Sentences with phrase «in ersatz»

Visitors are encouraged to sit in these ersatz living rooms to watch the installation videos on view, or read one of the many female - centric books stacked on the rug: «Beloved,» «The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,» «Jazz,» «The Color Purple.»

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.

Whether the dog is upset is of secondary significance; the prime concerns appear to be whether or not the dog will bite and how to punish it in some ersatz wolfy way.

Bulimia was endorsed in ersatz fashion.

Are there conventions of kids who dress up in ersatz S.W.A.T. uniforms and stage mock rescues?

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.

Falling thankfully much closer to the former is Red Sparrow, a sexy - spy drama that feels too often like a Skinemax flick wrapped in ersatz empowerment.

We live in a ersatz world of (anti) social media and online dating that has completely distorted interpersonal relationships and ruined genuine human connection.

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»

Not exact matches

Dillon's released The White Rye, an unaged whisky in April ($ 37.45 at LCBO stores), and it's a very different experience from the sweet spirit Canadians know: spicy, with a heady tequila or grappa nose, the ersatz moonshine can be enjoyed neat, but it adds a wild element to an old - fashioned.

Because it serves to remind us that even today the «money» that commercial banks and other private - market financial firms produce is in an important respect not the real McCoy at all, but ersatz (if often more convenient) stuff that serves in place of it, and does so only because the firms that supply it, not only make it very convenient to use (e.g., by swiping a debit card), but at the same time offer its users something akin to money - back (which is to say, a «money proper» - back) guarantees.

In Updike's view, the ineluctable disappearance of religion in the life of Americans has been replaced by the ersatz religions of devotion to the bitch goddess of material success, and to the excitements of a degraded popular culture (the cult of the silver screen figures large in LiliesIn Updike's view, the ineluctable disappearance of religion in the life of Americans has been replaced by the ersatz religions of devotion to the bitch goddess of material success, and to the excitements of a degraded popular culture (the cult of the silver screen figures large in Liliesin the life of Americans has been replaced by the ersatz religions of devotion to the bitch goddess of material success, and to the excitements of a degraded popular culture (the cult of the silver screen figures large in Liliesin Lilies).

The ersatz undergraduate rebellion against parents through sex is, in reality, a sure sign that the morality of the old folks has triumphed.

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.

Steven Spielberg and others give us ersatz heavens, in which we find ourselves loved by strange beings from outer space.

Our Ivan Kenneally unloads on Obamacare in The Weekly Standard: If one were to take seriously the central premise of Obama's ersatz science of politics — the distinction between political facts and moral values — the inescapable conclusion is that our president turns out to be a....

Paul Vitz, a psychologist at New York University, has not received the credit he deserves for a number of studies demonstrating Freud's dependence upon, and perversion of, Christian narratives in constructing his ersatz religion.

If we are going to be fair to all religions, either remove the ersatz science that teaches out of th ebible, or make every kid get a science textbook, a bible, a koran, the upanishads, maybe throw in a little shinto and native american myth etc....

Do not compartmentalize things away in that fashion that is ersatz comfort but really, limits the possibilities.

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.

I'm not referring to the ersatz non-food processed crap that Bettina mentions in her latest blog post.

The cookie and its logo can be found in many corners of our lives — from the hood of a Dale Earnhardt Jr. race car to ersatz educational toys made from oversize, plastic versions of the treat.

I agree with the above comments that the Conservative party has been too slow in exposing Brown's ersatz - economy.

Cuomo is due in Buffalo Wednesday afternoon for a downtown appearance touting his record, a sort of ersatz victory announcement.

The ersatz economy in particular has been Gordon Browns brainchild.

In 1998, the final year of the ersatz stories, Tim described the ambitious plan of Justin Vorfun, the hot - tub - loving CEO of a Hollywood Hills engineering firm, to install 300 building - size bellows around Los Angeles to blow the city's famously bad smog out to sea.

In fact, if you serve up quality often enough, your family's taste buds (and yours) will soon learn to reject the ersatz flavored, overly sugared items that line the shelves of stores and cafes across America.

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.»

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.

In the strange simulacrum of London there in the sewers, he barely has time to get oriented to the ersatz Picadilly Circus before he gets caught up in nasty struggle between plucky Rita (Kate Winslet), a toothsome she - rat with an adventurous taste in accessories, and an evil toad (Ian McKellen), whose adventurous nature includes worshipping the royal family and plotting to wipe out the rat populatioIn the strange simulacrum of London there in the sewers, he barely has time to get oriented to the ersatz Picadilly Circus before he gets caught up in nasty struggle between plucky Rita (Kate Winslet), a toothsome she - rat with an adventurous taste in accessories, and an evil toad (Ian McKellen), whose adventurous nature includes worshipping the royal family and plotting to wipe out the rat populatioin the sewers, he barely has time to get oriented to the ersatz Picadilly Circus before he gets caught up in nasty struggle between plucky Rita (Kate Winslet), a toothsome she - rat with an adventurous taste in accessories, and an evil toad (Ian McKellen), whose adventurous nature includes worshipping the royal family and plotting to wipe out the rat populatioin nasty struggle between plucky Rita (Kate Winslet), a toothsome she - rat with an adventurous taste in accessories, and an evil toad (Ian McKellen), whose adventurous nature includes worshipping the royal family and plotting to wipe out the rat populatioin accessories, and an evil toad (Ian McKellen), whose adventurous nature includes worshipping the royal family and plotting to wipe out the rat population.

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

The movie swarmed into local theaters yesterday; unfortunately, the insects and the people in this mélange of ersatz science - fiction and dull adventure deserve one another.

Ponda Baba and Dr. Evazan, aka the walrus - faced guy and his weird - looking sociopath friend from the original's cantina scene, have a run - in with main characters Jyn and Cassian Andor (Diego Luna); the latter delivers his ersatz catch - phrase «You just watch yourself!»

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.

Take Catch Me If You Can (2002), a propulsive, fact - based picaresque about the youthful con man Frank Abagnale Jr., who scammed his way across America in the early 1960s by adopting a series of ersatz personas.

It seems particularly perverse to take actors who helped develop the» 60's thesping style of hang - loose, semi-improvisational immediacy and stick them in a creaky period piece glazed with arch gentility and ersatz quaintness.

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.

But even with that in mind, this is still the kind of film that saves a few moments for the lead character's precocious toddler (Colin Baiocchi), who, like an ersatz Olsen twin, regurgitates whatever elementary dialogue is fed to him.

Pierce Brosnan sports an ersatz French accent in his first big movie role.

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.

I thought that by the time there was a sequel to Kick - Ass, the distasteful 2010 ersatz British version of an American superhero movie, I'd be sitting in my slippers before the glowing embers of a wintry fire reading PG Wodehouse.

Now all we will have to look forward to is frenetic computer - generated eye - candy fests full of noise, music, all - too - obvious in - jokes, potty humor, puns, and ersatz messages of family unity.

It's an ersatz sequel to world - ending Emmerich films like Independence Day and 2012, but one in which the aliens have won.

The sawdust and sequins are laid on thick, the period flashbulbs pop and the champagne flows in The Greatest Showman, yet this ersatz portrait of American big - top tent impresario P.T. Barnum is all smoke and mirrors, no substance.

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 sudden and uncredited appearance by an iconic screen badfella ratchets up the suspense in an already tense sequence involving an ersatz Arab sheik in a room full of shady characters.

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.

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.

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.»