Ersatz
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18 examples of Ersatz in a sentence
And if you happen to still have a copy of "AI Assault" (shown a week or two earlier also on SciFi), you'll see the folks in there tramping through the same
ersatz
jungle.
The film lurches backward and forward in fits and starts, its central figures adrift and seemingly out of place surrounded by the
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decadence of towering sets, the minutia of production detail and the, by 1984, cliche'd but gorgeous cinematographic confection on offer to the audience.
This film is little more than an
ersatz
Verhoeven.
There have been many
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renditions of classic movies in the past, but, the originals are almost always considered superior!! "Purple Rain" is such a movie in this category!! Made in 1984, "Purple Rain" provided a doggerel of eighties, happy-go-lucky quality music, which they incorporated into the making of this excellent film!! Certain artifacts indicative of the eighties are indeed classics!! Screwball comedies, neon accented clothing, and of course, the music!! Eighties music is considered by experts to be the best decade for music in American history!! Set in Minneapolis, "Purple Rain" accommodated the use of naive entertainment with the changing times of the city.
Creative and impressive in virtually every scene, capturing a time and a place as thoroughly as Kubrick could in
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documentary style.
Sidewalks of New York, is , as everyone has pointed out, an
ersatz
Woody Allenish comedy about a group of tangled relationships in New York.
Rather than describing Trump as the next Hitler, we should view him as an
ersatz
Bourbon, presiding over Mar-a-Lago as his exemplars presided over that much-hated French court.
That is why it should not hanker after any
ersatz
export-led or state-directed growth.
The mushrooming growth of the "Party Against Yids," organized by Duma member General Makashov, as well as frequent marches and demonstrations by fascist groups with
ersatz
swastika signs and black outfits suggests a hideous resemblance to pre-Nazi Germany in the early 1930s.
This brigade is in charge of protecting the Bab al-Aziziya area in Tripoli, where the Colonel lives in his
ersatz
Bedouin tent.
An artificial,
ersatz
solidarity, however, can only be a construct of our dreams, or of the state’s power to coerce.
But mimicry’s success in nature depends on the ratio of the original to the
ersatz.
But this new form of
ersatz
capitalism, in which losses are socialized and profits privatized, is doomed to failure.
A real cow, as well as chickens and geese populated that
ersatz
farmyard.
And, because low interest rates have reduced asset managers’ returns, some central banks – and the European Central Bank, in particular – have relied on successive interest-rate cuts in an effort to engineer
ersatz
value gains for assets.
Across the world, the first "modern" century is coming to its end; in Romania, after decades of communism and seven years of
ersatz
postcommunism, real "modernity," sadly, has scarcely begun.
Internet companies may, more than most, hide their true motives behind ersatz, democratic-sounding slogans, but in the end they are advertising products like any other.
Medvedev’s only opponents were has-beens from the 1990’s like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who long ago converted himself from proto-fascist into a Kremlin loyalist, and Andrey Bogdanov, an
ersatz
“democrat” permitted to run by the Kremlin in order to dupe the West into thinking that a real contest was taking place.
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