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Imitation in sentence

211 examples of Imitation in a sentence

There's actually a gentleman in the front row who's doing a perfect imitation of her look.
In the footnote panel that accompanies this work I photographed an official Adolph Hitler postage stamp and an imitation of that stamp produced by British Intelligence with Hans Frank's image on it.
Sympathetic magic is imitation.
So this imitation business does come with risk.
And half a block away from janitor man, there's a group of good-for-nothings who don't know no better, waiting for janitor man with rusted bicycle chains and imitation Louisville Sluggers, and if they don't find a cent on him, which they won't, they'll just pound at him till the muscles in their arms start burning, till there's no more teeth to crack out.
Information that we copy from person to person, by imitation, by language, by talking, by telling stories, by wearing clothes, by doing things.
Could it be that this experiment in imitation, this experiment in a second replicator, is dangerous enough to kill people off?
But I would suggest that innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.
And nobody celebrates imitation the way "Dirty Jobs" guys know it has to be done.
They're two sides of the same coin, just like innovation and imitation, like risk and responsibility, like peripeteia and anagnorisis, like that poor little lamb, who I hope isn't quivering anymore, and like my time that's gone.
Or is it an imitation of one half the set of sounds we make to express disappointment?
For one thing they must be involved in things like imitation and emulation.
So, this is important for imitation and emulation.
So, how do you do imitation?
Why is imitation important?
Mirror neurons and imitation, emulation.
The imitation of complex skills is what we call culture and is the basis of civilization.
This is a calf in captivity making an imitation of that trainer's whistle.
What was really funny was the Mariah Carey imitation and the take off on Beverly Hills 90210 featuring the hair fight.
This is another Alien imitation and not a very good one at that.Replace outer space with the South African desert,throw in the same ingredients,a group of people stranded in an inhospitable landscape, have them hunted down by an alien creature and you have the same old story of a very ordinary film trying to ape a classic film.
Armand Assante, once again doing a poor Stallone imitation, is Ray Wellman a ex-con just out on parole.
Even if you're willing to suspend disbelief, the story itself is pretty threadbare, a pale imitation of an A.J. Cronin melodrama.
This movie plays like someone who's giving a pale imitation of the trio and you can see how very hard Moe and Larry are working to make every little bit of slapstick relevant.
The director apparently watched too many Peter Greenaway films and Pola X comes across as a student's imitation of the Greenaway style, without any of his inspiration.
It's a poor attempt to fantasize that teenagers too, can be "Mavericks" (although I am surprised to find out it actually was to be released the same time (aprox) as "Top Gun", and not actually meant to be a poor imitation.)
Bad acting, cast, directions, Lara Craft custom imitation, story, plot, everything!
Everybody seems to be trying so hard in this movie, running around in imitation of slapstick but not pulling it off.
This sequel is a passable but poor imitation of the original.
actor mark redfield is pretty good as an imitation Bela Lugosi.the
The hero is not; obviously an imitation of a Hitchcock "wrongly accused" role it lacks balance.
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