| 单词 | simulacrum |
| 例句 | Yet those charged with mounting the American offense in space saw strength in countering the Russian value of secrecy with its opposites— transparency, democracy, equality—and not a simulacrum. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The simulacrum swells, titters, and then falls into a pile of laughing shadows, their cackles falling against my ears like slivers of ice. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He pushes me casually to the side, holding the scim to the simulacrum. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I could make a simulacrum of the draccus, but then what? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The simulacrum's hand shoots out to grab my arm, and a bone-deep cold jolts through me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “You let the boy make a simulacrum of you, then bring him here on malfeasance?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The simulacrum now more whole than the original. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Even in rehearsal, their duets are flushed and furious, their feverish kisses becoming plausible simulacrums of the ones you imagine dotting actual affairs. Romeo and Juliet, Flushed and Feverish at the Met Opera 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The gigantic simulacrum was the next best thing, he said. A Giant Violin Floats Down Venice’s Grand Canal 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z Like Keys, it was a simulacrum, though this time of a fancy Italian restaurant. On a Disney Cruise, It’s a Stressful World (After All) 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z The Strand stall is a smaller, more manageable simulacrum of the larger store, and I am always glad to see that it remains. Book stalls, used books and other pleasures of New York City 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s simulacra all the way down, and “The Rehearsal” gets only more dizzyingly complex. Review: In ‘The Rehearsal,’ All the World Is Staged 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z The illusions that Losey revealed weren’t just those to which Klein was initiated but those of France at large, a country that, at that very moment, was a mere simulacrum of itself. “Mr. Klein,” a Political Mystery of Mistaken Identity in Occupied Paris 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z In this week’s episode, the simulacrum gives a scary demonstration that he is not merely human. Twin Peaks recap: episode five – is anyone here even human? 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z “Sgt. Pepper” is a simulacrum of a performance, the concert crowds replaced by recorded cheering, but the new record would remove this narrative crutch. The Accidental Perfection of the Beatles’ White Album 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z There will also be striking visual effects, including pyrotechnics and simulacra of “Game of Thrones” sites like Castle Black. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Is an original necessarily more authentic than its simulacrum? Review: In ‘Electric Dreams,’ the Future Seems Outdated 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Once the fabric was dry, Sills applied hundreds of additional coats of the plaster solution, and as those layers dried, they created a simulacrum of carved stone. An Ode to Ornamental Plaster 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Those who remain build simulacra of past species including horses, birds, cats, sheep … and humans. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z In the final order, no distinction between a simulacrum and the reality it gestures toward remains; sign replaces the world. Raptor porn: The ridiculous proliferation of the red-tail call 2013-12-28T00:00:00Z On set, the stars deliberately cultivated an idealized simulacrum of the broader industry — female-led, open, nonhierarchical, mutually supportive. Sandra Bullock and Mindy Kaling Break Out of ‘Actress Solitary Confinement’ 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z But it helps the brand: We're watching a very young PR expert at work, and also someone who understands the simulacrum she's living through as normal life. Kylie Jenner Struggles to Appear Real in Her New Reality Show 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The rest of the population — or the digitally created simulacra thereof — is required only to die en masse, to cower in terror, and to watch in wide-eyed, worshipful gratitude. Review: ‘Batman v Superman,’ Dawn of a Franchise 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Tiki didn’t age well, and any remnants of its glory days were merely saccharine simulacra of the original movement. Notes on cocktail camp: From tiki to the boozy juice box, a celebration of the unstuffy drink 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Not a simulacrum of relationship, but a form of actual relationship. An Antidote to Digital Dehumanization? Live Theater. 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Often on this album, she sings with a stern, terse vibrato that codes seriousness from a distance but feels more like a simulacrum of feeling than the real thing. Lady Gaga’s Stripped-Down New Album Fishes for Inspiration 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z When this claret concoction descends at Terminal 5, it does so forcibly, with a drama apropos to the night’s simulacrum of pre-millennial rave bombast. Blade Rave: the club night where blood rains from the ceiling 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Not by their beauty, not by their youth, but by the fact that they’re living in a simulacrum, constantly observed though rarely acknowledging the observer. Lena Dunham on Love Island: ‘I'm asking the same question they do – can you love after hurt?’ 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Apart from Colbert, no one in public life understands better than he how engaging assholism can be, both in real life and in its broadcast simulacra. Trump, Jobs, Zuckerberg: We idolize jerks 2012-08-12T12:00:00Z There were giant robotic simulacra of band members for “The Robots,” and a welter of numbers flickering and rippling and flying forward in “Numbers.” Music Review: Kraftwerk in Concert at the United Palace Theater 2014-04-02T21:23:44Z Slamming it harder than a Marx Brothers door, he called it a “plague,” “offensive in the extreme” and a “simulacrum of a movie, a celluloid zombie.” Viewing Party! Let’s All Watch ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The whole event has become a “simulacrum,” to use Jean Baudrillard’s term, a self-consciously artificial representation of itself. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Rather, this Wonder Bread banality comes from how thoroughly Mr. Shankman has vacuumed his rock-scene simulacrum of anything recognizably rock, including the lust, juice, heat, bad behavior and excesses that characterize its real-life analogue. | ‘Rock of Ages': Review: ‘Rock of Ages,’ a Musical Starring Tom Cruise 2012-06-14T15:54:25Z Instead, whatever unity Los Angeles achieved was, for many decades, the product of Hollywood simulacra. Learning to Look at L.A. 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Maybe one or the other passenger in the back seat was a simulacrum? Books of The Times: Power Struggles and Riddles, in Romance and Political Intrigue 2010-11-23T23:27:00Z One of the few student lectures I can remember was about the French theorist Jean Baudrillard, orders of simulacra, and how nothing is really real any more. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z It feels like a crazily long time, escalating tension and turning this scene into a stylized uncanny, a simulacrum of a freeze frame. ‘Halloween’ 1978: The Times Finally Reviews a Horror Classic 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z A simulacrum of filmmaking and high fashion which misleads, exploits and abuses victims. Nightmares in the dream factory: how Hollywood scams would-be child stars 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Except that these simulacra of animal-like childhood also show just how far away from paradise we really are. Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z A golf course, after all, may inhabit 150 acres of verdant terrain, but it’s a tamed and highly stylized simulacrum of nature, not nature itself. Fairway to heaven: What happens to an abandoned golf course 2014-03-13T12:45:00Z The Rolling Stone critic Ann Powers complained about Welch’s “handcrafted simulacrum of rural mysticism.” Twenty Years of Listening to Gillian Welch 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Or does the attempt lead only to a synthetic simulacrum, a kind-of city that is not quite the real thing? Astana, Kazakhstan: the space station in the steppes 2010-08-08T00:59:00Z Matthew Albanese’s landscape simulacra on loan from the Garis & Hahn gallery are now featured along with the Rag & Bone spring collection. Shopping Events in New York, Starting April 25 2013-04-24T20:48:29Z The evening offered a simulacrum of an American program, polished and shiny. Review | Ending his season with a bang: Noseda offers an American program, of sorts, with the NSO 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z An unctuous singer of much Sinatra simulacra and little actual pleasure, Seth MacFarlane — creator of “Family Guy,” grating host of the 2013 Oscars — loves himself some Christmas. For New Holiday Albums, It Takes All Kinds 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Not only because it’s a period film — set in a carefully designed simulacrum of the ’80s — that touches on present-day anxieties, but also because it recalls an all-but-extinct kind of studio filmmaking. The New York Film Festival: Movies for Art’s Sake 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z “It is human to think ahead. Premonitions are tantalizing because they are simulacra of this essential mode of thinking.” ‘The Premonitions Bureau’ Recounts Crowdsourcing the Supernatural 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Are her friend’s holes a simulacrum of Sarah’s holes? Summer Encounters 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Even though it was made before the pandemic, it’s perfect art for the socially distanced era, a stunningly hypnotic simulacrum of the human density that has always been part of the genius of New York. I Miss Being Part of an Audience 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z But this show isn’t just bland “Project Runway” simulacra. Summer TV: It's even hotter inside these reality shows, where contestants play with fire 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z “The numbers you have in mind,” she tells the parents, “the numbers we use when we buy and sell, are not true numbers but simulacra. They are what I call ant numbers.” J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The shiksa who fascinated and tormented Alexander Portnoy, who tempted you and horrified your mother, has been psychologically deflated to the point of a simulacrum. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z It is really rather affecting, or a simulacrum of emotionality – you decide. New band of the day – Tom Odell (No 1,388) 2012-11-06T16:29:00Z In a series that is built on doubles, on multiple selves, on simulacra that take over, Lynch is also self-multiplying, splitting off the analyst from the fantasist, the thinker from the creator. “Twin Peaks: The Return” Episodes 3 and 4: David Lynch Is Back 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The album starts out slick and complacent, with the singer inventorying his charms while the producers create simulacrums of 1970s and ’80s smooth soul that sound orchestrated rather than sampled. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-11-22T23:10:00Z Mr. Buffett has given his fans a path to a simulacrum of the island life. Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z From the refuse of war and scraps of charity, Sarat and her fellow survivors manufacture a grotesque simulacrum of normal life, but their efforts are constantly interrupted by fresh outrages. ‘American War’ follows today’s vitriol to a dystopian future 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z In this, the sphere is of a piece with the other current offering at the Shed: a weird virtual-reality simulacrum of a solo piano concert by the composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died in March. At the Sonic Sphere, a ‘Whoa’ Moment (and Some Music) 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z I recently described “Terminator Genisys” as a “simulacrum of a movie”; the same applies here, and there may be a connection between the two, in the creation of movies for an international market. "Southpaw" Is a Throwback—in the Worst Way 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z “I love the sense of motion and fluidity in the picture,” Kopelman says, shortly before pointing out that his stunning simulacrum is actually a magnetic bulletin board. Art Advisor Will Kopelman Devises A Sophisticated Home Office 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z And it seemed no one could win — cheese made from milk was too powerfully delicious, and the vegan cheeses available in specialty stores were bland, pale simulacra. Vegan Cheese, but Make It Delicious 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z This stuff is simulacra of simulacra of simulacra. The Growing Emptiness of the Star Wars Universe 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s in their nonheroic rendering as people that his efforts fall short: they speak, for the most part, like sitcom simulacra of people, in sarcastic one-liners evoking thought bubbles filled only with a laugh track. The New “Avengers” Is Really About the N.S.A. 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z In a laboratory, he finds scientists creating mini-brains out of differentiating neurons and puzzling over whether what they’ve created are simulacra of real brains. What Does It Mean to Be a Living Thing? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z All of those impulses came to a disgusting, deadly head on Wednesday, when the Trump cult took fandom out of the simulacrum and into real life. Perspective | The Trump cult has obliterated the line between citizenship and fandom, with deadly results 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Then he leapt in front of a bonfire simulacrum, surrounded by men also in prison garb and African dancers, to perform his single “Alright” and a verse from a powerful new track. Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, and the Warping Power of the Grammys 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z This, blended with her android persona, seems to suggest Monae is also archly referencing black history by creating a robotic simulacrum of a subordinated black musician, who then breaks free. Janelle Monae puts the android into R&B 2010-05-27T13:44:00Z Walking around was an action achieved not by me, but by some meat suit simulacrum operated by a tiny alien. RuPaul gave me life: How “Drag Race” pulled me back from the depths of depression 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z And his big single is like a simulacrum of a mainstream hip-hop hit. White Rappers, Clear of a Black Planet 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The mark, like the book, is about seeing; the squirrel simulacrum catches my peripheral vision as I write. When Writing a Book Leaves a (Literal) Mark on Its Author 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z But creating these simulacra of the book’s characters, however accurately, is not the same as dramatizing them. Review: ‘About Alice’ Brings a Husband’s Eulogy to Life 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Yet the same approach yielded an interesting but rather dreary simulacrum in Jack Dee's Lead Balloon. Why is Britain so bad at standup sitcoms? 2013-04-05T11:07:00Z But this attempt to resolve it by jousting with its simulacra leads to exhaustion and repetition. I had to punish myself 2013-05-01T00:00:00Z So potent was Iggy’s physicality that to simply listen to the Stooges now feels like a simulacrum. Where Punk Rock Begins 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z These costumed simulacrum — at least the hired ones — didn’t know any more than I did, and even if they had, they wouldn’t have veered from an animatronic fealty to the original text. Coffee, pie and nudity: “Twin Peaks” comes to life in New York 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Sure, J. J. Abrams’s movie offered merely effectively packaged simulacra of such values—but at least he tried. “Rogue One” Reviewed: Is It Time to Abandon the “Star Wars” Franchise? 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Artists have often found themselves groping toward a simulacrum of their normal concert experience. Concerts Aren’t Back. Livestreams Are Ubiquitous. Can They Do the Job? 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z You will see a tacky, cheerful simulacrum of a classically creepy English manor drawing room. Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Upends a Whodunit 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z It’s as though, at four o’clock every day, Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes turned into the ordinary Brillo cartons of which they were designed to be simulacra. Watching Them Turn Off the Rothkos 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z It's a transfixing vision of clockwork loveliness, and it's also an empty simulacrum of real life, a magnificent gadget that replicates human actions without any of the warmth of flesh and blood. The relentless whimsy of "Micmacs" 2010-05-28T00:20:00Z In that sense, Mara is the face and heart of the film: a well-wrought simulacrum of the original. David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Thanks Very Much, But You Really Didn't Have To 2011-12-20T15:00:53Z That’s how it is at this neighborhood restaurant, a type once common in the city and now seemingly most valuable when it has vanished and been resurrected as a self-conscious simulacrum of its former self. At Donohue’s, a Nightly Steak, a Life Gone By 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Thubron inscribes that dilemma in his novel’s subtly complex narration, which shifts without notice from third person to first, creating on the page a simulacrum of selfhood that we inhabit without notice. As a house burns, its residents are sustained by memories in ‘Night of Fire’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Corey Stoll is not immune to the charms of enormous wealth, or at least a sound stage’s meticulously designed simulacrum thereof. Corey Stoll on Becoming the New Face of Fortune in ‘Billions’ 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z But the company’s departing, bulky, stage-filling simulacrum of ancient Egypt deserves an elegy for showing up, season after season, and finding the balance on which 19th-century grand opera relies: between awesome spectacle and intimate drama. After 31 Years, Farewell to the Met Opera’s Grand, Gaudy ‘Aida’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z In effect, it’s a simulacrum of a movie that takes the place of the experience of watching a movie—but does so adroitly. An Edward Snowden “Terminator” 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z In the first order of simulacra, representation essentially works; signs – a sound, a word, an image – refer, however problematically, to reality. Raptor porn: The ridiculous proliferation of the red-tail call 2013-12-28T00:00:00Z But he does all this inside a “highly engineered environment,” and his experiences are mere simulacra of what they would be outside of it. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z “Constance” is about a person, or at least the simulacrum of a person, who investigates her own death. A Human Cloning Error and Existential Questions Fuel This Science Fiction Romp 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Leaps, Jumps and Bumps Serpentine Gallery, Until 26 August Now in her 80s, Sturtevant has been dealing with simulacra throughout her career. Elaine Sturtevant: queen of copycats 2013-07-01T17:21:50Z Caron calls Rainbow's approach "truthiness satire," exposing the simulacrum by creating a competing, obviously false reality, exposing both worlds as fakes. Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Sociologist Jean Boudrillard called the social world a "simulacrum," a hyper-reality full of noise, images, and symbols designed to mesmerize the mind and replace the boring real world. Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z One can begin to believe in the primacy of simulacra and come to think that the proper subject of an image is another image. Photographing Life as It’s Seen, Not Staged 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z She’s the name my two real cousins and I have christened the woman pictured with us, their sister who is not their sister but a simulacrum, standing in for her. Annabelle Gurwitch on family — the one you're born with, and the one on your book cover 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Then suddenly it was actually on the market, including a wooden laptop and headset, fabric apps and a simulacrum of a disposable coffee cup. Keep Baking That Sourdough, and Change the World 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z There, hanging above you, is a simulacrum of a tardigrade, otherwise known as a water bear or moss piglet, at about 5,000 times larger than life-size. In ‘Life at the Limits,’ Extreme Creatures at American Museum of Natural History 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The dreams in which much of the movie takes place are artificial constructs, rational, rectilinear simulacra designed to achieve specific ends. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z I know this was a postmodern moment — the thing about the simulacrum being just as important as the real. The Year in Pop: Viral Stardom and Martial Dance Music 2012-12-28T17:07:10Z It’s a little uncomfortable to find oneself chuckling along with even a blatantly fictional simulacrum of such a figure: Madoff opens the play with a light-bulb joke. Critic?s Notebook: Madoff, Macbeth and Other Crooks, Onstage in Washington 2011-09-28T22:45:26Z Fleeing a meditation retreat in a deer park hosted by her New Age masseuse, Sonja realizes that paid touch and urban simulacra of wilderness have worn thin. Cold Cases: Three Scandinavian Novels Explore Chilling Emotional Territory 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z And then there is Lucky Peach’s take on that food-court classic, the mysteriously satisfying, sweet-and-sour simulacrum known here as Mall Chicken. Chinese Food and the Joy of Inauthentic Cooking 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Sheer controlled machine mayhem, if only a simulacrum of the future. New band of the day (Crossfaith 1,550) 2013-07-10T14:38:00Z The scowls look genuine, but the movie is only a simulacrum of Bondurant’s book. Lawless: A Crime Drama That's Remorseless?and Often Lifeless 2012-05-19T20:14:23Z With the advent of that simulacrum, the line between reporting and editorializing was erased. Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z “Cry.” opens the album, with Ms. Carey singing slowly, in stately fashion, over warm organ, and harmonizing with herself — a gospel simulacrum. On Mariah Carey’s New Album, Nods to Devotional Music 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z He wanted to rage; he wanted to turn the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing into a bad simulacrum of a David Mamet play. Why Is Being Held Accountable So Terrifying Under Patriarchy? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Do we actually want Shakespearean drama, or a simulacrum thereof, in comic-book movies? "Thor": All hail the ripped Aryan goofball! 2011-05-05T01:01:00Z For Tiler Peck, in “Sonatine,” the minor fluctuations happened on the fine line between delicacy and its simulacrum. Review: ‘All Balanchine II’ by New York City Ballet 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z But this simulacrum of Versailles wasn't being created for television. L.A. Opera goes for the epic with 'The Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Now it’s a heap of rubble, and even if it’s reconstructed, the results will only be a simulacrum of the original. A Glasgow Architect’s Masterpiece Is Damaged, but Not His Magic 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Yesterday at Christie’s, intense spotlighting made “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” glow like an image you’d Google up on a screen, as though it best revealed its true self when displayed as pure simulacrum. When a Warhol for $225 Has More Heft Than One for $195 Million 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Because “Star Wars” is so self-consciously mythic, “Solo” is especially vulnerable to the “simulacra of simulacra” problem. The Growing Emptiness of the Star Wars Universe 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z For starters, his performance was at best a simulacrum. Let’s Not Go Crazy: The Grammys Missed an Essential Part of Prince 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z But a closer match is the empire Ralph Lauren built, where stylists scout thrift stores and old magazines, and produce simulacra of alternate worlds. You May Be Surprised to Hear That Restoration Hardware Is Doing Great 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Neuroscience tells us not to worry—we’ve never confronted reality in the first place, just a mental simulacrum, assembled on the fly and no more real than a game of Crazy Taxi. