Sentence examples for described as if from inspiring English sources

Or Pushkin Press's new translation of Gaito Gazdanov's The Flight: his writing has been described as "if Nabokov wrote thrillers".

He demonstrated PlayTable for me using Battlegrid, a card-based fantasy duel game developed by Blok.Party, which Chen described as "if Magic the Gathering, Hearthstone and Skylanders had a baby".

The residents of the metropolis, described as "if Manhattan had happened in Asia" by the series' creators, are united by their passion for "pro-bending", a spectator sport in which two teams composed of an earthbender, waterbender, and firebender throw each other out of a ring using bending techniques.

Writer reviews the different tapes which are described as if they were popular record albums.

The last biography had events described as if he were an eyewitness".

Your book is not short of names and each person is described as if they were being valued.

This is a development that she describes, as if genuinely trying to convey the weirdness of it all, as at once gratifying and disconcerting.

But if American culture can claim any particular virtue right now, surely it's a highly evolved, ironic awareness of many of the cliches Sontag is describing as if for the first time.

Written by one Michael Smith – whom she describes, as if holding the words with tongs, as "a television performer" – it suggested using pudding rice, grapeseed oil and chicken stock cubes.

The book's governing rhetorical device is to explain everything about the world it is describing, as if to aliens, or to people far in the future after the collapse of our own civilisation.

Some could describe as if it were yesterday the fear they felt, as the event descended into near-anarchy.