What is "imitative"

Usage examples of "imitative".

Imitative as the Japanese are, and borrowers from other nations in every department of plastic, fictile, and pictorial art, as well as in religion, politics, and manufactures, the poetry of Japan is a true-born flower of the soil, unique in its mechanical structure, spontaneous and unaffected in its sentiment and subject.

For in these plays--unnatural, false, and imitative, as they were--one could discern, in however pale and feeble a design, a picture of the world not as its author had seen and lived and known it, but rather as he wished to find it or believe in it.

Bridges and Spacey that make this story work, despite an imitative plot full of otherwise half-realized characters.

She fell to work sliding the beads, this time without protesting against the shockswhich, indeed, were very minorand, being imitative, she managed to make a bead disappear almost as quickly as had Scott.

It had become petrified by what means none could surmise nor reduplicate in the imitative sacrifices that occurred on anniversaries of the key event.

Lucette follows Ada who is in turn following Van away from the pool, the three youngsters stop underneath a sealyham cedar, where the imitative imp ends coiled on the ground with her big sister and brother.

Without being in the least imitative, they are exactly what comic postcards have been any time these last forty years, and from them the meaning and purpose of the whole genre can be inferred.

The organ of imitation is very strongly developed in the Bushmen, which accounts for their talents as draftsmen, and Omrah's remarkable imitative powers.

Formless protoplasm able to mock and reflect all forms and organs and processes - viscous agglutinations of bubbling cells - rubbery fifteen-foot spheroids infinitely plastic and ductile - slaves of suggestion, builders of cities - more and more sullen, more and more intelligent, more and more amphibious, more and more imitative!

Its vogue was followed by the imitative patterns: slacks for trousers, blouses for shirts, essentially male garments which had been frilled here and furbelowed there and given new, feminine names.

They constructed it from heavy concrete, with narrow windows imitative of a castle’.

Knotting, braiding, and weaving were varieties of imitative magic.

Clones and products of the imitative arts the pantomimics didn't know whether what they were cloning was good or bad, they wait, get this wet blanket off me here's a pill, prednisone oxycodone God knows what take it anyway my head's splitting, falls right into line doesn't it, collapse of authenticity collapse of religion collapse of values what Huizinga called one of the most important phases in the history of civilization, and Walter Benjamin picks it up in his Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction in this heap somewhere, the authentic work of art is based in ritual he says, and wait Mr.