Sentence examples for imitation off from inspiring English sources

It's never less than Bill Murray and yet that fact never throws the imitation off.

He was surprised to see how much Blair had aged, and wondered if he'd still be able to pull the imitation off.

Inseminoid has been criticised as a perceived imitation, "knock-off" or "rip-off" of the 1979 science-fiction horror film Alien.

Mr. Romney's latest persona is an off-key imitation of a closed-minded ideologue.

As Socrates said, those who imitate should beware "lest, from the imitation, they draw off some of the being".

When I finished my imitation of Ernie Pyle, she said she was off to visit another hospital the next day.

In Gregory La Cava's screwball classic "My Man Godfrey" (1936), recently released in a fine DVD edition by the Criterion Collection, Mischa Auer, as the freeloading Carlo, gives the best ape imitation of the summer, swinging off the filigreed ironwork in a swank Park Avenue town house to amuse the ridiculously fretful Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard).

The Imitation Game kicked off in November with £2.74m, including £47,000 in previews.

As Plato said, from the imitation, one draws off some of the being.

The Imitation Game kicks off the London film festival, which runs until 19 October.

Monster movies are movies of self-transformation; even a child knows that makeup goes into the creation of the roles — and also knows that, as Socrates said, from the imitation one draws off some of the being.