"equivalent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Did he pull the piece, one day, from a steamer trunk, dazzling Edward Crane and convincing him, in the esthetic equivalent of instant conversion, that an exhibition of Tibetan art in Newark would fly?
- Whatever the merits of "Lettice and Lovage" as a script -and they remain indeterminate in this rendering - Miss Smith's performance is in itself the esthetic equivalent of a one-woman "Importance of Being Earnest."
- But as a piece of theater, "A Walk in the Woods" is the esthetic equivalent of Switzerland, and not only because its setting is "a pleasant woods on the outskirts of Geneva."
- The works on display are the esthetic equivalent of the self-mutilation practiced by disturbed teen-agers - more pathetic than shocking.
- Never has the male of the species brandished his tail feathers with more elegant gusto; never has anyone eclipsed his youthful peers with a more colorful display, only to end his life providing the esthetic equivalent of hat-trimming.
- If the McCarter is the esthetic equivalent of a first-class ticket to a wellspring of civilization, Passage represents the eternal struggle of theater professionals to make do while making art.
- The style might be called the esthetic equivalent of the Heimlich maneuver.
- Other designers of the era relied on similar inventions to provide the esthetic equivalent of a surreptitious subway pinch.
- While commendable in theory, Professor Meggs said, that "50" is "the esthetic equivalent of the star bursts on cereal boxes."
- For these architects, a full generation younger than those who formulated the post-modern framework, the modern movement is not the esthetic equivalent of a father figure crying out for Oedipal assault.
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