Sentence examples for imitation the from inspiring English sources

However, his second imitation, The Vanity of Human Wishes, is completely different; the language remains simple, but the poem is more complicated and difficult to read because Johnson is trying to describe complex Christian ethics.

"Your Hendrixes and your Creams – and I think Led Zeppelin, too, in the sense that they are originators – spawn whole hordes of lesser groups and imitators, and sometimes, as a result of imitation, the imitators can be more successful than them".

In impersonation, sometimes described as "true imitation", the imitator tries to behave as like the model as possible: the result is a close match in specific details of behaviour.

Poetic modes are identified according to their means of imitation, the actions they imitate, the manner of imitation, and its effects.

If the subject began to imitate, to clarify each imitation, the experimenter placed her hand palm down on the table before the presentation of each model.

Success breeds imitation, the adage goes.

The traditional imitation of the West?

Part of this social component is what Spinoza calls the "imitation of the affects".

How many prompted imitations the way Sheppard did?

But, despite all their imitations the lion refused to roar.

The Christian imitation of the Greek original is startling.