How To Use Imitative In A Sentence
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It could be a hypocoristic or baby-talk form of hysterical, or it might be from the imitative word hiss; or perhaps it is a variant of another dialect term, jesse, meaning a ` severe scolding, 'which is probably from a Biblical allusion.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
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Moreover, they are in every respect exemplary - i.e. they are projected as an imitative model for the viewing subject.
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He, however, is no imitative epigone, but a historian of the first rank, helped rather than hindered by the literary tradition within which he wrote.
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All art, all thought was a creative activity, not an imitative or derivative one.
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Like Pope, this American poet loved onomatope and imitative verse, and the last line is a word-picture of home-sick weariness.
The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
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Only in the frankly imitative words like buzz and lisp do hint and pointing coincide.
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But Dyer had nothing to do with this imitative gang warfare.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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Furthermore, imitative products like varnish which substituted for lacquer generated new industries and created distinctive products.
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Each year, for example, imitative Miskitu crowns, scepters, and swords appear as part of a celebratory re-enactment called the kingpulanka.
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Nigel sometimes felt he didn't deserve such imitative admiration.
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The second scherzo-like movement had syncopated, imitative strokes between the piano and oboe, with pouncing dissonances and pizzicato obbligati on the strings.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades
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And since caprification is in fact a marriage of the male fig-tree with the female fig-tree, Mr. Paton further supposes that the loves of the trees may, on the same principle of imitative magic, have been simulated by a mock or even a real marriage between the two human victims, one of whom appears sometimes to have been a woman.
Chapter 58. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity. § 2. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Greece
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This craze has had a lot of publicity but that carries the risk of even more imitative crimes.
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“calloo-calloo” — a mimetic term imitative of the most frequent notes of the bird.
My Tropic Isle
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Next comes a treatment of a number of authors who treated music as an imitative art, designedly reproducing the sounds and the feelings experienced by human beings.
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They spoke His name tentatively, as an experiment, and imitatively.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
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But here, even his imitative music is somehow distinctive.
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“Let's designate this to be what we call the imitative art [mimêtikon]”; everything else in the large genus can go by some other name (267a).
Plato's Aesthetics
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There was nothing original as yet discoverable in him; nothing to deliver him from the poor imitative apery in which he imagined himself a poet.
Sir Gibbie
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Gaylard, sometimes made into the imitative Gaylord, is Fr. gaillard, brisk, lively
The Romance of Names
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Rather like the poet's child, who though "Nature's playmate" yet "[m] ars" all its sounds "with his imitative lisp" (92-97) ,18 the speaker and his friends mar the bird's inimitable singing, and in fact seem to be drawn together night after night by what the nocturnal scene precisely does not provide them: by what their language of poetic archaisms, onomatopoeias, and other suspect figures of speech cannot reproduce
'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806
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The adage "buy cheap and sell dear," or its practical equivalent -- so scary and imitative are investors -- _Buy during the last of a selling movement and sell during the last of a buying movement_, resolves itself, we venture to repeat, into: _Buy when the decline caused by a panic has produced such liquidation that discounts and loans, after steady and long-continued diminution, either become stationary for a period or else increase progressively coincident with a steady increase in available funds; and sell for converse reasons_.
A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States
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As for hoopoe, I will quote The Century Dictionary, definition and all, with its abbreviations expanded: "The form hoopoe was doubtless originally pronounced like hoopoo, which, with hoophoop, first appears about 1667-78; an imitative variant or clipped reduplication of the earlier hoop, apparently after Latin upaupa ….
OUPblog
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His work has been criticized for being imitative and shallow.
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All available evidence suggests that ontogenetic ritualization, not imitative learning, is responsible for chimpanzees' acquisition of communicative gestures.
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What say you, then, to the fact, that whilst the outer half is devoted to an advertisement of Mr Reprint's imitative publications, the _better half_ contains a bold and faithful warning against such piracy!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
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Socrates uses the comparison of portraits, whose primary organic components (nose, fingertip, etc.) will be analysable, not into further organic parts, but into directly imitative colours.
