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are imitative

adjective

Imitating; copying; not original.

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"The decapitations are imitative of those in Iraq, and they are meant to show the failure of U.S. policy in Haiti".

Authors who regard literature as needing no advocates or investigators are less than grateful when told that their works possess unintended meaning or are imitative or incomplete.

His compositions are imitative — on YouTube, you can find his Piano Concerto in E-Flat Minor, which mashes together Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Prokofiev, and a few others — but they give evidence of a restless, creative mind.

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The word is imitative, so it should imitate the sound that most people use to imitate loud chewing.

"It's imitative, and it's all silly movements".

His poetry was not bad, he felt, but it was imitative rather than original.

"Not to be the Four Seasons, not to be imitative of the old, not to be Disney".

"Frankly, my idea is to be imitative rather than originally creative in this thing, Rose himself told us.

But by now the Greek East had become rather barren; much of its production was imitative rather than vitally creative.

Secondly, it's imitative or impressionistic, approaching idealized notions of circus bands, 1950s New York jazz, the New Orleans jazz funeral.

Little is known of the staging of their productions beyond the fact that it was imitative of French and Italian theatre.

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