Sentence examples for straight copies from inspiring English sources

Straight copies of non-Chinese models have also come to light during recent excavations.

The pressure of his worldwide hit led Nguyen to remove Flappy Bird from the app stores, but it has been followed by a flock of Flappy Bird "clones" – straight copies, plus games inspired by Nguyen's hit, with different heroes.

At the same time irony and wit were employed; most architects didn't feel comfortable making straight copies of historic styles, so had to put them in inverted commas and place them in knowingly incongruous, literately illiterate combinations: steel beams with Egyptian masonry, fluorescent colours with learnings from Palladio.

There were basically straight copies of Heavy Metal magazine covers, coupled with intensely rendered portraits of rottweilers.

The machines were not all straight copies of the ZX81; some, such as the CP-200, came with extra memory and a larger case (often with a chiclet keyboard in place of the original membrane keyboard).

Wouldn't it be great if this was just a straight copy of his Willy Wonka song?

His outfit was a straight copy of Hell's lounge-lizard look from "Blank Generation," complete with tinted glasses.

iPhone / iPad Mountain Goat Mountain (Free + IAP) There's definitely some Crossy Road DNA in this latest game from Zynga, although it's no straight copy.

Mr. Warrell recounts that in 1814 the English artist sent to the Royal Academy a landscape that was almost a straight copy of a Claude lent the year before to the institution by one of its directors, Lord Egremont.

Suggested by alexito Our inclusion of The Verve's Bitter Sweet Symphony led alexito to raise the issue that the "video is a straight copy of Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy".

While Jasen adds that large companies generally won't dare do a straight copy to avoid damaging their reputation, they can definitely get "inspired" — like LG might have been with the AI assistant Jibo.