Plato's Cratylus
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Tall and fair, grey-eyed and sinewy, the Teuton was a hardier, more sturdy warrior than the Celt: he had not spent centuries of quiet settlement and imitative civilisation under the ægis of
Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race
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In music terms, at least in the pop area, this blanking experience doesn't really exist, because the nature of the medium is imitative and there is always something out there to imitate.
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The second movement is a sort of imitative canzona, which really shows this piece as a sort of bow to the past in many ways.
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It is to be propitiated rather than harnessed: young couples make love in the newly ploughed furrows at seedtime as imitative magic to guarantee fertility.
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Paleoglot: The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- "to sneeze
The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- "to sneeze"
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The expressionists, finally, pitted their own brand of emotional but, characteristically, nonsensuous and nonerotic subjectivism against the imitative art of the nineteenth century.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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The majority of Pedro de Cristo's surviving works are, however, written for four or five voices and in a predominantly imitative style although homophony is the basic texture in the settings of responsories and psalms, and short homorhythmic passages are common in other works.
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Like emulation learning, ontogenetic ritualization does not require individuals to analyze the behavior of others in terms of ends and means in the same way as does imitative learning.
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Limitative edible contains the food with much cholesterol, the head that is like meat animal, liver, heart, roe, fat, pork, butter, marrow.
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She presumed it was some kind of Wesley-based phenomena --- that these were copy-cat injuries; imitative woundings of a sympathetic nature.
BEHINDLINGS
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The Quail's voice also gave rise to a number of imitative names in Britain and Ireland, which incorporate the three sharp notes.
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The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- "to sneeze
The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- "to sneeze"
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Babies of eight to twelve months are generally highly imitative.
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It may involve mimicry, he said, as dolphins are unsurpassed in imitative abilities among nonhuman animals.
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Barring the work of a few painters, most of the modern art in this country is blatantly imitative, but we still have a problem awarding crafts the recognition given to the arts.
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The least of these illuminators, with his insignificant eyeless face, possesses at his fingers 'ends the maximum of dexterity in this art of decoration, light and wittily incongruous, which threatens to invade us in France, in this epoch of imitative decadence, and which has become the great resource of our manufacturers of cheap "_objects of art_.
Madame Chrysantheme
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I thought at first, when we looked at this sequence, that we've got something here that was imitative, that it was perhaps unfair.
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His style of public speaking is imitative of the prime minister.
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From an aesthetic point of view this loss is not too serious, since the imposition of the alternatim form and the stressing of imitative counterpoint have made these compositions rather impersonal.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Though uneven and a bit inchoate, it shows an awareness both of the more complex, radical aspects of Debussy and the Strauss of Salome and Elektra, without being slavishly imitative of either.
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Failing any evidence to the contrary, it can be assumed that this parallelism was not imitative, and that the Alice books came into existence through the same need for a healing of the spirit.
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You can imitate it, but that would be sort of… imitative.
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The identification of the imitative or genuine the laser carve seal andthe new problem for people.
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The world of the gods is anthropomorphic, an imitative projection of ours.
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Secondly, with an imitative strategy there is no need to spend a lot on advertising to educate buyers about product features: you need only to show the new features added.
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Consequently, the move toward organised generic, class and therapeutic substitution is a signal that imitative R and D will be less rewarding in the future.
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In many cases this obscurity is well-deserved; many early works are mediocre, naïvely imitative stuff, unworthy to stand in the canon with Seymour, Walcott, Selvon, Naipaul or Lamming.
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It has fed television's imagination, invigorating a mindset that because of the showier medium's costs is often timid and imitative.
Times, Sunday Times
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Personally, he was an intellectual moralist, and more offending to him than platitudinous pomposity was the morality of those about him, which was a curious hotchpotch of the economic, the metaphysical, the sentimental, and the imitative.
Chapter 29
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His architecture is a result of his subtle imitative skills rather than originality, solving problems by picking and choosing from existing schools.
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The derivation of the word ‘quail’ has been charmingly explored by the author who points out that it is an imitative name, cognate with ‘quack’.
