Sentences with phrase «imitative of»

The kitchen is outfitted with wooden beams, imitative of the original ceiling design.

In it, one finds the threat of something phantasmagorical, which, though imitative of our natural environment, glitters with an unnerving resplendence not entirely of this world.

When you look at retro - related Steam tags (as a random sample), you don't see games imitative of style or fashion of the recent past.

Both of these mediums have become increasingly imitative of each other, without understanding their strengths and differences.

The direction is imitative of TV soaps like «Day of Our Lives» or «Ryan's Hope».

Matchmaker.com has all the basic dating site features, but they've elevated them to make them more intuitive and imitative of real - world dating scenarios.

With the enhancement of the dignity of the bishop and the extension of his judicial authority under the patronage of the Empire, the old cathedra upon which the ante-Nicene bishop had sat in his capacity as teacher, was gradually converted into a veritable throne, imitative of that of the emperor.25 It is quite possible that the courtly protocol and the sartorial details of the so - called Donation of Constantine are a reasonably accurate description of the dress, insignia, and prerogatives of the chief bishop of the West in the late imperial period, that even the account of the bestowal of these privileges primarily errs in fictionally ascribing to one emperor what was probably done by several in the course of the fourth and fifth centuries, and that once the fictional monopolization of these prerogatives by one bishop is removed, the Donation is recognized as supplying us with a picture of a late imperial prelate.26

The Indo - European form is thought to be imitative of the humming sound made by such insects.

With the emergence in the modern era of the natural sciences, learning as a whole became imitative of the natural sciences: and this is no wonder, since the natural sciences brought spectacular results.

Not exact matches

Early on in her tenure, she became known for being a bit of an intrapreneur unafraid of taking imitative, as she showed by authorizing the 1993 Waco raid of the Branch Davidian cult compound.

The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances of those moral epidemics which have been excited, sometimes by one cause and sometimes by another, and to show how easily the masses have been led astray, and how imitative and gregarious men are, even in their infatuations and crimes,» wrote Charles Mackay in the preface to the first edition of his Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

Born at the time when Christianity's transcendent form of knowing was being decoupled from the imitative practices grounded in it, anthropology would serve as a diagnostics for (and corrective to) the new operations and expressions of Christian mimesis.

A good example of imitative magic is seen in the case of Moses» putting a brass serpent on a pole so that the people being bitten by serpents could be healed by looking up at it.

The values and imitative practices described in The Underside, inspiring as they may be to his character, Godefroid, are supported by only a tiny secret society whose practical effect on the marketplace of ideas of 19th - century Paris is nil.

A preacher of integrity will avoid the practice of imitative magic, manufacturing tears, laughter, and other emotional signs in order to generate these among his hearers.

From this insight we can learn about the transformation of desire — which is what we mean by conversion — from something which is both imitative and acquisitive (over against the other) to something which is imitative but nurturing of the other.

Most of the major players in ccm perform at an artistic level consistent with that of the general market, with enough creativity to avoid being imitative.

This society does not «know... what else to do» with Merrick's nature but to «rob it,» says Sir Frederick at last; and, like those colonized by British imperialism, this imitative product of their social engineering becomes a «mockery of everything we live by.»

The Brechtian scene jars our sympathy for Merrick, our easy tolerance for the victim's imitative failures of compassion.

Now that Christian rock has passed through its imitative infancy to take its place as a near - equal to the best of secular music, we can answer that question with a resounding «yes.»

Genuine actors operate within a framework established by the imitative nature of film ¯ hence a good person can portray a bad one, or act out bad actions, without it being a reflection of his or her character.

The focus on imitative and imaginative play in the early childhood program develops the power of creative thinking, preparing children for the academics of the grade school years and beyond.

At this stage in the game, presenting your cherub with toys that encourage imitative play is essential for the development of their imagination.

In the study, researchers compared the imitative behavior of 77 typically developing 3 - to 5 - year - olds in the United Kingdom with that of 46 untrained bonobos living in naturalistic forest enclosures in Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

«There is some resentment that much of the research at African universities is imitative and of little relevance to the needs of the African people,» said Ekong, who is an expert in West African plants.

