Sentence examples for straight imitation from inspiring English sources
Fred West was a much lesser man, so it was just straight imitation.
Even the falsetto vocals, which strike you as a straight imitation of the Weeknd at first listen, have a gentle, honeyed quality that enhances his arrangements.
"It's not a straight up imitation.
"I can't tell you how many times I've heard, 'Yo Chippa, you're beatin' up on my Mets,' " he said with an imitation straight out of Bensonhurst.
Ghazarian's second long ball brought the team to within 15 and within a slight hint of momentum, but Bulldogs guard Kristina Tatikian did her best Ghazarian imitation, scoring eight straight for Pasadena as the lead ballooned again.
"I'm like, I am going to World Cup this run, just straight-line it in my best imitation of Bode Miller," he said.
Mr. Sallid's "Live" is straight-up pastiche, with Derick K. Grant doing an impressive imitation of the departed star of the show.
Questions of imitation, unflagged quotation and borrowing, unconscious or not, lead straight to the middle of the bog.
I walked the two minutes to my surgery stooped over, sticking my legs straight out in front of me like a half-arsed goose-step imitation.
There's imitation, and then there's homage, and then there's straight-up idea theft, which is what Your thing appears to be.
In a twist that sounds straight out of the story itself, the movie has become so popular that many fans don't realize that the imitation is not the original.
