Sentences with phrase «imitative practices»

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.

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.

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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.

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