His methods were inimitable; his face was indeed his fortune ... Who has seen him in any of his disguises and has failed to laugh?" Max Beerbohm later said of Leno's death: "So little and frail a lantern could not long harbour so big a flame".
Her voice is so distinctive that she has often been described as inimitable, even in the face of numerous convincing imitations.
The opening gambit notwithstanding, one of Hobsbawm's key points is that, while the intimacy of face-to-face meeting is inimitable, glad-handing isn't the point.
Alas, when I asked the butcher for a few dozen tails, he scrunched his face in that inimitable, not-on-your-life way some native New Yorkers do so well.
At times Shannon seems plucked straight out of a Fellini film his face so expressive, inimitable, that he's able to communicate a range of emotions through a glance (see Take Shelter) or gesture (see Midnight Special).
We can see that what some have criticized as a descent into eclecticism in fact reflects with great precision the great variety of the life that Picasso was living as he faced, in his own inimitable fashion, the unavoidable fact that he was becoming middle-aged.
The moral dilemmas that Grace and the Duke face are diagramed, in Mr. Rohmer's inimitable fashion, with equal measures of clarity and complexity.
Actor-wise in the drama category, Jon Hamm might finally earn individual Emmy recognition for his inimitable role as Don Draper in "Mad Men," but he could face a sleeper coup from Kyle Chandler in "Bloodline" or Kevin Spacey in "House of Cards".
In inimitable Huffington-ese, she spoke of the difficulties many Americans are facing.
Gould drew himself erect, as he had done before, and recited this poem: " 'Who killed the Dial?' 'Who killed the Dial?'I'I,' said Joe Gould, 'With my inimitable style, I killed the Dial.' " As he recited it, he watched my face.
The dark bobbed hair, the perfect complexion, the infinitely expressive face, the graceful movement have made her a much-imitated, though ultimately inimitable, icon, a figure both strong and vulnerable, innocent and experienced, earthily erotic and divinely ethereal.
