Sentences with phrase «pale imitation of»

Video chat may seem like a pale imitation of bringing your sweetheart home to meet your family, but giving your family the opportunity to hear your partner's voice and see his or her face can go a long way toward alleviating your family's concerns.

Combatribes 1992 The Combatribes is simply a pale imitation of Double Dragon without the weapons, interactive objects or long scrolling levels.

Instead of re-imagining the world of Star Fox 64, Star Fox Zero is a pale imitation of the world we knew and loved 20 years ago.

Thankfully, the end result is much more than a pale imitation of the developer's obvious muse, as Layers of Fear consistently succeeds in delivering an incredibly tense, terrifying and unpredictable pilgrimage into the mind of a madman.

Some players lament the change from John to his son Jack, seeing the latter as a pale imitation of his father but that's largely the point.

[Reviewed on Xbox One] About halfway through The Turing Test we were worried it was going to continue to be a rather pale imitation of a great first - person puzzler.

I felt like Halo 4 was pale imitation of previous Halos.

But this pale imitation of Los Angeles is nothing more than a set of generic city ruin dioramas — they're disappointingly small and cramped — strung together by long highway sections.

«They've been a pale imitation of mathematics.

This film plays as a pale imitation of that one, with less characters the love geometry is less complicated, and the film lacks all the social commentary of the other, with it's intersecting relationships between the various French classes on the eve of World War II and it's complex nostalgia for a more civilized time.

AV Club called it «a pale imitation of» Cline's own work,» while The Washington Post said Armada was an exercise in «nostalgic narcissism.»

It came across as a pale imitation of the first that recapitulated that flick's more extreme moments but omitted any of its heart or character.

In case this impression stemmed from the pan and scan transfer, I rented the letterboxed laserdisc a few years later and felt the same way; Jaws 2 isn't a terrible movie, but it's nothing more than a pale imitation of the original.

More concerned with cool robot fights than a world overrun by monsters, Pacific Rim Uprising is serviceable enough on its own terms, but can't help but feel like a pale imitation of the first movie.

Consider that Valiant isn't even good in comparison to the usual run - of - the - mill swill — that people who liked the Shrek flicks may actually try to prove their sophistication amongst themselves by rejecting this pale imitation of an embarrassing cultural artifact.

This is the main flaw with the game, the fifth entry into the main strand of the franchise coming across as a pale imitation of what came before.

The visuals are much weaker in part three as well, the occasional sweeping gesture of Peter Deming's camera a pale imitation of the stalking SteadiCam Craven has given us twice before.

is the latest effort to attempt to engage audiences eager for comic courtship content, however it too proves a pale imitation of the progenitors of the genre.

Some players lament the change from John to his son Jack, seeing the latter as a pale imitation of his father but that's largely the point.

The theatrical release of the movie was met with a fairly divided response; some people found it to be an amazingly faithful adaptation, while others found it to be a pale imitation of its source material.

A pale imitation of the first film that boasts some terrible acting and even worse writing — and that doesn't even include the laughably misogynistic undertones that crop up once Katee Sackhoff's lone female character is introduced — «Riddick» doesn't really progress the overall story any further, leading one to question why another movie was necessary at all.

Director Andrew Jarecki instantly finds himself unable to overcome the story's almost eye - rollingly familiar trajectory, as screenwriters Marcus Hinchey and Marc Smerling offer up a culture - clash romance that comes off as a pale imitation of other similarly - themed films (including Gosling's own The Notebook).

The film will most likely do well, mainly because of the mammoth ad campaign that has bombarded us over the past few weeks, but it is a pale imitation of such greats as Hot Shots or Scary Movie.

A perfectly mixed cocktail equally parts menacing and suspenseful, washed down with surprising notes of hilarious satire and pulpy violence, FX's version of Fargo is most certainly not a pale imitation of the gruesome dark comedy.

It is not exactly a laugh - out - loud comedy and it is clearly a pale imitation of ANIMAL HOUSE.

Watchable, if you suspend disbelief and haven't seen any of the aforementioned Bourne movies it is a pale imitation of.

A note about the 3D effect and IMAX, I'm afraid I did not really see the film at its full potential as the «IMAX» theater selected for the screening is a pale imitation of the flagship IMAX theater in uptown Manhattan.

The Bottom Line: With its focus on consuming large quantities of meat, the new paleo diet is a pale imitation of the diet of early humans.

You might think you love your old Dodge Ram (no relation to the sheep on the cover), but what you and your pickup share is a pale imitation of the true, deep and abiding intimacy experienced by objectophiles.

Being a pale imitation of the two Tory parties in the coalition will only lead voters to opt for the real thing.

For Liberal Democrats, who seek a fairer, more sustainable future, what we want is to fundamentally change the way British politics works — not to become a pale imitation of the two old parties.

Manchester United scored 54 goals last season.Ibrahimovic was always a stop gap but a badly needed one because other than him, the United attack was a pale imitation of the powerhouse of years ago.

Now I'm a pale imitation of Joe Pesci in Goodfellas because I am terrible at swearing.

The hard core of true supporters (who actually CARE on a daily basis how the club performs, and is being run) have long since come to come to realise we have now become a pale imitation of what our great club once stood for.

To my mind, store - bought granola is a pale imitation of a good homemade variety.

The phony wasabi is tasty in its own right, but it's only a pale imitation of the real thing.

But in this, you'd be a pale imitation of your Loving Savior.

At worst, we'll be nothing but a pale imitation of the travelers who've been on this journey before us.»

Since, we've either had action games with horror themes or pale imitations of past glories like Alone In The Dark and Silent Hill Homecoming.

With a predictable script, shallow plotting, and characters that are pale imitations of ones you've seen in much funnier films, there just isn't anything here to recommend.

If community and business leaders think the work can all be left to educators, they will soon find that their initiatives are pale imitations of Houston's and not worth the time and money spent on them.

Be that as it may, the book was — and remains (it's still in print and has sold more than 1.5 million copies)-- so popular with teens that it ushered in a decade, the forties, distinguished by its romance novels, many of them pale imitations of Daly's.

Also because publishers, and not just the house that brought out Twilight, were busy putting out pale imitations of Twilight and, at least in my opinion, saturating the market with sparkly vampires.

Meanwhile on the track the roar and grow of the real bikes hasn't translated into the game, where they all sound flat and lifeless, pale imitations of the real things, taking away from the overall experience Where's those lovely little snarls, pops and crackles that give the bikes their identity?

After that, the solo reperformance of James Lee Byars's 1965 The Mile - Long Paper Walk at the Museum of Modern Art (where else to find pale imitations of onetime events?)

Today, there are pale imitations of Edible Landscaping promising to help you mow less by pulling out the lawn, and grow more of the food you eat, but all you need is this new edition.

However, many of the Onelink's features are just pale imitations of the Protect's offerings, and we were particularly unimpressed with the full two minutes it took to push alerts to our phone and allow us to silence the alarm.

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The ultimate conclusion is disbelief — but many find this concept too frightening and to far beyond the pale and hide in an imitation of «spirituality».

I find it to be woefully inadequate, a pale milky imitation of my favorite bold, smoky, spicy, pumpkin - y meal.

«Magic in the Moonlight» doesn't make you believe in magic, or love, or anything, really, although maybe that's just the cynic in me, eager to expose the film as the fraud that it is, because the whole thing feels less like a genuine Woody Allen comedy (smart and funny with a healthy dash of neurosis) than a pale imitation.