How To Use Mimicry In A Sentence

Nagesh compèred the show and kept the audience entertained with his mimicry.
The technique they use to construct the documentary seems to me to be a loving reference to your work, rather than mimicry or a take-off.
One of my favorite talks was the presentation on biomimicry, or innovation inspired by nature.
Miss Burney protested indignantly, her long thin nose turning pink with mortification at this irreverent piece of mimicry
All art is but facsimile of nature and the art of imitating someone or something classically in order to entertain is mimicry.

Such in all times has been the rise and decline of fashion; and the absurd mimicry of the _citizens_, even of the lowest classes, to their very ruin, in straining to rival the _newest fashion_, has mortified and galled the courtier. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Mani's mimicry skills were discovered by the late Fr. Abel of Kalabhavan.
I'm thinking, for instance, of the manifold practical advances today from biomimicry to hydrogen fuel cars.
Formerly I had fasted and prayed and made sacrifice on the Day of Atonement, but it was more than half play, in mimicry of my elders. The Promised Land
Mimicry "may have adaptive value, " the Dutch team concluded, "enhancing the chances of successful procreation of those members of a species who adopt this specific behavior.
Mere mimicry, however, isn't the track's damnable sin, but rather a byproduct of the curious choice to break away from the electronic fidgeting that distinguished ‘A Whisper’.
Antichrist assumes in mimicry the universal power really belonging to Christ. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
For example, have allopatric populations of a parasitic species independently evolved egg or nestling mimicry of the same host species?
And because, as they point out in their article on biomimicry, nature has much to teach us about the containers surrounding the things we value.
It seemed that the nineties brought mimicry and bricolage to new heights in pop music.
In one sense, radio was indeed an impersonal medium for him - he prided himself on his skills of mimicry and his way with accents.
It is called 'biomimicry', which means 'the imitation of life'. The Sun
In his show he exploited a talent for mimicry that manifested itself in a Moira Anderson imitation when he was seven, and then in wicked parodies of his teachers.
He performed with various other companies, moving on to work with experimental mime which improved his mimicry skills.
Impeccable diction (even in patter songs), timing, and mimicry contributed to memorable character-monologues.
In one sense, radio was indeed an impersonal medium for him - he prided himself on his skills of mimicry and his way with accents.
Interface is not the first textile company to develop products using the principles of biomimicry, Oakey says.
Essentially, biomimicry is noticing and being aware of how things are made in nature when they're made by natural processes.
So there's some product mimicry, but real mimicry is impossible.
Brown stalks of broomrape were still standing, and I lighted upon a lingering bee-ophrys, a plant which by its amazing mimicry makes one look at it with awe as if it were something supernatural. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
The mimicry programmes may be crude, but they are harmless and provide innocent fun to the audience.
Explain biomimicry and how you draw on it with some examples.
Parrots specialize in vocal mimicry.
He has a gift for mimicry.
Mimicry is imitation and imitation is the best form of flattery.
So far, no cases of scent mimicry have been reported for food-deceptive species although it occurs in cases of sexual mimicry.
Dental implants, referred to by some as biomimicry, have become important tools in the replacement of natural teeth.
We predicted, based on the egg mimicry hypothesis, that robins and catbirds would eject white cuckoo eggs and accept mimetic blue cuckoo eggs.
The word biomimicry may be new, but the concept isn't.
Skitcom performers, especially those with skills at mimicry, typically disappear into their roles.
The poet Ezra Pound, a central figure of Modernism, is a case in point: while his fascination with Chinese writing spawned the ideogrammic method, the mimicry and gestures of the 'primitive languages in Africa' would never become more than a mere curiosity (ABC of Reading, 21). Recently Uploaded Slideshows
He discussed the concept of "biomimicry," which the company is embracing to create new products.
Some advances-grid computing or research in biomimicry, nanotechnology or tissue engineering-take place entirely outside a political context.
Nevertheless, one must consider who shot these images and allowed such an open, playful, form of mimicry.
