They are virtually like-for-like".
"Tiger has that God-given ability of strength and finesse, but his mind-set is virtually like Jack Nicklaus's was," said Irwin, a three-time United States Open champion.
The music sounded so different at that volume, so powerful and energetic, and when an Acid House record was played it was virtually like another universe.
Doing this is virtually like paying with cash––when you're out of dough, it's time to stop shopping.
In bright sunlight, Bryce's orange-and-white limestone hoodoos, which look a little like enormous drip castles, are so vibrant that they almost shimmer; by night, the formations are virtually monochromatic, like mountains at the bottom of the sea.
Even in the games in which the results are virtually meaningless — like Tuesday's game here between the United States and Costa Rica, which was only slightly more significant than baseball's All-Star Game, which was played about the same time at Citi Field — there are at least two players on the United States team with obvious missions in mind.
Through its pages stride characters who are virtually prototypes for the likes of Conrad Black, Liz Smith and Cindy Adams, the Hilton sisters, Billy Graham (in his Bush-counseling mode), and the vodka-guzzling crowd that was at Soho House last night.
Though in plain sight, they are virtually invisible, and like those ubiquitous convenience store displays announcing gas or egg prices, the average religious signboard offers the essentials — usually times and dates for worship or a spiritual bromide.
His various Pierrot-like protagonists are virtually untouched by the sour breath of reality until the true disasters of society overtake them and threaten to become the bigger drama, the grander spectacle.
Trials in life-like situations are virtually impossible, and observational studies are complicated by a number of known and suspected confounders.
Today cartoons and reality are virtually interchangeable, with films like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and this summer's "Rocky and Bullwinkle," featuring marquee actors alongside cartoon critters, and "The Flinstones in Viva Rock Vegas," starring Mark Addy as a flesh-and-blood Fred.
