Word: dissimilarity
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...prudent reviewer will therefore not make ringing pronouncements. But it is clear that TTT can stand on the same shelf with Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's very dissimilar One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the provocative obscurities of Jorge Luis Borges. A much-impressed norteamericano wonders what else is hidden in the Latin trunk...
...same fine mist fills the air, the same emerald pastures upholster the countryside and the same frothy brown Guinness flows freely in both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. But economic conditions in the two parts of that partitioned land are as dissimilar as shamrocks and shillelaghs...
...heels of the Second Vatican Council, a constitution would be an anachronism. The council made its name by creating a fresh, vigorous image of a growing "pilgrim" church, a "People of God" joined in a community that was more mystery than institution. Much of the new image was not dissimilar to the vision of reformers inside and outside the Roman Catholic Church over the centuries: an invisible church of the spirit as opposed to a visible one of structure and hierarchy. Now that idea was part of Roman Catholic theology as well, and progressive theologians were quick to project...
These seniors shared common interests in life-they had pursued it, so to speak, in not dissimilar ways-but they had never been all that close as friends. Now, with graduation around the corner, something had brought them together-and brought them to drink. They pounded each other on the back and laughed raucously. What was going on here? Well, they would each write books about it in later life...
...cogs in a mechanistic universe. At the same time, it was man himself who deciphered the code of life and who can now, in Teilhard de Chardin's phrase, "seize the tiller of the world." If he is only a bundle of DNA-directed cells, more sophisticated but hardly dissimilar from those of animals and plants, he can at least use that knowledge to improve, even to re-create himself. But should...