Sentence examples for imitation of something from inspiring English sources

It was a bad imitation of something Ilan might have said with grace.

Everything is an imitation of something else, sometimes garish, sometimes tasteful, but never original.

Most importantly, you write the best damn screenplay you can, that is not a pale imitation of something else.

She doesn't see the church as an imitation of something more real in Europe; she sees it, itself.

There are few words that can fully express the horror of this video as several middle-aged men – many of them regarded as heroes by their fans – leap and jerk about in an imitation of something that they haven't seen and can't fully understand just because a researcher told them it was popular on the internet.

Perhaps it is the imitation of something that leads to the desire for the real thing.

Her vocal personality is really an appealing generic hybrid ideally suited to her husband's songs, which, for all their craft, tend to be transparently secondhand imitations of something else.

The latter is an imitation or adaptation of something already known, and may, as such, represent an incremental innovation.

It is an imitation of an imitation, something that has been re-envisioned so many times that the original model is no longer relevant or recognizable.

"Koster's magical realism was direct, not an imitation of anything or something he learned in school," said the Gregory Rabassa, the pre-eminent translator of Latin American fiction, who included "The Prince" on reading lists for courses he taught at Queens College and elsewhere.

It is interesting to observe how this imitation of reality accomplishes something an actual garden does not for Lewis the child.