Sentence examples for pale echo from inspiring English sources

Something about this music can't be fixed in place, and recordings are a pale echo of the live experience.

And his put-on pessimism was a pale echo of the Romney gilding and Obama gutting done by the president's allies, who have been unusually generous with reminiscences of the way Obama patronizingly told Hillary Clinton she was "likable enough" during a debate four years ago.

"Hot chicken's actual history, its particular origins in a distinct community, has been diluted, transforming it into a pale echo of what it was," wrote Zach Stafford in Eater, "a spicy but soulless joyride". That's a good way to describe what's happening in the chip aisle, where you might find it as the newest flavor from Pringles.

The two tangled with chairs, a desk, a foam mattress and other objects, sometimes evoking pale echoes of Pina Bausch.

Yet some of the colours we see in Van Gogh's paintings are just pale echoes of the hues he originally set down in the 1880s.

Two small rectangles of slightly dry, excessively lean veal were sad, pale echoes of the glistening roast that had been presented to us before carving.

Out of context, the story of Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands sounds like a bog standard thriller, but that's because so many books are pale echoes of this exceptional novel.

When they venture too far afield, as in their politely grungy cover of Hendrix's "Purple Haze," they look foolish; and some of their globalist ventures, such as the 1992 compilation "Pieces of Africa," are pale echoes of the real thing, world music with training wheels.

Toyota, for its part, had been laying weirdly shaped eggs like the Echo and its even paler echo, the depressingly chintzy Yaris.

Their naked legs tangle together in a pale, fleshy echo of the static contortionists that surround their blanket.

After the war, there were joint Covent Garden seasons with the Grand Opera Syndicate in 1919 and 1920, but these were, according to a biographer, pale confused echoes of the years before 1914.