pale imitation

He would want a real woman, not a pale imitation.

The new child was a pale imitation of the old.

What they have access to, however, is a pale imitation.

So how successful is a pale imitation going to be, 30 years down the line?

Any other woman would be a substitute, a pale imitation.

Now I learned that both the playing and the training were pale imitations of the real thing.

Training was a pale imitation of battle, but he would be satisfied with it.

Didn't you turn into a pale imitation of a Yank instead?

For Ritter the pale imitation left much to be desired.

Your 'legends' are but pale imitations of what we could do.

The pieces had been unpacked and set together in a pale imitation of a working system.

Those fellows in the alley were only a pale imitation of their master.

It's the only genuine ancient white horse.all others are pale imitations.

But this was no pale imitation of an organ.

It was a risky policy that encouraged pale imitations of his work.

But you have it as a reality, and against that my tortured imagination is only a pale imitation.

What's on your TV and in the papers is a pale imitation of the truth.

While the game is decent over all, it feels like a pale imitation of its predecessors.

Although we've survived, I still feel as though we are but a pale imitation of our forebears.

"For the most part it's utterly derivative, a pale imitation of whatever seemed to sell six months ago."

The best you have ever known, heard of or read about in your lifetime has been only a pale imitation of these two men.

But the Nykkus before us made the previous ones look like pale imitations of themselves.

The detailed version is a pale imitation of the bare bones myth.

Mort already sounded like a pale imitation of a Yank.

A pale imitation of his broad white smile, but enough of himself back in it to give her heart.