Rock music that makes it into a school program is thus often antiseptic, a pale imitation of its true colours.
It lies in the belief that we should increasingly turn our public institutions into pale imitations of our business companies.
But right now he's a pale imitation.
Becoming a ghost is also an option for wizards and witches; however, it is said that it is a pale imitation of life.
The general public will believe the genuine article rather than the pale imitation.
Would not the privatisation of gas be a pale imitation of what happened to the telephone industry?
It's a pale imitation of a cross on a piece of paper.
It is a timid and pale imitation of what works elsewhere.