Sentence examples for like a creation from inspiring English sources
"But an enterprise is like a creation.
By Hilton Als Part winged creature and part radiant hag, the Angel looks like a creation of the illustrator Edward Gorey.
With her wild gray hair and a long, slim body covered in a sooty bodysuit, the Angel looks like a refugee from an old, crumbling discothèque, or like a creation of the illustrator Edward Gorey.
Indeed, Welles's opening shot pulls us into the cauldron, down to bubble level, to see what is forged in the clayey gruel: an image of such primitive horror, like a creation myth gone bad, that it makes Kurzel's prelude, set on a battlefield and glutinous with gore, seem a touch ordinary by contrast.
If China's boom were not well documented, its first flickers would sound like a creation myth of modern capitalism: By the winter of 1978, the inland village of Xiaogang was so paralyzed by Mao's economic fantasies that local farmers had given up trying to till their communal land and were roaming the countryside begging.
As she bounces from the Red Queen's chess board to the Mad Hatter's house to an encounter with a giant Cheshire cat (who looks more like a creation of Hayao Miyazaki than of Carroll's illustrator, John Tenniel), the story feels like a desperate hodgepodge — the kind you might expect in a show that credits four "creators".
In one scene, black thongs with knitted beading were stretched over the dancers' torsos like necklaces, a creation of Mr. Fast's.
That we do not have knowledge of this transcendent order shows us that all metaphysics is, like art, a creation of the imagination.
The building itself appears to exist in a sort of expressionist-realist universe: the exterior looks like a digital creation, and the interiors, with their endless shabby corridors, are like a bad dream.
But then every few years a creation like Tony Soprano comes along, and it's "forget about it" all over again.
Except that – as a creation like Santiago Swallow elegantly illustrates – much of the time people themselves are more like a medium through which stories flow.
