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Mimic in sentence

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I would draw a line, and it would mimic my line.
So it can see its environment, and then it can mimic its environment and disappear.
This is to mimic the weight of the boar.
They seem to come from the outside and to mimic perception.
And after I took this photograph, they constructed a wall around the World Church of God to mimic the set-up of mosques in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Media headlines still to this day, just [like] last month, will talk about the views such as people believing that gay adoption is just morally wrong; that gay people who want children do it because they want some sort of "trophy" in order to mimic heterosexual lifestyles; that gay people will turn their children gay.
The young acolytes are taken away from their families at the age of three and four, sequestered in a shadowy world of darkness in stone huts at the base of glaciers for 18 years: two nine-year periods deliberately chosen to mimic the nine months of gestation they spend in their natural mother's womb; now they are metaphorically in the womb of the great mother.
So, we modified the optics of the camera in order to mimic the baby's visual acuity.
So even if I have a cell culture that I pass to my PhD students, who pass it to their PhD students, and so on, we'd have to do that for thousands of years in order to mimic the exact conditions of the deep subsurface, all without growing any contaminants.
Or maybe if we figure out the mechanism that they use to grow so extraordinarily slowly, we could mimic it in cancer cells and slow runaway cell division.
And you can see that director Scott attempts to mimic Paul Greengrass with a bright grainy photography that's followed by an awfully dizzying and irritating hand-held direction that, throughout the entire film, attempts to take off from Greengrass's gung-ho guerrilla film-making techniques.
The modern asphalted streets of Jim Thorpe were covered with gravel to mimic a 1920s rural town of the south.
The exceptions that actually makes the whole thing worse is the terrible work made by the lighting guy who don't even have the skills to turn on the light in his own living room, the camera work that for no reasons at all sometimes are in tilted "Battlefield Earth" mode but for the most of the time are flat as a pancake, the extremely cheap and to small desert set that only contents a pile of sand in the front of a backdrop painted as a desert, that turns very old very fast because it appears in almost every scene, and the bad idea by the costume designer to try to mimic "The fifth element"'s fashion madness with the addition of the silliest hats ever made.
Then we have to listen to line after line of sappy dialog that tried desperately to mimic "Wuthering Heights", which of course was also quoted in the movie.
Yet while the Easter Empire is not a topic much discussed in American intellectual circles, the US did not merely mimic Golden Byzantiums public architecture, the US is much absorbed in the fated Byzantine historical cycle and now has faced many of the crises involving certain people of a middle eastern extraction about whom it is said that there is a slight tendency for excessive exuberance on religious matters which humbled Great Byzantium.
With the great songs and dance moves, it gets my daughter up and trying to mimic the moves.
It would have been an erotic moment except that it was filmed like a total goof, and the male actor looked mildly amused as he watched Arly Jover move her head to mimic something that was very obviously not happening.
While the first couple of pieces do sort of mimic the 1950s Motown sound, the rest of the film is just (bad) Broadway show music.
From the very opening scene you will notice just how hard they tried to mimic the very smart and powerful 'Cruel Intentions', and how flat it landed.
It is a really funny and unique anime because they also mimic characters from other anime(like Naruto, Detective Conan and One Piece)and famous people from real life.
The guys are inept repairmen working at a radio station, and during some horsing around in a broadcast booth, Curly's perfect mimic of a recording of "Voices of Spring" is mistaken for the real thing, leading to a radio contract and a zany musical party.
The show is set up to more or less mimic a typical survival situation - lost at sea, lost while hiking, a plane crash in the wilderness, etc.
A few VERY feeble attempts to mimic FAIL SAFE (a classic!!!) - .... probably the most pathetic acting by James Earl Jones (gotta laugh at the stupid cigarette sequence) - what the hell was that all about?
Anyways, its skits mimic that of MADTv, but more to the point, and more of an open ability to do what ever you want and can humanly do (IE; plastic vs people).
Acting by Caveh himself is truly brave, but sometimes expression and fire is more convincing,the constant eye starring and mimic could be a bit annoying to watch, same goes to the female casts, it needs to gets the audience to feel the story, the only female cast that I feel did a good job was the alcoholic girlfriend, she did a great job, very convincing.
I had gotten to the point where I could mimic that line while It was being said.
Ever notice how many people just mimic somebody else?
The show did not try to mimic the films but created it's own story lines in an ape setting that was set apart from the films.
How are they able to mimic human behavior so naturally and change their physical form?
Johnson's style in The Brothers Bloom seems to almost mimic Wes Anderson's at times as several scenes (especially the first ten minutes or so) have a similar feel that seem to be shot in the same way you'd see in an Anderson film.
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