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Other movie monsters are even closer simulacra of ourselves. Tales of the unexplained: why these Monsters are entirely alien 2010-12-06T11:57:00Z We couldn’t pretend the proximity of a shared house was some simulacrum of “dealing with it”. Parenting after divorce: the art of not being ugly 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s tempting simply to ignore the “bests” of the Oscars as a mere simulacrum of merit in movies. The Oscar Whiteness Machine 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z It doesn’t just provide a simulacrum of consciousness roving the world; it suggests a larger sense of conscience, too. Perspective | Through the lens of a CNN camera on the ground, a view of American disintegration 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Their suppleness is so inviting,” said the composer Mark Grey, who captured their sounds with a mobile studio in 2002 to build simulacrums for the Kronos Quartet. A Sibling Rivalry Divides a Famous Artist’s Legacy 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z In terms of his effect on the reputation of his native Scotland, Kelly said Scott "invented a great simulacrum of Scotland; he invented the image of the country". Scotland's image-maker Sir Walter Scott 'invented English legends' 2010-08-16T16:21:00Z “Dreams of Flying” is a contrived simulacrum — or is it a limp sendup? — of an Albee play. | 'Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling': ?Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling? at Classic Stage - Review 2011-10-04T02:01:04Z Over many years, in hundreds of hours of footage, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz enacted a simulacrum of their domestic life in “I Love Lucy.” ‘Lucy and Desi’ Review: Love in the Time of Television 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Or, rather, it becomes a simulacrum of a thriller. The Odd Shadow Over Michael Mann’s “Blackhat” 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z In making “Mozart à Paris,” for example, a near-perfect simulacrum of a deluxe 1956 box set, Hutchison spent months scouring London’s haberdashers to find the right strand of silk for a decorative cord. The Vinyl? It’s Pricey. The Sound? Otherworldly. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z The celebration of simulacra of old-style craft and the assertion of cinema’s crucial value to the commonweal are at the same time assertions of the importance of critics. The Best Movies of 2014 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z A place where the simulacrum of glamour available to everyone ensures no one gets the real thing. U2 Returns, in Las Vegas Limbo 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z And in London there was also a chance to get excited about mid-summer – for Stonehenge's inflatable simulacrum comes to town. Stonehenge enjoys a moment in the sun at summer solstice 2012-06-21T09:04:49Z Until that happens, the center has to hope a big gamble pays off: that it can create a simulacrum of urban life and vitality inside the Reach, even as the city itself shimmers from afar. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z The group has been dropping a scattering of digital singles recently; the latest is “Root,” a pattering plea for earnest communion in a time of digital simulacrum. The Playlist: Shawn Mendes Shows His Scars, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z But many airports are threatening to be a kind of camera obscura, a simulacrum of a city that, if we’re on a layover, we’ll never see. Airports, Designed for Everyone but the Passenger 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z They did not just strive to paint "what they saw"; they wanted to create a completely convincing three-dimensional simulacrum of it, by plotting the contours of a virtually real space into their pictures. Where are today's Leonardos? Toy Story 2010-06-23T09:38:00Z Did I say “just a recorded voice”? It’s a mistake to give undue value to what’s “real” over what’s a simulacrum of reality. Review: ‘The Encounter’ Is a High-Tech Head Trip Through an Amazon Labyrinth 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Obviously, sex is not going out of fashion with 20-somethings, and the simulacrum is not replacing the real thing anytime soon. With Some Dating Apps: Less Casual Sex Than Casual Text 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Distrikt, next door, is different: it has a simulacrum of soul. Six New (and Affordable) Boutique Hotels in New York 2010-06-18T21:58:00Z “The Happiest Girl” is a brittle melodrama of a piano ballad, and “Yeah Yeah Yeah” is a cheerful ’80s pop simulacrum that also nods to the Weeknd and Daft Punk. Blackpink and the Limits of K-Pop Maximalism 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z And yet, at times this production too explicitly spells out his conceit, as when Hnath questions how much of Cuiffo’s magic is mimicry, each trick being a variation of a theme — yes, a simulacrum. ‘A Simulacrum’ Review: A Magic Show in the Making, and Unmaking 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z It threatened to suffocate the special qualities of the buildings it was meant to serve, and convert a tract of open public space into yet another simulacrum of the retail zone at Heathrow Terminal 5. Southbank Centre revamp: at last a plan that deserves to succeed 2013-03-10T00:05:28Z What Scott delivers in “Alien: Covenant” is the simulacrum of seriousness without the sense of self-conscious silliness, a grim earnestness that’s reinforced by a thudding, grandiose aesthetic that utterly lacks originality. “Alien: Covenant” Bursts with Pomposity 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Later in her career, Luz becomes a simulacrum of other more beautiful models, chosen for low-budget campaigns. The bad mother’s last refuge: Smashing the cult of mommyhood 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Readers hoping for paperback veracity must settle for simulacrum, says Green. Author John Green On What To Expect From 'Paper Towns,' Cara Delevingne 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z On its surface, much of “Even a Tree Can Shed Tears” can seem like an uncanny simulacrum of vintage Californian folk-rock, an alternate universe in which Buffalo Springfield and the Grateful Dead sprouted in Tokyo. The Hidden History of Japan’s Folk-Rock Boom 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Given what we’ve seen of the so-called real world, you can understand why people would prefer to hang out indefinitely in this lush simulacrum, which is called the Hideaway. Review: Jennifer Haley’s ‘The Nether’ Explores the Dark Side of the Web 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z As ever, the album exists within a fully realized visual aesthetic, all seedy 1970s simulacra: grainy photographs, louche leisure suits, Gena Rowlands wig. St. Vincent Flirts With Autobiography and the Sounds of the ’70s 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z And in place of caged elephants, there are wondrous puppet simulacra from the “War Horse” team, creatures of burlap and sorcery that caused several children in the audience to delightedly lose their minds. Review: In ‘Circus 1903,’ a Littler Big Top Still Offers Some Thrills 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Its premise is the “arrangement,” the compromise of government and business with mobsters so that a simulacrum of order can be maintained. Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939–2016 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z What the audience sees is no hotel, but a simulacrum formed from expectations, media tropes and a few red herrings for good measure. Music Review: In ‘No Hotel,’ the Screen Is a Star Onstage 2013-09-08T21:49:16Z And it’s more modern, though only by a decade or so, and not one of the last three: the group’s old-timey simulacra are more ambitious now. Music Review: Chapin Sisters? Old-Timey Sound at Living Room 2010-08-03T22:00:00Z His miniature interiors, which will be on show in London next month, are accurate three-dimensional simulacra of the studios of some great modern painters and sculptors. Mini artists' studios 2011-08-28T19:01:01Z I’m a simulacrum, a cardboard cut-out trudging woodenly through the city. 'I feel I might die any waking moment': can I escape the grip of PTSD? 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Through it all — post-apocalyptic world, or simulacrum, or whatever — Mr. Boudinot dazzles, goofs around and sends the plot curving in on itself. Books of The Times: Ryan Boudinot?s Novel ?Blueprints of the Afterlife? 2012-01-25T23:47:20Z While mainstream comedy largely tried to mock the simulacrum from outside, Rainbow knew the real fight had to take place inside the matrix instead. Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Eggplant polpette, a simulacrum of meatballs made of eggplant, eggs, cheese, bread crumbs and parsley, revived memories of a meal in a Puglian coastal town. Restaurant Report: Terún in Palo Alto, Calif. 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Greta and Xavier meet, for example, building a simulacrum of a Blockbuster store on a video game in the sandbox genre, Nostalgeum. ‘Let’s Not Do That Again,’ a Crackling Satire Set Against a Senate Run 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Coming from a digitally created simulacrum of a human being, this discourse obviously takes on a sharply paradoxical edge, of which the speaker seems sweetly unaware. 2010-01-14T00:31:00Z “A fake Venice next to the real one, whereby the truth of the simulacrum shatters and engulfs the truth of history”? Review: ‘If Venice Dies’ Examines a City Sinking, and Not Only Into Water 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Created in partnership with legendary game designers Valve using the same game engine as Half Life 2, the project will allow online players to roam around a stunning simulacrum of BAC's labyrinthine Victorian home. Live theatre is so over 2011-04-01T10:31:59Z Many of these are now built with industrial meat simulacra made from pea and soy proteins, which tend to produce deep-brown patties that can look and feel the part — that can bleed imitation blood, even. In Los Angeles, Veggie Burgers With Real Veggies Still Appeal 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z This is the same process that saw every branch of Waterstone's quickly become little more than a simulacrum of some unseen template at headquarters. It's little surprise Amazon and authors are cutting out the middleman 2011-08-21T09:00:02Z “We’re not going to be able to create this perfect simulacra of running around getting drinks with friends and having conversations in line.” Perspective | Film festivals face the dreaded choice this year: Go virtual or go dark 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z But even if Post were to craft the perfect sirloin simulacrum, his invention might still give many people the creeps. Fake burgers will save us all! 2013-12-08T22:00:00Z I’m inclined to conclude that “Snow White and the Huntsman” is a vigorous simulacrum of classic fantasy, rather than the real thing. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z Maybe simulacra are more real than what they represent? Books of The Times: Power Struggles and Riddles, in Romance and Political Intrigue 2010-11-23T23:27:00Z As countless fiction and nonfiction writers have pointed out, we have little understanding of what our own consciousness is; we’re in no position to deny it to a perfect simulacrum. Review | The robot revolution is coming: Will there be any room left for us? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The Hollywood cry of this hawk has become a third-order simulacra. Raptor porn: The ridiculous proliferation of the red-tail call 2013-12-28T00:00:00Z The Caine Prize isn’t a flickering simulacrum of the Man Booker: it stands on its own. Nigerian wins Caine Prize 2012-07-05T13:56:00Z It’s the kind of bizarre simulacrum of humanity that might have been crafted by an alien civilization. ‘The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z But the output is mostly a simulacrum of human thought, not the product of cogitation. Column: AI investors say they'll go broke if they have to pay for copyrighted works. Don't believe it 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z But it’s mostly a simulacrum of human thought, not the product of cogitation. Column: This AI chatbot was 'trained' using my books, but don't blame me for its incredible stupidity 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z She added, “We’ve reached a saturation point with retail simulacra: Everything is a copy of a copy, and even things that started in Copenhagen are now at Wayfair.” 