Sentence examples for bad imitation from inspiring English sources

At first I thought he was kidding; doing a bad imitation of an enraged, sloppy drunk.

Sunshine was unimpressed though, and said they were sounding like "a bad imitation of the Shadows".

It was a bad imitation of something Ilan might have said with grace.

Weiland's singing was often likened to a bad imitation of Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.

This is neither a bad imitation of a church supper nor a summons from royalty.

The words "bad imitation" are a tautology: all imitations are inferior to -- or at least different from -- the original.

"In architecture, however, look at what they have done – the mosques are one-to-one bad imitations of classical Ottoman architecture".

When she was in her twenties, she says, she wrote three novels, all of them bad imitations of her friend and mentor Aldous Huxley; no one wanted to publish them; she gave up.

I started making really bad bedroom bangers that were so obviously bad imitations that I occasionally listen back to them if I ever feel too good about my own talents.

(For me, who first experienced the prodigious power of the Russians through Ms. Garnett, subsequent versions, if more accurate, cannot capture that sense of a first love. Indeed, they seem like bad imitations).

Metro Pictures 519 West 24th Street, Chelsea Through Dec. 5 There is more to Olaf Breuning than videos of young men done up in wigs, war paint and animal skins running around rural Switzerland doing hilariously bad imitations of their prehistoric ancestors.