Sentences with phrase «into ersatz»

For GOS, I will attempt my most complex yard display, combining rabbits, penguins, ducks, a goose, and a large Santa into an ersatz tower adorned with plastic flowers and surrounded by reflective mylar balloons.

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.

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.

At the same time, we turned pets into ersatz children.

Not exact matches

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.

Ersatz fulfillment turns into dust and ashes.

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.

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.

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.

The three form a gently deranged ersatz clan, turning «Wilson,» for a while, into a flaky version of that Sundance staple, the dysfunctional - family comedy, complete with glib scenes that mock the «normalcy» of the girl's adoptive parents (Cheryl Hines and Bruce Bohne).

At the top of the painting, a gelatinous white cloud dissipates into a grid of drips, an ersatz geometry echoed in angular «Seeing Rays» that emanate from the men's eyes.

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 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).

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

Though the lighting of the official menorah is steeped in tradition, this ersatz option offers Ellie's guests a chance to participate and get into the spirit.