Sentence examples for imitation given from inspiring English sources

It is premature to dismiss the role of direct or indirect imitation given that a minority of Alternative teenagers report they self-injure in order to 'belong to a group'.

In his tientos, free melodic imitation gives rise to new themes.

As we engage in more advanced forms of mimêsis, imitation gives way to representation and depiction, where we need not be regarded as attempting to copy anyone or anything in any narrow sense of the term.

That series (and its many imitations) gives full vent to the highs and lows of show business; each dance number is a balletic metaphor for disgrace, punishing exertion and forgiveness.

Imitations give pleasure because marking resemblances between them and their originals is just difficult enough (Gerard 1759, 49 51).

And listened to a busker doing a pretty good Johnny Cash imitation — and given him a buck for his efforts.

So, being a smash hit, it has inevitably spawned imitations — although given the discipline and huge effort involved, fewer than you might expect.

What's undeniable is that in addition to being able to engage in this sort of distant imitation, this sort of playful, non-habituating copying, we are also capable of engaging in imitation that gives rise to habituation.

But as Chinese firms have demonstrated in other areas, and Japanese firms demonstrated before them, imitation can give way to innovation with surprising speed.

Yet he went well beyond mere imitation, and gave even this republican a pang of sympathy as he suggested intellectual seriousness, angst and – suddenly, surprisingly – darts of humour.

"I learnt all the metres by imitation; it gives you a structure from which to venture out, like being on a trapeze but having a wire to catch you if you fall".