The process of gaining entrance to the Blessed Ark seems to replicate the experience of airline passengers making their way through security checkpoints.
"Band of Brothers" takes the same realistic approach, and watching it seems to replicate the experience of serving in a war: there are long, tedious stretches where you don't know exactly what's going on, punctuated by sudden intense, terrifying, chaotic stretches where you don't know exactly what's going on.
The evidence was that they found a button mark on the skin of the deceased person which seemed to replicate the button he was wearing at the time.
Rather than blend in to the prevailing campus ethos of free debate, the more strident Chinese students seem to replicate the authoritarian framework of their homeland, photographing demonstration participants and sometimes drowning out dissent.
From its first flickerings around the time Freud was working on "The Interpretation of Dreams," cinema seemed to replicate the uncanny, image-making power of the mind, much as still photography had in the decades before.
On the back, there were no track titles, just a completely blurred picture of them playing live (which seemed to replicate the Hawkwind live experience) and the words: "Technicians of spaceship Earth, this is your captain speaking, your captain is dead".
A play-off between two sides matched by intent more than playing strength never seemed to replicate the atavistic ferocity of the bout at Northampton on Friday, but the two London rivals had a go in a first half of thrills and spills, the latter taking the form of players being dumped on the ground in tackles.
Until psychoanalysis came along, the accepted antidotes were isolating rest periods and a cessation of intellectual activity -- cures designed, it seemed, to replicate the very conditions of cosseted ennui that drove upper-middle-class women to hysteria in the first place.
Now, the app doesn't seem to replicate the 360-controlling features of the WP7 app they launched this morning — that, understandably, seems to be a Windows Phone exclusive.
It's not really clear why Nokia and Windows Phone are doing so much better in Italy than in other markets — and why it can't seem to replicate the growth elsewhere.
"By having a RealTouch available during the encoding of the movie, they could, in real time, adjust what command seemed to replicate the action on the screen," EJ told me.
