The secret of porcelain manufacture was discovered shortly after 1700, and by that time the imitation of lacquer had become established in various parts of Europe.
"You know the phrase they always use?" he added, again lowering his voice, this time in imitation of a scary-sounding television attack ad.
In the words of one official publication at the time, "An imitation of Western fashions, harmless at first sight, may lead to a real spiritual bankruptcy and moral degradation".
To explain, he held his palms together and cocked his fingers in the time-honored imitation of a gun.
The victory (okay, it was a draw, but we felt like we'd won and they felt like they'd lost) was doubly sweet for being a triumph over Leicester's negative, injury-feigning, time-wasting imitation of the beautiful game.
Pikmin's creator is the Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto, also the creator of Donkey Kong, Mario and The Legend of Zelda, who has experienced the flattery of imitation time and time again.
Max, at any rate, was pleased to see them, and immediately transformed himself into a savage in accordance with the time-honoured imitation-flattery model.
Rand's stand Trigger happy The price is wrong Little time for celebration Imitation games ReprintsCops are not the only ones who have trouble controlling their anger.
The present study demonstrated for the first time that oral imitation reappeared in a similar way to primitive reflexes in patients showing severely impaired cortical function and little voluntary movement of their extremities due to severe brain damage.
Her own poems at the time tended toward imitations of Gerard Manley Hopkins or of the English Baroque: elaborate, archaic in tone, willfully artificial.
