How To Use Simulacrum In A Sentence
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The socialist imaginary can be paralyzed by acritical imitation of models from bureaucratic socialism, or by its cooptation by forces promoting a national populist direction, with a project of State capitalism, as a horizon for the revolutionary simulacrum.
Venepoetics
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It lifted its hands in weak defense, shuddering with an astonishing, dry simulacrum of pain.
DEAD LINES
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Uncaged, and consigned to a display called a 'gorilla kingdom', they will now enjoy a simulacrum of independence.
Times, Sunday Times
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How it must wound the director to hear these words in Hollywood, on a mere back-lot simulacrum of New York - and from his own ex-wife!
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With the depersonalisation of this agency, the paring away of anthropomorphic characteristics, Dick escapes a literalist symbolism of divine and sentient beings to offer us a more realistic picture of this type of memetic entity, not a sentient being as such, but a simulacrum of one, a model and a program running in his imagination.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE
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Its risqué shell is a life-sized simulacrum of the female reproductive region, including hips, an exposed midriff, two thighs and a pudendal cleft—complete with a tuft of alarmingly lifelike hair on the mons pubis.
The Fruit Hunters
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Painted kite tails, assemblages, photo and film documentation, and an electronic simulacrum of kite-flying were recently on view in a New York gallery
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As I passed in my swift circle about the great ball plunging along its planetary paths, many mighty and glorious visions of the coming and passing of light were revealed to me; but none more fair than this with that radiance of youth, whose vast, sweet nature-shadow and simulacrum the dawning is ....
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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Unlike France, the United States has never had a publicly defined national curriculum - although we seem to have allowed private enterprise to define a thoroughly unsatisfactory simulacrum of one.
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The paternalistic tradition thus constructs a simulacrum of male discursive empowerment which multiplies locutionary authority while eradicating perlocutionary agency.
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The vocals come off as a kind of constipated struggle to squeeze out some simulacrum of sincerity.
My First Guilty Pleasure
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But then along comes a texture, timbre or pattern that is simply too frog-like or insect-like to be dismissed as a mere electronic simulacrum.
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_NH_ XXXIV 71 'habet simulacrum et benignitas eius [' Praxiteles 'generosity is seen in one of his statues']; Calamidis enim quadrigae aurigam suum imposuit, ne melior in equorum effigie defecisse in homine crederetur. ipse Calamis et alias quadrigas bigasque fecit equis sine aemulo expressis '.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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But just as Rush delights in mimicking a mimic this movie remains all on the surface of things - in love with only the simulacrum of Sellers and his life.
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On the contrary, the Army had given it an awful simulacrum of life of a new kind.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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Anything for a ‘feel good’ image, for a simulacrum, in these postmodern times
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_NH_ XXXIV 71 'habet simulacrum et benignitas eius [' Praxiteles 'generosity is seen in one of his statues']; Calamidis enim quadrigae aurigam suum imposuit, ne melior in equorum effigie defecisse in homine crederetur. ipse Calamis et alias quadrigas bigasque fecit equis sine aemulo expressis '.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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A buffalo skull tucked in the corner compresses the painting's message into a single object, a simulacrum for the Old West.
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Baudrillard Shit is no longer possible, only the simulacrum of shit.
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Heavily shaped by the generation of the 1960s, most of us may become mere simulacrums of our mentors.
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Plotinus, however, described the body itself as an eidolon - a simulacrum or phantom - of the soul: for him, the physical body was less real than the soul, and the soul in turn less real than divine Being.
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He writes of ‘simulacrum’ as the ‘of something that is incommunicable in itself or unrepresentable: literally the phantasm in its obsessional constraint.’
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_NH_ XXXIV 71 'habet simulacrum et benignitas eius [' Praxiteles 'generosity is seen in one of his statues']; Calamidis enim quadrigae aurigam suum imposuit, ne melior in equorum effigie defecisse in homine crederetur. ipse Calamis et alias quadrigas bigasque fecit equis sine aemulo expressis '.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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What passed now in her for feeling was sorry simulacrum of what she once had known.
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
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By contrast, there is very little in contemporary metropolitan architecture that rises above the kitsch and the ersatz in its efforts to provide a simulacrum of displaced nature.
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Sacrorum contemptor, templi foribus effractis, dum D. Johannis argenteum simulacrum rapere contendit, simulacrum aversa facie dorsum ei versat, nec mora sacrilegus mentis inops, atque in semet insaniens in proprios artus desaevit.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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He himself cites no such accomplishments and concedes, as unemphatically as he can, that the U.N. “may be failing” in the Sudan, where its simulacrum of a “rules-based system” lets the government indulge in slaughter without penalty.
Stromata Blog:
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To create a simulacrum of his subject, Birnie uses encaustic, an old-school painting medium of pigment and wax.
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Whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by interpreting it as false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation itself as a simulacrum.
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Car and simulacrum sounder clapperboard sodomist use the myrmeleon to onwards rook alder and polypropenonitrile mwera to cut osteal pay flagellant.
Rational Review
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Well endowed bovines are paraded in the ring in a simulacrum of a Mr Universe competition; absurd judges in bowler hats and mothy suits dribble over muscle and leather like old queens in a biker bar.
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His big idea was not to create a perfect simulacrum of the prewar building, nor to juxtapose the wreck with something crystalline and perfect, but to create a fusion of original building, ruin and new work.
David Chipperfield: master of permanence | Interview
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Doing so only indicates to the Palestinians that we are more interested in the simulacrum of a settlement than in cultivating a mature statehood that is stable, hopefully democratic, and respectful of its peers - such that it is capable of negotiating with them absent the notion of annihilating them.
Israelated - English Israel blogs
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After simulating the real road by W-M function find that this model can reflect the genius trait of simulacrum.
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With surgery, he makes clear, one becomes merely a simulacrum or copy; true identity is masked with the inevitable result that one is, ultimately, inauthentic.
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Today those Martian aliens, in simulacrum, are bestriding the planet in the unlovely guise of wind turbines.
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It was the 1950s, in other words-that time of culture's parody and simulacrum and apery.
FIRST THINGS: On the Square
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Some cinquecento writers reflected on the fictiveness, pernicious sensuality, and compulsive force of the simulacrum, as it was identified in a long tradition stretching from late antiquity to the Reformation.