Sentence examples for a weak imitation from inspiring English sources

Hollywood's violence is merely a weak imitation of what the Greeks recited for centuries.

On "My Boo," her singing is a weak imitation of Mary J. Blige, with little flashes of Motown coloration.

They are in the bookstores, however, and on the lecture circuit in a somewhat simplistic frenzy of boy-watching that seems like a weak imitation of the ground-breaking books of a few years ago on adolescent females.

22): If parents in the United States are genuinely concerned about limiting the power of the gun lobby in order to protect their children, their efforts will not be adequate without a critical review of Hollywood's violence, which Logan describes as "merely a weak imitation of what the Greeks recited for centuries".

Mr. Rioult used to dance with Martha Graham, but "The Great Mass" looks like a weak imitation of the work of both Lar Lubovitch (whose 1986 "Six Twenty-Two" is to the Clarinet Concerto) and Mark Morris: the barefoot, rapturous, inspired-amateur look.

In some cars that bit of deception might be annoying especially in cars where the "metal" trim is clearly a weak imitation of the real thing.

It isn't just a weaker imitation, mind; Kirkby is taking it way more serious – too serious, in fact.

It isn't just a weaker imitation, mind; Kirkby is taking it way more serious – too serious, in fact.

For now, it's scary to contemplate how much progress we've not achieved since 1971 thanks to a rather weak imitation of money having rendered trade and investment so much more perilous.

So what if a fresh-made pizza costs a few dollars more than a weak, frozen imitation?

It's said Eleanor Roosevelt tried -- without success -- to get the secrets of one recipe, and that Lyndon B. Johnson remarked that the kind concocted outside his home state of Texas was "usually a weak, apologetic imitation of the real thing".