'Millennials aren’t minimalists.' A look at the revival of American Colonial style 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z And far away, a simulacrum of nature: a perfect leaf crafted in grass-fed foam. Resurrecting a mammoth — and a family — in Ramona Ausubel's wild and woolly new novel 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Yu explores stereotypes, racism, pop culture and the stories we tell through Wu’s experiences in a simulacrum of Hollywood. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Fiction 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z I backed away from what I see as the simulacrum that we’re living in. Bret Easton Ellis talks about his new sincerity and ‘The Shards’ 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Along the way she undergoes cosmetic surgery to turn herself into a simulacrum of her husband's lover. Fay Weldon obituary: Shrewd, mischievous and outspoken 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z This method, described this week by President Emmanuel Macron of France as “simulacra” of referendums, was used in Crimea in 2014 to justify Russian annexation. A Cornered Putin Is More Dangerous Than Ever 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Instead of just showing us facts and figures, Cline and her team sought to create a simulacrum of what Disneyland looked like during its July 1955 opening. The Disney myth will be on display at D23 Expo. Here's why we want to believe it 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Improbably, Kor never displays impatience at having to repeat the simulacra so many times. Review | Nathan Fielder continues to elevate the prank show in ‘The Rehearsal’ 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z These stores for living are designed from the outside in as lackluster simulacra of Italian palazzos, with some Beaux-Arts doodadery thrown in along with the track lighting and requisite retail footprint. Can anything stop Rick Caruso from turning L.A. into the Cheesecake Factory? 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z They reason that, in the future, detailed scans of patients could be used to create joint-perfect replications of their bodies, allowing tissue like tendons to be grown for surgeries in a human simulacra. Scientists grow cells on a robot skeleton (but don’t know what to do with them yet) 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z It’s also a grand illusion, a reminder of how movies and TV shows construct a deeply transporting simulacrum of reality. 12 films our critic can't wait to see at this year's Cannes Film Festival 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z This reflects Russia's capability to look like a simulacrum of European culture and to imitate its aesthetic shell while retaining an entirely different content, often opposite to Western values. We saw this coming: For Russia's neighbors, Putin's brutal invasion came as no surprise 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Impossible achieves this simulacrum by deploying heme, a protein present in animal tissues but here derived from plants. What Does the End of Beef Mean for Our Sense of Self? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The patty is a vehicle for deliciousness and a simulacrum of the nation’s rhythms, and your patty could be a late breakfast, or an early lunch, or a boozy midnight snack. The Beef Patty Is Jamaica in the Palm of Your Hand 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z “Such an august occasion, designed to promote openness, good sportsmanship and transnational solidarity, ended up being a heavily policed, brittle, Potemkin-like simulacrum of the Olympic ideal.” With Olympics Closing Ceremony, China Celebrates a Joyless Triumph 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Chalmers argues that ongoing advances in technology — especially in virtual reality and computer simulation — are eventually going to make the scary stories told around seminar tables about dreams and simulacra into real possibilities. Review | Our world might be a simulation. Would that be so bad? 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Even then the result is still a poor simulacrum. Star Wars has a Luke Skywalker problem 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Through this we experience the pleasure of recognition and some simulacrum of connective tissue, even if when we step away the impact or import of all this tethering never comes to much. Review: Hanya Yanagihara's new novel proves her reputation for 'empathy' is all wrong 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z In these simulacra, they see, feel and control worlds — or at least metaphors for them — in an attempt to decipher parts of the universe they’ll likely never visit. You Don’t Need a Spaceship to Grow ‘Weird Little’ Martian Radishes 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Don’t they shape us — quite literally, in the scars and bruises we carry from our battles on this Earth — in a way that a lab-grown simulacrum cannot know? Review | ‘Swan Song’ is a high-concept melodrama that’s heavy on the drama, light on the concept 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z I rarely enter a home, office or store that doesn't contain a simulacrum of one of them—usually several. Human Machinations around Animals, the Joy of Nature’s Eccentricities, and Other New Books 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Ash is a simulacrum with a background that splits the difference between the game’s other mechanical characters, Revenant and Pathfinder. Apex Legends: Escape takes the battle royale shooter on vacation at the perfect time 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Yes, Donald Trump himself only seems to exist as a simulacrum, a TV or film character come to life, who exemplifies the worst aspects of the human condition. "Trump World" is no joke — and it wants to devour American democracy 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z This is a faded simulacrum of the once-great comedian, who now uses his significant platform to air grievances against the great many people he holds in contempt, while deftly avoiding any accountability. Opinion | Dave Chappelle’s Brittle Ego 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z I asked her how that felt, to hear this simulacrum, this computer-Lou, referring to himself like that. Laurie Anderson Has a Message for Us Humans 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z These sorts of visual and audio clones could accelerate the scales of economy for celebrity work, allowing them to capitalize on their fame — as long as they’re happy renting out a simulacrum of themselves. Everyone will be able to clone their voice in the future 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z My brief moment in the spotlight, a two-minute simulacrum of what is a showbiz dream for many, had come to an end. I'd like to thank the Academy for my fantasy Oscar: The theme park influence on museums 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z His twist on the Sophia strategy is that he doesn’t even need a simulacrum of a robot to sell the dream. Don’t overthink it: Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot is a joke 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Horseshoe muses on this unsettling liquid simulacrum: “It’s the same as water, just a little bit more so.” Review: The most sinister power in this riotously fun dystopian novel? Still Hollywood 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Its members do not want to suffer any longer in Mr. Lukashenko’s simulacrum of a Soviet dystopia, but rather aspire to live in a free and open society like those they see elsewhere. Opinion | Biden will not find a clearer case than this to put his muscle behind democracy 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z What if some of that watching happened through an expressive simulacrum of a human eye? This webcam dares to ask: what if the panopticon had flesh? 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Containing simulacra of handwritten and typed letters, telegrams, and other artifacts — such as a Broadway ticket stub — the mailings will evoke the bantering epistolary courtship between Jack, a U.S. Arena Stage creates a series of nine snail-mailings for fans for ‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’ 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z But some of the most discussed products to come out of the last few years go one step beyond that, offering to act as replacements of themselves, simulacra. How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Instead, my online divorce felt like I was watching a simulacrum of myself in a YouTube clip. Perspective | The surreal anticlimax of getting divorced over videoconference 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z The result is a curious simulacrum of what a football match actually sounds like: familiar enough to anybody who grew up playing computer games, but still a little surreal when attached to the real thing. Football is back and we are grateful but a crowd is not a sound effect | Jonathan Liew 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The play, which I experienced after a long Zoom meeting of my own, initially made me question what Nelson thought he was accomplishing in offering a simulacrum of our repetitive pandemic dialogue. Zoom plays? Sure, fine. But this theater critic doesn't need more stories, not now 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z And whatever their intended purpose, their bodies would be designed not by an engineer but by a simulacrum of real evolution built to encourage the right behavior in the target environment. Meet the Xenobots, Virtual Creatures Brought to Life 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The toxic negative partisanship that is our modern simulacrum for the politics of most of the previous century is pretty stupid. Governor nixes Wisconsin’s Tuesday primary 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z A Baudrillardian simulacrum to soothe her through five years in lockdown, while above ground presumably resembles a scene from The Walking Dead. Underground skyscrapers and off-grid bunkers: inside the world of preppers 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z There's good reason to fear that Trump's reality-TV simulacrum of a competent leader is working to fool Americans. Trump wants to play-act the hero, but don't forget: This crisis is his fault 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z But the combination of iRacing’s realism and Podium eSports’ professional quality broadcast was an excellent simulacrum — a “replacement” race in nearly every sense of the world. F1 and NASCAR races are canceled, but sim racing events are taking their place 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z While practicing social distancing, it is important to rely instead on technologies that provide a simulacrum for true contact, especially those that allow us to see each other, such as Skype and FaceTime. Opinion | How social distancing could ultimately teach us how to be less lonely 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Boarding school has parasitically replaced Vanessa’s incipient interior life with its own simulacrum of one. The boarding school novel's #MeToo reckoning 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Plato posited the existence of an eternal realm of perfect forms, of which our material world is just a shadowy simulacrum. Do We Possess a Transpersonal Imagination? 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z The simulacrum included two large wall panels, a section of wainscoting and a corner table. Perspective | In 1997, Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum was stuck in amber 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z According to Baudrillard, “simulacra” have come to displace realities in human understanding. The Art of War in “Theater of Operations” 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Yet if I closed my eyes and forgot about the tube, my first taste was of apple pie—or a reasonable simulacrum, with bits of crust and real fruit. Can Babies Learn to Love Vegetables? 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Old Spice, an event sponsor, created a “shoe spa,” while L.A.