Sentence examples for imitation something from inspiring English sources
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.
No 1 Poultry, outcome of a long planning battle by its developer, Peter Palumbo, had the misfortune to be much imitated (imitation being something postmodernists enjoyed) between publication of its designs in 1985 and its opening 12 years later.
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.
His performance of "Talk Dirty" felt like a cheap imitation of something Brown would have done five years ago.
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.
But by working through the self-conscious genre imitation that was something of a novelty in "Blood Simple," Mr. Zhang uncovers the primal, mythic intensity of the story and also changes the tone of its essential nihilism.
