(1) For an industry built on selling ersatz rebellion to teenagers, finding the moral high ground was always going to be tricky.
(2) Firmino was hardly in the picture but maybe this is the point of his ersatz position.
(3) Over the last eight days the ersatz wig has tumbled from his head.
(4) His private palace, seven miles outside town in Kawele, brimmed with paintings, sculptures, stained glass, ersatz Louis XIV furniture, marble from Carrara in Italy and two swimming pools surrounded by loudspeakers playing his beloved Gregorian chants or classical music.
(5) The buildings appear to be an ersatz nod to the old world by a designer with a stucco fetish, and are hard to ignore due to the blitzkrieg of colour unleashed on innocent passers-by.
(6) The supreme irony is that when Klimt painted his so-called golden portrait of Adele, his style had hardened into a crass ersatz modernism, so the price it fetched for Altmann makes it the most expensive postcard in the world.
(7) Especially on-trend these days is an ersatz, kitschy friendliness .
(8) Phaco-Ersatz represents a new approach to cataract surgery and the correction of aphakia.
(9) Despite a combination of injuries and suspensions to key personnel leaving John Carver’s side with a distinctly ersatz look, Newcastle were not quite so makeshift in practice.
(10) In the mountains, ersatz approximations of a Swiss ski resort have sprouted.
(11) Each of these ersatz soldiers presumably made their own calculations as to where personal advantage might lie.
(12) Pursuing his father's Italian roots he lived there for three years learning to cook, and the food he serves - a lot of offal, sweet and sour sauces for meats, gnarly rustic pasta dishes - is, he says, the antithesis of the ersatz version of Italian served in New York's old-fashioned red-sauce restaurants.
(13) That wasn't a million miles away from an ersatz recreation of the famous Dennis Bergkamp goal, in terms of field position of the two players, anyway.
(14) On day three it's the duck confit again, because "they do get the skin crisp don't they, not like all those terribly ersatz versions you get in Islington".
(15) Ersatz sub-Ronaldo teamsheet drama: Fabregas may yet not start!
(16) Sylvia Robinson from Grimsby's real Brides and Maids store, told the Grimsby Telegraph that Baron Cohen was "ridiculous", but said she saw the funny side of the ersatz movie version.
(17) What we have been observing – wage stagnation [PDF] and rising inequality , even as wealth increases – does not reflect the workings of a normal market economy, but of what I call ersatz capitalism.
(18) The implications of that defense relative to the use of ersatz nutrients are explored.
(19) Doubling back further up Granby Street, one reaches some of the appalling "regenerative" modern housing that has replaced the terraced streets already fallen to Liverpool's random wrecking ball: some of them – ersatz Lego bricks of the cheapest materials – are already dilapidated, while others almost new are managing to last a few years, like Michael Simon's mother's new house on Cawdor Street.
(20) A cavalcade of readers, mainly women, mostly in full Regency costume, congregated for a joyous weekend of workshops and lectures, receptions and dinners, a costume parade (past ersatz saloons and Tex-Mex restaurants), crowned by a Regency ball.
Simulacrum
Definition:
(n.) A likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) Theoretically parents go off and let their children navigate this simulacrum of a city state, which looks more like a shopping centre than a city.
(2) I am sure I am not alone in feeling rather "had" by the simulacrum of sex that contemporary culture is whacking out the whole time.
(3) Even more brilliantly, the lie-dream invocation in the trope of flagwaving global unity emerging from feuding multiplicity sunders the ideologically freighted hyperreal construction of a sporting simulacrum that will be familiar to readers of philosopher Jean Baudrillard.
(4) The tourists kept up with their penitential circuit of the site on the prescribed route, while I examined the broken ground where the old visitor centre and the foot tunnel under the abandoned road are being returned to a simulacrum of the natural.
(5) Sure, there's a sacrifice in leaving real tobacco behind for a mere simulacrum.
(6) But even to my non-medical eye, I can see that this travesty, this sub-Barbie, has been transformed into a fair simulacrum of what Zaria had been born with.
(7) He once appeared as a cartoon simulacrum of himself in The Simpsons along with writers Tom Wolfe, Michael Chabon, John Updike and others; and also played himself in Family Guy and a US senator in Tim Robbins' movie Bob Roberts .
(8) Human rights campaigners consider the plan an unacceptable simulacrum of actually closing the facility, as it retains indefinite detention without charge for the residual 56 detainees, the practice that spurred them to oppose Guantánamo in the first place.
(9) "My fear is it's a simulacrum of meaningful reform," said Sascha Meinrath, a vice president of the New America Foundation, an influential Washington think tank, and the director of the Open Technology Institute, who also attended.