stand-ins

Both seem intended to serve as dishonest proxies for actual progressive positions that bear little resmblance to their stand-ins but for a right-wing audience, can pass.

Think Progress » Mitt Romney Refuses To Say If The Foundation Of The Massachusetts Health System Is Constitutional 2010

And there are a LOT of scenes with the blue screen and the stand-ins just yakking back and forth.

Supernatural - Episode 5.04...SPOILERS paxlux 2009

Vampires may be unreal, but they serve as apt stand-ins for human beings, experiencing the same highs and lows that come with loving, losing and surviving.

Laura Brounstein: Why Are Vampires Such a Turn-On? Laura Brounstein 2011

Meanwhile, his work on the Scholastic Aptitude Test case, in which students are accused of hiring stand-ins to cheat on the college-entrance exam, is nearing completion.

Louis Freeh, Ex-FBI Chief, Taps Old Skills in New Job Devlin Barrett 2012

Vampires may be unreal, but they serve as apt stand-ins for human beings, experiencing the same highs and lows that come with loving, losing and surviving.

Laura Brounstein: Why Are Vampires Such a Turn-On? Laura Brounstein 2011

As he grew more agitated, the dogs appeared to be both toys and torture devices, stand-ins for fears and fantasies.

Margaret Fuhrer: Review: Will Rawls and Isabel Lewis Margaret Fuhrer 2012

"The quality of the material, Theresa is responsible for that," says Huston, kicking back in diva-caliber Louboutins while stand-ins work out a rehearsal-room powwow between her scene-stealing, soon-­to-be-divorced producer Eileen Rand and a group of potential Marilyn investors.

On The Set: The Curtain Rises for NBC's Smash 2012

Despite the menacing title of “Prima Belladonna,” the first of the collection, one is immediately bewitched by the very idea of a flower shop where the gorgeously different blooms are all live stand-ins for musicians and opera singers (such as a “delicate soprano mimosa”) and where the owner of this hard-to-manage “chloro florist” establishment eventually confronts “an audio-vegetative armageddon.”

The Catastrophist 2010

They are accompanied by lively, full-scale preparatory drawings—some of them stand-ins for absent frescoes—and related works.

Big Labor and Economy Karen Wilkin 2012

Vampires may be unreal, but they serve as apt stand-ins for human beings, experiencing the same highs and lows that come with loving, losing and surviving.

Laura Brounstein: Why Are Vampires Such a Turn-On? Laura Brounstein 2011