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How To Use simulacrum In A Sentence

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• Plotinus, however, described the body itself as an eidolon - a simulacrum or phantom - of the soul: for him, the physical body was less real than the soul, and the soul in turn less real than divine Being.
• He writes of ‘simulacrum’ as the ‘of something that is incommunicable in itself or unrepresentable: literally the phantasm in its obsessional constraint.’
• _NH_ XXXIV 71 'habet simulacrum et benignitas eius [' Praxiteles 'generosity is seen in one of his statues']; Calamidis enim quadrigae aurigam suum imposuit, ne melior in equorum effigie defecisse in homine crederetur. ipse Calamis et alias quadrigas bigasque fecit equis sine aemulo expressis '. The Last Poems of Ovid
• What passed now in her for feeling was sorry simulacrum of what she once had known. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
• 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.
• Sacrorum contemptor, templi foribus effractis, dum D. Johannis argenteum simulacrum rapere contendit, simulacrum aversa facie dorsum ei versat, nec mora sacrilegus mentis inops, atque in semet insaniens in proprios artus desaevit. Anatomy of Melancholy
• He himself cites no such accomplishments and concedes, as unemphatically as he can, that the U.N. “may be failing” in the Sudan, where its simulacrum of a “rules-based system” lets the government indulge in slaughter without penalty. Stromata Blog:
• To create a simulacrum of his subject, Birnie uses encaustic, an old-school painting medium of pigment and wax.
• Whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by interpreting it as false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation itself as a simulacrum.