The highlight of the day, however, was a mimicry show by cine actor, Jayaram, which left the students in raptures.
Müller, Dr. Fritz, on inhabitants of bromelia leaves, 118 on butterfly, deceived by its mimic, 245 his explanation of mimicry among protected genera, 252 Darwinism (1889)
So all it takes is a little expert instruction, good eye-hand coordination and a flair for mimicry?
It was not until 1993, for example, that there was firm evidence of vocal mimicry of wild African Grey Parrots. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
It may involve mimicry, he said, as dolphins are unsurpassed in imitative abilities among nonhuman animals.
More than mimicking nature superficially, Bass said, biomimicry is about accessing nature as a launching pad for innovation.
She has worked in the field of biomimicry as an educator, researcher, and design consultant.
In the book, al-Jahiz discusses animal mimicry - noting that certain parasites adapt to the color of their host.
The final approach Hahn described, "emulation," is an "advanced biomimicry," based more on understanding and modeling natural processes than on copying specific solutions.
Though the term wasn't used in his time, Mr. Fuller died in 1983, he was deeply interested in biomimicry, the examination of nature and its ability to solve human problems in a sustainable way. Changing the World One Space at a Time
The spry rattle had run on in the same vein of mimicry but for some larum in the antechamber. Ulysses
Dolphins have a remarkable capacity for vocal mimicry, and they learn to imitate sounds very accurately and quickly.
Francis gives a similar explanation for the exceptional mimicry of mockingbirds, suggesting that mimicry itself was not favored by natural selection.
For example, have allopatric populations of a parasitic species independently evolved egg or nestling mimicry of the same host species?
After the first broadcast, which you recall was on mimicry of Australian magpies.
Anyone who does must be a "sheeple" - and speaking of "sheeple" ... get a load of Savage's Sheeple "bah" (imitation or mimicry) voice at the end of this clip LOL!!!! WN.com - Business News
Even with the electronic, sampling age in full swing, it's amazing that the art of mimicry still taps that transforming and ancient power.
Though the term wasn't used in his time, Mr. Fuller died in 1983, he was deeply interested in biomimicry, the examination of nature and its ability to solve human problems in a sustainable way. Changing the World One Space at a Time
The cutesy, mincing vocals are dotted with ill-advised wailing and occasional outright mimicry of dudes like Beck.
We begin to see the opportunities for working amidst the natural rhythm of things - biomimicry - and have less need to control things.
Hoffman duplicates Capote's unusual voice and mannerisms with remarkable skill, but the performance is much more than mimicry.
Earlier he had reduced the passengers of Bus no 1 to uncontrollable laughter with his mimicry - his Cockney, his Geordie and his Scouse.
It is slander if it takes the form of spoken words, gestures or mimicry.
They negotiate the dicey line between mimicry and mockery partly by dint of fascination with details.
Then the goddess, strange and ominous to see, fashions into the likeness of Aeneas a thin and pithless shade of hollow mist, decks it with Dardanian weapons, and gives it the mimicry of shield and divine helmet plume, gives unsubstantial [640-673] words and senseless utterance, and the mould and motion of his tread: like shapes rumoured to flit when death is past, or dreams that delude the slumbering senses. The Aeneid of Virgil
We know that she impressed those who knew her as absorbed in snobbish ambitions and petty resentments, and that she had as her chief ingratiating tribute a talent for mimicry, which is often the sport of an unloving and derisive soul. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV
The individuality, immediacy and mimicry in computer games satisfy the needs from these people.
Biomimicry strikes again – this time with Snookie, an underwater robot that has an artificial sensory organ inspired by the “lateral-line system” seen in blind fish like the Astyanax. Ariel Schwartz | Inhabitat
One example of biomimicry is the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan: a design inspired by the shape of a kingfisher's beak helped make the train quieter.
It's all part of biomimicry, an attempt to mold technology on nature.
They negotiate the dicey line between mimicry and mockery partly by dint of fascination with details.
