Sentences with phrase «so ersatz»

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.

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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.

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.

Stories like this, box scores on the agate page or the newspaper, ersatz self - produced coaches shows posted directly to YouTube... its name made familiar so it can get down to its real mission.

If people want an ersatz book, why did dual - screen e-readers fail so miserably?

Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur - Fascist hero tends to play with weapons — doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise.