Sentence examples for pale copies from inspiring English sources

These states today are pale copies of those glory days.

But pale copies can have their own charm.

So does Broadway, which can ill afford to lose another hit show to tacky stunts, pale copies or grandiose misfires.

The rapidity with which these pale copies track past us diminishes the value of each, including the ones that preceded them, blurring and obscuring even the most authentic.

What they mean is that more and more states have remade their social and political institutions into pale copies of the market.

A shame, because in a world where bands seem content either to produce increasingly pale copies of the already pallid Coldplay blueprint, or swagger about belching recycled garage rock riffs like it's 1966, Earl Brutus are needed more than ever.

"But it's a pale copy of 1968.

WASHINGTON — The questions about Michele Bachmann abound: Is she merely a pale copy of Sarah Palin?

In 1970 Thomson wrote of such "grandfathers" that their music was "a pale copy of Continental models".

She might have been a great artist, for it was surely in the genes, but her paintings and designs seemed a pale copy of what her parents had done.

In Love's pretty ordinary updating, Ray Winstone's overweight, fascistic Regan makes Thaw's original look like Lord Peter Wimsey, while rapper Ben Drew (alias Plan B) is a pale copy of Waterman's Carter.