Then I tried not buying junk and sweets at all, which lasted many weeks until I finally got ahold of some pie at a party and lost all semblance of dignity as I gobbled up 3 slices in record time.

The short-sighted business strategy of Detroit automakers has kept the big three afloat in a post-recession market, but it's all but ensured that they struggle to innovate, maintain any semblance of quality control, and get passed up by a host of ambitious upstarts.

the cords of his face still moved with a  semblance of life, but life was quite gone;  

but he's also self-conscious about it, taking off so as not to look suspicious and only putting it on when, quote, "I knew I wouldn't meet anyone that knew me." And there at the end, Phoebe puts the hunting cap on him, as if to say, "This thing gives you the confidence you need to keep the rain out of your eyes and go on living with some semblance of integrity in the adult world?

It also had to retain some semblance of continuity.

Taking off her rings to put on Mike's engagement ring is supposed to be some symbol of her giving up some strange part of her life to achieve a semblance of normalcy.

Shortly afterwards, Donald Trump posted that Iran could not enrich any uranium, could not have any semblance of a nuclear program, which then threw this idea of ever coming to an agreement off.

We had to go into this organization that believed in some semblance of fairness to find the few that were willing to compromise on secrets they were trusted with because they inherently doubted that everything was in fact fair.

There was no like semblance and we just ran in through.

The number one contributor to this having any semblance of truth is the fact that you lose some lean muscle as you get older.