Sentences with phrase «mere shadow of»

The Win10 Start menu is a mere shadow of the Win7 panoply.

Series such as Banjo Kazooie, Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot have either died out completely or live on as a mere shadow of their former selves.

The shiny new hardware that emerges into the wild might carry high hopes and higher price tags, but it inevitably launches with a games library that's a mere shadow of the consoles it hopes to replace.

Not because your idea isn't good but because your idea is a mere shadow of a finished game and no one can tell if that game will be fun or not.

In any case it's very clear that these remakes are a mere shadow of their former PS2 versions.

For many Olds fans, the car was a disappointment, a mere shadow of what the Cutlass used to be.

As it wavers between engaging in its anarchy and overextending its welcome, The World's End raises plenty of smiles — but, like the film itself, most are a mere shadow of those already seen.

Once a noted guru thanks to his successful first book, a cancelled television show, a failed marriage, and now, a second self - financed publication have whittled away the reputed personality to a mere shadow of his former self.

On the other, it's depressing to find the series becoming a mere shadow of its former self.

(Note: the laserdisc incorrectly listed the isolated mono track as a stereo music & sound effects mix; the DVD merely replicates the same mono music stems, though it's still a mere shadow of Mark Isham's marvelous, and still unreleased, music score.)

Justice League is rushed and ramshackle, modestly entertaining but a mere shadow of the film it could have been.

Story, character behavior, quests and minigames are a mere shadow of the studio's former glory.

In other words, the accepted wisdom on pumpkin seeds and acne is a mere shadow of the truth.

Republicans say they will not support the CEP in its current incarnation, which Senate President Pro Tem Len Fasano, of North Haven, called «a mere shadow of the original bill,» and one that is «no longer an effective tool in keeping elections clean.»

So here I stand a mere shadow of my former self.

Laurent Koscielny is just a mere shadow of his former self of the 2011 - 12 season.

Instead, the club's hierarchy were forced to hold out hope that he could one day return to full fitness and be something more than a mere shadow of his former self.

If I did not know better I would swear Wenger was trying to leave a mere shadow of the great Arsenal teams to his successor.

Today it's a mere shadow of its former self.

Yes I realize the AFB and everyone else has a formula to balanced budgets, but with corporate taxes a mere shadow of what the were some 20 years ago, it will take a whole pile of growth or it will tax some major tax reform to keep the books out of the red and push into the black.

Today's Fortune 500 list is a mere shadow of what it was in 1995.

By the time 12 months pass, they are mere shadows of their former selves.

But, he added, «the great industrial research institutes such as Bell Labs are now mere shadows of their former glory.»

Apart from Croft herself the other characters are mere shadows of real people.

Little Miss Sunshine feels like a «safe» version of quirky film, whereby the characters» wacky actions are mere shadows of what could have been.

He criticized low admissions standards; curriculums that «lack coherence and connections to the work that's actually done in the field»; clinical programs devoted to mere shadowing of practitioners, whether they are successful or not; «watered - down» dissertations with little connection to practice; and a pervasive race among teachers to acquire credit for leadership courses, and thus boost their salaries, without any interest in actually assuming positions of greater authority.

Gary found old photographs of glaciers from the 1800's and early 1900's and then traveled to those places and photographed what they looked like now — mere shadows of themselves.

But many of these local county courthouse libraries are mere shadows of their former selves, with only a minimal print collection, not always access to centrally - subscribed digital resources such as Lexis / Quicklaw, Westlaw or Hein, and staffed by a librarian only part - time if at all.

Not exact matches

Yet that metaphor of the mirror is too Platonic, because God's epiphany in the world is not through mere surface shadows, but is in the coming to be, development, and passing away to make room for novelty of primary natural units, each of which truly exists and acts in its own right and according to its own nature and structure for its time, and interacts with other units in a process of mutual actualization and eventual replacement.

The physical universe is not a mere shadow, it is a drama of billions of actors, some minute, blindly moving atoms, some living plants and moving animals, and some intelligent body - persons enacting an evolutionary history whose scenario still remains open to the future.

Time is but the moving imitation of eternity.15 Things in time are impermanent because they are mere shadows and copies of the unchanging ideas.

The death of Christ, therefore, is the point at which history becomes fully real, exhibiting no longer mere shadows, but «the very image of realities (x. i).

But mind is the substance, and mere behavior, in the sense of spatio - temporal change, is the shadow, the skeletal outline only, the causal geometry, of nature.

It takes a thicket of ball screens to pry Holiday's mark loose, all of which buys mere seconds — often in the shadow of Anthony Davis's help.

If we allow, the social media machines will infiltrate our lives with more stimulation than we can possibly process, and our connections to ourselves and those around us will be left with mere shadows and caricatures of who and what they once were.

Physicist Brian Greene explains how properties at the black hole's surface — its event horizon — suggest the unsettling theory that our world is a mere representation of another universe, a shadow of the realm where real events take place.

To turn his suggestion on its head, reality — not its mere shadow — may take place on a distant boundary surface, while everything we witness in the three common spatial dimensions is a projection of that faraway unfolding.

A mere shadow and parody of his former self, Depp does a lame regurgitation of his Captain Jack Sparrow tics, from the on - cue bewildered expressions to the bumbling, yet charmingly efficient, mannerisms.

The surreal, dream - like world of Little Nightmares, with its grotesque inhabitants and disturbing set pieces painted in deep shadows and distorted lightning, is too similar to those fantastic movies to be a mere coincidence.

The village of Mkuze is a mere 18 km's from the entrance gate to the Mkuze Reserve, in the shadow of the Ubombo Mountain...

There's a palpable sense of dread when playing as a thug because you know that out there in the shadows somewhere Batman is waiting for you, creating a tense atmosphere as you shuffle around the map trying to get on with things while keeping a wary eye out for the merest hint of a cape.

Here are a people living in the shadow of an enormously affluent United States which chooses to spend hundreds of billions of dollars yearly acting as surrogate murderers in Iraq rather than choosing to spend mere fraction of that to alleviate and improve the agricultural situation in Haiti.

Just like the prisoners in Plato's Cave, [lawyers] do not know that their beloved papers are shadows, mere print outs of a greater electronic reality.