Sentences with phrase «offering ersatz»
Admittedly, the recreation of historic exhibitions and displays might partake of this hunt for immediacy, offering ersatz thrills rather than genuine challenge.
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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.
The result is one part Colonial Williamsburg, where authentic and ersatz mingle; one part Lehman Wing, where an excellent New York collector's expensive period taste is enshrined in a Metropolitan Museum of Art replica of his apartment; and one part Disneyland's Main Street U.S.A., where a spiffed - up version of what time has torn asunder offers commercial entertainment.
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.