Word: akin
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...used to be designed like bridges, perfectly designed to meet the required need, such as getting a person from one side to another. Now we have a lot of redundancy in structures. If one thing fails, then another will hold, and if that fails, another will hold. It's akin to having five or six engines on a jet plane...
...effect is akin to watching the rattling and zigzagging of a pinball machine set to Moby’s “Sync.” The collisions of the dancers emphasize the wide-reaching effects of human interaction. The active, focused choreography and its fit to the equally vigorous music make this one of the most enjoyable pieces of the show, despite its brevity...
...introduces himself with the ridiculously fast, tongue-twisting song, “I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General.” Howard had the audience clapping for the more rapidly sung encore before he even began to sing it. With facial expressions akin to those of Lucille Ball, Brianne Boyd is lovely as the not so lovely and slightly deaf maid-of-all-work, Ruth...
...production attempts the total modernization of the ancient text. It is immediately and unmistakably avant-garde, utilizing nearly every tool available to theater to explore the legend of Medea. The play is intricately choreographed, in many places more akin to modern ballet than to anything Euripides could have imagined...
...French waste their energy on fighting the language, thus losing many battles before they have even started. Robin Scott Lyons, France The best defense of French is not "a strong offense" but a more ethical way of dealing with its own minority languages, such as Breton, a Celtic language akin to Welsh that is desperately struggling for survival. France persistently refuses to ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, thus combating at home a cultural diversity that it eloquently advocates for the rest of the world. How hypocritical! Marcel Texier Maurepas, France