Sentence examples for thing akin to from inspiring English sources

Things darken up with second new track "Dark Horse", a dubby, moody thing akin to Rihanna's "Russian Roulette" where our sugarlump-snaffling frisky pop pony attempts to flash a sexy dangerous side with questionable credibility.

Some people have the notion that boundaries are a negative thing, akin to putting up a wall around you, but boundaries can protect you from unwanted behavior by giving you needed distance.

If you look at the scale and the reach of the BBC if it starts to offer things akin to free advertising that potentially has an impact on our revenue".

"I have chosen [these images]," he writes, "because they feel to me like a disturbance on the surface of things, akin to what Roland Barthes describes as the punctum of a photograph — a piercing, wounding sensation without explanation".

Mr. Lambert, who just released his first album, startled viewers because he did things akin to what outré rappers and female pop stars have performed onstage to get attention, only he did it as a gay man.

Every business, government and even household uses things akin to robots: a vacuum versus a broom; the dishwashing machine versus a tub of hot water and a brush; a press-button heater versus gathering wood for a fire; the drill versus the screwdriver.

Hudson's ideas are rooted in art as a functional, living thing, more akin to the Bauhaus and Italian Futurism, rather than art for art's sake.

The satisfaction of doing such a thing is akin to the thrill of the child who announces she is running away from home, only to hide at the end of the road.

At a time when animals are abused by industrial farmers, manipulated, mismanaged, malnourished, and generally disrespected, this sort of thing is akin to a hunter's putting a cigarette in the mouth of the just-shot trophy buck and taking a picture.

Yet our goofy American media culture acted as though this thing was akin to the killer flu in Stephen King's The Stand.

(To suggest that their author advocates such things is akin to saying that "Ben-Hur" is a brief for crucifixion).