Noah Feldman

In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership. At Nauvoo, Smith affected a Napoleonic uniform and made himself into a general and quasi king of the polity he had constituted.

American Author

Garth Risk Hallberg

I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001.

James Bovard

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

Author

Murray Head

I never tried to emulate that New York rap style. What I do is a quasi rap. It's a honky rap, not a black rap. I find it puzzling that so many people have assumed I'm black.

English Actor

Christopher Koch

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.

Australian Novelist

Use 'quasi' when something closely resembles another thing but lacks a few features.

Nearly Complete

'Quasi' often indicates that something is not officially recognized, yet functions similarly.

Not Official

Quasi-' can refine meanings, especially in academic or technical contexts for precision.

Context Precision

Use 'quasi' to suggest a personal assessment rather than an objective fact.

Subjective Impression

'Quasi' can imply a lack of full legitimacy or authenticity in certain contexts.

May Imply Criticism

'Quasi' indicates a resemblance in ideas or concepts, rather than in physical form.

Idea Resemblance

It points out subtle differences that distinguish something from being fully classified as another.

Subtle Differences

'Quasi' can suggest mixing or blending of categories, not purely belonging to one.

Not Purely

 And then two dozen other people actually emailed to participate to this anonymous email address, but I confirmed that they did in fact have the jobs they claimed to have. And I then compiled the votes into a spreadsheet, ran a pivot table, output it to PowerPoint, and the night before I left for vacation, I slapped a quasi subversive name on it

How I accidentally...

 It goes as follows. You basically build all of the components that you want. Like I said, the motors, the wings, et cetera. You also build a scaffold around it. That's what this sort of surrounding area is here. Then by proper design of all the individual components in this quasi two-dimensional composite.

Robert Wood: Robotic...

 discovered that global climate change is turning out to be a pretty serious issue so we covered that fairly extensively in skeptic magazine we investigate all kinds of scientific and quasi scientific controversies but it turns out we don't really have to worry about any of this