created by God, in His image and likeness. Thus a portrait of William Pitt the Younger, undertaken as a faithful likeness, portrayed the prime minister with an overly sharp nose. Deploying his amazing deductive powers on crude earlier representations he elicited a likeness which the Emperor sharply recognised. On the other hand the photographer in a similar two dimensional format, sets out to portray a likeness of the sitter within an arbitrary moment. The kids were beginning to see that a portrait is not just a drawing depicting a likeness. The assumption that the work is a physiognomic likeness has driven scholarly efforts to identify the panel's subject. The prefix tu denotes likeness and when added to nouns it also has causative properties. But, is there any such likeness between the loveliness of this world and the splendours in the Supreme? The world, far from being a rough wilderness one has to force into one's own likeness, is now a mirror. Even such pillars of Berkeleianism as the likeness principle were anticipated by the skeptics. You mean being and not being, and likeness and unlikeness, and same and different, and one and any other number they have. Its similarity with toreutic works on the banks of the hill reminds us of Strabo's assertion touching the likeness of Egyptian and Tuscan art. Schwarzenegger wants to put a stop to charity bobble-head dolls in his likeness. A portrait is of course in the first instance a likeness of the sitter who commissions it. Show More Sentences On September 10, 1665, during a sitting for his bust, the king got up to check on the likeness. With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude likeness of God. For example, dulce de leche has reached epic popularity because of its likeness to caramel. Like most dandies, his predilection for high-style fashion and cosmetic beauty betrays a likeness to his female counterparts. To Marshall Bertrand, Napoleon's faithful aide, this was the most accurate likeness. Nor, as he had before thankfully observed, did her ladyship enamel her nails to the likeness of blood-stained talons. She has a remarkable likeness to an unknown figure who appears in his recurrent dreams, a fact that Paul takes as some sort of omen. He can then try making an exact likeness without having to worry about being too concerned about how good looking it is. Such a rethinking would not necessarily reject outright the possibility that such images represent their subjects through physiognomic likeness. But if he makes the noble gesture, a thankful nation will always remember a man made in the likeness of his illustrious grand-aunt, Constance. If you include the doll made in his likeness, there are no less than six incarnations of Pekar in the film. It took him a mere two hours to sculpt his subject from life in wax before going on to mould the likeness in his unique paste. In the past year alone, numerous studies have highlighted our remarkable likeness not only to chimps, but to monkeys and apes of all kinds. His public appeal has been heightened by the good nature with which he has taken ribbing about his likeness to the movie character Harry Potter. For the Godhead of Christ was covered and hidden under the likeness of man. Perhaps Neruda's most endearing quality, aside from his self-professed likeness to a tapir, was his respect for poetry as an occupation. When he sat in front of the massive picture window that framed his easel, the glass mirrored his likeness under a mammoth magnolia tree. That the portraits of Beethoven did not bear much likeness to the composer could be deemed a deliberate transgression. The Columbus committee commissioned a well-known Philadelphia sculptor to cast a 9-foot likeness of the Genoese explorer. Because the great predestinating purpose of God is to conform us to the likeness of His Son. Show More Sentences Her name and likeness adorned a five-cent postage stamp issued March 10 of that year. She grinned involuntarily, amused by his likeness to her high school maths teacher. Each human soul is of inestimable value because it was fashioned in the image, and after the likeness of God Himself. Parental love is motivated by the child's intimate affinity and likeness to her. Reportedly, her look is especially popular among Asian businessmen, who are eager to use her likeness to advertise their products. Rather than achieving a photorealistic likeness, I try to capture the feeling I get from a mental visualization of my subject. You too can add your face to the crowd by submitting your sketched likeness to the ever-growing collection. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. Finally, he notices that the central of the three circles is painted with la nostra effige, our human image and likeness. Matron noticed the likeness between them, from their slight physiques to their long, angular faces and coiffed white hair. God created us in his own likeness and his own image, hence, it is quite obvious that He knows our strengths and our weaknesses. The argument begins with human nature, made, according to Genesis, in the image and likeness of God. Honda honors its commitment to society by casting the 2001 Civic in the image and likeness of its predecessor. How much more can I rejoice, I who am made in your image and likeness? But the overriding likeness is the fun, almost absurdist sense of humor. So is he ready for a plastic action figure to be made in his likeness? If there is any likeness at all between the machine and its