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 This means that the novel feels less tethered to mimetic reality and instead takes its form from psychological and philosophical reality. — Akhil Sharma, The New Yorker, 29 July 2022 But Magritte suggests that art is always mimetic, if not of the external world then at the very least of consciousness. — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 28 July 2022 The hot-dog-shaped stand, a classic example of mimetic or programmatic architecture, debuted on La Cienega Boulevard in 1946 under then-famous dance duo Frank Veloz and Yolanda Casazza. — Nicole Kagan, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022 The team also plans to investigate if domestication shaped the mimetic muscles of other mammals, Burrows tells Newsweek. — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022 In the study, researchers analyzed the anatomy of tiny muscles used to form facial expressions called mimetic muscles. — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 6 Apr. 2022 The building block of the internet is a referential, signifying, mimetic, poetics. — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2022 The previous generation of Los Angeles rappers, from Ice Cube to Ice T and MC Eight, would have leaned into the realism, the mimetic blankness of the routine tragedy of Black death. — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2021 Thiel was particularly taken with Girard’s concept of mimetic desire. — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2021 See More

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