They became stand-ins for my father and me.
There, too, he became stand-in executive chairman, running the insurer for eight months, reining in costs and redrawing its strategy.
Victims of circumstance, yes, but Hemley makes the point early on that "the story of the Tasaday is as much about us (the industrialised world), who we perceive ourselves to be, as it is about a band of 27 or so souls in the Philippines who became stand-ins for the world's hopes, dreams and fears".
Mr Garrison and Caitlyn Jenner became stand-ins for Trump and Mike Pence in the show's take on the election, but the jokes lacked bite because they were stating the obvious rather than satirising the situation.
"It changes your mindset towards the media, you become stand off-ish, even when you get the praise you take that with less enthusiasm.
Books become stand-ins for friends and clients.
The legend he seeked to become stood before him, unblemished in the Octagon for a decade, not that McGregor recognised him.
Hard-pressed local councils are increasingly keen to help Premier League clubs, which have become stand-out multimillion pound success stories in often impoverished neighbourhoods.
You could say he has simply followed his own handwriting into the depths of illusionist space, where letters could effortlessly become stand-alone objects.
In the script's brilliant comic symmetry, Oscar and Felix, roommates forced together by matrimonial disaster only to become stand-ins for each other's former wives, end up acting out the very behavior that made them single.
