Whether real or imitation there's more than one way to wear the trend this season: with curly fleece bared in a distinctly bohemian bent, or fuzz facing inwards and peach-fuzz skin outside.
It is widely agreed that human cultural transmission often involves imitation, but there is also evidence that we do not imitate every behavior we see.
On the other hand, even in mere melodies there is an imitation of character, for the musical modes differ essentially from one another, and those who hear them are differently affected by each.
(Who is that woman who is adjusting her cardigan a fraction after me, as if in imitation? Oh...) There is his Mirror Carousel (2005) – as the title suggests, a fullscale fairground carousel, but with mirrored surfaces.
"There is behind this, also, I think, a kind of status competition or imitation, that there is positive status in having a sort of 'big department muscle,' in smaller departments," said Franklin E. Zimring, a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley.
There's imitation, and then there's homage, and then there's straight-up idea theft, which is what Your thing appears to be.
There will not be believers nailed to crosses in imitation of Christ as there are in some Catholic countries, such as Mexico and the Philippines, in defiance of official church disapproval.
FOR every cheap imitation in Chinatown, there is usually an upmarket equivalent.
"Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original," wrote Judith Butler in her game-changing book from 1990, Gender Trouble.
There's some really f****d up porn online, like incest imitation, that there's clearly a large market for because you can't avoid it.
