Sentence examples for be imitative from inspiring English sources
adjective
Imitating; copying; not original.
"Frankly, my idea is to be imitative rather than originally creative in this thing, Rose himself told us.
"Not to be the Four Seasons, not to be imitative of the old, not to be Disney".
It can be imitative, competitive or collaborative; it can mimic or mock or scramble or counterbalance the tone of the source.
Although philosophical aesthetics has moved away from the idea that art must or should be imitative, the idea that art exists in a symbolic world apart from the "real" world lingers (see Langer 1953b, Goodman 1976 and 1978, Danto 1981 and Walton 1990).
Finally, the overall aim of this writing exercise is not to be imitative.
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.
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.
