Lionel Shriver

As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk, a Matchbox truck. Perhaps a childhood attraction to shrunken but compellingly realistic facsimiles is commonplace, if only because children themselves are compellingly realistic facsimiles of the giants who rule their world.

American Journalist

Panos Cosmatos

The thing I do miss about the way some sequels were in the past was that each film felt like its own unique, complete tone. Now, sequels are tonal facsimiles of the ones before them, like a television series, whereas back in the past sequels would often be radically different from the ones before.

Canadian Director

Michael J. Fox

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Canadian Actor

Robert Rauschenberg

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

American Artist

Ted Allen

The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.

American Entertainer

Susie Orbach

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

English Psychologist

Christopher Miller

What's interesting about Lego is it's constantly reminding you that it's a facsimile of something else.

American Director

Steve Kazee

If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.

American Actor

Robert Smithson

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

Tama Janowitz

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.

American Novelist

Although 'facsimile' means an exact copy, there can be minor differences from the original.

Not Identical

Facsimile is often used regarding historical artifacts to allow people to experience what the original would be like.

Historical Use

The term is usually reserved for tangible reproductions, such as documents, works of art, or even buildings.

Physical Objects

Although a modern use of 'facsimile', it refers to earlier communication technology that's not commonly used today.

Outdated Technology

Facsimiles were once standard in business for sending documents quickly, before digital methods.

Business Context

A faxed facsimile usually retains all visual elements of the original, including layout and signatures.

Document Format

 It cannot be done by simply planting trees. We need to bring native, complex ecosystems back to life, and it requires deep ecological expertise. Until now, we have been limited to poor facsimiles,