-based brand Rhude built a simulacrum of the Rose Bowl Flea Market. How ComplexCon wrapped allure, streetwear and 'something new' into one festival 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z His voice, a plangent, plummy thing, is like an artificial-intelligence simulacrum of how the upper classes spoke in Edwardian England. How Brexit Will End 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The sets are a creepy simulacrum of the surrounding village, alchemizing local history and lore into horror. The Headless Horseman Industrial Complex 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z They seemed to emerge overnight: white walls and rounded fonts and bleacher seating, matte simulacra of a world they had replaced. Four Years in Startups 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z At first glance, ImageNet Roulette seems like just another viral selfie app – those irresistible 21st-century magic mirrors that offer a simulacrum of insight in exchange for a photograph of your face. The viral selfie app ImageNet Roulette seemed fun – until it called me a racist slur 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The next day, as the team continues upstream, the satellite imagery Lozada Toledo relied on for his map proves a woefully inadequate simulacrum of the real twists and turns of the river. In search of the ‘white Jaguar’: Archaeologists travel deep into the jungle to find a lost Maya city 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The Wrap, meanwhile, says Joker is "comic book nihilism... wrapped up in a convincing but ultimately hollow simulacra of better, smarter movies". 'Daring' or 'garbage'? Joker film divides critics 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Yet it’s not a new observation to say a simulacrum of the work lacks the power of the original. Art, aura and the doomed search for the perfect selfie | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Each fluctuating scene and character feels like a shadow or a simulacrum, each revision a dispatch from its own alternate universe. Inside the archives — and mind — of sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z There was the six-wheeled Scout robot, which is currently being put through its paces in a digital simulacrum of suburbia. I welcomed our new robot overlords at Amazon’s first AI conference 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z A baseball park is itself a simulacrum of a city, he writes, and thus “does not need to be inside another simulacrum.” Review | America’s baseball stadiums: The hits and the misses 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Whether or not you agree with Corbet’s thesis, his simulacrum of pop celebrity is awfully seductive, which is partly the point. Critic’s Choice: The dark pleasures of ‘Vox Lux’ include a haunting final score by Scott Walker He wants the spark of the real to be the basis of the simulacrum. Susan Choi’s Novel Takes High-School Drama Seriously 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z But what they will get will be a pale imitation, a simulacrum, designed by executives in boardrooms, decided by power brokers in private, staged for the benefit of the television cameras. A Final for All Time, Sacrificed on the Altar of the Modern Game 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Yet these games can also provide a way of confronting reality or, at the very least, an artificially rendered simulacrum of it that is heightened, shaped and structured by an authorial presence. Opinion | Red Dead Redemption 2 Is True Art 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z A jaunty academic breaks in from time to time by way of video projection, name checking the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard and his theory of simulacra. Review: John Fleck's 'Blacktop Highway' gets political in baroque way - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z This animated internet is an eye-popping simulacrum of the real thing, but it is also thoroughly sanitized, as the conventions of PG-rated, family-friendly entertainment demand. Review: It has wit and energy to burn, but 'Ralph Breaks the Internet' takes a cynical turn - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z But soon we entered a disorienting simulacrum of the past: a labyrinth of imperial gardens, stone bridges, and pagodas with crimson eaves. Yan Lianke’s Forbidden Satires of China 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Your inability to muster even a simulacrum of basic decency at the passing of an authentic American hero diminishes your eulogy even more. Donald Trump, what will be your legacy? 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Denialists usually labour for decades to produce, often against overwhelming odds, carefully crafted simulacra of scholarship that, to non-experts at least, are indistinguishable from the real thing. Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Thus, in the West, the ‘otherness’ of mechanical simulacra was compounded. Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z She is not the sort of fiction writer who conducts methodical research and then labors to produce a faithful simulacrum of a time or a place. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Otherworldly Fiction 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z A simulacrum of camping except for the fact they are de facto prisoners and, so far, voiceless. Texas town denounces 'twisted and shameful' camp for migrant children 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The network masterfully reinforces the home as the simulacra of personal identity, one in need of continual renovation and updates, of adding “pops of color” to convey character. The fraught lives of Angelenos and their real estate are the focus of Lydia Millet's superb 'Fight No More' 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z “Essentially, they created a simulacrum of a third place,” he said. Analysis | Starbucks’s racial-bias training has another goal 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Audiences have gotten familiar with this kind of cautionary yarn, where technology offers a lonely simulacrum of human contact. NBC’s new VR thriller Reverie is a schmaltzy take on techno-dystopia 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Those jobs seem almost mythical today, so the best Jordan’s character gets is a nonsensical, performative simulacrum of one. HBO’s Fahrenheit 451 has a new villain: popular tech trends 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z King was neither perfect nor pure in his prophetic witness – but he was the real thing in sharp contrast to the market-driven semblances and simulacra of our day. Martin Luther King Jr was a radical. We must not sterilize his legacy | Cornel West 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z There was, however, a time not long ago when you did expect a simulacrum of it from presidents, lawmakers and people of faith. At least Stormy Daniels is no hypocrite 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z By the third play, “Widows and Children First,” he lives in a simulacrum of a straight sitcom: He is a single father raising a son while managing an ex. A Brief History of Gay Theater, in Three Acts 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z They marveled at how even old-line manufacturing cities now offer a convincing simulacrum of coastal life, complete with artisanal soap stores and farm-to-table restaurants. Silicon Valley Is Over, Says Silicon Valley 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z A privileged white pop star summoning a ghoulish simulacrum of an unwilling black genius? Justin Timberlake had nothing to say at the Super Bowl and wouldn't stop saying it 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z His simulacrums aren’t just programs: they’re autonomous simulated consciousnesses with all the sophistication and physical sensation of real humans — including confusion, pain, and fear. In Black Mirror’s USS Callister, the true villains are real-world tech moguls 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z There was, however, a time not long ago when you did expect a simulacrum of it from presidents, lawmakers and people of faith. At least Stormy Daniels is no hypocrite 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z The modern planetarium — a dome into which a simulacrum of the night sky is projected — is a newer invention. Planetariums and the rise of spectacular science The nice doctor in West Palm Beach promises he can sculpt your aging carcass into a simulacrum of a 25-year-old’s. Perspective | Why do Floridians keep telling ourselves we can beat nature? 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z And there’s still plenty of other absurd simulacra to come: Cher, whose emoji-heavy Twitter account has become a gleefully retweeted presence in the online #resistance, is set to make an appearance later this season. American Horror Story: Cult takes drunken aim at the ‘politics of fear’ 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Isaac is a Job-like figure existing in a heightened simulacrum of Hollywood’s underbelly, enduring a series of increasingly unfortunate and humiliating events. Struggling actor's life crumbles in the weirdly charming comedy 'Lemon' 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Far rather that, far rather the soap opera of agents and whispers, swoops and rumours, tactical projection and imagined combinations, the idealised simulacrum of the game, than the football itself. Premier League bubble keeps on growing before a season rich in intrigue | Jonathan Wilson 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z It’s a long time since I’ve been in a sex shop, but you used to be able to buy a “simulacrum”: essentially, a bit of plastic with a hole in it. Anyone for robotic rumpy pumpy? | Victoria Coren Mitchell 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Computers — those simulacra of the human brain — seem to figure prominently in my subconscious, even when I’m not asleep. Perspective | It doesn’t seem fair that when I’m not at work, I dream about ... work 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Caesar has been plopped by various directors into fascist Europe, contemporary Africa and a simulacrum of the Obama Administration. Why Donald Trump Was Low-Hanging Fruit for 'Julius Caesar' 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z A cynic would say that the Frenchman is no more than a faded simulacrum of his English-speaking forebears, and that would be true if the only evidence were a sheaf of stills. Jean-Pierre Melville’s Cinema of Resistance 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z They are products of poor or nonexistent parenting; their traffickers provide food, shelter, a simulacrum of caring and drugs that produce dependency. Opinion | The Sisyphean battle against sex trafficking of minors 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z But the internet opened Pandora’s box, and once you’ve sampled the fruit of secular media, it’s hard to go back to the salinized simulacra that has historically occupied Christian festival stages. Mike Pence, finding God, and the shifting agenda of Christian music festivals 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z The encampment where J.F.K. and Eisenhower had lunch has, for seventy-five years, offered Presidents solitude, security, and a simulacrum of the American wilderness—a setting ideal for contemplation, or for diplomacy. Trump Can’t Stop Himself 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Crews maneuvered New York City taxi cabs into place to transform Spring Street into a convincing movie simulacrum of the Big Apple’s most glamorous fashion event — the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Met Gala. Why L.A. City Hall is such a hot spot for film shoots 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z He is a parody, a simulacrum of masculinity conjured by self-loathing and self-aggrandizement, a reflection of the tormented, contradictory state of contemporary men, the Red Pill made flesh. What are men to do in the age of Trump? 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Viewers would be seated before a simulacrum of her computer, viewing the world as she does, through chat screens, Skype-like calls, live streams of cable news. The Movie with a Thousand Plot Lines 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z They would flood the market with simulacra of Gene Davis’s instantly recognizable paintings. Remembering the Gene Davis Giveaway, a colorful high point of D.C.’s art scene 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Sure, J. J. Abrams’s movie offered merely effectively packaged simulacra of such values — but at least he tried. 