embodied precursor, the closest analogy to that relationship might be between adults and the babies they once were. Disappointingly, even though you can at times detect a family likeness to its genius predecessors, The IT Crowd's opening gambit suggests it could be the runt of the litter. Thus, in addition to their likeness to executives with options packages, pundits also closely resemble mutual fund managers, and the people who invest with them. Gerry is philosophical about his legendary likeness to the wayward footy genius Bestie, which is a constant source of amusement to drinkers in Skelton. Show More Sentences Apart from the apparent likeness to Harrison, who lost his battle with cancer in 2001, Nick feels his voice also bears a striking similarity to the late musician. And although I don't see it myself, his likeness to the real thing is said to be so striking that he once stood in for the golfer in an American Express advert. I said something about mind games, and he disowned any likeness to another guy that had made me think he was interested in me when he was just looking for a make-out buddy. The songs themselves are fairly indistinguishable, aside from a few key drum fills and guitar parts, but ultimately, their likeness to each other is a good thing. Deleuze maintains that the father's punishing superego and genital sexuality are symbolically punished in the son, who must expiate his likeness to the father. This principle is enshrined in Genesis, Chapter One, where we are taught that God made humanity in His own image and likeness as microcosm and mediator. As a result we acquire some likeness to the Father and the Creator of all. Swiss actor, Bruno Ganz, portrays Hitler, and is said to achieve a photographic likeness of the stooped, 56-year-old dictator, who was plagued by Parkinson's disease. Combining text with a sculptured likeness and appropriate symbols in an everlasting material, medals could be distributed widely for lasting glory. You who refuse to bow before images also refuse to bow before the Son of God who is the living image of the invisible God, and his unchanging likeness. For some reason the Spaniards saw a likeness between the banana tree and the totally different plane tree, which is how the plantain got its confusing name. His likeness adorns the more expensive posters, calendars and tea towels inside the store. She had gotten his likeness tattooed on her upper arm, and she raised her sleeve to show it to a reporter. Author agrees to give Publisher the right to use the author's name, likeness, title of book, and bio material for publishing, advertising and promoting the work. For an understanding to be about some thing, such as a cat, is for there to be an occurrent concept in the mind that is a natural likeness of a cat. Portraits are not usually over-elaborate, and ought to portray a likeness of the subject, also offering some insight to the subject's personality. Wood also objects to the way Rushdie's characters remind us of their likeness to Greek and Indian mythical heroes, unlike Joyce's characters who do not know they are Homeric. They want to spoil the divine likeness of man made in the image of God. But this woman has committed to memory all the essentials of her own physiognomy, and can conjure up, time and again, her own basic likeness without resorting to a mirror. Eight of the knives were plain, four were decorated, and two bore the likeness of the Sican Deity, believed by Sicans to rule the supernatural world. Show More Sentences At 76, age has worked around him, not swallowed him whole, softening him from his photo likeness, freckling the skin and hands, pulling at the neck and hooding the eyes. Many critics felt that the sense of likeness gained through the use of contemporary dress diminished gradually as time went by and fashions changed. Navy became popular heroes with plates with the likeness of Decatur, Steward, Hull, and others, becoming popular items. Its form, topped by a likeness of the Doge's hat, became gradually standardized, and was then fixed by local law. Alexander VI kneeling in front of the Madonna, said to be a likeness of Giulia Farnese. The Church teaches that everyone, being born in God's image, is called to theosis, fulfillment of the image in likeness to God. With the introduction of a ferrotype photo process, the likeness of a candidate was available to Abraham Lincoln's 1860 campaign. In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature. If her likeness on the billboard makes waves, why stop there? As part of the cult of the Virgin Queen, courtiers were rather expected to wear the Queen's likeness, at least at Court. Most important to the air of humanity, however, is the likeness to skin in the smooth, slightly lustrous warmth of the terra sigillata surfaces. The pop artists in particular had a special likeness for photographic serigraphy techniques. