Sentence examples for as if directly from inspiring English sources

"You had the people behind you, Marilyn Mosby, Mooree said, as if directly addressing the young African American prosecutor.

One of my guests ordered a side of pommes frites, which arrived, as if directly from Paris, in a paper cone with a side of rich mayonnaise.

As if directly confronting his father, Modiano's narrator, Raphaël Schlemilovitch, is an amoral Jew who hangs out with the most renowned French collaborators.

As if directly answering this question, Aziz confesses serious disappointment in the current state of affairs, whether measured by the failure of the treaty reformers of recent years to construct a meaningful citizenship concept or their failure to develop adequate enforcement mechanisms for whatever set of rights it is that EU citizenship entails.

None other than Ground Zero Master Plan architect Daniel Libeskind is shown drawing with their app using his finger to paint watercolor washes on a sketch of a building and enthuses, "It really provides a sense of freedom, a sense of being emancipated from technology, that allows you to communicate as if directly from your heart, from your soul, it's a part of you.

Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine described her vocals during the line as half-rapped and "half-shrug[ed] as if directly countering Scheinman's silver linings playbook".

Several scenes look as if they were directly pulled from previous romantic films.

Similarly, trade theory tells us that trade of commodities tends to reduce cross-border wage differences, if not as directly as in the case of labor movement.

Though his business is full time blogging about the ride-sharing industry which inevitably connects him to its interests — if not literally as directly as Uber and Lyft.

An increasingly popular model of regulation is to represent networks of genes as if they directly affect each other.

Perhaps as a result, some of his poetry has a journalistic feel, as if peeled directly from the notebook.