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The imitative behavior of echolalia and echopraxia can be understood as an attempt to introject the object.
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Babies of eight to twelve months are generally highly imitative.
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These told me that Lichtenstein's style defined his approach - he made it his own; it wasn't an affectation, a mere imitative device or clever trick.
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I see now of course how far, with my complications, I got away from Gyp; but I see to-day so much else too that this particular deflexion from simplicity makes scarce a figure among the others after having once served its purpose, I mean, of lighting my original imitative innocence.
The Awkward Age
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The Great Depression ended this imitative surge in which the universal bank appeared to triumph.
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And with that simple revelation somehow all art was transformed from the imitative and derivative to the wholly substantive.
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This assumption has moreover been used to portray Native American writing as derivative and imitative of Western literary traditions.
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He relished the opportunities inherent in the imitative style, especially what happens when imitation is allowed to lose its usually rigid tonal control.
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That is why the hip-hop in this country has been imitative, lacking creativity and sterile.
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Beijing is industrial and commercial disappear of bureau, city assist pointed out yesterday, this kind of behavior belongs to limitative consumer own option and fairness trade authority.
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The story that two skins made of some imitative alien substance were found at the motel did make the pages of the Enquirer.
EVERVILLE
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His films are emulative, not imitative or derivative.
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The man in charge of the tups, or rams, was called Tupman or Tupper, the latter standing sometimes for tup-herd, just as we have the imitative Stutter for Stodart or Studdart.
The Romance of Names
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One of the most surprising things I noticed was how imitative I was.
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They were not acted to the accompaniment of mere commonplace gestures like a play, nor danced in imitative caprioles like a ballet.
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They are not hackneyed imitative replicas of the original versions.
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Alwyn, that is a very serious fault in this imitative age!
Ardath
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(Cotgrave) -- and sometimes Lennard, an imitative form of "lanner," the name of an inferior hawk --
The Romance of Names
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These told me that Lichtenstein's style defined his approach - he made it his own; it wasn't an affectation, a mere imitative device or clever trick.
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The style is imitative of Basque architecture.
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He instructs him in invention, composition, and especially style, emphasizing particularly the harmony of the verse and defining imitative harmony, examples of which, taken from Virgil, have passed into classical teaching, e.g. "ruit Oceano nox, procumbit-humi bos, conuolsum remis rostrisque stridentibus aequor".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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Like his co-workers he had been somewhat stampeded by Dorn's imitative faculties, faculties which enabled the former journalist to bombinate twice as loud in a void three times as great as any of his colleagues.
Erik Dorn
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a round vaulted pallate, and a long throte, besides an excellent capacitie of wit that maketh him more disciplinable and imitative than any other creature: then as to the forme and action of his speach, it commeth to him by arte & teaching, and by vse or exercise.
The Arte of English Poesie
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The second movement is a sort of imitative canzona, which really shows this piece as a sort of bow to the past in many ways.
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During six months spent by the "mendacious" Pinto on the island, the imitative people made no fewer than six hundred match-locks or arquebuses.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
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He speaks in lurchy, barely articulate ejaculations, set to curiously clunky music that in its effort to avoid fluid femininity slips at times into rather conventional patterns like imitative counterpoint and ostinatos.
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I can remember lying on the floor and writing these, probably very poor, poems - because they were all in rhyme and form and probably quite imitative - but they gave me enormous joy, and I worked on them, I crossed bits out and worked on them.
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His style of public speaking is imitative of the prime minister.
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And as the minuet derives its merit from an observation of the most agreeable steps, well chosen in nature and well combined by art, there is no inconsistence in avering that art may, in this, as in many other objects of imitative skill, essentially assist nature, and place her in the most advantageous point of light.
A Treatise on the Art of Dancing
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Celtic, which bear some slight similarity to the notes of the cock and the cuckoo; tintamarre, trictrac, in French; alali, in Greek; lupus, in Latin, etc. But these imitative words are exceedingly few.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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If the patient is aphasic and is unable to follow commands, the physician should have the patient attempt imitative responses.
