He must now, like Henry V, imitate the action of a tiger.
Phytoestrogens imitate the action of the hormone estrogen, but much more mildly.
The director wriggles around in his seat, imitating the action of a recalcitrant eel.
"Imitate the action of the tiger," Henry tells his soldiers when urging them once more unto the breach, "disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage".
Imitating the action of Pippin III in 755, Offa took responsibility for the coinage, and thenceforward the king's name normally appeared on coins.
Shakespeare, in Hamlet's speech to the actors, referred to the purpose of playing as being "…to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature". Thus, an artist, by skillfully selecting and presenting his material, may purposefully seek to "imitate" the action of life.
They play a harmful role in breaking the balance of normal physiological metabolism, causing serious diseases and disrupting reproductive development in wildlife and human beings by inhibiting or imitating the action of normal gonadal hormones.
Imitate the action of reading a book aloud.
11 The process of observing an action (ie, action observation) leads to the activation of MNS and stimulates the corticospinal system (motor pathways) prior to imitating the action.
Rather, the young birds imitate the actions they observe being performed by their foster parents.
The actors are flesh and blood, they must imitate the actions of besotted lovers.