Indeed, by connecting with the subject, that person might have redirected some of the activity of mirror neurons toward a truly empathic behavior, rather than in the service of the deranged imitative violence leading to action.

A serving of «True Blood's» Ryan Kwanten in his native accent is the chief selling point of this picturesque, contentedly imitative Australian Western / thriller / Coen - brothers homage, the feature debut of writer - director Patrick Hughes.

The metafiction in «Stranger than Fiction» might not be as clever as «Adaptation» (or even Neil LaBute's underappreciated «Nurse Betty»), but this imitative screenplay of a superior film is better than, say, «EdTV», which was a byproduct of «The Truman Show».

At Garland's apex of invention, the Shimmer takes on a grey humanoid form and does an imitative pas de deux with Lena — a freakishly effective demonstration of a non-human mirroring a person's every move.

The Last Days on Mars will likely only appeal to two groups of viewers: the ones who've never seen any of the films that this one lifts ideas liberally from, and the ones who have seen them all and can't get enough of their b - movie knockoffs, no matter how imitative they are.

As Blum appreciates in all his series, the anticipated follow - up to the hit 2012 horror film, «Sinister,» will deepen audience's appreciation of the franchise by retaining beloved elements from the original, while also surprising theme by not being imitative.

As characters make their way past large conifers and sip Big Red soda the mashup is a welcome one, the rainy dreariness a fine imitative harmony to much of the spirits of those showcased.

The point was that Deadpool succeeded because it was not imitative or a copy of other things and hopefully there will be a little bit of a lean in to originality.»

The objective of this development imitative was twofold: (a) to provide Science IDEAS teachers with the tools and strategies for optimizing science instruction within Science IDEAS and (b) to provide the means for extending the applications of the research foundations of Science IDEAS to improving instruction in other content domains.

Kia's most European design yet Kia has long since left behind amateurish, imitative designs like the old Amanti (still a common sight on the streets of Seoul), and yet the Rio surprises us once again with its handsome, understated looks.

Given the imitative culture of Wall Street, I would expect to see this repeated by other investment banks.

Backing up the hardware announcement was Microsoft's new «Play Anywhere» cross-platform imitative, which means gamers will only have to buy a single copy of a game in order to have invasive nanobots inserted in their bloodstream that can track them «anywhere» with «no escape».

Children, according to Fourier, should have their own little tools, their own small - scaled workshops, where, under the tutelage of their elders their natural imitative propensities might best be put to productive ends.

Instead of the media processed imagery of Warhol's earlier painting and the imitative media gloss of his more recent portraits, these Still Life paintings are each different, unique and individually composed studio pieces.

Mounted on Formica laminate, the enamel painted broomsticks conjure kitschy domesticity and artifice — laminate is a cheap and imitative household material, and bright hues mask the natural color of the wooden broomstick.

Expanding on much of the research he recently conducted on the history of Vancouver's Gastown — a local neighborhood where a sense of history and authenticity was falsely constructed in order to give a patina of «olden times» — Morrison has created a number of new works that observe the visual intricacies of imitative misappropriation and what they reveal about processes of historicization.

However, because she believed that she would never distinguish herself as a painter within the tradition of imitative realism, she abandoned her commitment to being a painter altogether and took a job in Chicago as a commercial artist.

It is big, bold, colorful and flamboyant — whether intentionally decorative, macho - expressionistic, imitative, derivative, or a re-enactment of that which has already been seen — it embraces, scrutinizes and repositions known processes and imagery.

He probed and tweaked his art historical sources, combining homage and critique in a body of work that is simultaneously imitative and highly original.

«The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances of those moral epidemics which have been excited, sometimes by one cause and sometimes by another, and to show how easily the masses have been led astray, and how imitative and gregarious men are, even in their infatuations and crimes,»

If «Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery», then everyone here on Climate Etc appreciates your sincerely imitative flattery Latimer Alder!

Judgments are «usually collaborative products that reflect a wide range of imitative writing practices, including quotation, paraphrase, and pastiche» (Stern, at p. 2).

That employee also sent another email proposing a public relations imitative and other «next steps» in case the paper were to be published - although the ideal scenario appeared to be for it to never see the light of day.