Sentence examples for imitate actions from inspiring English sources

A perfect tragedy, he says, should imitate actions that excite "pity and fear".

A perfect tragedy, he says, should imitate actions that excite "pity and fear". He uses Sophocles' Oedipus the King as a paradigm.

Children also imitate actions that win parental approval or attention or that enhance their similarity to other persons they want to be like (e.g., a boy imitating his father).

The results, published in the journal Current Biology, reveal that while the dogs were more likely to imitate their owners when expected to do so, they were also able to imitate actions when the command was sprung upon them.

Thus, "painting too can imitate actions, but only by suggestion through bodies," and again "can use only a single moment of an action in its coexisting compositions and must therefore choose the one that is most suggestive".

In effect, during an imitative interaction, each partner alternately initiates or imitates actions and both coregulate the synchronous matching [8], [9].

And conversely, they start imitating actions on objects.

He has imitated actions of other religious leaders, using the tactic of culture jamming in an attempt to undermine better known faiths.

Subjects are faster to respond and make fewer errors when imitating actions when the hand performing the action is spatially compatible with the action being imitated.

Six-month-old infants imitated actions for only 24 h (Meltzoff, 1988), 9-month-olds recollected actions for up to 5 weeks (but not 3 months), while just 1 month later, 10-month-olds could reproduce the same actions for up to 3 months (Carver and Bauer, 2001; see also Fig. 4).

Look for problems with following simple instructions or imitating actions and words.