Sentences with phrase «passable imitations of»

In fact, the rest of the cast puts in some decent performances, too — even those doing passable imitations of your favorite Star Wars characters (seriously EA, could you not afford Mark Hamill?).

I thought I had more than 300 horses the entire time, testament to how that V6 in combination with a 9 - speed automatic does a passable imitation of a small V8.

«I thought I had more than 300 horses the entire time, testament to how that V6 in combination with a 9 - speed automatic does a passable imitation of a small V8,» my colleague Matt DeBord wrote in his review of the car.

But slaving away on an erg (as rowers call it) offers only a passable imitation of propelling a racing shell.

Remember Blair fronted a band aptly named «the ugly rumours» and word has it that he could muster a passable imitation of Mick Jagger, another superannuated rocker with Tory sympathies.

In Comfort mode, this car does a passable imitation of my old R107 - generation 560SL, its long nose bobbing gently and the massive torque enabling a sort of speedboat approach to back - road commuting.