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.
Not exact matches
Just inside the fair entrance, Shanzhai Biennial collective members Cyril Duval, Avena Gallagher, and Babak Radboy sat in their
ersatz real estate
office all day, nervously awaiting a visit from Jay Z and Beyoncé — the most promising potential buyers for the $ 51.5 million house the artists were selling in partnership with an actual brokerage, Aston Chase.
(Referring to an artwork near his
office, an
ersatz noose studded with rhinestones, Gian Enzo Sperone, one of the gallery's founding partners, quipped, «I may be using that soon,» at the inaugural opening — uh-oh!)
Mr. Wright, «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).»
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).
Put your favourite theme on the wall of your home
office for all to see, pasting up sheet music as
ersatz wallpaper.