The word "simulacrum" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that refers to an image or representation of a person or thing. For example: The doll was a simulacrum of the little girl, complete with her freckles and oversized green eyes.
And look, here I was, just days into a rudimentary simulacrum of daddy-hood and already fuming.
— Geordie Williamson (@gamwilliamson) May 11 , 2014Slovenian flautist a rare pleasure after post-berlusconian simulacrum of womanhood.
Two versions of Lorre face each other in uneasy connection: there's the respected Brechtian actor Peter Lorre (rhymes with "Gomorrah") versus Peter Lorre (rhymes with "sorry"), Hollywood's simulacrum of everything foreign, alien and fascinatingly toad-like.
And maybe that is why cricket's fiction is all too often a damp squib, an ersatz simulacrum of the real thing.
What the hunters were fighting for in 2004, and continue to fight for as they demand repeal, is a simulacrum of the hunting these two nonagenarians practised in the rooted rural England of the middle of the last century.
Armed with those experimental data, the virtual penetrator can work backwards, reconstructing a simulacrum of the target program whose behaviour, mistakes and all, matches reality.Thus armed, it can begin trying to break things.
Using motion-sensing Microsoft Kinect cameras, the game even alerts players to dangerous behaviours such as moving their hands to their faces to wipe away virtual perspiration a natural reaction that could, in an ETU, spread viral particles to the eyes, nose or mouth.The result is an impressive simulacrum of the experience volunteers will face.
WAS Diana, Princess of Wales, a "living simulacrum" and her life a re-working of "Tristan und Isolde"?
They are sucked down the drain.Then the researchers will check whether the simulacrum affects water waves in a way analogous to that which general relativity predicts for light itself a wave approaching an astrophysical black hole.
When a simulacrum is also a French philosophe, perhaps the most popular of recent decades, he needs a bottle of Merlot from time to time.
They did so by studying images of thousands of cattle captured on Google Earth, a website that stitches together high-resolution satellite photographs to produce a simulacrum of the Earth's surface.It was not merely a matter of looking for a few fuzzy blobs in fields and recording which way they were pointing.
