Sentence examples for a close facsimile from inspiring English sources

Not because he's James Bond or a close facsimile thereof, but because he's this thriller's designated hero.

If it's not art deco then the original constructor was probably trying to create a close facsimile of it.

Here were tiny velvet dresses, patchwork fur capes, and low-heeled glitter boots, a close facsimile of which are surely already on their way to fast-fashion stores around the globe.

The album features a close facsimile of the current band, with piano standing in for vibraphone; among its more distinctive sonic elements is Ms. Serpa, a bright young Portuguese singer.

On the album he leads both a sextet and a quartet; the larger group, or a close facsimile, is the one that appears here, with John Bailey on trumpet, Yosvany Terry and John Ellis on saxophones, Xavier Davis on piano and Rudy Royston on drums.

(Chinen) ★ Dafnis Prieto (Friday through Sunday) On Friday Mr. Prieto — a Cuban drummer and an essential fixture on the insurgent Latin jazz scene in New York — convenes a close facsimile of Si o Si, the sharp band heard on his recent album "Live at Jazz Standard," with Peter Apfelbaum on saxophones, Manuel Valera on piano and Johannes Weidenmuller on bass.

Usually there's a close enough facsimile a few blocks away: another pasta/pizza/taco/falafel/fill-in-the-flavor purveyor.

We have provided an occupation poll that is a near facsimile of Wilson's.

No one knows better than your nanny -- who sees you come home with shopping bags, renovate the kitchen for $50,000 or rent a beach house for a couple of weeks -- that she is not a full-fledged family member, just a close-enough facsimile to make her employers feel better about themselves.

But in most of Central Europe politicians of the old order have done a brilliant job of reinvention during the past decade, with parties becoming fairly close facsimiles of West European social democrats, warts and all.So successful, in fact, that Central Europe's governments are almost entirely run by the left.

They range from close facsimiles of the English style to interpretations that anyone would be hard-pressed to identify as porter.