| But then along comes a texture, timbre or pattern that is simply too frog-like or insect-like to be dismissed as a mere electronic simulacrum. |
| A simulacrum, representing the Angel, comes three times near the Madonna, accompanied by three trumpet blasts. |
| And look, here I was, just days into a rudimentary simulacrum of daddy-hood and already fuming. |
| However, it is not the roar of the tiger but the rifle with its bayonet, a simulacrum of the bee's sting, that will rouse her from her slumber. |
| And maybe that is why cricket's fiction is all too often a damp squib, an ersatz simulacrum of the real thing. |
| To create a simulacrum of his subject, Birnie uses encaustic, an old-school painting medium of pigment and wax. |
