Sentences with phrase «as ersatz»

It serves as an ersatz bar, which is convenient for topping up drinks at dinner.

Before: Mud room The previous homeowners had used the area as an ersatz storage space.

The dining table may rock as an ersatz work - from - home HQ or homework station, but don't let clutter from old projects linger.

Here, we pressed a glam bar cart into service as an ersatz end table with predictably swish results.

A vintage chest acts as an ersatz bar.

Put your favourite theme on the wall of your home office for all to see, pasting up sheet music as ersatz wallpaper.

They can act as an ersatz oven mitt, spatula, wooden spoon, ladle, etc — you can use tongs for everything from getting hot items out of the oven to tossing pasta, roasting peppers on the gas burner, checking pasta, whatever you don't want to do with your fingers.

Yellow Fiero (1994), a Pontiac Fiero, was integral to the artist's 1994 Swedish Erotica and Fiero Parts installation and specifically chosen for its cultural resonances as an ersatz version of a luxury sports car.

However, with its clear intent to ape the illustrious, fiendishly difficult Trials racing franchise, it's hard not to treat Urban Trial Playground as an ersatz — if moderately enjoyable -LSB-...]

The moral quandary at the center of the film may not be an original one — Danish commander Claus Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) must go to court over a split - second decision made during a firefight in which his actions saved a comrade while unknowingly leading to a number of civilian casualties — but Lindholm takes seemingly ages to get to that point, allowing the audience to soak in the monotony and incessant - if - buried burden of Pedersen's position: serving as ersatz father for his unit while knowing, intuitively, that his family desperately needs him back home.

The Perfect Storm (Wolfgang Petersen) The summer event movie as ersatz thrill - ride is a foregone conclusion.

Nearly everything in Taylor Hackford's tin - eared comedy is as ersatz as the Robert De Diro character's rage is real.

If it seems a stretch to apply the experiences of a radical second - wave feminist to the business world, consider that a surprising number of companies — big and small — are today opting to operate as ersatz capitalist communes.

Not exact matches

She is surrounded daily with supporters who bolster her views, people who understand themselves as moral crusaders, pursuing their aims with all the zeal inspired by political ideology or — perhaps more aptly — ersatz religion.

For truth is the proper food of intellect, and the existential food proves ersatz, as Percy suspects, though he is never quite able himself to escape its attraction.

For if Being is in Heidegger's description a kind of ersatz divine principle - a debatable premise it must be said - and if Being, as noted above, is in some sense temporal, then this implies that God is also bound to time, to change, to the enigmatic whims of destiny.

Instead he is an ersatz theologian, a self - taught theologian, one who employs the history of religions only as a route into a non theological theology.

As I know there are some things you simply can not recreate in your home kitchen (namely that whipped texture and ersatz flavour) I resolved to buy some.

No other top 6 team would have this guy as a starter... He's ok on the bench but at this moment I would go kolosinac and wilshere in midfield with ozil miki laca and pea as attacking force... Otherwise they will overrun the midfield and dominate possession... But as with the imperishable mr fox I have no interest in an ersatz victory based on man city underperforming and giving the fossil an excuse to «respect his contract»

As for the persistent rumor that de Kooning also mixed pigments with mayonnaise — an ersatz cross between egg tempera and oil — Lake is still searching for the evidence.

The problem with conventional seasoned salt blends sold in supermarkets is that highly processed white salt is used as the base with ersatz, neurologically damaging flavorings like MSG frequently added.

That's the only positive reason I can think of for its recommendation of the ersatz meat products known in the food industry as «analogues.»

What viewers get instead is an ersatz approximation of a violent power fantasy: Banning glowering uncontrollably as masked thugs of implied Middle Eastern origin lunge at him and are killed just out of frame, leading President Asher to yelp out some variation on «Jesus, Mike!

As the lovers in question, Michelle Williams and Matthias Schoenaerts are too bruisably, peachily lovely together to keep our emotional barriers in place; it's all in the most ersatz good taste, but it works nonetheless.

The fact that Frances McDormand doesn't have to wear booty shorts or a low - cut shirt should not have to be what passes for Michael Bay's ability to progress as a filmmaker and ability to tell a story beyond just ersatz emotional imagery.

Greene, who as a film critic attacked Hitchcock's «inadequate sense of reality» and «series of small, «amusing» melodramatic situations», produced a screenplay of ersatz Hitchcock: the boy with the ball interrupting the investigation, the Ferris - wheel conversation, the chase in the sewers.

