Sentence examples for modern imitation from inspiring English sources

And no modern imitation, the story goes, comes close.

The 295ft Queen was launched last summer, the first new stern-wheel paddle-steamer on the Mississippi in 17 years (albeit a modern imitation, as her primary propulsion is from two diesel engines).

Designer Jonathan Fensom, who is working on the Playhouse's opening show, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, pulls out a small pot to show me: a modern imitation by Chanel glitters seductively inside.

The modern imitations that accounted for the majority of the lots seemed sure to turn the session into a massive failure at a time when buyers, fearing an uncertain future, shun reckless expenditure.

The magic and the mystery is precisely the ability to persist in this mad mix of modern reproduction, imitation, quotation and – let's be clear – degradation, yet still come out on top.

One of those alleged boys, after all, would not only fit perfectly into Blackburn's midfield, he is in many ways a modern-day imitation of Ince himself.

A novice can start cheaply rhapsodizing scales through pastel harmony instantly, summoning a basic imitation of modern jazz in the Evans mold.

To mimic International Style characteristics is as false as the nation's imitation of a modern state.

But "Hail to the Emperor!" is an epic allegory of modern Korean history told in imitation of ancient Yi Dynasty hagiographies.

Yet detail, in the end, is what photorealism is all about -- acres of it, minutely rendered in mock imitation of the modern photograph.

4 Early humans' skills of imitation thus became modern humans' active conformity, both to coordinate activities more effectively with ingroup strangers and to display group identity so that others will choose me as a knowledgeable and trustworthy partner.