The remarkable genus Drusilla, a group of pale-coloured butterflies, more or less adorned with ocellate spots, is also the object of mimicry by three distinct genera (Melanitis, Hyantis, and Papilio). Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
This snake-mimicry is employed by many species, from the familiar domestic cat to less familiar finches.
She discovered the gift of mimicry by studying people in the street and doing impressions of them through the window of their house or performing sketches for her mother.
She paused for the phrase, then made a gesture in mimicry of his, that included the Big House and its treasures, and said, All this does not influence me a particle. CHAPTER XXX
In giving an account of the evolution of music, he traces its origin to mimicry in behaviour and vocalisation of animals in the protohuman environment, with the subsequent selection on the social coordination of musical abilities.
The men try to make the most of it, even having a masked ball on the ice in mimicry of Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death.” 2010 February 17 « The BookBanter Blog
Biomimicry is about spotting something that works well in nature and applying it to solve a 'real-world' problem. Times, Sunday Times
Mother enjoyed his mimicry too, but he never ever did it when Father was around. THE WHITE DOVE
In the past 20 years, 'biomimicry' has changed that. Times, Sunday Times
T cell mimicry and epitope specificity of cross-reactive T cell clones from rheumatic heart disease. The Autoimmune Epidemic
We don't find Mount Rushmores in biology, we find phenomena such as mimicry and camouflage.
A bit of audio doctoring mangled Pogue ` s AT&T in sputtering mimicry of a bad connection. P2pnet World Headlines – May 28, 2009
A few feet from where I crouched, a superb lyrebird performed its repertoire of mischievous mimicry. Times, Sunday Times
Such new patterns or ornaments could be used both externally and internally in contemporary designs and break the slavish adherence to bare steel or frilly 19th century mimicry.
102 An additional case of snake mimicry in _Oxyrhopus trigeminus_. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde
To be sustainable, biomimicry must also consider how something is made (nature only uses a few elements) and how it fits into a living system.
Those who dislike any form of martial mimicry or organised religion do not want to see their children parading and marching to church in uniform.
Inefficient beetle-pollination and the automimicry system via asynchronous flowering might be responsible for the high level of pollen shortage and frequent geitonogamy.
Regular Jelly Bellys are known for their impressive mimicry of the flavors of other foods, but they don't get any weirder than buttered popcorn or jalapeño.
By juxtaposing man and ape in identical squatting poses, these capitals explicitly evoke the simian trait of mimicry.
There were lunging valleys of dense wood, the mimicry of a lush and verdurous Costa Rican island without the whimsy of a foreign land.
The mimicry was mocking, the atmosphere of threat and barely suppressed anger increasing every second. SANDS OF TIME
Naturally, they bridle at suggestions that their pursuit of a European identity is mimicry.
Although many are amazing in their mimicry, others simply have elongated, cryptic shapes and colors, but they do not closely resemble leaves and twigs, and are rather similar to many other non-phasmid insects see for instance some of the phasmid species in the picture below. Behe and bugs: Genesis of a Creationist canard? - The Panda's Thumb
'Men and women!' some one piped in mimicry; and the crowd dissolved in laughter. The Convert
Across the genus as a whole, the evolution of mimicry seems to be associated with increased rates of species diversification.
No other kind of entertainment programmes such as mimicry and ganamela could be conducted along with the magic show, due to the props.
Monomane takes imitation through mimicry and beyond to caricature with comic effect.
Results of three experiments suggest that mimicry is more nuanced than previously thought and not, the authors write, "uniformly beneficial to the mimicker. Forbes.com: News
If Her Bad Mommy comes along, for instance, I very much doubt that she'll manage to usurp your place in the blogosphere and if she has developed the name consciously and deliberately in mimicry of you, it's even less likely. Community Is Hard. Deal With It.
Parrots specialize in vocal mimicry.
John Barth is known as the procreator of sacred monsters ” strange hybrid creatures endowed with attributes that display his erudition, gift for mimicry, and perversity, in almost equal proportions. Tripping the Not-So-Light Fantastic
He gave us the first quantitative theories of sexual selection, mimicry, polymorphism, evolution of recombination rates, and supergenes.
