resemblance

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In “The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin,” Beth Henley attempts the tricky task of turning an elliptical tale told in dense first-person prose into a conventional play.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2015

Family Resemblance In a live chat, Prudie advises a woman whose fiancé had a child with his brother’s wife.

From Slate • Oct. 8, 2012

Resemblance to natural objects, while it does not necessarily destroy these esthetic values, may easily adulterate their purity.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the Finches had straight incisive eyebrows and heavy-lidded eyes; when they looked slant-wise, up, or straight ahead, a disinterested observer would catch a glimpse of what Maycomb called Family Resemblance.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

David Hume, in his 1748 book, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, wrote, “There appear to be only three principles of connections among ideas, namely Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause or Effect.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker