Sentence examples for practiced imitation from inspiring English sources

Less defensibly, one could further argue that Lost in the Meritocracy is itself a thoroughly practiced imitation of a certain language of rebellion, nonconformity, and protest meant to take to task the easy target of the postmodern academy.

Also, as imitation can be a subject of legal constraints, it is recommended that no programmer should practice imitation.

Craig and I had practiced an imitation of Mick and Keith doing "Street Fighting Man" and an over-the-top version of Bob Dylan doing "The Times They Are A-Changin'".

When he got the gig at Opryland, Mr. Petty practiced his Hank imitation by listening to CD's and singing in the car.

Use imitation to your advantage.

For Turing (played by Benedict Cumberbatch), there is the imitation game practiced by any closeted gay man of the time.

It is practiced and enhanced by imitation (and other modes of transmission) and is reinforced by peers, parents, and media, and through play is adapted to many other types of material culture.

If imitations "are practiced continually from youth onwards," they "become established as habits and nature, in body and sounds and in thought" (395d1 3).

In France, on the other hand, ouvrage à la Chine was the term for the imitation of lacquer practiced at the Gobelins factory in Paris from 1672.

They were doing a bad imitation of the tomahawk chop, as practiced by fans of the Braves, but the imitation-without-tomahawk was the Mets fans' way of derisively and delightedly waving goodbye to the Braves.

Though stage magicians' work is a rational practice, their imitation of metaphysics often seems infused with the truly diabolical.