Sentences with phrase «n't ersatz»

The Greeks, who knew no religion that wasn't ersatz, needed St. Paul to tell them what they meant by «an unknown god.»

These cookies are not ersatz, health - food imposters.

We, for our part, still believe that realism (the real thing, not the ersatz neo-con variety) is the best ground for an honest optimism, and in that spirit we'd like to start off this issue of Climate Equity Observer with an effort to look reality in the eye.

Not exact matches

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.

Yale and places like it are ersatz communities, not real ones.

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.

To my students who want to become theologians I say, be a theologian, honor the tradition of theology, don't try to be an ersatz philosopher.

They advertise that they train global leaders, not national ones, which is why sidelining the Western tradition and substituting the ersatz cultural project of multiculturalism is so common.

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 changes are focused on reassuring MPs that the newly elected peers will not become «ersatz MPs», competing with Commons MPs.

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.

At least not when it's fake meats and other ersatz products crafted from soy, peas, hemp, wheat gluten and other plant proteins.

Urban Dictionary's first definition of a Basic Bitch is from the summer of 2009; she is an ersatz Boss Bitch, «a bum - ass woman who think she the shit but really ain't.»

The fact that Frances McDormand doesn't have to wear booty shorts or a low - cut shirt should not have to be what passes for Michael Bay's ability to progress as a filmmaker and ability to tell a story beyond just ersatz emotional imagery.

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.

This year, I don't think there's been anything comparable — Woody Allen's «Café Society,» for instance, which was the opening - night film, is one of his suavely crafted but minor ersatz - romantic baubles.

Cronenberg, who also wrote the script, can't resist ersatz Orwellisms like, «Celebrities are not people; they're group hallucinations.»

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.

Don't expect some ersatz Discovery Channel pop and you won't disappointed.

After all, they haven't come this far to suddenly give up now — in for a penny, in for a few trillion more, I say... And any upside surprise in growth (leaving aside how ersatz it might be, or not) is likely to be greeted with delight by investors ultimately, and could well prompt a potential step - change in corporate earnings expectations & valuations.

[Not that it's a one - way bet — ironically, the more the US debases the dollar & its finances, the more the dollar may benefit (sometimes for years on end) from the resulting ersatz growth surge.

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.

However, with its clear intent to ape the illustrious, fiendishly difficult Trials racing franchise, it's hard not to treat Urban Trial Playground as an ersatz — if moderately enjoyable -LSB-...]

Printed in the pages of Flash Art in November 1967, Celant's «Arte povera: Appunti per una guerriglia» (Arte Povera: Notes for a Guerrilla War) is considered by many to be a manifesto (albeit an ersatz one, in the sense that it was not written by the participants themselves) for a loose association that came to include such artists as Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Gilberto Zorio.

Unlike some other recent controversial Holocaust - themed art in Europe, like Santiago Sierra's ersatz gas chamber in a synagogue, the Hitler did not come down after Jewish leaders complained.

Not only does the anemone help to hide the host, but it also becomes an ersatz weapon.

They can act as an ersatz oven mitt, spatula, wooden spoon, ladle, etc — you can use tongs for everything from getting hot items out of the oven to tossing pasta, roasting peppers on the gas burner, checking pasta, whatever you don't want to do with your fingers.

The advantage of this approach is two-fold: first, the chutzpah is very often pointed out by the Court (though they haven't yet used the term), a source of great comfort to a somewhat reticent, if not shy, reviewer; secondly, the Government's sharp dealings and disregard for the honour of the Crown more often than not compose the ersatz golden thread running through the Crown's position.

Playing with ersatz money won't make the competition any less intense as you clamor to snap up Mayfair — or Bitcoin Core as it's now known.

The dining table may rock as an ersatz work - from - home HQ or homework station, but don't let clutter from old projects linger.