Sentences with phrase «with ersatz»

The university's Mcity provides carmakers and tech companies with an ersatz town to test driverless cars.

Playing with ersatz money won't make the competition any less intense as you clamor to snap up Mayfair — or Bitcoin Core as it's now known.

Carnival Replaces Authentic Counter-Culture Key West with Ersatz Private Beach as Port of Call

He starts the movie with ersatz poetic narration: «I've heard people say that life is like a river, and we're all just tiny minnows, struggling through the freeze, the thaw and the flow.»

The problem with conventional seasoned salt blends sold in supermarkets is that highly processed white salt is used as the base with ersatz, neurologically damaging flavorings like MSG frequently added.

Not exact matches

Dillon's released The White Rye, an unaged whisky in April ($ 37.45 at LCBO stores), and it's a very different experience from the sweet spirit Canadians know: spicy, with a heady tequila or grappa nose, the ersatz moonshine can be enjoyed neat, but it adds a wild element to an old - fashioned.

She is surrounded daily with supporters who bolster her views, people who understand themselves as moral crusaders, pursuing their aims with all the zeal inspired by political ideology or — perhaps more aptly — ersatz religion.

No other top 6 team would have this guy as a starter... He's ok on the bench but at this moment I would go kolosinac and wilshere in midfield with ozil miki laca and pea as attacking force... Otherwise they will overrun the midfield and dominate possession... But as with the imperishable mr fox I have no interest in an ersatz victory based on man city underperforming and giving the fossil an excuse to «respect his contract»

The changes are focused on reassuring MPs that the newly elected peers will not become «ersatz MPs», competing with Commons MPs.

I agree with the above comments that the Conservative party has been too slow in exposing Brown's ersatz - economy.

There was no ersatz Eiffel Tower or Empire State Building and no Bellagio hotel, with its musically synchronized water cannons.

As for the persistent rumor that de Kooning also mixed pigments with mayonnaise — an ersatz cross between egg tempera and oil — Lake is still searching for the evidence.

Just a small serving satisfies unlike the chocolate chip cookie cake from the supermarket or the mall which is loaded with rancid, fanny expanding vegetable oils and GMO sugar, triggering compulsive overeating in many people because ersatz foods do not satisfy.

In the strange simulacrum of London there in the sewers, he barely has time to get oriented to the ersatz Picadilly Circus before he gets caught up in nasty struggle between plucky Rita (Kate Winslet), a toothsome she - rat with an adventurous taste in accessories, and an evil toad (Ian McKellen), whose adventurous nature includes worshipping the royal family and plotting to wipe out the rat population.

First the film inhabits the eye of a storm — which is to say, the storm of Italy's wretched peripheries — before submitting to the more ersatz cinematic will of filling Pio's life with beginnings, middles, and ends.

Joystiq is intrigued by the controller's potential for new types of games and adds that «it feels at once futuristic and comfortable, less like an ersatz tablet and more like a really comfortable (but big) game controller with a helpful screen.»

Ponda Baba and Dr. Evazan, aka the walrus - faced guy and his weird - looking sociopath friend from the original's cantina scene, have a run - in with main characters Jyn and Cassian Andor (Diego Luna); the latter delivers his ersatz catch - phrase «You just watch yourself!»

Dan (Quaid) is a veteran ad man at an ersatz SPORTS ILLUSTRATED whose ownership entity has been purchased by a mega-conglomerate run by an ersatz Rupert Murdoch media tycoon with the Kafkaesque moniker Teddy K (Malcolm McDowell).

It seems particularly perverse to take actors who helped develop the» 60's thesping style of hang - loose, semi-improvisational immediacy and stick them in a creaky period piece glazed with arch gentility and ersatz quaintness.

His ersatz sibling rivalry with General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson) over Snoke's approval does little to improve his mood.

Greene, who as a film critic attacked Hitchcock's «inadequate sense of reality» and «series of small, «amusing» melodramatic situations», produced a screenplay of ersatz Hitchcock: the boy with the ball interrupting the investigation, the Ferris - wheel conversation, the chase in the sewers.

But even with that in mind, this is still the kind of film that saves a few moments for the lead character's precocious toddler (Colin Baiocchi), who, like an ersatz Olsen twin, regurgitates whatever elementary dialogue is fed to him.

The three form a gently deranged ersatz clan, turning «Wilson,» for a while, into a flaky version of that Sundance staple, the dysfunctional - family comedy, complete with glib scenes that mock the «normalcy» of the girl's adoptive parents (Cheryl Hines and Bruce Bohne).

The industry got busy making ersatz Screams and then tepid J - horror remakes filled with single - minded vengeful ghosts.

Just go with Banner's Hulkus Interruptus condition that frustrates him mightily as the effects wizards achieve a half - and - half manifestation to externalize the problem, or the serio - comic quality of the ersatz father - son relationship, the one that makes them both awkward, between Iron Man and high - schooler Peter Parker (Tom Holland), who gets a spiffy and shiny new Spiderman suit from Stark just in time to join him in outer space.

