Sentence examples for represents something like from inspiring English sources

Then came the Interstate System, President Eisenhower's brainchild, a moment that represents something like the splitting of the atom for every father obsessed about making time.

"He comes walking towards me with rain in his hair," says the Daughter (Natalia Payne), referring to the Friend (Charles Borland), who represents something like the seductive antithesis of the life force.

Harry longs for the authority that comes with order — established order — while Mooney (the very attractive Johnny Flynn), a newcomer to the pub, represents something like disorder, an alluring controlled chaos, the cool turbulence of the dandy.

"At Tate Britain it represents something like 20% of our sponsorship income, that is a significant sum of money and it is a material sum in terms of what we are able to present to the public.

In the ballet — set to Berg's Violin Concerto "To the Memory of an Angel" — an anguished meditation on loss, Wendy Whelan and her lover figure, Jared Angle, are torn apart by Charles Askegard, who represents something like death.

Good, bad and sometimes just blah, most of the selections in the coming week support Mr. Peas assertion that the festival represents something like the state of the art.

It occurs to me that it represented something like a model of the unconscious as it rises into awareness.

The authors hazard, plausibly enough, that the two regions represent something like an earlier state with regard to the land-to-language link.

After a full raft of music from Real Estate, the Drums and Suckers, bands with various 1960s fixations, particularly soft psychedelia and surf music, These Are Powers represented something like the opposite of Cymbals Eat Guitars.

Potamkin wanted movies to represent something like recognizable experience, for practical political reasons: he believed that, if general viewers were presented with truthful images, they'd be inclined to rise up against prevailing injustices.

In addition, the cutbacks to The Emergency Food Assistance Program (Tefap), a Department of Agriculture program that delivers purchased food to states for free distribution — usually through food banks — have been hit hard; in Oklahoma, for example, the food bank lost around six million pounds of donated food from Tefap this year, representing something like 70 percent.