Foxx can be subtle and funny here, but his performance often feels like a rather hollow if impressive feat of mimicry.
He talked of how the Kottayam bus stand reminded him of his mimicry days, since he even used to sleep there, after having missed the last bus to Kochi.
Prasad rues that during the nascent stages of mimics, a well-appreciated performance on the stage was the ultimate dream of a mimicry artiste.
We are so alike, that when last Passover, in mimicry, she twined my turban round her graceful head, our uncle called her David. A Review of 'Alroy'
“Sleepy, sleepy,” she twittered in mimicry of drowsy birds. CHAPTER XXXI
From rain dances to bhangra, skits to mimicry, the employees rewrote office entertainment rules.
Scientists have now discovered that metalmark moths in Costa Rica use mimicry to escape hunters as well, by mimicking the very predators that might normally eat them. Archive 2006-12-01
Serena followed her targets at a distance, watching their movements and imitating them with perfect mimicry. T2: INFILTRATOR
Dolphins have a remarkable capacity for vocal mimicry, and they learn to imitate sounds very accurately and quickly.
The way one modulates the voice, its pitch, tone and tenor to speak to different persons is nothing but mimicry.
Meldola himself was much interested in protective colouring and mimicry of moths.
Actors follow the set's mimicry, all meticulously reverent without adding a jot of originality to their filmic templates.
Orundelico -- "blackamoor," as he is being called -- has so turned the tables on him by successful mimicry of his speech as to elicit loud laughter from a party of sailors loitering near. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure
Hughes argued that egg mimicry provides additional evidence that Black - billed and Yellow-billed cuckoos were obligate brood parasites in the past because such mimicry is unlikely to evolve in a facultative brood parasite.
It led to advances in sonar and ultrasound technology and kick-started the science of biomimicry, or design by nature. Times, Sunday Times
But physiognomics concerns itself with the features of the face taken in themselves and with the changes which accompany the alterations of consciousness, whereas mimicry deals with the voluntary alterations of expression and gesture which are supposed to externalize internal conditions. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
Crosstalk , or xiangsheng, is a language art combining four basic techniques: speech, mimicry, comedy and song.
While the author writes knowledgeably about economic and other historical events, he illuminates colonial tropes, mimicry, parody, and other dynamics between metropolitan denotation and colonial connotation.
Oxyrhopus trigeminus; while in other parts of South America similar cases of mimicry occur, sometimes two harmless species imitating the same poisonous snake. Darwinism (1889)
Since Beloved's unappeasable appetite for sugar makes her far from a sweet girl, it demonstrates precisely how the excessive and parodic character of the hysteric's symptoms function as counterhegemonic form of mimicry.
Satan, in impious mimicry of God's heavenly throne, sets up his earthly throne (Re 4: 2). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Energy efficient buildings inspired by passive cooling in termite mounds and non-toxic fabric finishes inspired by water repellant lotus plants are examples of biomimicry changing our world today. Duh pookie
One of his few strengths was his skill at mimicry.
It's also true that friends and colleagues in the workplace are sometimes very supportive of people with disabilities, but that fades in the face of mimicry and mockery.
They say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery …. Gretchen | Inhabitat
We are so alike, that when, last Passover, * in mimicry she twined my turban round her head, our uncle called her David. Chapter 1 - Part I
Actually blinded by prosthetics, he walks the fine line between acting and mimicry, giving a performance that is neither stifled by imitation, nor unconvincing.
The laughter caused by grotesque mimicry or caricature of pompous or solemn individuals seems to arise from the same (more or less unconscious) working of the mind as that caused by some unexpected neglect of those social "taboos" or laws of behaviour which we call modesty, decency, and propriety. More Science From an Easy Chair
Although almost entirely obliterated from the performing arts canon today, it is clear that these performances required an exceptional command over rhetoric, delivery, mimicry, ventriloquism and spontaneous composition. Archive 2006-06-01
Parody is mimicry in the service of ridicule; it implies anxiety.

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