Sentence examples for in mimicry from inspiring English sources

According to Vermont Supreme Court documents, Sawyer told police that he wanted to "exceed the body count from the Virginia Tech shooting"— which left 33 dead including the shooter — "and that he had chosen his ammunition accordingly". He wanted to end the shooting in the school library, "in mimicry of the Columbine shooting," the court document said.

When we speak with a satiric voice, in mimicry of the unredeemed neighbor, aren't we having it both ways?

In mimicry of the host by a parasite, for instance, the host species provides both model and receiver.

The choreographic structure is correspondingly stark, with sudden blackouts that slice the dance into sections (in mimicry, perhaps, of the cutting of gems).

(When Jerry Lewis parodied the rock craze in his 1958 film "Rock-a-Bye Baby," his band was costumed the same way, in mimicry of the Comets).

It recalls Michael Blakemore's staging of "Copenhagen," which had the actors moving in mimicry of the restless structure of an atom.

Repeated evolution in overlapping mimicry rings among North American velvet ants, Nature Communications 3 1272 | doi 10.1038/ncomms2275 (OA) Joseph S. Wilson, Joshua P. Jahner, Kevin A. Williams, and Matthew L. Forister (2013).

The first in vivo demonstration of blood circulation in vasculogenic mimicry tubes in humans was observed with laser scanning confocal angiography in patients with a choroidal melanoma [ 116].

Recently, new research suggested another role for dsx in development, more precisely in sex-limited mimicry in the butterfly Papilio polytes [ 76].

In Cock, perhaps in a mimicry of a certain segment of society, an intimate, loving relationship now almost inherently entails an exploration of the idea of love.

Firstly, wing colour patterns involved in Müllerian mimicry are used also in mate recognition.