semblance

I hoped that during the next decade, the pendulum would swing back from 9/11 overreach and regain some semblance of equipoise.

For a brief, shining moment Wednesday, it looked as though some semblance of sanity had crept into Donald Trump’s trade war.

Met Police detective Paul Waller said to the boys' family that "no amount of time will erase the pain of such a loss but I hope this sentence serves to bring some semblance of justice".

They only gain a semblance of self-evident truth through age and familiarity, as the legend of John Frum illustrates.

We’re never supplied with any semblance of an answer, just expected to take these mere silhouettes of rich people as they are.