Sentence examples for imitate things from inspiring English sources

Following Aristotle, the 16th-century Italian critic Lodovico Castelvetro pointed out that the nondramatic poet had only words with which to imitate words and things but the dramatic poet could use words to imitate words, things to imitate things, and people to imitate people.

In his worst nightmares, he says, people get hurt or even killed by trying to imitate things they see in parkour videos without any of the necessary preparation and physical training, the way copycats of the MTV stunt show "Jackass" did a few years ago.

Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme" in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene as a shortening of the Ancient Greek term mimeme ("an imitated thing").

"I would imitate them or copy things off TV.

But in a way they were, because they didn't imitate that thing, they were also themselves.' The following evening, the group have been booked by friends in the fashion industry to DJ at a party at Love Story, a club in the shadow of the landmark Italia Building.

"Everyone was trying to imitate her thing, so I think she said, 'They're zigging — I'm going to zag,'" said the executive, who oversees the network's music programming.

R: You imitate a thing or two.

<FG3> R: You imitate a thing or two.

In these he argued that art not only imitates sensible things, but also the whole of the human mind - character, emotion and action - in a process called mimesis.

Perhaps you can imagine improvisation as I'm doing it as an open discussion with full risk, where you have to decide at each moment if you want to support what's going on, contradict, play beside, put some other material on top of it or underneath, break things, imitate, etc".

(older and/or mature kids can see it without imitating a thing).