Sentence examples for imitation of things from inspiring English sources
They can do a great imitation of things that were really good.
The government realized that old customs and institutions would die hard and that reform would take more than mere decrees and imitation of things Western.
I had never studied fiction before I wrote my first novel; all of my education in craft was of this unconscious kind, an imitation of things I admire in the books I love.
The two main elements in Noh acting were monomane, "an imitation of things," or the representational aspect, and yūgen, the symbolic aspect and spiritual core of the Noh, which took precedence and which became the touchstone of excellence in the Noh.
These constituted the first major principle of Noh, which Zeami described as monomane, or the "imitation of things". He advised on the selection of properly classical characters to be portrayed, from legend or life, and on the proper integration of the visual, the melodic, and the verbal to open the eye and ear of the mind to the supreme beauty he crystallized in the second main principle, yūgen.
By this alchemy, an imitation of a thing which is already of notional value turns out to be worth something.Shelling out shillingsA second reason for the shilling's longevity is that it is too useful to do away with.
When you feel lost in the world, there is some joy to be gleaned from exact imitations of familiar things.
Elections, like much of politics in Russia, are an imitation of the real thing.
Yet the film lacks the hypnotic strangeness of the original, and the dramatized Dengler, however heroic his survival, feels like a watery imitation of the real thing.
It is easy to find in restaurants, far from its spiritual Louisiana home, though it's almost always a soupy imitation of the real thing.
The chief explanation for the decline in numbers for "X-Factor" this season was the competition from "The Voice," which Fox executives have gone to great lengths to disparage as a lesser imitation of the real thing.
