Sentence examples for imitation man from inspiring English sources

It was in the 1980s that I understood that if - to borrow two words from the hero of my novel The Black Book - I wanted to "become myself", it would not be by deriding VS Naipaul's "imitation man" for his efforts to overcome his provincial ways.

I'm not just angry because I have an 18-year-old daughter who is entering college this year with reprehensible, imitation men like those mentioned.

Mimicry may include the imitation of man-made items like telephones, and the song thrush will also repeat the calls of captive birds, including exotics such as the white-faced whistling duck.

9/10 Jerzy Dudek, Poland A nervy imitation of the man who plies his trade on Merzyside.

Jamie Carragher thought the Houllier of 2004 "a pale imitation of the man who had strolled into Melwood and taken on the most powerful players at the club".

He then shifted promptly to the club king, giving a perfect imitation of a man with the ace-king of clubs.

Because what you're looking at is only the imitation of a man.

Sartorius painted one portrait on the canvas and then an imitation of "Old Man in Military Costume" on top.

The church should give up its inherited privileges in order to free Christians to "share in God's sufferings in the world" in imitation of Jesus, "the man for others".

For tragedy is an imitation not of men but of an action and of life, and life consists in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality".

THE president was due at the United Nations, and the limo was stuck in traffic and the Gossip Girl was doing Rachel Zoe imitations for the man best known as Marc Jacobs's ex-beau.