Sentences with phrase «knockoffs of»

The rooms and floor plan are knockoffs of the foundation's original home.

And today, many of the shops sell knockoffs of the latest iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, devices that launched at about the same time as the Galaxy Gear.

Though you can still see knockoffs of this beautiful, sturdy and light piece of furniture pretty much everywhere, including Ikea (albeit in resin).

Canada's biggest grocery chain, Loblaws, has been struggling for a few years in anticipation of the Wal - Mart grocery invasion; it built new warehouses that didn't work, neglected its own fabulously successful President's Choice franchise and filled the aisles with cheap Chinese knockoffs of everything from barbecues to furniture instead of food.

She catapulted to international art stardom in the mid 1960s when New York's Museum of Modern Art included her alongside such talents as Josef Albers and Ellsworth Kelly in its 1965 exhibition «The Responsive Eye» and the fashion designer (and museum founder) Larry Aldrich printed knockoffs of her images on fabric for a popular dress collection.

The pieces Bradley will unveil at P.S. 1 feel like Canal Street knockoffs of Minimalism, which expand on the group of «figures» he recently presented at CANADA gallery.

This segment ends with a boss rush against knockoffs of the Andor Genesis mothership from Xevious, the Big Core from Gradius and, after the famous alert screen, Darius «King Fossil... being caught on a hook.

In fact, retailers — big and small — report that one of their big pet peeves is that so many suppliers offer product lines that are simply knockoffs of existing items on the market, usually because they are offered at significantly lower price points.

The music app (a huge improvement over the standard Android player) bears an uncanny resemblance to the iPad's iPod app, while the faux - realness of the Calendar, Contacts and Memo apps feel like Chinatown knockoffs of Cupertino software.

This also intrigued folks at Shenzhen to create clone and knockoffs of it.

North Carolina's ESA program is just the latest in a long line of General Assembly education initiatives that are poorly - designed knockoffs of programs that lack much evidentiary basis (more on that in an upcoming post).

While many appear to be knockoffs of popular 1980s titles such as Super Mario Bros, today's elementary - grades students are still likely to enjoy them.

Hollywood has a knack for quickly cranking out knockoffs of Academy Award - winning movies which is why I'm wondering what took somebody this long to make a flick similar to No Country for Old Men.

What squashes the threat of Allen's more overt homages ever feeling like cheap knockoffs of other filmmakers» work is his primary function as guide.

E! Online's Fashion Police begins their article with «No, you didn't just accidently click on some Halloween costume site hawking cheesy knockoffs of famous get - ups.»

Knockoffs of someone's designs.

There were lots of girls carrying around really good knockoffs of the bag around high school.

I especially love their shoes (so many great knockoffs of my favorites from Nordstrom) and the Who What Wear line.

Your favorite stores are full of styles which are reminiscent of vintage fashions — you'll see cheap knockoffs of 1920s flapper dresses, 50s prom dresses and 1960s minidresses everywhere, so why not wear the real thing.

A few rickety Moskviches, twenty - six - horsepower knockoffs of the 1938 Opel Kadett, quickly clattered out of the way, and soon Khrushchev and his retinue reached the new suburbs.

After denouncing pizza, pasta, layer cakes and other starches as our year - round tormentors, why look for a way to make Passover Cooking knockoffs of these nemeses?

It's the kind of thing that people who are not vegan think that vegan substitutes are like: just inferior knockoffs of the original.

Todd Wilbur shares his best kept secrets for making knockoffs of your favorite drinks — right in your own kitchen and without spending a lot of money.

The brands may be unfamiliar, if not uncanny knockoffs of popular names, but post-recession customers don't like to pay full price.

Schmoylent is a surprisingly direct knockoff of Soylent.

Mormon «temple garments» are a knockoff of traditional Engish winter underwear, with shorter legs than «long underwear» and cap sleeves on the top.

sorry to break the news to you, he's not even a Chinese knockoff of any single one of them.

It is a knockoff of a Carhartt canvas coat, with a zipper, probably three times larger than it needs to be, cloth lined, and it sports a few holes.

By Marie Rohde A suburban knockoff of an urban downtown has become one of the hottest spots in the Milwaukee retail market, while the real thing flounders.

The biggest Soviet bomber in service, the Tupolev Tu4, was an aging knockoff of the propeller - driven Boeing B - 29 with a 2,900 - mile range and no midair refueling capacity.

The food industry's artificial «Red No. 2» accused of triggering hyperactivity in children and identified as a human carcinogen by scientists, is a synthetic knockoff of the original, amaranth derived «Hopi red dye.»

The scalloped swimsuit purchase is probably my number one favorite, as it's an identical knockoff of the Marysia Swim one piece, which is $ 332.

I painted over everything with Behr's knockoff of the Annie Sloan Chalk Paint (ASCP) color Country Grey.

It's already sold out, which is a bummer because it's a pretty solid knockoff of the AG Jeans x Alexa Chung «Honey» dress from earlier this season.

It's also a knockoff of an AG x Alexa Chung dress from earlier this year (see the latest from that collection here).

I must admit that mine in a knockoff of one I saw on another blog, but I can't remember exactly where.

I could see a knockoff of this jacket showing up at American Eagle for $ 80, and I'd feel better about that amount.

At the time, there were maybe a handful of wedding dresses under $ 500, and most of them were a knockoff of Cinderella's ball gown (aka not for me).

A smug knockoff of Quentin Tarantino's brand of ironic violence, at several degenerations» remove.

This is the kind of film that considers myriad instances of Canadians saying «aboot» and a knockoff of Lucky Charms called Pucky Charms to be the epitome of wit.

Deadpool's own stand - in appears to be a knockoff of Woody from Pixar's Toy Story, but with a different head (take that, Disney / Fox deal).

This does reach a tipping point where the small budget severely limits the effectiveness of the third act as these machines take more and more damage, looking like a very cheap knockoff of the T - 800.

Cold Water, from Olivier Assayas, looked at first like a knockoff of Léos Carax — same inarticulate youthful characters in desperate love, same nowhere landscapes, same slashing use of pop songs — but without Carax's bursts of ecstasy.

A comparatively ambitious effort from filmmaker Charles Band (the Trancers and Puppet Master franchises), this is basically a knockoff of both the Mad Max and Star Wars series, with locales straight out of George Miller and characters straight out of George Lucas.

Risk - averse Hollywood honchos have a very predictable habit of parroting success, which means it's just a matter of time before a knockoff of a big hit arrives in theaters.

The place itself is called Magic Castle, a kind of homemade generic knockoff of the Disney brand identity.

Released in 1978, STARCRASH, originally called THE ADVENTURES OF STELLA STAR, is an Italian knockoff of STAR WARS, lovingly produced with a fraction of the budget or resources necessary to be convincing.

Only, the E32, design wise, was a cheap knockoff of the Range Rover Evoque.

To me, it looks like a knockoff of Audi, at least in its squared - off back end and short deck lid, though Acura retained the TL's slim, slanted headlamps and chevron - shape grille.

Miracleman itself has a tangled history, having started off in the early 1950s as Marvelman, a British knockoff of Captain Marvel (which was, confusingly, published by Fawcett Comics, not Marvel).