If read as an ideological tract, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue could refer to the expanding gyre that separates distinct concepts of «authenticity» — hence the detective story in this ersatz Night of the Living Dead (commissioned to do a straight ripper of the Romero classic — which was completely without a detective figure — Grau inserts an element of Tiresian knowledge) that underscores the futility of investigation into areas that, by their nature, resist clarification.

Furthermore, the motivations of the characters and small attempts at symbolic touches give the film a very bizarre feel, as if trying to give ersatz meaning to the meaningless.

Screenwriter and producer Diablo Cody's second feature film, an ersatz horror story set in a small town high school, provides the first real test as an actor for internet - manufactured hottie Megan Fox, until now lost among giant robots and special effects in the Transformers franchise.

All four earned Oscars — perhaps ersatz endorsement of «Traffic» as 2000's true Best Picture.

Just go with Banner's Hulkus Interruptus condition that frustrates him mightily as the effects wizards achieve a half - and - half manifestation to externalize the problem, or the serio - comic quality of the ersatz father - son relationship, the one that makes them both awkward, between Iron Man and high - schooler Peter Parker (Tom Holland), who gets a spiffy and shiny new Spiderman suit from Stark just in time to join him in outer space.

A similar ersatz, too - late populism motors The Big Short — the movie begins with a quote from Mark Twain — though the cognitive dissonance it produces is even more dizzying than that generated by The Other Guys «closing credits: The handful of fact - based finance guys the film tracks, who saw that the economy was headed for calamity and made billions of dollars while millions of people lost homes and jobs, are held up as conscience - bearers.

Andrea Arnold returns to the Croisette for the third time in four films with an idiosyncratic slice of ersatz Americana that follows a band of magazine subscription sellers as they crisscross the American Midwest, leaving in their wake a path of material, physical and mental destruction.

Designers have tried incredibly hard to mimic the page - turns and sound effects of a real book, but these ersatz interactions satisfy a bibliophile as much as a picture of water satisfies a man in the desert.

Carnival Replaces Authentic Counter-Culture Key West with Ersatz Private Beach as Port of Call

Its predecessors (# 1 and # 3 in particular) revelled in their post-apocalyptic setting: their mohawked raiders could have come straight out of a Mad Max movie, and their civilisation was a precarious, hardscrabble thing — ersatz Bartertowns scattered around the wastes, each surviving as best as it could.

As if in response to Kelley's ersatz leaflet, the director Abel Ferrara cast the physically appropriate Willem Dafoe in his 2014 Pasolini biopic.

Instead of serial units, Benglis gives us a pool of swaggering blue velvet and ersatz classical columns, which act as plinths for kitschy objects including a toy car.

Printed in the pages of Flash Art in November 1967, Celant's «Arte povera: Appunti per una guerriglia» (Arte Povera: Notes for a Guerrilla War) is considered by many to be a manifesto (albeit an ersatz one, in the sense that it was not written by the participants themselves) for a loose association that came to include such artists as Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Gilberto Zorio.

At first glance the use of technology in simple processes sets up technology as a kind of ersatz or second nature in Jill Baroff's Second Nature.

The residence itself — transformed into an ersatz museum of sorts — houses works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Marcel Broodthaers, Martin Kippenberger and Harry Smith, as well as a bevy of artists who are still very much alive.

Inverting the uncanny animism of J. J. Grandville's satirical engravings (in, say, Un autre monde, from 1844), von Bonin has presented her animal - avatars, such as the red hermit crab slumped over an ersatz mid-century biomorphic table, as limp and exhausted since the exhibition in Bregenz last year.

We might refer to this as a type of ersatz culture, where the experiential process of transcultural is somehow inhibited or thwarted from entering into a more habitable exchange of signs within the global village.

Prince, known for his use of appropriated imagery, had purchased the four - room shack as an example of «found architecture» that was an «ersatz slice of Americana,» as the Guggenheim described it at the time of its purchase.

A series of ersatz gold plastic bottles, drenched as much in architectural bathos as the sweet scent of cheap perfume, are arranged into an impoverished tableau of Middle Eastern progress (specifically, Dubai).

Meanwhile, the role of the dollar as the world's store of value — an ersatz substitute for gold — has been destroyed (that was the Left's free money and instead they boiled and ate the golden goose).

Playing with ersatz money won't make the competition any less intense as you clamor to snap up Mayfair — or Bitcoin Core as it's now known.