Sentence examples for physical imitation from inspiring English sources

Yet it takes more than physical imitation to earn authority.

"Her performance goes beyond physical imitation, though she has the rounded shoulders and the fluting voice down perfectly".

At the climax of the movie, a van carrying dreamers falls off a bridge in a prolonged slow-motion shot, while, a level down, in a deeper dream, the same characters, in physical imitation, float weightlessly in a hotel room.

Although Thwaites was warned off using technology to get closer to being a goat by the shaman, he deployed a basic shamanistic principle – that physical imitation helps change consciousness – alongside the latest scientific work in prosthetics to build himself forelegs and trot like a goat.

The camera also reacts to the sound and supports the physical imitation of the musical piece by the performer.

It owes a debt to the majestic horses and our not altogether successful physical imitations of them.

The cast's exaggerated vocal and physical imitations of the key players are hilariously dead on, with Gary Cooke particularly brilliant in a series of cameos.

Other observers suggest similar origins of speech, including the vocalization of physical activity, imitation of the sounds of nature, and sheer serendipity.

In LIFE WITH JUDY GARLAND: ME AND MY SHADOWS (2001), a four-hour film that had its premiere last February on ABC, Ms. Davis proves that it's not about physical resemblance or imitation; it's about understanding your character from the inside out.

The exhibition, which addresses forty years of the video games' evolution, lets visitors see the progress from electronic imitations of physical games to works that strive to realize the full potential of their processors.

Of course, some of this was alarmingly "skeumorphic" in its imitation of real physical items, but the interactions were nevertheless intuitive: They didn't just look like sticky notes and pages, they acted like them.