There's certainly a pathetic loneliness to ex-Black Ops agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), still taking ersatz family photos with a disposable camera and struggling to direct the attention of his teenaged daughter Kim (25 - year - old Maggie Grace, in a borderline grotesque woman - child performance) away from the rich asshole (Xander Berkeley) now married to his ex-wife (Famke Janssen).

A similar ersatz, too - late populism motors The Big Short — the movie begins with a quote from Mark Twain — though the cognitive dissonance it produces is even more dizzying than that generated by The Other Guys «closing credits: The handful of fact - based finance guys the film tracks, who saw that the economy was headed for calamity and made billions of dollars while millions of people lost homes and jobs, are held up as conscience - bearers.

Andrea Arnold returns to the Croisette for the third time in four films with an idiosyncratic slice of ersatz Americana that follows a band of magazine subscription sellers as they crisscross the American Midwest, leaving in their wake a path of material, physical and mental destruction.

A few might have been ersatz, with the word rusty used fairly often, but they all had a lot of heart.

For now, to buy an ersatz Pontiac — either a Trans Am or, if that's too mundane for you, TAW's GTO Judge conversion, which comes complete with hidden headlamps — contact one of TAW's distributors in Tallahassee or Los Angeles.

And both rows of seats can fold down with a mattress laid on top for ersatz camping.

After all, they haven't come this far to suddenly give up now — in for a penny, in for a few trillion more, I say... And any upside surprise in growth (leaving aside how ersatz it might be, or not) is likely to be greeted with delight by investors ultimately, and could well prompt a potential step - change in corporate earnings expectations & valuations.

However, with its clear intent to ape the illustrious, fiendishly difficult Trials racing franchise, it's hard not to treat Urban Trial Playground as an ersatz — if moderately enjoyable -LSB-...]

Joystiq is intrigued by the controller's potential for new types of games and adds that «it feels at once futuristic and comfortable, less like an ersatz tablet and more like a really comfortable (but big) game controller with a helpful screen.»

Just inside the fair entrance, Shanzhai Biennial collective members Cyril Duval, Avena Gallagher, and Babak Radboy sat in their ersatz real estate office all day, nervously awaiting a visit from Jay Z and Beyoncé — the most promising potential buyers for the $ 51.5 million house the artists were selling in partnership with an actual brokerage, Aston Chase.

Closely layered, thin strips of black and white form an ersatz pyramid in «Untitled (074)» — a pattern repeated in navy and red in the composition's background, with yellow and turquoise in the work's foreground.

This show presented in our rear gallery includes an ersatz sculpture garden, with verdant wall works and buoyant sculpture arranged on rocks on a gravelled gallery floor.

(Referring to an artwork near his office, an ersatz noose studded with rhinestones, Gian Enzo Sperone, one of the gallery's founding partners, quipped, «I may be using that soon,» at the inaugural opening — uh-oh!)

This edition is a wonderfully edgy and unexpected work by the great artist, who won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in the 2011 Venice Biennale, and whose works have been fetching staggering multiples of their estimates at auction in recent years, with a record of $ 710,000 set by one of her ersatz Lichtenstein paintings in 2011.

With HBO's seemingly ersatz appropriation of Armistead Maupin's «Tales of the City,» it's easy to forget that, once upon a time, being fey in the City by the Bay was less about fitting in than it was about, well, sticking out.

For GOS, I will attempt my most complex yard display, combining rabbits, penguins, ducks, a goose, and a large Santa into an ersatz tower adorned with plastic flowers and surrounded by reflective mylar balloons.

With respect to the ersatz science of climate should we have confidence in their honesty, integrity, trustworthiness and intelligence?

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.

They can act as an ersatz oven mitt, spatula, wooden spoon, ladle, etc — you can use tongs for everything from getting hot items out of the oven to tossing pasta, roasting peppers on the gas burner, checking pasta, whatever you don't want to do with your fingers.

We, for our part, still believe that realism (the real thing, not the ersatz neo-con variety) is the best ground for an honest optimism, and in that spirit we'd like to start off this issue of Climate Equity Observer with an effort to look reality in the eye.

Mr. Wright, «Desperate and saddled with huge student loans, they hang out their shingles and try to practice with little or no access to a mentor in the next office or down the hall (having ersatz mentors miles away even if accessible by Skype or phone is a very poor substitute for a senior at your elbow).»

Desperate and saddled with huge student loans, they hang out their shingles and try to practice with little or no access to a mentor in the next office or down the hall (having ersatz mentors miles away even if accessible by Skype or phone is a very poor substitute for a senior at your elbow).

The stylish traditional element will add formal flair to the room while concealing the unit's contents (we've stocked ours with liquors and glassware to create an ersatz bar, but you can stash just about anything in yours).

Here, we pressed a glam bar cart into service as an ersatz end table with predictably swish results.