Sentence examples for imitation of what from inspiring English sources
Hollywood's violence is merely a weak imitation of what the Greeks recited for centuries.
His lithe body is twisted in an imitation of what it means to be a man.
This pale imitation of what the rest of us take for granted is patently failing.
Sometimes I look at something and I think it's just a pale imitation of what we've seen before.
His ornate literary structure and vocabulary exemplified the Byzantine aesthetic principle of mimēsis, or imitation of what was considered the pure form of the Attic (classical Greek) historians.
And not imprisoned in any ordinary jail cell, but one tricked up in earnest imitation of what were then the latest Modernist and Surrealist paintings.
Still, though mere imitations of what they once were, the pyramids are fantastic in size.
My eye seeks out poor imitations of what the camera has recorded.
A process of hyperfiltration, stabilization and clarification left the bottled wines pale imitations of what was in the casks.
Some of the current animal shows are simply imitations of what Sonya's conversational partners would call people television.
On the other hand, entire categories of these new YouTube channels — on pop culture and gossip, music, sports, women's topics — mostly feel like imitations of what cable outlets like MTV, Spike and Bravo already do: play music videos, assemble talking heads, riff on the news, sell merchandise.
