Examples of mimetic in a Sentence

boys have a tendency toward mimetic behavior, often imitating their fathers at a fairly early age

Recent Examples on the Web There are aspects of mimetic desire that are common to all people. — Kathy Caprino, Forbes, 4 June 2021 Either combat being known as a mimetic rehash by breaking out of the classic rock mold, or lean even further into their strengths as classic-rock propagandists. — Steven J. Horowitz, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2021 There is no obvious, or mimetic, or representational, or narrative connection between a raga and a time of day or season, as there is, say, between Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony and spring, nature, and the countryside. — Amit Chaudhuri, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021 This notion of degeneration owes something to Plato, for whom the visible world is a copy of the eternal forms and mimetic art a copy of that copy. — Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020 Many different groups are currently making their own versions of these spike-mimetic trimers to test their various vaccine designs. — Scientific American, 12 May 2020 Here, in addition to O’Brien’s celebrated gifts of lyricism and mimetic precision, is a new, unsettling fabulist vision that suggests Kafka more than Joyce. — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019 That's not to say that Menzies doesn't continue to explore his mimetic talents, even in roles with... lines. — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 4 Dec. 2019 Yet one of the book’s signal triumphs is that Alharthi has constructed her own novelistic form to suit her specific mimetic requirements. — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019

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