Sentences with phrase «than the real thing»

My husband and I both think they taste even better than the real things.

One of the best things about faux leather leggings rather than the real thing, is that they hold their shape much better.

The reflective, curved back panel is as eye - catching as ever, but in the hand, the «acrylic glass» feels somewhat cheaper than the real thing.

My fudge recipe is not only healthier than the real thing, it's far easier to make.

This is a genius idea and so much easier to clean than the real thing.

Is a mediated version of reality any worse than the real thing?

With so few ingredients, this recipe is far easier to make than the real thing!

No one will guess that it's gluten - free, healthy and far lower in carbs than the real thing.

Got that potato taste but a little less calorie dense than the real thing.

A lot less trouble than the real thing too.

Also made of organic cotton exterior, this baby toy is safer for baby than the real thing!

That is the trouble with myths: they can be more powerful than real things.

But earlier materials were either weaker than the real thing or didn't pack enough water to transport nutrients to surrounding cells.

Electronic cigarettes are somewhat safer than the real thing, but they're far from harmless.

It's softer and more flexible than the real thing.

You could even try making a decorative headboard out of card — so much more affordable than the real thing and just as pretty!

Practice accounts are supposed to be identical to real accounts in all but one respect: you buy stocks in them with imaginary or «play» money, rather than the real thing.

Surprisingly filling, this mock tuna salad recipe is just as tasty and cheaper than the real thing!

Laminate has become a popular choice for bathrooms as it costs less than the real thing.

Creamy peanut butter cheesecake on an oreo crust topped with melted chocolate - these Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake Bars are rich and delicious, but are actually skinnier than the real thing!

It's slightly different than the real thing from Google.

«This is in some ways the most Platonic work that Jeff Koons has ever made — taking this mundane, ordinary object and giving it a presence or dimension that makes it more real than the real thing.»

A wood - effect lino floor looks very effective and is much easier to maintain than the real thing.

Personally, I love a good blog fight (especially on someone else's blog)-- less blood than the real thing

Synthetic cannabis — which is far more dangerous than the real thing — was being openly traded in some towns for about # 10 a gram.

Anthony O'Donnell's Paul Flynn was rather more mellow than the real thing, and Rosemary Ashe's Kate Hoey was a bit of a send - up, but these did not detract from the integrity of what was portrayed.

For example, Nu - Tek Food Science based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, another company funded by Gates, has produced a salt product with only a fraction of the sodium, and Hampton Creek's egg substitutes contain less cholesterol than the real thing.

The tobacco in some illegal cigarettes seems to have been grown using metal - laced fertilizers, making the cigarettes even more harmful than the real things, scientists say.

Now, mechanical engineers from Columbia University have developed a synthetic soft muscle that's much more simple to make and run than others, and is stronger than the real thing.

In fact a lot of the terms used for certain exercises, bodyparts and processes sound much more complicated than the real things are.

Faux Shearling Vest by Tally Ho ®: The inside of this faux - shearling vest is even softer than the real thing!

Skin even seemed sunburned at some shows — but in this case, the illusion proved to be prettier than the real thing.

If you can get past its slightly intimidating barrier to entry (getting your license to race in this game is trickier than the real thing), you'll play Gran Turismo for months and months and never see all of its glory.

Which isn't to say, of course, that video games have evolved to a point of such technical sophistication that gamers are living in some Baudrillardian fantasy; the dream of a Second Life simulacrum even better than the real thing never came to fruition, and maybe it never will.

«Going the Distance» is a foul - mouthed rom - com carved from Apatowian intent, but it feels more like a sketch of a movie than the real thing.

But when it comes to the satirical portrait of American suburban life and the hypocrisy of adults more concerned with the appearance of morality than the real thing, Ball resorts to shrill caricatures of human behavior so exaggerated that you can't miss the rampant hypocrisy on parade.

Siegel creates a misty, magical Hudson river that is somehow realer and truer and mroe seductive and many fathoms deeper than the real thing.»

Using the game's own distance calculations while traveling between islands, I determined that Black Flag's playable area compresses the Caribbean down to sixteen square kilometers, a good bit smaller than the real thing.

LONDON, England (CNN)-- Scientists in the United States are developing a «synthetic tree» capable of collecting carbon around 1,000 times faster than the real thing.

MIT's artificial leaf is ten times more efficient than the real thing.

But given the amount of fuel needed to get a snowboarder to a hill and then up to the top, this may actually be greener than the real thing.

The iPhone 8 did a pretty good job scanning the room even without much light, though the furniture itself looked more like animations than the real thing.

The walls are covered in vinyl grasscloth wallpaper in a soft grey colour that's more practical in a bathroom than the real thing.

I have been thinking about using this product for the ceiling on my screened in porch, just because I think it would be easier and lighter than the real thing — do you have any idea if it would hold up to extremes in temperatures?

However, with the tool still not finalized, ZBXCAT's developers advise using «test» coins rather than the real thing for the time being.

Artificial treat foods, in my mind, are much less healthy than the real thing.

wall tile they are not much cheaper than the real thing.