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. The renowned Ambidexter moulded from earth the likeness of a modest maiden, by Kronos' son's design. Consequently, though mu is mindlike, the likeness to individual consciousness cannot be pushed very far. The Panamanian currency is called the Balboa, and his likeness appears on the obverse of most Panamanian coins. The first eight volumes share a likeness with the works of the contemporary Snorri Sturluson. His likeness graced playing cards, mugs, posters, models, paintings, plates and jigsaw puzzles. Coins bore his likeness, and he was given the right to speak first during Senate meetings. The effigy features a pronounced lower lip, and may be a close likeness of Edward. Show More Sentences He read over 100 books on Lincoln, and long worked with the makeup artist to achieve a physical likeness to Lincoln. Stamps were issued with his likeness in 1974 and 2008 and streets, parks, and public squares were named after him throughout Wales. Adjectives signifying profit or disprofit, likeness or unlikeness govern the dative. The king of creation would not have curved his palm into the likeness of a Hindu mudra in an attempt to protect the tiny launching pad on his thumbnail from the dank wind. Enderby watched her warily as she lay prone, having kicked the clothes off the bed, her nates silvered by the Roman moonlight to the likeness of a meringue. More distrustful and irritable than ever, in this section, this watchdog character was to be obsessed with the centauresque likeness of my four boys. She knew her baby through his manly stature and mature features, less from his likeness to his father than from certain uneffaced traces of infantine form and expression. For since the intellect passes from potentiality to act, it has a likeness to generable things, which do not attain to perfection all at once but acquire it by degrees. To one fresh from the baked Australian plains, there is likeness between any green and humid land and the last unparched country that he may have seen. Examples from Classical Literature Did not the dominant spirit within her bear a close likeness to his own phantasmagoric soul? But the likeness was remarkable, nevertheless, and it grew to be a standing joke with us. In the diptych, although the portrait of Richard himself was a likeness, the setting was imaginary and symbolic. For this man had been most inhospitably treated, through his strange but undeniable likeness to a perfidious Briton. The dissimilarity of the plays only accentuates the likeness of the two protagonists. And, say, for a speakin' likeness of a dropped egg that's hit the floor instead of the toast, he was it! Kneller painted a portrait of him for the king, which is said to have been a good likeness. Another traced her likeness in a few words, and described her as if she had been some knick-knack for sale at an auction. Other points of likeness will be mentioned under the description of the koala. It seemed that the speaker was miles away and that his voice and features were those of a radiovision likeness. I enhanced the likeness very much, last Friday morning, by singing a barcarole on the rocks. When two species are crossed, one has sometimes a prepotent power of impressing its likeness on the hybrid. This blank tract of repulsive land, so strangely dedicated to death, had lost every hint of lethean likeness. This is not altogether the fact, though I for one see no shame in acknowledging the likeness. Her hair is fuzzy and her nose is puggy, but I didn't see much other likeness. Those of you who are now looking at teevee screens can see my imaged likeness. She had numerous chins, but, imbedded in flesh, one could still trace a likeness to an ethereally fair daughter. Its likeness to loup may have given occasion to the fiction of their taking the lupine form. As he had made man in his own likeness he called him tiki-ahua or tiki's likeness. We sat together, and the picture, a tintype, was pronounced an excellent likeness. Show More Sentences At night the tropical moon turned all this riverine world to the likeness of a very fairyland. An adjunction of characteristics, moral prepotency of his father, physical likeness to his mother. What price would some early edition of his works bear, 184 with his likeness in calotype fronting the title? Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world. They came waking and crowding to fill out the measure of his unconsummated passion, and they had all one face and one likeness. Russula is so named because of its likeness in color to some species of the genus Russula. Was it the vague, unseizable likeness between them which had pushed him over the edge? Right so alit a cloud betwixt them in likeness of a fire and a marvellous flame, that both their two shields burnt. As a small point of likeness between this mustelid and the Procyonidae may be mentioned the colours of the face. Between this class and the paranoiac there is at once a curious likeness and distinction. Of course, as fast as I can lay hands on them, I'm destroying every likeness of the old nelly. Whose likeness are you, poor girl, with your everyday prettiness of brows and chin, and your Raphaelesque crick in the neck? The fellow had practised upon my credulity to obtain my likeness for publication. The tropical bird and the wood pigeon had as much likeness in every thing else. In the ante-room, in a bad light, hangs a characteristic likeness of poor, wrongheaded Barry. There are, however, other points of likeness which seem rather to point to a creodont origin. I am certain that your dear likeness is to be found under the annunciation. So he went to Frigg, in Fensal, having taken on himself the likeness of a woman. Alas, for Number One, it is always a figure in the likeness of Mrs. glutch. Did you put it into his head to paint me as Antigone, that he might have my likeness for this? Show More Sentences But no one has, because of this likeness, ever suggested that these tribes ever counted by the senary method. The undoubted likeness which their molar teeth show to