'Ocean’s 11' in space?: What critics are saying about 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z This time, in Taiwan to play Father Ferreira — the older Jesuit who apostatized after being tortured — Neeson underwent a simulacrum of the torture, suspended upside down by ropes over a pit of excreta. The Passion of Martin Scorsese 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Physical objects are the simulacra of their mini selves, and ownership is their way of asserting control over their burgeoning sense of who they are. In the rush for the latest gimmick, we are losing the joy of ‘things’ 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z The best video games reduce complicated worlds into a single, relatable simulacrum. What Playing Madden Teaches Us About Football — And What It Doesn’t 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z In his second start as a Dodger, Hill replicated a simulacrum of his debut on Aug. 24 against San Francisco. Rich Hill's six scoreless innings help Dodgers beat Padres, 5-1 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z It curls up, a simulacrum of the Hasidic curls — payot — that hang on either side of his bearded face. You’ll never believe what this star of ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ does now 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Would the glamour “work” in a simulacrum of Mademoiselle’s rooms? Can the Newly Reopened Ritz Paris Succeed? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z But even then the appeal is pure mood: in this high-end universe, everything feels at once corrupt, delectable, and melancholy, with that quality of “world-weariness” which serves as an aesthetic simulacrum of sophistication. Six Episodes of Sinister 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z But we live in the age of the simulacrum, of the pretend made real and the real made pretend. What the Candidates' Rally Music Says About Them 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z We live in a world where cultural simulacra are as real as reality. Beyoncé’s Re-Formation 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z But it wasn’t reason that sold NAFTA; it was a simulacrum of reason, by which I mean the great god inevitability, invoked in the language of professional-class self-assurance. Bill Clinton’s odious presidency: Thomas Frank on the real history of the ’90s 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Having his simulacrum on a Gen. Zod action figure is one thing, but such a free-spirited marketing gimmick for the more serious “99 Homes,” to him, feels a bit odd. Michael Shannon discusses ‘99 Homes’ financial crisis, Superman, ‘Freeheld’ 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z It’s a creaky, bloated simulacrum of the groovy past, where it should be a quick, slick and debonair re-imagining of it. Review: ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ evokes nothing of the old TV show 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z That “Irrational Man” is a sophomoric simulacrum of intellectual discourse reflects the self-deception at the movie’s core. Woody Allen revisits the murder mystery genre with ‘Irrational Man’ 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z For a big-budget franchise like Grand Theft Auto—what people in the industry call a triple-A game—an “announcement trailer” typically features carefully scripted, action-filled vignettes that present a simulacrum of actual play. The Galaxy-Sized Video Game 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z “Being exposed to sweat produced under happiness induces a simulacrum of happiness in receivers, and induces a contagion of the emotional state,” said study author Gün Semin, a professor at Utrecht University, in a statement. The Smell of Your Sweat Can Make People Happy 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z One engaging, unpredictably viral conversation would be worth a dozen controlled, sponsored simulacra of debate. Nokia To Test Whether It's Possible To Buy Relevance 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z It was as if his staff were more simulacrum than real. Yankees’ Skipper Joe Girardi Plugs Holes in a Leaky Ship 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Seeing her daughter’s worried face, she curved her mouth into a simulacrum of a smile. Think Like a Doctor: Thinner 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z My fiction - I'd lecture them - is about the exhilaration of ideas, rather than the enervation provoked by these initially seductive - but ultimately nonsensical - simulacra of people. Why do people relate to fictional characters? 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z But inside, the pop-up organizers fashioned a very convincing simulacrum of a Soulcycle studio with lacquered white shelving and a neon white sign that said: "find your soul." I gave my body to Soulcycle for a few minutes with the CEO of Twitter 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The relationship between the youth team and the senior squad seemed a simulacra of that between the fans and the team itself. The Murky Side of the Beautiful Game: Life at the Bottom of English Football Or rather everything seems real – too real – like those simulacrums the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard was always going on about, a sort of detached hyperreality that has become, in turn, its own reality. Islamic State Group, Boko Haram Terrorize in an Age of Fantasy 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Ponnuru, too, would do well to break free of the Eichengreen Fallacy and assimilate the crucial fact that a defective simulacrum, not the true gold standard, led to and prolonged the Great Depression. The Eichengreen Fallacy Misleads Some "Market Monetarists," Part Two 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z One of his latest works is a collection of Royal Worcester porcelain — teapot, coffeepot, milk jug, ewer — the shattered pieces of each contained within a glass simulacrum of the original shape. Tempest in a Teacup 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z United Fruit was despised in Latin America, so much so that its simulacrum made it into literature by a Nobel Prize-winning author. Unpeeling the Controversial History of Bananas 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z To resurrect Jean, Marvel decided that she was never actually the Phoenix: the godlike power of the Phoenix created a simulacrum of Jean, and that was the being that died so nobly. Beyond Wolverine: the most memorable superhero deaths in comics 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z That leaves companies free, he says, to piece together the digital bread crumbs that people leave in their wake into a simulacrum that may bear little resemblance to the actual person. Just the Facts? This Dossier Goes Further 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z This simulacrum of me described above lived happily encased in the world I constructed for her in EA’s life simulation game, The Sims, when I played as a child. Get a Job: Latest 'Sims' Is Believable, if Not Realistic That feeling of doing is beautifully recreated with the Hanx Writer app, but the good-looking document that results is only a simulacrum of the real thing—an inky, almost embossed piece of paper. What Makes the Hanx Writer Click? 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z It may even be possible to contemplate the arrival in the not too distant future of a digital simulacrum of human-level intelligence. Will Your Smartphone Ever Love You? 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z All that remains in his appropriations are expertly-crafted oversize simulacra of stuff that would otherwise be prosaic or kitsch. Is Jeff Koons' New Blockbuster Whitney Exhibit Better Than The Colbert Report? 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Our physical selves and pasts are reproduced as electronic simulacra moving through streams of binary data signals that circulate infinitely and can never be erased. Glenn Greenwald’s heroism: Standing up to our new Orwellian police state 2014-01-23T13:29:00Z Desperate crowds besiege Tacloban’s “airport” — and it deserves the quote marks, for it’s nothing more than a post-apocalyptic simulacrum of what it was. Supertyphoon Haiyan: Getting the Hell Out Of Ground Zero 2013-11-14T07:05:23Z They’re also a stunningly beautiful simulacrum of the awesome feeling of floating above Earth, and a meditation on bravery, isolation, loneliness and fortitude. Gravity s Astronaut Describes the Trials of Space 2013-10-01T21:45:00.813Z An obvious forgery is fine, but a 95% accurate simulacrum is often off-putting. Digital Necromancy: Advertising with Reanimated Celebrities 2013-08-02T09:45:41Z In 1992, when my generation of Sunderland fans had our Cup run, we were left under no illusions that this was a weak simulacrum of '73. Sunderland, Stokoe, Montgomery: football would never be the same again 2013-05-10T10:50:04Z The Greek word– tetitix– is onomatopoetic, those percussive t’s and final buzzing x create a simulacrum of the high-pitched pulsing noise that the insects produce in swarm. Cicadas prepare to invade by the billions 2013-05-03T16:10:00Z Then the researchers will check whether the simulacrum affects water waves in a way analogous to that which general relativity predicts for light—itself a wave—approaching an astrophysical black hole. Table-top astrophysics: How to build a multiverse 2013-03-14T16:06:58Z Everyone knows to turns up their noses at foams; can the too-clever simulacra, giddy emulsions and preposterous gels be far behind? Gastrodamus Speaks! The Future of Food in America, Revealed! 2013-01-30T12:12:45Z Sure, there's a sacrifice in leaving real tobacco behind for a mere simulacrum. E-cigarettes: no smoke without ire 2013-01-05T09:30:01Z And last year’s The Muppets demonstrated that it’s possible to at least create a convincing simulacrum of the magic, given enough time and sincere effort to do so. Don't Call It a Comeback, Charlie Brown 2012-11-28T10:45:00Z In the same way that the new iPad screens are said to be “retinal,” these performance simulacra are believable enough in detail and in movement to cross a cognitive threshold of corporeal believability. 10 Questions for Virtual Elvis 2012-06-07T18:37:32Z “The senseless dead, the simulacra of mortals,” as Homer says. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Wretched as was this simulacrum of royalty, it was incompatible with the favor which he had been compelled to show to Catholicism. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z A simulacrum of defence was allowed to heirs and descendants, on whom were visited the heavy penalties of confiscation and personal disabilities. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Democritus and Lucretius looked upon them as spectres and simulacra of corporeal things, emitted from them, floating in the air, and assailing the soul. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z And so modern practitioners have embraced a whitewashed simulacrum of Hatha. Yoga Fans Sexual Flames and, Predictably, Plenty of Scandal 2012-02-27T20:18:46Z "Oh, of course there is—all the difference in the world," she made haste to reply, terrified lest they should be going to split, after all, on this wretched simulacrum of a rock. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z One may venture the opinion that, although these performances were in due course surpassed, they were not altogether bad for a “simulacrum,” as Thackeray was pleased to style him. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z The simulacrum seems to have dissipated itself or become invisible suddenly in the very act of passing through the folding glass portals which give access to the hotel from Piccadilly. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z Several other questions are discussed in connexion with the doctrine of the 'simulacra.' The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Full as night is of phantoms, shades, sounds and silence, it is no illusive mirage, no mere empty simulacrum. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z The bare perfume of things will not support existence, and the effect of solidity you reach is but perfume and simulacrum. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z So the altogether British love of sport compelled this little interlude in the abuse levelled at the “simulacrum.” The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z Generally speaking, voters don’t pull levers for political simulacra. What Herman Cain and Kim Kardashian Have in Common 2011-11-07T20:05:18Z As the pictures above show, the result was often a recognisable simulacrum of the original. Reading the brain: Mind-goggling 2011-10-27T09:48:03Z It's as if Jesse had chosen to flee his own mind into a simulacrum of his own mind. Breaking Bad Watch: Doing Stuff and Nothing Happens 2011-08-26T16:40:00Z His correspondence with the Queen continued, and he appeared from time to time at Court; but he was a mere simulacrum of his former self; 'the dream,' wrote Victoria, 'is past.' Queen Victoria 2011-08-23T02:00:32.007Z The manufacture of such paper simulacra for consumption at funerals is still an important industry in Chinese cities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Speech and music culturally evolved over time to be simulacra of nature. Do Language and Music Mimic Nature? 2011-07-30T12:15:00.247Z The right will try to preserve and expand a simulacrum of free enterprise, in the form of defense contractors and privatized welfare state functions. The return of a zero-sum world 2011-07-26T11:01:00Z Already Mr. Crookes, who fully credits the being, feels that under the fair skin of Katie, covering a simulacrum of heart borrowed partially from the medium and the circle, there is no soul! The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z There was without that enough intoxication in his fondness, in the simulacrum of gaiety manufactured by the lights, the life, the laughter, and in the muted, interweaving strains of music. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z He made acquaintance with her parents and her sisters, as Elsie brought before him a living simulacra of each one with her magician-like arts of description and mimicry. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z Were the landscapes of the mirage simulacra of those bounding an inland sea in which the dragon and the kraken lived and multiplied? Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z As the scientist had surmised, the arrangement of coat and cap in the studio presented, at that distance, an excellent simulacrum of the rear view of a man lounging in a chair. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z They are simulacra, images, bodiless projections, of the author’s own mind. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Not only do parents pay for their kids to pretend to work, but—in a simulacrum of the real-world economy—children also get paid to pretend to work. Playing Grown-Up at KidZania 2011-05-19T21:00:00Z "Manes," "umbra," "simulacra," are the expressions of Cicero and Virgil. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z William broke off in the middle of the golf discussion, and rattled his seals with great vigor, as though they were a summons to industry—a simulacrum of factory bell or works whistle. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z His reputation, moral and spiritual, was annihilated; and he held this dear, for piety, or its simulacrum, on the primitive Big Smoky, is the point of honour. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z The detailed tableaux of formerly-whole computing devices pulled apart, their skins flayed, their bits arranged in a ghastly simulacrum of life… Like this. iPad 2 and the horrible (predictable, revealing) art of the teardown 2011-03-15T02:54:14Z Amazon isn’t a simulacrum for a medieval market; it’s better in every respect. Is Digital Utopianism Dead? 2011-03-10T07:14:14Z As the conception of spiritual survival gradually replaced that of bodily life after death, simulacra of the objects used in life came to be substituted in burial for real objects. Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2011-02-15T03:00:17.853Z Surely this is not argument; it is hardly the simulacrum of argument. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z Yet no nearer approach to bull-fighting has ever been witnessed in England than a silly simulacrum at the Agricultural Hall. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z Experience such as never man had possessed lurked behind that simulacrum of beauty by my side. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z And how would you get it to transform from a congealed goo into a believable simulacrum of chicken? Tastes Like Chicken: The Quest for Fake Meat 2010-06-04T17:00:00Z Tourists make a beeline in foreign countries to art museums to say they’ve done the “Mona Lisa” and Botticelli’s lady on a half shell, but also because museums promise familiarity, or a simulacrum of it. Abroad: Hopper and Zille: Stars of Their Own World 2010-04-28T23:23:00Z No one knows exactly what that is, but, most likely, authentic, run-down hutongs will be replaced by plazas and museums showcasing a simulacra of the Ming or Qing dynasties, at best. LETTER FROM CHINA: Fast Forward Past the Memories 2010-04-15T13:10:00Z They also give a far-flung group of people a simulacrum of fellowship, which is something that day traders need almost as much as good ideas. Day Traders 2.0: Wired, Angry and Loving It 2010-03-27T17:00:00Z "Cars may get you there quicker, but that's an entirely different sort of travel, a shoddy simulacrum of the cultural richness of a foot-bound journey." Minstrels to re-start travelling 2010-03-24T15:05:00Z The hand which, of its grace could restore the simulacra libertatis, might as easily withdraw them. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Distinctly outlined on the lid of the coffin was the simulacrum of the figure of a man. The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories The women exchanged the ghastly simulacrum of a smile, and the meal resumed in silence. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole The human body might well be regarded as a mere simulacrum; but it envelopes our reality, it darkens our light, and broadens the shadow in which we live. Toilers of the Sea Do you suppose that a quiet, happy personage, such as I am, has assumed the form of an enchanter, and is deluding honest folks with his mere simulacrum? The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. In the absence of it there appears merely a pale, distorted simulacrum of life, instead of the freshness of reality. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II Whereupon the stranger deliquesced and reformed into the personable simulacrum of young Mr. Darcy. My Fair Planet After midnight every pedestrian becomes a simulacrum, wrapped in a black domino of mystery and a starry ephod of romance. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole Turn we to our books, and seek therein the spell whereby to make this simulacrum real; and I think the plaster will still remain plaster, the stones still remain stone. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I Hite thought, a certain hope springing up with the joy of the very recollection of the simulacrum of the brilliant rural coxcomb adorning the page. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories Witness his tart allusion to Swinburne's criticism of himself: "Isn't he the damnedest simulacrum?" Ivory Apes and Peacocks We cannot feed our minds on simulacra any more than we can our bodies. Ways of Nature Still emaciated beyond description, they were no longer simulacra of death. When the Sleepers Woke Book iv. treats of the theory of simulacra or images, of the senses, and particularly of love. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Yet the imagination needs but scant aid when suddenly the elusive simulacrum is revealed to the eye. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories Now, if our consciousness is only a dream, which this doctrine of foreordination makes it out to be, what are we all, in such a case, but mere simulacra, ghosts, shadows? The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Here indeed is a simulacrum of death, with all its inertia. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles It is but a simulacrum or mirage, and it is but necessary to approach it fearlessly, and walk through it, to discover its essential nonentity. Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 "The ειδωλα ἀπόῤῥοιαι--imagines, simulacra rerum, etc., are, like pellicles, continually flying off from objects; and these material 'likenesses,' diffusing themselves everywhere in the air, are propelled to the perceptive organs." Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Now, the heart of the world is in London, and the cities with the simulacrum of man in them are empty. The Toilers of the Field After it had passed the window, I tried hard to bring myself to take my revolver, and find out whether I had to deal with a man or a simulacrum. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Europe, or engaged either in repelling the invaders or in repressing rebellion, that the remainder, if assembled, would present a mere simulacrum of the actual legislature of the Colony. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 The Revolutionary Chaumette, when it was proposed to destroy the Gothic simulacra of superstition, protected the carvings on the west portals on the plea that they related to astronomy, to philosophy and the arts. The Story of Paris Imagination aiding her, she realised suddenly the horror of his death throes, and this vivid realisation was followed by the actual simulacrum of the torture. The Light of Scarthey There is quite a nice collection of famous—and infamous—people near Baker Street Station, but I am told these are only simulacra. Marge Askinforit It might have been, for all I could tell, a simulacrum of the work of men. Old Junk And what you are offering this innocent child to-day is meeter to be called an idol, a devilish simulacrum, than a doll. The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country But any intelligent Irishman will say a simulacrum of Home Rule, with an express notice that it is never to come into operation. Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics They radiate from the surface of the skin and reproduce a simulacrum, as it were, of the surface. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Yet within this odd simulacrum of a worldly, entertaining, and interested gentleman, a living mind surveys the gay scene with a strange, emotionless detachment—just so, perhaps, will it eventually survive the body. The Perfect Gentleman Denis, boy, will you do this thing and be for the time being the simulacrum of him we serve? The King's Esquires The Jewel of France We are transmitting same disturbed specimens to you under separate cover herewith, in neutralized and collapsed state, for the manufacture of simulacra thereof. The Day of the Boomer Dukes Her pale features reminded him of the dead past: and at once tortured him with regret, and tantalized him with the simulacrum of that which had been his. In Kings' Byways He could not be happy without a secret society, and that he had established in Kirton; but it was, he ruefully admitted, hardly more than a toy, a mockery, the merest simulacrum. Half a Hero A Novel To pick up the old routine, to show herself daily and nightly in the studied simulacrum of her former self, was no part of her code. The Californians But it can never negate itself into quite the thin simulacrum of reality into which pure reason divorced from poetic imagery is capable of fading. The Complex Vision You will see my simulacrum, a plastered effigy of me. Little Novels of Italy In all ways, it behoved men to quit simulacra and return to fact; cost what it might, that did behove to be done. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History In the one instance we have gaiety on parade, in strumpet garb—the simulacrum of sin—gaiety dramatised. Europe After 8:15 Therefore the body was carefully interred, sometimes even embalmed, and its weapons and foods, or at all events simulacra of these, were laid beside it. The Sea-Kings of Crete We have no right to regard this thin simulacrum, this mathematical formula, this stopping-place of thought, with any feelings of awe or reverence. The Complex Vision The warm tones of the hangings, the Spanish leather, the lavish mahogany, glowed responsive to the fingering sunlight, and the painted simulacra of his predecessors looked down almost benignantly from their gilded frames. The Henchman Accordingly, what Century, since the end of the Roman world, which also was a time of scepticism, simulacra and universal decadence, so abounds with Quacks as that Eighteenth! Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History But their simulacrum of gaiety is far from obvious. Europe After 8:15 We make simulacra out of mandrakes—like the manicurist in the barber shop. The Sky Is Falling A simulacrum of a ventral fin increases the resemblance. Social Life in the Insect World The current simulacrum of criticism apparently attacking some portion of the regime, never deals with matters vital to its prestige. The Free Press The scenes that succeeded were many: episodes from profane and sacred histories; simulacra of the great saints. Visionaries The life must first be in him or the so-called music, painting, poem are but dead simulacra; imitations of art, not real art. