What is "imitator"

Usage examples of "imitator".

When one is suffering from a certain sort of pain, remarks like those naively exchanged between the two Roman imitators of Casal are intolerable to the hearer.

Pindar himself, of whom our modern Lyrist is an imitator, appears entirely guided by it.

Even hawking brandy or frozen peas, the voice was a powerful instrument That Welles had to compete with Welles imitators for gigs as a commercial pitchman was one of the tragedies of the modern age.

The Theosophical business is a piece of vulgar imposture, in which the professors themselves are willing to delude their own imaginations, as well as the imaginations of others--they are the most wretched imitators that ever were of the old Eastern sorcerers,--the fellows who taught Moses and Aaron how to frighten their ignorant cattle-like herds of followers.

Among the many direct, if shallow, imitators of the Chekhovian style are playwrights like N.

Pontormo, and an imitator of Michael Angelo, painting in rather heavy colors with a thin brush.

As there is abundant evidence that Newar artists worked in Tibet from an early period it may be assumed that their methods, which have come to differ slightly from the Indian, were also used by them in Tibet and adopted by their Tibetan imitators.

And, because al Qaeda, its supporters, imitators, and adherents, are members of a vast, nonvoting global constituency that the U.

Patricius et Consul Ordinarius, vir philosophus, qui antiqui Catonis fuit novellus imitator, sed virtutes veterum sanctissima religione transcendit.

Central Italy, and even at the north, resulting in many imitators and followers, who tried to produce Raphaelesque effects.

Everywhere that flowing roundedness of line had been grasped which belongs to nature and is seen only by the eyes of the creative artist, and which comes out angular in an imitator.

I have been assured that the attempt of the German Mutius Scaevola had a marked influence on the concessions which the Emperor made, because he feared that Staps, like him who attempted the life of Porsenna, might have imitators among the illuminati of Germany.

Progress, does not, like his unread imitators, attempt to personify Christianity and Valour: he dramatizes for you the life of the Christian and the Valiant Man.

Here I mean such imitators as Rowe was of Shakespear, or as Horace hints some of the Romans were of Cato, by bare feet and sour faces.

He owned that he thought Hawkesworth was one of his imitators, but he did not think Goldsmith was.