the temporary teeth of the platypus have already been commented upon. The constellation Draco was probably so 468 called from its fanciful likeness to a snake. I pressed the glove to my face, delighting in its imagined likeness to myself. There was the name and the likeness of a man far more familiar to many of them. The guide's likeness to that bandit who died in himalaya camp was most striking. His likeness, his name, his plays are pressed into every huckster's service. This morning I had been looking at Giorgione's picture of the cruel-eyed woman, said to be a likeness of Lucrezia Borgia. The third likeness, that of geta, has been erased in every instance. This done, he vanished, and I was in the likeness of an ape, and in a country I had never seen before. And the thing that the hand gripped had the likeness of a Black Rod. Assuredly, then, it was something worse, in old Caesar's likeness! Man is the image and likeness of God, coexistent and coeternal with Him. Uncoiling as they grow, they have some likeness to a crosier. Say, Missus, didn't de Sheriff say dat was a perfec' likeness? It bears a miniature likeness of the king, set in small brilliants. His portrait is common in the farmhouses of the region, but is believed by many to be but an indifferent likeness. But, when I drew near, the likeness to the face of a woman faded away, and I saw nothing before me but rugged heaps of piled-up rock. They led to the likeness of his Evadne, of his dear Heroine. He was a hook-nosed man, and with that and his bright eyes and his ruffled head, bore a certain likeness to a roused bird of prey. Show More Sentences There seems to be some likeness in the positions of Paul and myself. What would his reaction be if he could see the malt liquor bottle that now bears his name and a stereotypical likeness of an American Indian? Mentally, the likeness between them, as Newland was aware, was less complete than their identical mannerisms often made it appear. The four-poster once more took on its likeness to a ship in full sail. Some punning verses to 'Sir Peter' are inscribed with the likeness. So now again, as buoyantly as ever, he went forth to behold the likeness of the Great Stone Face. Twins they were in simultaneity of birth, but not in likeness of growth. One of mine, as I have heretofore said, is to give an ugly likeness. That would imply likeness and unlikeness, equality and inequality. It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice. And here is yet another point of the likeness to the Johnsonian coterie. I took him as he was sleeping on the sofa, and it is as strong a likeness of his cockade as you would wish to see. But he could not help looking back to wonder at the surprising likeness. I am puzzled, as aforesaid, between its likeness to a ball, and a lath. Would that she could, or that a limner were here to depict your likeness. He feels a strict consanguinity, and detects more likeness than variety in all her changes. But between us, I am convinced there never can be any likeness, except in being unmarried. Some said you had a handsome family likeness to old Nick, but that was your mother's fault, calling you Nicholas. There was an unnamable likeness to Ann in the man's features. The first wore an overdress of feathers in the likeness of a swan, and declaimed a long poem in honour of Elizabeth. Show More Sentences There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness almost before it was possible. She is a quadroon, as may be seen from her fairer complexion, though her likeness to her mother is quite discernible. Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party. The lady, indeed, bore a very fair likeness to a reverend effigy in some idolatrous shrine. Not only was his likeness released on a postage stamp earlier this week, but Warner Bros. Yes, he has a striking likeness to that person and a heap of others. Thus the reason why men enjoy seeing a likeness is, that in contemplating it they find themselves learning or inferring, and saying perhaps, 'Ah, that is he. She returned it almost instantly, acknowledging the likeness. For the first time Victory saw the likeness of a horse, and she was much affected by a huge oil which depicted some ancient cavalry charge against a battery of field guns. In the presence of others she expressed admiration for his exalted gifts, as she handed the photograph around and dwelt upon the fidelity of the likeness. The intellect pierces the form, overleaps the wall, detects intrinsic likeness between remote things and reduces all things into a few principles. They have long, gaunt legs, too, and such peaked snouts, that if one of them could be persuaded to sit for his profile, nobody would recognise it for a pig's likeness. He was extraordinarily receptive and responsive, while his imagination, pitched high, was ever at work establishing relations of likeness and difference. The faces, shriveled and defaced, bore no likeness to the faces of men. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of likeness? Words that rhyme with likeness What is the past tense of likeness? What is the plural of likeness? What is the adverb for likeness? What is the adjective for likeness? What is the noun for likeness? Translations for likeness Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words likened liken like-mindedness like-minded likeminded likely to likenesses like never before likening likens liker likes 8-letter Words Starting With l li lik like liken likene likenes