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation There will never more be really a Pope, but only the effigy or simulacrum of one. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Its buccal members are mere vestiges, useless simulacra, not real organs able to perform their duties. Social Life in the Insect World And these are the simulacra I seem to have seen there darkly. Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches What! had a theological simulacrum of Satan excited their fathers to doughty deeds,—and should they hold back, when challenged to meet him in proper person, hand to hand? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Yet was it worth clinging to his simulacrum of gentility—boosted up by his father's title and a few dead rites, such as the late dinner which had impressed her so much. Joanna Godden So that, while the husband is content with a mere simulacrum and pretence of the erotic life, the wife has often had none at all. Little Essays of Love and Virtue Nothing could be more praiseworthy in motive, but it is seldom successful in actual operation, resulting as it does in a simulacrum of companionship. Democracy and Social Ethics The image of mediaeval life which he succeeded in creating was, of course, a poor, faint simulacrum, compared with Scott's. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century From its springy surface she shot up, as it seemed to him, halfway to the ceiling, rigid and staring, a ludicrous simulacrum of a glassy-eyed doll. Success A Novel This may point to the fact that Cæsar's simulacra of the native Mercury were images, and that the old preference for representing this god continued in Roman times. The Religion of the Ancient Celts It is surely impossible in the face of such a juxtaposition then to deny that Mr Hardy's poetry exists in its own individual right, and not as a curious simulacrum of his prose. Aspects of Literature Political principles, respect for authority and tradition, esteem for high moral worth, to say nothing of altruism and public spirit, either vanished or shrank to shadowy simulacra. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference These are simulacra of votive cakes intended for the eternal nourishment of the Double. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt Whenever I turned my head and blinked, red simulacra of this ball hopped up and down over the brown moors. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales The plurima simulacra of the Gaulish Mercury may have been boundary stones like those dedicated to Mercury or Hermes among the Romans and Greeks. The Religion of the Ancient Celts “Your reasoning, bishop,” replied Lord Birkenhead, “is worthy of your reputation; but pray pardon the curiosity which entreats you to return from the simulacra of the past to the ghost of the present.” In the Wrong Paradise It is fair to admit that in no other way could he have contrived to get even a simulacrum of a League. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Indeed, I was not so much impressed by the reality as I had been by the simulacrum in my dream of sunrise in the moon. A Trip to Venus But it is also desirable because of intimately sexual associations in the act itself, as a symbolical detumescence, a simulacrum of the sexual act, and one which proceeds from the sexual focus itself. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Seeing them the objects of superstitious observances, he may have concluded that they were simulacra of a god. The Religion of the Ancient Celts At the moment of the accident to his simulacrum he was in his library at his home, writing his decision of the case on trial, and was killed by a falling chandelier. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Like them, we become dwarfed by overwhelming numbers, and shriveled by the incapacity to "sense" the humanity of the countless human simulacra about us. Hillsboro People It is usually supposed that these simulacra were hollow idols of basket-work. Early Britain—Roman Britain He has sought in his novels, by dissecting the pretty simulacrum, to show that it has little blood and less soul. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) The Gauls, according to Cæsar, possessed plurima simulacra of the native Mercury, but he does not refer to images of other gods. The Religion of the Ancient Celts The process was merely the creation of a simulacrum of the dead Osiris So-and-So. The Egyptian Conception of Immortality One or two of these simulacra, these sham-semblances of books, I possess, because honoured friends have given them to me; even so, I would value the gift more in the decency of a single volume. Gossip in a Library Curiously indeed were they like distorted images of dog and deerlike forms, of birds—of dwarfs and here and there the simulacra of the giant frogs! The Moon Pool Presently the simulacrum works no more spells, good or evil, and the deception is unveiled. Ponkapog Papers It may be a mere simulacrum, like a wax hand, or it may be endowed with full power of grasping another hand, with every articulation in perfect working order. The Vital Message Every dead man is laid in his grave without furniture, prepared as a simulacrum of Osiris. The Egyptian Conception of Immortality To sacrifice these is to sacrifice that which is most vital and leave only the simulacrum of a chorus. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Or, again, the simulacrum of a tree trunk would bravely oppose our path, only to melt away into nothing, like the opposing phantoms of Aeneas, when we placed a knee against it for the surmounting. The Forest Kirsty was glad for her sake, and gladder still that Francie Gordon had done her no irreparable injury—seemed not even to have left his simulacrum in her memory and imagination. Heather and Snow No more striking simulacrum of racial unity can be discovered than a common language or set of languages; but it is a simulacrum, and a simulacrum only. Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" Mummification, which destroyed the body in order to preserve a conventional simulacrum, ceased abruptly. The Egyptian Conception of Immortality So they carried him—now a bony simulacrum of his vigorous self—to the old house at Grafton. Together It is a simulacrum of the ideal; it contains the germ or possibility of that to which the spirit of man is traveling. The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity It is not a simulacrum, it is not an outline, it is not a recollection of the man, but rather something wholly gone useless. On Something This, seeing one's simulacrum, or double, was so common, especially when looking-glasses were full of flaws, designedly cast faulty to give "magical" effects for conjurors, that old books on the black art teem with instances. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form In the final form, the mummy was a simulacrum of the dead as Osiris. The Egyptian Conception of Immortality But the simulacra of certain ghastly events that took place under that roof in past days still continue. Three More John Silence Stories He took no concern as to failing, for the sand was really only a few feet below him, and his mind was occupied with the figure or simulacrum of himself, which had already disappeared. Dracula's Guest There were 136 of these simulacra, "99 of whom," says the report "would have been killed." Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 33, November 12, 1870 There he stands, holding the gifts towards the amorphous simulacrum of the primeval Mother, while Rama the hierophant beseeches her to send the spirit of the dead Chandrabai into the winnowing-fan. By-Ways of Bombay Some portion of her attractiveness still remained, but the beauty had been washed away by privation and misery, leaving behind nothing but a faint simulacrum of its former self. The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales For just as politics supplies the shadow, the simulacrum of fighting, so art supplies the shadows of life to those who lack the substance. Without Prejudice I daresay it will go on and be varnished into a simulacrum of success—to become eventually a ghost like the Albert Hall or revive as a tea garden. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 She looked at him squarely and the most poignant simulacrum of a smile I have ever seen flitted over her lips. The Red Planet The last troupe, dressed in long yellow shirts and loose yellow turbans, represent Swami Narayan priests and pass in silence before the glittering simulacrum of the Martyr's tomb. By-Ways of Bombay The real tree of life would then be rid of the most ghastly, heavy crop of Dead Sea Fruit, the intolerable burden of myriad simulacra of people, an infinite weight of mortal lies.' Women in Love Without this initial reform the individualism of your Ibsens and Auberon Herberts becomes a mere simulacrum, a hollow mockery. Without Prejudice As he gazed at his simulacrum he stopped whistling "Roy's Wife" and let his countenance harden into a noble sternness. Huntingtower We pass on rapidly, however, and somewhat inattentively, for our business here to-night is not with these simulacra on the ground floor, but with the more redoubtable hosts above. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) He had played at love, and she had been fool enough to mistake love's simulacrum for the real thing. The Hermit of Far End The favorite beaten in the stretch, choked off, outside the money—— Garrison gasped as the rushing simulacra of the Carter Handicap surged to his beating brain; that brain at bursting pressure. Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course Let us trample under our feet this simulacra of royalty! The French Revolution - Volume 2 When Dr. Anderson knew that he was dying, he retired into the simulacrum of his father's benn end. Robert Falconer But he was powerless against a temporary sincerity, the simulacrum of a true change of heart. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments He continued to come upon things of which he had no simulacrum in his phantasy. Sir Gibbie The first to attract our attention represents, as I understand, the common ghost, or simulacrum vulgare of psychical science. Books and Bookmen Only her name remained engraved with a vain simulacrum of constancy on the faithless rogue's skin: on which was now printed another token of equally effectual devotion. From Cornhill to Grand Cairo Instead was this real dear young woman, who had been completely forgotten during the reign of her simulacrum and who now returned completely remembered, familiar, friendly, intimate. Secret Places of the Heart Or rather there were promises, cold smiles, but even he, the Genoese, saw at last that these buds were simulacra, never meant to bloom. 1492 She was once . . . there: I look not back—if she it was, and no simulacrum of a reasonable daughter. The Egoist If they can build up simulacra in the seance room, how much may we expect them to do when they are working upon ethereal objects in that ether which is their own medium. The New Revelation The worship to departed splendour vowed Conjured a simulacrum, wove her lash, For the slow measure timed her peal of bells. Poems — Volume 3 I didn't look at him very much; I was studying the simulacrum of Yva. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot And—wanly I puzzled it out in the dawn—by very force of the envy, hatred, and malice in him he had projected hither into my presence this simulacrum of himself. Seven Men Or is this same Age of Hope itself but a simulacrum; as Hope too often is? The French Revolution It was possible because they worshipped simulacra, were loyal to phantoms of race and empire, permitted themselves to be ruled and misled by idiot princes and usurper kings. Soul of a Bishop His correspondence with the Queen continued, and he appeared from time to time at Court; but he was a mere simulacrum of his former self; "the dream," wrote Victoria, "is past." Queen Victoria In all ways, it behooved men to quit simulacra and return to fact; cost what it might, that did behoove to be done. On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History Poor Sterling; poor sons of Adam in general, in this sad age of cobwebs, worn-out symbolisms, reminiscences and simulacra! Life of John Sterling A Governing power must exist: your other powers here are simulacra; this power is it. The French Revolution Accordingly, what Century, since the end of the Roman world, which also was a time of scepticism, simulacra and universal decadence, so abounds with Quacks as that Eighteenth? On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History |
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