Ersatz

See they never had any coffee in Europe, it was what they call ersatz coffee, and this was made out of kind of charred acorns and they’d grind it up and that was their so-called coffee.

Those two songs have proved remarkably prescient in their bogus rebellion and ersatz torment.

His voice shaking with ersatz emotion, he recalled how three senior boys surrounded him in such an intimidating manner that he has never forgotten it.

There is nothing ersatz in this polished Edwardian pile, save fake coal fires in secondary rooms.

Most books with names like this one are inferior works filled with an ersatz cynicism that pales beside the real article.

But while those attributes may satisfy your clients’ practical side, the product’s ersatz appearance may leave some of them feeling a little unsatisfied.

Godard was lost in Plato’s cave from the outset, so he should not be surprised when this illusory ersatzworld of film proves unsatisfactory – as a replacement for life, it is indeed a very unsatisfactory substitute.

The main building has a false front, an ersatz log cabin applied to a World War II-era Quonset hut.

It is a sort of ersatz substitute for the hope of heaven.

An all the remaining ersatz relatives discover that emotions and motives aside, it’s poverty and anonymity that truly sucks.

The one upside to the fact that we no longer have any real leaders, only ersatz ones slavishly addicted to following public opinion, is that at the end of the day, public outrage really matters.

Gaming – sporting or otherwise – introduces a whole new set of experience and it doesn’t make any difference whether they’re ersatz experiences or real ones.

In the end, ersatz haggis was produced by our polite hosts.

They provide an ersatz community for people who lack community.

By contrast, there is very little in contemporary metropolitan architecture that rises above the kitsch and the ersatz in its efforts to provide a simulacrum of displaced nature.

McAlmont is capable of real emotion, not Armstrong’s ersatz approximation of feeling.

That’s the difference between real marriage and the ersatz versions peddled by the ‘modernists’ of today.

Manufactured memories smother sober analysis and provide ersatz significance to what was, in truth, bewildering chaos.

Anne cannot sleep because of the air raids, and they are eating terribly-dry bread and ersatz coffee for breakfast, spinach and rotten potatoes for dinner.

I don’t know if they have reserved occupations over there but I can see them in my head, sitting by the slipways drinking their ersatz coffee.

The object the drive excessively fixates upon, meanwhile, is in no sense an ersatz or secondary substitute for an impossible, unattainable object; for the drive, there is no ‘thing-in-itself’.

An egregious example of this tendency is the architect whose assembly-line production of faux rococo and ersatz neo-classical facades has transmogrified Mumbai’s cityscape.

Burns was lamenting within his own lifetime a host of ersatz imitators of his achievement.

The ersatz emotions that crawl out of the woodwork with every hit make me instinctively reach for the bug spray.

Be you the last one standing on the tropical island or in the spotlight on the studio stage, it has been an artificial journey leading to ersatz fame.

As for the national outpouring of ersatz grief, reminiscent of the scenes that followed the death of Princess Diana, it surely spoke not of feeling but of an egotistical inability to feel, compensated for by outward show.

Some of us have props: racing programs, and glasses of ersatz beer.

Today’s football-related flag-flying is a pale imitation of that traditional nationalism, a sort of ersatzEnglish patriotism that means little or nothing in political terms.