Sentence examples for ersatz reality from inspiring English sources

The sheer honesty of Pasquale's five-decades-long devotion could not be less like the ersatz reality peddled by Michael and Claire.

An unanswered question is whether people will be willing to pay -- and if so, how much -- for this particular variety of ersatz reality.

There is nothing left behind; no identifying moniker to betray a relationship to space even though both the library and the apartment are both places she has spent time in, rather it is an ersatz reality; a representation of actuality.

And instead of attempting to assay every campaign event according to "optics" -- that view of reality through ersatz eyeballs that you're stuck with when the only voters you've consulted are the imaginary ones that live in your head -- you get to assess the candidates based on real world information that you obtain from real people.

So from this land of all-things-ersatz, from breasts to reality TV, has arisen another irresistible illusion: the Momshell (mother-as-bombshell).

When his mother awakens, he takes her home, puts her to bed, where she is supposed to rest, and creates for her benefit a kind of ersatz reality a living museum of Communism in which nothing has changed.

As Vox's Todd VanDerWerff noted over the weekend, one of the things that entertainer Donald Trump is using to sustain his ersatz political campaign is his reality-television acumen.

Two layered voices tell an untidy story about living in a world of ersatz smiles and ersatz coffee.

Show me people who create their own reality, who don't accept an ersatz, appropriated reality.

I wonder if one day we'll look back at this flawed manipulation of reality in the pursuit of an ersatz perfect 2D narrative as a quaint technological hiccup – like the Sinclair C5 or MiniDiscs – but I fear not.

These days, with the same quiz show filling space three nights a week and ersatz castaways providing a slice of so-called reality, television can be excused a midsummer pause to reassure itself that it doesn't have to be this way.