Sentences with word «ersatz»

"Ersatz" is a German word that means substitute or replacement. It refers to something that isn't the real or genuine thing, but is used as a replacement because the original may not be available or is too expensive. It can describe an artificial or inferior imitation of something. Full definition
Nearly everything in Taylor Hackford's tin - eared comedy is as ersatz as the Robert De Diro character's rage is real.
In «Le Déjeuner,» as in photographs throughout this show, Ms. Thomas hijacks Manet and other European painters, placing women of color at the center, lounging in ersatz landscapes of collaged fabric — animal prints, upholstery and bedsheets — wood paneling and store - bought flowers.
He starts the movie with ersatz poetic narration: «I've heard people say that life is like a river, and we're all just tiny minnows, struggling through the freeze, the thaw and the flow.»
Neuhaus put it, «is simply the term unhappily chosen for ersatz religion
Her work was the subject of the solo exhibition WOMEN Words, Phrases, and Stories at the FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2016), and Real Ersatz at the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, New York (2015).
He writes: «I often feel that artists using new media ending up making ersatz versions of what could been made by other means, but American Molly Soda's stream of screens, iPads, selfies, messages and images does feel genuinely alternative» in «Choices up Now ``.
Meanwhile startups like Ersatz Labs and Nervana are trying to sell products and services that can help more companies do deep learning.
And both rows of seats can fold down with a mattress laid on top for ersatz camping.
More distasteful are the screenplay's occasional detours into ersatz idol worship, like a monologue about bald eagles that slides a little too far into Tarantino territory and the Coen brothers - lite characterizations of secondary criminal characters, particularly that of Mood.
Her work was the subject of the solo exhibition Sex Works / WOMEN Words, Phrases, and Stories at Gavlak, Los Angeles (2016), WOMEN Words, Phrases, and Stories at the FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2016), and Real Ersatz at the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, New York (2015).
At least not when it's fake meats and other ersatz products crafted from soy, peas, hemp, wheat gluten and other plant proteins.
This familiar dramatic contrivance — «Alienated strangers who seem to have nothing in common are forced together on a journey and become a sort of ersatz family» — has been the basis of scores of films, from «The Wizard of Oz» to the 2008 Iraq veteran drama «The Lucky Ones.»
The Greeks, who knew no religion that wasn't ersatz, needed St. Paul to tell them what they meant by «an unknown god.»
Brown observes that students are being taught ersatz theologies that deny being theologies.
The industry got busy making ersatz Screams and then tepid J - horror remakes filled with single - minded vengeful ghosts.
Just a small serving satisfies unlike the chocolate chip cookie cake from the supermarket or the mall which is loaded with rancid, fanny expanding vegetable oils and GMO sugar, triggering compulsive overeating in many people because ersatz foods do not satisfy.
Cuomo is due in Buffalo Wednesday afternoon for a downtown appearance touting his record, a sort of ersatz victory announcement.
Modern soy products including soy milks and ersatz meat and dairy products made from soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein are new to the diet and pose a number of serious problems.
First the film inhabits the eye of a storm — which is to say, the storm of Italy's wretched peripheries — before submitting to the more ersatz cinematic will of filling Pio's life with beginnings, middles, and ends.
«Collages by Tim Spelios reorder the history of art and its context and Ryan Steadman's ersatz book forms provide a beguiling and painterly façade in which the viewer really can tell a book by its cover.
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.
A grid of her more recent Pussy Paintings, each an airbrushed rendering of a different vagina in black and white paint, will hang alongside a large format painting from 2016 entitled Ersatz Cunt Painting # 1, which depicts a vagina in peachy monochrome in a panoramic format.
Almost as if to address this blithe surfing over ersatz poetic seas, Stella offers The Raft of the Medusa (1990).
Unfortunately, most exchanges are more than happy to become ersatz bureaucracies in return for the official privileges they receive.
Mr. Wright, surely the LPP graduates couldn't be the ones to whom you were referring when you wrote: «Desperate and saddled with huge student loans, they hang out their shingles and try to practice with little or no access to a mentor in the next office or down the hall (having ersatz mentors miles away even if accessible by Skype or phone is a very poor substitute for a senior at your elbow).»
They thus join company with other ersatz dissenters within institutions who act, says Herman S. Wigodsky, «from malice, pique, discontent, revenge... They often seek... to force institutions into reacting instead of acting» (in Whistleblowing in Biomedical Research, p. 71)
Actors cast on their looks alone, writing ranging from «so stupid it's laughable» to «so ersatz - profound it's laughable», and characters so devoid of genuineness that we not only don't care if they die, but we may actually cheer when they do all contribute to making what could have been a breath of fresh air into just another dumb teen horror flick.
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.
Nothing else in this otherwise ersatz movie feels so hauntingly real.
The Perfect Storm (Wolfgang Petersen) The summer event movie as ersatz thrill - ride is a foregone conclusion.
If that shift is a nod to the film's target audience, it's probably spot on: this is a sanitised, bubble - wrapped picture of the global village that provides ersatz - serious viewing for those seeking reassurance about the big lie of the twenty - first century — that We're All In It Together.
Admittedly, the recreation of historic exhibitions and displays might partake of this hunt for immediacy, offering ersatz thrills rather than genuine challenge.
What's most likeable about Milt Jewell's two - part painting, called Avenging Angels, is the gritty, ersatz surface.
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.
Three domestically inclined pencil and white acrylic drawings from 1965 — 66 present a link to the surprisingly figurative beginning of Truitt's large - scale sculpture practice, First, 1961, a section of ersatz white picket fencing perhaps plucked from her suburban neighborhood in Washington, DC.
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.
Other exercises included interrogating ersatz prisoners of war, devising propaganda plans, and recovering papers from an agent's room (and, aggravatingly, getting interrupted by a rifle - wielding «German» midway).
Yale and places like it are ersatz communities, not real ones.
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.
Distance apart, cyberspace is a humanizing device for creating a kind of ersatz office / pub / common room / public square area for those deprived, rather cruelly, of one or more versions of the real thing.
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 it will find covert expression and tempt us to toward ersatz and perhaps dangerous forms of solidarity.
I had personally seen the bizarre attempts of communist regimes to set up ersatz confirmation, wedding and burial services.
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