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Inherited imitative behavior is hard to demonstrate.
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The Ostyak tribe of Northern Asia give us a specimen of the rude imitative dances of early civilization in a Pantomimic exhibition of the
A History of Pantomime
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This creates an inbuilt majority of ‘violent’ games showing up when children play in an imitative style.
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Television being an imitative rather than innovative business, networks tend to follow a trend until they run it into the ground, he said.
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He has been concerned with theatre which is both local and fun and not imitative of either imported intellectual or theatrical forms.
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Finally, the last two polyphonic verses are expanded to a five-voice texture by the addition of a second alto, Manchicourt heightening the effect of the ‘Gloria patri’ with stretto imitative writing.
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It is one of those imitative words which are to be found in all languages; as, for example, in the French we have sens dessus dessous, tintamarre, trictrac, tonnerre, bombe.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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It's beautiful for as long as he's struggling, which is about two minutes before he gets a grip and retreats to a safe distance, and the band churns out boring, imitative crud for the remaining 70 minutes.
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All art, all thought (for as Clausewitz himself expressed it, all thought is art), was a creative activity, not an imitative or derivative one.
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Education in oral language is context-based and imitative.
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He was even vexed at what I translated by the term imitative harmony.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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For three voices, in duple meter, based on a structural duet of discantus and tenor with an added contratenor, and occasionally imitative, they display the usual characteristics of the genre.
Archive 2009-05-01
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In Haydn's C major sonata he navigates its florid rococo embroidery with the deft assurance of a Swiss jeweler, while lending to Rachmaninoff's blustery Etude Tableau in D the grandeur its imitative bell sonorities demand.
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When adopting the new too, he has refrained from being imitative or pretentious.
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Orthodoxy, of whatever color, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style.
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To be sure, social scientists have long been interested in the role of imitative behaviors.
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There has been no attempt to separate imitative learning by children from other social influences that are known to affect learning, although it is clear that even very young children are capable of imitating.
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For three voices, in duple meter, based on a structural duet of discantus and tenor with an added contratenor, and occasionally imitative, they display the usual characteristics of the genre.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Are we so desperate for communication with other intelligences that we will throw away our own the moment some dumb creature gives us an imitative squawk or a hand sign?
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The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- to s...
Updates on Semitic loans in Mid IE
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Perhaps it was the sheer variety of painting styles employed in these abstract paintings that made them seem somewhat imitative and reductive.
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The identification of the imitative or genuine the laser carve seal andthe new problem for people.
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His presentation of history from the perspective of the ‘camera eye,’ particularly, might best be understood as an attempt to evade the undertow of imitative psychology.
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In our art world, there are enough examples of art that are imitative.
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The seagull is also known as the mew, likewise an imitative name.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 3
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onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises
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Cassirer takes the imitative theory of culture as a main opposite theory to criticize.
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He's an imitative artist, with very little originality in his work.
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This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.
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Thargelia, and he suggests that the hanging of the black and white figs round the necks of the two human victims, one of whom represented the men and the other the women, may have been a direct imitation of the process of caprification designed, on the principle of imitative magic, to assist the fertilisation of the fig-trees.
The Golden Bough
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man is an imitative being
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While the term mimesis surfaces in numerous fields with diverse connotations, in Girard desire itself tends to be mimetic or imitative.
Bloodlust
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‘I was being literally imitative and derivative’.
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Beijing is industrial and commercial disappear of bureau, city assist pointed out yesterday, this kind of behavior belongs to limitative consumer own option and fairness trade authority.
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acting is an imitative art
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With a little thought, one can make an astonishingly long list of imitative or echoic words.
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There are all the palely imitative books of quests, holy violence and silly names, for a start; then there are the hundreds of computer games, the sword-waggling role-players, and the couple of film adaptations.
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Over the centuries the makers of delftware have copied all sorts of decorative styles so that this essentially imitative craft has become a style in itself.
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If the reader blame me for not assisting him to determine this, -- if he ask me why I do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture, -- I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him, on exhibiting his master-piece of imitative art -- 'The curtain _is_ the picture.'
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
