Sentence examples for instead of imitation from inspiring English sources

Instead, she says, she chooses to live out the art, "by study instead of imitation, and metonymy instead of metaphor".

Try veggie rumaki: wrap a strip of imitation bacon around a water chestnut, spear with a toothpick, and broil — but instead of imitation bacon use real bacon, and instead of a water chestnut use veal.

In a matter of months, Sony launched the Walkman, one of the most successful products in history, and the story came to epitomize what made the company great: innovation instead of imitation, a dedication to big ideas, and a willingness to pursue its obsessions no matter what others thought.

That limits the damage knockoffs do, as does the fact that fashion is one of the few industries in the world where people are still willing to pay a considerable premium to own original brands instead of imitations.

Since then, sincerity instead of monotonous imitation, political and social commitment instead of empty panegyric, and realism instead of escapism have been the characteristic features of modern literatures of the Muslim countries.

Instead of viewing imitation and innovation as two opposite extremes, this research views firms' new product development as a continuous spectrum in which pure imitation at the one end and original innovation at the other.

As a summary, we conclude that long-term strategy adoption rules ('learning' instead of simple imitation) allow a larger cooperation, but do not stabilize the cooperation-fluctuations inflicted by the different topologies of the underlying networks, which leaves the remarkable topological stability of the Q-learning strategy adoption rule still unexplained.

Instead of finding such imitation flattering, the famously hot-tempered Monroe was enraged by it, and grew angrier still as the more shrewdly managed Foggy Mountain Boys found wider popular success.

He uses maquettes "not as convenient stand-ins for people" but to resolve a common dilemma of the artist pursuing an independent creation, an idea, instead of mimesis, an imitation of nature.

Instead of seeking the imitations, we decided to explore the beach front itself.

Instead of performing electronic imitations of a bell, they now blip insistently, like machines in an operating room.