Sentence examples for almost exact equivalent from inspiring English sources
"I believe that the automobile is, today, the almost exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals," wrote Barthes.
It takes a certain unabashed enthusiasm to begin an essay on car design "I believe the automobile is, today, the almost exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals," even as he concludes pessimistically that the auto industry has fallen prey to "petit bourgeois annexation".
"I think that cars today," he wrote, "are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of the era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object".
In Mythologies, published in 1957, the French philosopher Roland Barthes wrote: "I think cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme expression of an era… It is obvious that the new Citroën has fallen from the sky".
There is no exact equivalent in English.
Bulgakov and Williams were almost exact contemporaries.
There is no exact equivalent of this word in the English language.
He was an almost exact contemporary of the pre-Raphaelites.
There isn't always an exact equivalent for a word or phrase: it's the effect of it that matters.
Android does not have an exact equivalent, but there are plenty of alternatives.
