ersatz

• It was the end of spring, I was fighting a losing battle with the sinus/ear infection that always came round this time of year, and since it was going to rain soon I decided to take a shortcut through the ersatz-park behind the Altman Museum in downtown Cedar Hill. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 05 - May 1999
• To eulogize Phil properly, recall from the post-apocalyptic junkyard a menagerie of maimed automata -- ersatz sheep, a robot German shepherd, a haggish simulacrum of Secretariat -- and a crew of pertinacious little people, from Lumky to Isidore to Tagomi, then set them singing until they entropically abort. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 03 - March 1999
• Finney knows that one need not write down to one's readers in order to generate a sense of adventure -- that in fact writing a book as a book, rather than a kind of ersatz printed version of a TV script, makes for a much more entertaining and adventurous tale. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 03 - September 1995
• Almost immediately, the mystic haze began to form around the “mad genius possessed by Bach.” The Biz tried to throw him up the charts: cable movie, ersatz-classical pop themes, softheaded spiritualism. —  MFSF,January2005
• The only imperialistic jewish culture who fighted and fight today the other jewish cultures, who pretends that there is no place for them and organize the jewish world in such a way: the (ersatz) modern israeli culture.

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